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AI extinction: What IT leaders need to know -- and do -- now

AI extinction: What IT leaders need to know -- and do -- now

AI extinction concerns are growing among experts, but for enterprises, the focus should be on governance, accountability and risk management to prevent operational failures.

Sep 18 26September 18, 2026

Article at IT Pro

Cornelis lands $205M to make AI networks compute, not just connect

Cornelis lands $205M to make AI networks compute, not just connect

Cornelis takes aim at AI bottlenecks with programmable network fabric.

Sep 14 26September 14, 2026

Article at networkworld.com

Databricks-trained AI agents match Claude and GPT-5.6 Luna's answer quality — in half the time

Databricks-trained AI agents match Claude and GPT-5.6 Luna's answer quality — in half the time

Databricks' Adaptive Instructed-Retriever lets AI agents decide how many times to search per question, matching frontier model quality in half the time.

Sep 09 26September 09, 2026

Article at VentureBeat

Protecting your business from rogue bots -- a new CIO risk

Protecting your business from rogue bots -- a new CIO risk

AI-powered bots now operate autonomously, breaking out of controlled environments and exploiting systems without human direction -- forcing companies to rethink cybersecurity.

Sep 01 26September 01, 2026

Article at IT Pro

Tailscale expands from VPN into a full connectivity platform

Tailscale expands from VPN into a full connectivity platform

Tailscale got its start back in 2019 as a VPN provider based on the open-source WireGuard technology. As it turns out, enabling private connectivity in the AI era has a lot of practical utility.

Aug 31 26August 31, 2026

Article at networkworld.com

Kubernetes 1.37 advances workload-aware scheduling and cluster networking

Kubernetes 1.37 advances workload-aware scheduling and cluster networking

In the Kubernetes 1.37 release, codenamed Garhwal, new scheduling capabilities were built for AI and machine-learning training jobs that need groups of pods to start and scale together.

Aug 27 26August 27, 2026

Article at networkworld.com

Out of band, out of mind: DEF CON research calls IPMI a 'sanctioned backdoor' into enterprise networks

Out of band, out of mind: DEF CON research calls IPMI a 'sanctioned backdoor' into enterprise networks

Alongside the disclosure, runZero released OOBscan, an open-source tool that scans for vulnerable BMCs and other out-of-band management devices.

Aug 10 26August 10, 2026

Article at networkworld.com

Tencent's Team Memory shares AI agent memory across a team — with no governance yet for when it's wrong

Tencent's Team Memory shares AI agent memory across a team — with no governance yet for when it's wrong

Tencent's Team Memory gives AI agents shared access to chat history, code, and docs. Practitioners are asking how it handles a wrong or conflicting fact.

Aug 07 26August 07, 2026

Article at VentureBeat

NatJack at Black Hat: A new way to crack NAT's trust gap

NatJack at Black Hat: A new way to crack NAT's trust gap

NatJack attack class exposes design flaw across decades of network infrastructure.

Aug 06 26August 06, 2026

Article at networkworld.com

Groundcover raises $100M as observability pivots from monitoring to AI infrastructure

Groundcover raises $100M as observability pivots from monitoring to AI infrastructure

Telemetry is multiplying as IT teams require greater visibility into their AI stack and agentic workflows. New to Groundcover's observability platform is Agent Mode, a built-in AI assistant that helps engineers troubleshoot problems in logs and traces without writing queries by hand.

Jul 31 26July 31, 2026

Article at networkworld.com

Cloudflare Internal DNS tackles split-horizon DNS sprawl

Cloudflare Internal DNS tackles split-horizon DNS sprawl

'Many organizations already use Cloudflare for their public DNS. Internal DNS extends that same platform to private DNS, so public and private are managed from the same global network and control plane,' said Enrique Somoza, product, performance and infrastructure at Cloudflare.

Jul 24 26July 24, 2026

Article at networkworld.com

IPv4 address exhaustion drives NetworkManager 1.58 release

IPv4 address exhaustion drives NetworkManager 1.58 release

Updates to the open-source Linux network configuration tool suite are aimed at advancing IPv6-only support, Wi‑Fi management, and security.

Jul 23 26July 23, 2026

Article at networkworld.com

HPE CTO Russo drills into data, orchestration, and observability for the agentic enterprise

HPE CTO Russo drills into data, orchestration, and observability for the agentic enterprise

At HPE Discover, CTO Fidelma Russo details Data Fabric 8.2, Morpheus 9, and GreenLake Intelligence.

Jun 18 26June 18, 2026

Article at networkworld.com

HPE Discover: Neri outlines an AI architecture built for agents

HPE Discover: Neri outlines an AI architecture built for agents

CEO Antonio Neri kicked off HPE Discover 2026 with AI-focused announcements that span the vendor's networking, compute, storage, and cloud product portfolios.

Jun 17 26June 17, 2026

Article at networkworld.com

A legal minefield: Open source licensing for AI models

AI models differ from traditional software. Learn how new licensing frameworks aim to standardize what 'open' means in AI, including the Linux Foundation's OpenMDW 1.1.

Jun 09 26June 09, 2026

Article at IT Pro

A legal minefield: Open source licensing for AI models

A legal minefield: Open source licensing for AI models

AI models differ from traditional software. Learn how new licensing frameworks aim to standardize what 'open' means in AI, including the Linux Foundation's OpenMDW 1.1.

Jun 09 26June 09, 2026

Article at SearchDataManagement

Why backup alone doesn't guarantee cloud recovery readiness

Why backup alone doesn't guarantee cloud recovery readiness

Successful backup jobs can still leave dependency and configuration gaps, making orchestration and recovery testing critical for restoring cloud services and SaaS apps.

Jun 05 26June 05, 2026

Article at IT Pro

Why backup alone doesn't guarantee cloud recovery readiness

Why backup alone doesn't guarantee cloud recovery readiness

Successful backup jobs can still leave dependency and configuration gaps, making orchestration and recovery testing critical for restoring cloud services and SaaS apps.

Jun 05 26June 05, 2026

Article at SearchDataManagement

Cisco Live: The network is back, and AI rewrote the rules

Cisco Live: The network is back, and AI rewrote the rules

As Cisco Live kicks off in Las Vegas, Tom Gillis shares how AI has changed networking, including inside Cisco, where AI coding tools have accelerated software development across its entire portfolio. Among the new product capabilities are Live Protect, which applies vulnerability controls at the OS level, without requiring reboots; and infrastructure management tools that allow enterprises to manage VM-based and Kubernetes-based workloads from the same Nexus dashboard.

Jun 02 26June 02, 2026

Article at networkworld.com

Research shows the vibe coding security crisis CIOs can't ignore

Research shows the vibe coding security crisis CIOs can't ignore

Vibe coding democratizes app development—but at what cost? New research exposes a shadow IT crisis hiding in plain sight.

Jun 02 26June 02, 2026

Article at IT Pro

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