Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Jon Swartz, Dan O’Brien, Teri Robinson and Andi Mann lead with Futurum Group’s agreement to acquire Aptiviti, then break down the rise of the AI industrial complex and GDPR’s lasting impact eight years later.
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AI, Profit Takes Over and Systems Eng...
Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Chris Blask, Kate Scarcella and Mitch Ashley break down three stories that show AI entering a more mature and more demanding phase. The first segment, Vatican AI Doctrine, looks at Pope Leo XIV’s call for the “disarmament” of AI and his rejection of the traditional “just...
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AI Goes Global, DevOps Gets Riskier a...
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Linus Pushes Back, Google Goes Agenti...
Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Fred Wilmot and Gina Rosenthal break down Linus Torvalds’ warning about AI bug-report overload in Linux workflows, Google’s bigger agent-and-search push at I/O 2026 and the growing role of open AI in the broader software stack.
