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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Some big news: Runtime has been acquired by The Stack! The newsletter will continue, but it will look a little different and feature contributions from The Stack's great team. More details here: www.thestack.technology/the-stack-ru...
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 11/06/2026
The heavy-handedness of the safeguards applied to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 at launch has taken many users aback. See why...
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Anthropic's Fable a cautionary tale
Today: Anthropic's first Mythos-class AI model launch did not sit well with a lot of enterprise users, Oracle investors remain wary about its expansion plans, and the latest enterprise moves.
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 09/06/2026
It's unclear how many developers might have been compromised by this latest attack, but it's notable because it employed new tactics that will be hard to defend against.
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Why Microsoft yanked its own code
Today: Microsoft scrambles to minimize the fallout from a second batch of compromised open-source patches in a month, Apple teams up with Google for an expansion of its cloud security service, and the...
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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
New on @runtime.news: We spoke to Yao Morin, CTO at JLL, for the latest edition of How We Built It. About 25% of JLL's 110,000 employees are using its AI platforms on a daily basis to research deals, model cash flows, and develop applications for JLL's technology practice.
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How JLL built an AI platform to help employees and clients close the deal
About one-quarter of JLL's 110,000 employees are using its internal AI platforms on a daily basis. Those users are researching deals, modeling cash flows, and developing applications for JLL's technol...
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 04/03/2026
Last week's showdown between the U.S. Department of Defense and Anthropic could have enormous ramifications for any company doing business with the government.
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The Pentagon's software supply-chain attack
Today: The U.S. government's declaration that military contractors should no longer work with Anthropic is a threat to software companies, AWS data centers appear to have been targeted by Iran's respo...
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 14/02/2026
If #OpenAI is going to come even close to hitting its revenue projections, it needs to find a way to compete with #Anthropic to win over enterprise tech organizations. Yesterday it released a new model that could help.
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OpenAI's fight to win back developers
Today: OpenAI releases a new model that could dent Anthropic's hold over enterprise software teams, Anthropic reloads to fight back, and the latest enterprise moves.
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 11/02/2026
The popular Ingress NGINX controller for Kubernetes will no longer get security support, so users have a month to figure out a plan. Meanwhile, stunning news from Salesforce, which will no longer develop new features for Heroku, the pioneering platform-as-a-service product it acquired 15 years ago.
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Kubernetes users face a huge deadline
Today: Kubernetes installations that use the Ingress NGINX controller have a month to make new arrangements, Salesforce sends Heroku into early retirement, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise ...
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 09/02/2026
It's true that AI makes coding faster. But that's only part of the story. The greatest opportunity to accelerate innovation lies in enhancing quality, security, and speed throughout the entire software lifecycle. Read more, sponsored by GitLab
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From faster coding to accelerated innovation cycles: How intelligent orchestration unlocks AI's promise
While AI makes coding faster, the greatest opportunity to accelerate innovation lies in enhancing quality, security, and speed throughout the entire software lifecycle.
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 30/01/2026
Now that #genAI is getting traction in the enterprise, the debate has shifted: Can old-guard vendors adapt to this new world, or will hungry upstarts eat their lunch before they can pivot? Wall Street's position is clear, as shares of enterprise software companies fell despite strong revenue growth.
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A day of reckoning for the AI boom
Today: Strong AI-driven earnings weren't enough to prevent enterprise software investors from voting with their feet, plunging stock prices aren't enough to deter another round of investment in OpenAI...
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 28/01/2026
Over the last year we've heard a lot about software developers embracing AI coding agents. But cybersecurity professionals are also starting to put agents into key parts of their workflow. Torq just raised $140M to help automate the venerable security operations center with AI agents.
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SOC puppets: How Torq wants to automate security
Today: Torq's CEO explains how agents are ready to take over security operations centers, Anthropic hooks up with a who's who of enterprise SaaS, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 23/01/2026
As AI coding assistants become mainstream, open-source projects are facing a new challenge. Two prominent projects — curl and LLVM — recently said they've seen enough poor-quality AI-generated submissions that they need to put new limits on how they deal with that code.
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AI slop is overwhelming open source
Today: How two open-source projects are trying and failing to manage a deluge of AI contributions, OpenAI matches Microsoft's energy pledge, and the latest enterprise moves.
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 21/01/2026
As companies without modern data management systems in place rushed to adopt cloud data warehouses and data lakes, Databricks and Snowflake have reaped rewards. But new challengers always emerge during a platform shift. One of those is ClickHouse, which just raised $400 million in new funding.
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ClickHouse takes aim at Databricks and Snowflake
Today: ClickHouse sends yet another signal that observability tools could help get enterprise agents over the hump, ServiceNow teams up with OpenAI, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 16/01/2026
Led by Salesforce and Workday, SaaS stocks fell widely this week after Anthropic introduced Claude Cowork. But fears that AI upstarts will drink enterprise SaaS milkshakes are a little premature. Meanwhile, thanks to the help of Wiz, AWS managed to avoid a supply-chain attack for the history books.
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AI is not an enterprise SaaS killer — yet
Today: Why fears that AI upstarts will drink enterprise SaaS milkshakes are not irrational but a little premature, how AWS dodged an enormous security debacle thanks to Wiz. and the latest enterprise ...
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 14/01/2026
AI agents are already transforming the way tech workers do their jobs, from software development to IT operations management. Can tech companies adapt the technology into tools that non-technical office workers actually want to use? Anthropic and Salesforce are both trying.
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Here come the coworking agents
Today: Anthropic and Salesforce roll out slightly different takes on the future of work with AI agents, Microsoft vows to limit the local impact of data-center construction as pushback starts to grow,...
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 09/01/2026
Snowflake's decision to acquire Observe (in a deal announced this week and estimated to be worth about $1 billion) is a bet that moving observability tools closer to the data they're recording will be a cheaper and easier way to make sure enterprise agents are performing as designed.
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You can observe a lot by watching
Today: Why Snowflake's acquisition of Observe underscores the importance of observability to enterprise AI, Microsoft attempts to fend off the AI coding upstarts, and the latest enterprise moves.
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 07/01/2026
At #CES, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Vera Rubin, the company's upcoming AI chip series, will deliver a 5X performance improvement over its previous GPUs. Get details about that — and why Nvidia signed a $20B licensing deal with startup Groq — in this edition of the Runtime newsletter.
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Nvidia's path to the AI-native chip
Today: Nvidia previews its next-generation chip design as it maneuvers to adapt to a changing market, Meta's latest flirtation with the enterprise business could actually stick, and the latest funding...
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 22/12/2025
As we reflected on the biggest stories of 2025, one throughline emerged. They all illustrate how enterprises grappled with a central problem: how to get the generative AI tools and agents that promise a new era of business productivity to actually work. www.runtime.news/five-importa...
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Five important Runtime stories from 2025
Today: We run out the clock on 2025 with a look back at the year in enterprise AI, the latest enterprise moves, and the last Runtime roundup of the year.
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 03/12/2025
Reporting from AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, Tom Krazit sums up all you need to know after the first big day of the event, including AWS's custom AI chip, called Trainium 3 and now generally available.
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AWS vows to "push the limits" of AI infrastructure
Today: AWS introduces new infrastructure tools and services during the first big day of re:Invent 2025, ServiceNow gets deeper into the security business, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise t...
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 22/10/2025
After sifting through the fallout from a massive outage, it's clear that both AWS and its customers are still putting too many of their eggs into one very old and very worn basket. See why us-east-1 is the biggest problem in cloud computing.
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It's always us-east-1
Today: Monday's big AWS outage illustrates yet again why us-east-1 is the biggest problem in cloud computing, further evidence that bitcoin mining is so very 2019 these days, and the latest funding ro...
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 17/10/2025
F5 says a nation-state hacker gained long-term access to some of its servers. The hack comes as attacks on American software companies appear to be ramping up and as the Trump administration pulls staffers away from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to focus on deportations.
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The U.S. is losing a cyberwar
Today: F5's disclosure that hackers had "long term" access to its systems is just the latest sign that the federal government is focused on the wrong problems, Salesforce does damage control on behalf...
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 07/10/2025
If you want to make sure your business is able to deliver the high-performance throughput and low latency AI applications require, you'd better make sure your network is ready. Read why in this post, sponsored by @cisco.com www.runtime.news/why-future-p...
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Why future-proofing the workplace for AI starts at the network
Any business that survived the digital revolution is very familiar with how quickly networking requirements can shift. But few are prepared for the speed with which emerging technologies today are cha...
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 02/10/2025
A hybrid cloud strategy solves a lot of problems, especially for companies in heavily regulated industries or that have big investments in data centers. But it also comes with its own set of challenges. We asked members of the Runtime Roundtable how they think about hybrid cloud app deployment.
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What is the best way to think about hybrid cloud application deployment?
For companies with sensitive data requirements or substantial investments in data centers, a hybrid cloud strategy offers the best of both worlds — and a significant management challenge. Eight member...
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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
New on @runtime.news: The latest in our How We Built It series, this time featuring Mastercard's George Maddaloni. We talked about how Mastercard onboarded generative AI tools across its employees and its current approach to AI agents, where MCP is spurring a lot of internal agent building.
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How Mastercard encouraged AI adoption with training and data
Last year Mastercard conducted a review of the different workflow patterns used by employees across the 35,000-person payments giant. In some cases generative AI tools didn't really move the needle, b...
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 17/09/2025
Workday is one of many companies trying to convince enterprises to use its software as the foundation for their agentic AI strategies, and at Workday Rising it unveiled new tools that it hopes will close the deal. "The era of one-size-fits-all enterprise software is over," said CTO Peter Bailis.
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Agentic AI is still up for grabs
Today: Workday jostles for position in the race to bring agents to the enterprise, a new type of software supply-chain attack is spreading, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 27/08/2025
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan says the future of the enterprise is private. Cloud provider earnings reports tell a different story. But for tech organizations going the hybrid cloud route, VMware unveiled several new ways it gives customers cloud-like performance capabilities inside their own data centers.
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Broadcom wants to party like it's 2005
Today: Broadcom rolls out new VMware services aimed at convincing customers to run next-generation workloads the old-fashioned way, we're starting to learn what DOGE did with some of the country's mos...
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 20/08/2025
Voice-phishing (or "vishing") attacks are on the rise, with Workday being the latest company to disclose that it had been targeted by hackers. You can bet we'll all see more about this in our next corporate security training sessions.
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Voice phishing is turning into a big problem
Today: Voice-phishing attacks are turning into a serious problem without an easy solution, Google Cloud furthers its nuclear plans, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 16/08/2025
Generative AI apps could help software designers break out of a decades-old rut when it comes to how we use their tools. At the very least, they need to rethink their approach to avoid frustrating users. Read about that, plus the latest moves by enterprise tech execs, in the Runtime newsletter.
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Don't make WIMPy GenAI apps
Today: Why generative AI technology presents an opportunity for app developers to move beyond a decades-old standard for app design, the Trump administration is thinking about throwing out years of wo...
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 13/08/2025
Times have changed. Microsoft executives used to celebrate GitHub's independence within the larger company ecosystem. But that era is over, and today GitHub feels like just another Microsoft product.
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Why Microsoft's decision to bury GitHub in its CoreAI group is the end of an era
GitHub's independence within the Microsoft ecosystem was treasured by company executives in the years following in 2018 acquisition. But that era is over, and GitHub is now just another Microsoft prod...
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 06/08/2025
OpenAI is living up to its name again. It hadn't shipped any major LLMs that could claim a degree of openness since 2019's GPT-2. But that just changed with the release of two new open-weight models the company says are as powerful as some of its leading closed models.
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Putting the open back in OpenAI
Today: OpenAI releases two open-weight models ahead of the expected launch of GPT-5, why China was already deeply involved in Microsoft SharePoint before last month's security fiasco, and the latest f...
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 16/07/2025
It's been a choppy few months for Windsurf. First, news leaked that OpenAI intended to acquire the company for $3 billion. Then Google came along with a billion-dollar acquihire, agreeing to pay $2.4 billion for a non-exclusive license to Windsurf's technology and hire about 40 of its employees.
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The huge stakes behind AI-driven coding
Today: several wild days prove why AI-driven coding is at the center of enterprise tech, Nvidia will once again be allowed to sell chips designed around export controls to Chinese customers, and the l...
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 11/07/2025
Grok 4 could be a tempting choice for developers and enterprises looking for competitive but lower-cost alternatives to OpenAI and Anthropic. But it's impossible to understand why any serious business would put Grok at the heart of its AI strategy. Grok is unsafe at any speed for business use.
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Don't rank Grok
Today: xAI's new Grok 4 model looks impressive assuming you can ignore everything else about the company, MCP's security flaws are becoming apparent, and the latest enterprise moves.
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 09/07/2025
CoreWeave says it plans to acquire Core Scientific for $9 billion. The deal would allow CoreWeave to take direct control of infrastructure it's already renting from Core Scientific and will provide the additional capacity it needs to fulfill nearly $16 billion in orders from OpenAI.
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Buying data centers is easier than building them
Today: Why CoreWeave just shelled out $9 billion in stock for Core Scientific, Ingram Micro begins to recover from a holiday weekend ransomware attack, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech...
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 20/06/2025
This week, a pair of legends in the software engineering space shared their insights on the "Software 3.0 era" and laid out just how much disruption is coming for workers in the software mines. Plus, we bring you the latest in the Microsoft-OpenAI negotiations and two big executive moves.
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Two takes on the future of software development
Today: Two legendary software engineers sum up the current state of AI coding in mid-2025 and what comes next, Microsoft and OpenAI continue to trial balloon their contract negotiations, and the lates...
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 18/06/2025
The conscious uncoupling of Microsoft and OpenAI is sticky. We unpack where things stand now, and how some big factors — like OpenAI's pending acquisition of Windsurf and a slate of other powerful LLMs now on the market — are complicating things.
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What is Microsoft going to do with OpenAI?
Today: OpenAI's attempts to alter its sweeping deal with Microsoft will force some interesting decisions in Redmond, Google Cloud offers more details about last Thursday's outage, and the latest fundi...
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 11/06/2025
In this one-on-one interview, Amazon CSO Steve Schmidt tells us about: *Increasing nation-state attacks on tech companies *How generative AI is — and isn't — changing cybersecurity, on both the offensive and defensive sides *How Amazon works to prevent unforced errors in code
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Amazon CSO Steve Schmidt: AI is changing security, but defenders are still ahead of attackers
Schmidt discussed the frequency and style of the attacks Amazon fends off every day, the capabilities that cybersecurity defenders can bring to bear thanks to generative AI, and the potential that mac...
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 28/05/2025
Last year, Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi pledged to bring Delta Lake and Iceberg together in a "USB-C format" for data. The communities behind both formats have made progress toward that goal, but the last mile is tricky, and new tools could let end users worry about other problems.
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Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi's goal of a universal data format is close. But new efforts are aiming higher
Last year at the Databricks Data & AI Summit Ghodsi pledged to bring Delta Lake and Iceberg together in a "USB-C format" for data. The communities behind both formats have made progress toward that go...
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 24/05/2025
From our roundup of the week's biggest product releases and updates: -A new open source project from Red Hat -A catalog of container images from Docker -Google Cloud's Gemini for Code Assist and for GitHub -Messaging directly with AI agents in Slack -Glean's Agents tool
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Red Hat's plan for AI inference; Google's AI coding tool
Today on Product Saturday: Red Hat leads a consortium of companies working on an open-source AI inference framework, Google makes Gemini Code Assist generally available, and the quote of the week.
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 23/05/2025
Anthropic unveiled its latest Claude models, saying Claude Opus 4 "is our most powerful model yet and the best coding model in the world." The big breakthrough seems to be an ability to complete tasks unsupervised over long periods of time, compared to earlier versions that glitched out pretty fast.
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Anthropic moves the AI coding race forward
Today: Anthropic's new Claude models deliver what the company says is the best AI coding performance on the market, how two employees of a security software company pulled off a massive breach of fede...
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 21/05/2025
At the Build conference, Microsoft said it will release the GitHub Copilot code extension inside Visual Studio Code under an open-source license and add a new coding agent to GitHub Copilot. Also, Qualcomm wants in on the lucrative server processor market. And see where two big funding rounds went.
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Microsoft's plan to keep its AI coding lead takes shape
Today: How Microsoft is trying to hold on to its position at the center of professional software development, Qualcomm gears up — again — to enter the server market, and the latest funding rounds in e...
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 20/05/2025
Don't miss our regular roundup of the week's most important new enterprise tech product releases and updates, including: -Coding agents from OpenAI and Google -AWS's Transform service -Updates to Celonis's Process Intelligence API -Boomi AgentStudio
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OpenAI's coding tool; AWS tackles mainframes
Today on Product Saturday: OpenAI previews a coding agent, AWS launches a new service designed to migrate old workloads to the cloud, and the quote of the week.
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 16/05/2025
Jira is the bug-tracking system software developers love to hate. We sat down with the CEO of Linear, which has raised over $50 million to build a modern alternative, to talk about product strategy, generative AI, and AI agents. Also: Good news and bad news for CoreWeave, and four big exec moves
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How Linear became the new Jira
Today: An interview with Linear CEO Karri Saarinen on the role of AI in product-management software, CoreWeave's up and down year has an up and down week, and the latest enterprise moves.
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 14/05/2025
SBOMs are a great idea in theory. But are they really helping companies? We talk to Chainguard CEO Dan Lorenc about one key problem with them, as well as other challenges in the era of AI code. Plus: Project Stargate is behind schedule, and we clock six big rounds of enterprise tech funding.
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Why SBOMs went over like a bomb
Today: Chainguard's Dan Lorenc shares his thoughts on the state of open-source software and security challenges in the AI era, believe it or not, but OpenAI might be having trouble getting Project Sta...
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 06/05/2025
We sat down with Freshworks CEO Dennis Woodside after a strong earnings report. For years, Freshworks has provided help desk and customer-service software to small and medium-size businesses, but Woodside is trying to take on bigger players like ServiceNow by moving into the enterprise market.
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Freshworks CEO Dennis Woodside: We can be the ServiceNow alternative
Under Woodside, Freshworks is taking direct aim at ServiceNow, which has been the leading company in several aspects of IT management software for several years. "Three years ago, our product wasn't a...
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 30/04/2025
9 executives give their insight into how companies rushing to deploy GenAI apps can ensure what they're shipping is secure while still innovating quickly.
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How should companies make sure they are shipping secure generative AI apps while still moving quickly?
Companies around the world have rushed to deploy generative AI applications over the last year, and the security considerations for genAI apps are somewhat different than traditional software. Nine me...
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 30/04/2025
After a week of back-and-forth between Synadia and the CNCF, it appears the company will relinquish the NATS trademark after all. Here's how the unusual conflict over an open-source project went down.
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How Synadia's attempt to exit the CNCF by holding a trademark hostage might have backfired
When the CNCF accepts open-source projects, it requires that any trademarks related to the project be handed over. Synadia never did that, and is now backing down from an attempt to use its ownership ...
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 25/04/2025
Looking at early earnings reports from the biggest enterprise tech companies, it's clear that some are better positioned than others to weather the chaos of Trump's tariffs and Elon Musk's federal government cuts. Also: Synadia wants to take back ownership of a project it donated to the CNCF.
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Enterprise tech confronts tariff chaos
Today: What the first week of Q1 Big Tech earnings says about the enterprise market heading into the rest of the year, the creators of NATS are trying to pull off the old-fashioned "takesies-backsies"...
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 23/04/2025
A year ago, Microsoft vowed to make big changes in response to a breach of its cloud services that enabled hackers to access federal government accounts. See what it's done. Meanwhile, in another sign that the AI boom is waning, AWS is taking its foot off the gas with data-center capacity planning.
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Microsoft's progress one year into its "security reset"
Today: Microsoft reveals its progress toward reorienting the company around security, AWS picks an interesting time for some "routine capacity management," and the latest funding rounds in enterprise ...
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 17/04/2025
Storage services are one of the most fundamental parts of any cloud architecture, and they're changing in response to changing AI workloads. Also: Due to federal funding cuts, the nonprofit that maintains the widely used CVE system for tracking cybersecurity issues says it can't do that anymore. 😐
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The hidden tax on AI infrastructure
Today: Why cloud storage architectures have an enormous impact on generative AI app performance, a vital component of cybersecurity preparedness is in limbo thanks to a cut in federal funding, and the...
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 11/04/2025
Dispatch from Las Vegas, where Google Cloud is reintroducing itself in the enterprise AI space
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Google Cloud's second chance at the enterprise
Today: Google Cloud makes its pitch to developers and CIOs as the best place to build enterprise AI apps, the meteoric rise of MCP hits a snag, and the latest enterprise moves.
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 09/04/2025
If agents are the future of enterprise software, they will forever change the way business software is bought and sold. Zendesk CEO Tom Eggemeier tells us why he thinks customers should only pay for agentic activity that actually gets something done.
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The agents are here: But at what price?
Today: How Zendesk is approaching one of the biggest shifts in enterprise software pricing in years, Meta gets into hot water over the claimed performance of a new AI model released over the weekend, ...
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