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Editor in Chief, The Stack. We cover enterprise technology, from cloud infrastructure and AI to security and software development. www.thestack.technology

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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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The Stack acquires Runtime
We're joining forces!
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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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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Be careful scheduling social-media posts ahead of time, incident number #693
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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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Cameron @cameron.stream · 05/02/2026
Okay well the OpenAI CMO is hopping on now and it is obvious that Anthropic hurt them and they were deeply unprepared
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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Sooner or later most open-source orgs are going to need to figure this out. www.runtime.news/ai-slop-is-o...
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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 · 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 · 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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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
From last night's Runtime newsletter: A look at the hardware-related announcements from AWS CEO Matt Garman's keynote.
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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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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
New on Runtime: an interview with Microsoft's Jay Parikh on how building software has changed so much in just a few years. While the broader merits of the generative AI revolution are still up for debate, there's no question that the software-development process will never be the same.
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Microsoft's Jay Parikh: Agents will get rid of your coding backlog
Parikh, executive vice president of Microsoft's CoreAI group, leads a relatively new organization that is overhauling the way Microsoft develops software — both internally and for external customers —...
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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
New on @runtime.news: We get a little meta. For $10 a month, Runtime supporters will ensure that our mission can continue. Rather than hide our content behind a paywall or clutter our pages with ads, we believe we can get enough support to keep our independent journalism available to anyone.
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An update on Runtime
Today: An update on our independent journalism mission and a pitch to our loyal readers, CoreWeave's strong third-quarter earnings masked a fourth-quarter supply problem, and the latest funding rounds...
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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
New on @runtime.news: A series of incidents in August and early September only highlighted what startups and application developers had been talking about for months: AI reliability falls short of what most businesses expect from their cloud providers, even after last week's massive AWS outage.
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As AI adoption surges, AI uptime remains a big problem
OpenAI and Anthropic both acknowledge they have a lot of work to do to improve the reliability of their services if they want to serve enterprise customers. But app developers also need to design thei...
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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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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Did anybody else catch Jensen on a hot mic as the press conference started raving about the 1912 cognac he was presumably served in the U.K. this week?
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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
New on @runtime.news: Generative AI apps are forcing app developers to rethink the way users interact with their apps. There have always been apps and workflows that can be controlled with voice commands, but genAI apps open up new opportunities to move beyond the taskbar or the hamburger menu.
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Beyond the prompt: Why GenAI apps require new design thinking
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 use...
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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
From last night's @runtime.news newsletter: 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 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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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
next time you're in a national park, take some photos of the signage and upload it to help these archivists www.404media.co/save-our-sig...
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'Save Our Signs' Wants to Save the Real History of National Parks Before Trump Erases It
Trump wants to erase any "negative" content from educational sites at National Parks. A group of data preservationists asks visitors to help them document placards and monuments, before they disappear...
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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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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
New on @runtime.news: Amazon chief security officer Stephen Schmidt talks about the rise in cybersecurity threats from nation-state attackers, why generative AI is better at defense than offense, and the security pros and cons of the rush to develop software with AI tools.
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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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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
New on @runtime.news: Snowflske CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy increasingly sees data ingestion, analysis, and production as part of a “workflow,” meaning the steps should be easy to follow and more accessible to a wider group of people. Live (kinda) from Snowflake Summit ‘25:
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Snowflake wants to be the data workflow company
Today: Snowflake introduces new tools that promise to help companies find nuggets of insight in their corporate data, Thoma Bravo gears up for the coming wave of AI startup buyouts, and the latest fun...
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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
New on @runtime.news : Last year at the Databricks Data & AI Summit CEO Ali Ghodsi pledged to develop a "USB-C format" for data. The industry has 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 · 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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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
New on @runtime.news: An interview with Karri Saarinen, co-founder and CEO of Linear. We've been hearing a lot of buzz about Linear over the last couple of years, in part because "we have this fairly simple idea that engineering is really the front line of all this information," he said.
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Linear CEO Karri Saarinen: "Our customer base is quite powerful"
Linear started off as an issue-tracking tool helping developers coordinate on eliminating blockers and fixing problems, but has expanded into a product-development system. "We have this fairly simple ...
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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
New on @runtime.news: A conversation with ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott on the sidelines of Knowledge 2025. Highlights include: the impact that AI agents could have on the enterprise, and the ongoing shift where IT departments are taking back control of their application footprints.
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ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott: Agentic AI puts IT back in control
As worries about the economy accelerate, CIOs are regaining control over sprawling application footprints. According to McDermott, "What's happening is technology is the only way out. It's not kind of...
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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
New on @runtime.news: An interview with Freshworks CEO Dennis Woodside, who is trying to move the company beyond its SMB roots to take on big IT management and customer-service companies like ServiceNow. We also covered the evolution of agentic AI pricing and Freshworks' potential for expansion.
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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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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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Microsoft Drops Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Law Firm from a Case
The tech giant instead engaged a firm that is fighting the president’s executive orders, Jenner & Block, in a sign that those firms can still attract clients.
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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Synadia and the CNCF have reached a formal agreement to transfer two NATS-related trademarks to the CNCF, after Synadia CEO Derek Collison told Runtime earlier this week it planned to do so. The CNCF's blog post: www.cncf.io/announcement... Earlier on Runtime: www.runtime.news/how-synadias...
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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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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
For the #rsac crowd, check out the latest edition of the Runtime Roundtable, in which our panelists answer the question: How should companies make sure they are shipping secure generative AI apps while still moving 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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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
New on @runtime.news: A deep dive into the dispute between Synadia and the CNCF over the NATS project. After a contentious weekend, Synadia appears to be standing down. CEO Derek Collison told Runtime Tuesday that it intends to hand over the NATS trademark to the CNCF in the near future.
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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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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
New on @runtime.news: A deep dive into the dispute between Synadia and the CNCF over the NATS project. After a contentious weekend, Synadia appears to be standing down. CEO Derek Collison told Runtime Tuesday that it intends to hand over the NATS trademark to the CNCF in the near future.
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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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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
From tonight's @runtime.news: It's been a year since Microsoft rededicated itself to security, and on Monday it released an update. It hasn't dealt with a serious incident since, but Microsoft still faces the inherent tension between protecting customer data and selling enterprise security software.
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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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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
From last night's @runtime.news newsletter: Google Cloud fell behind AWS and Microsoft during the cloud computing land grab a decade ago, but the greenfield generative AI opportunity has allowed it to reset the playing field. Some thoughts from Cloud Next '25.
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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 · 02/04/2025
Neo4j CEO Emil Eifrem says he sees a recurring pattern in how customers use the database. Due to frustration with SaaS spending paired with increased productivity of in-house engineering teams, he says, "We're moving into—in this classic build-versus-buy (dilemma)—a build era for the enterprise."
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Why Klarna chose graph DBs to shed SaaS
Today: Neo4j co-founder and CEO Emil Eifrem explains how Klarna used graph databases to chart its own enterprise software path, Oracle buries its head further in the sand as customers start asking abo...
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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
“On Friday, when I asked Oracle for comment, a spokesperson asked if they could provide a statement that couldn’t be attributed to Oracle in any way. After I declined, the spokesperson said Oracle would have no comment.”
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Jordan Novet @jordannovet.cnbc.com · 28/03/2025
and just like that CoreWeave has started trading, at $39 per share, below the $40 IPO price. www.cnbc.com/2025/03/28/c...
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CoreWeave opens at $39 after biggest U.S. tech IPO since 2021
CoreWeave received the most proceeds from a U.S. technology IPO since automation software maker UiPath went public in 2021.
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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
From last night's @runtime.news: Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) is "an open standard that enables developers to build secure, two-way connections between their data sources and AI-powered tools." Cloudflare now supports remote MCP servers, a big step toward adoption.
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Why AI infrastructure companies are lining up behind Anthropic's MCP
Model Context Protocol (MCP) was introduced last November by Anthropic, which called it "an open standard that enables developers to build secure, two-way connections between their data sources and AI...
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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
New on @runtime.news : Writer has raised $326 million to build a "full stack" approach to generative AI by developing its own LLMs and building application tools around those models. CEO May Habib thinks using synthetic data and a collaborative process will spur enterprise AI adoption.
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Writer's May Habib: "Generative AI challenges the concept of done"
Writer has raised $326 million to build a "full stack" approach to generative AI by developing its own LLMs and building application tools around those models. CEO May Habib thinks using synthetic dat...
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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
From last night's @runtime.news newsletter: Google Cloud's $32 billion deal for Wiz — a cloud security platform designed to work across all major cloud providers — will be a test of its commitment to work with its competitors. Wiz customers on AWS and Azure will be watching closely.
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Wiz is a multicloud security rocket ship. Now it works for a cloud provider
Tuesday's $32 billion acquisition of Wiz — a cloud security platform designed to work across all major cloud providers — will be a test of Google Cloud's commitment to work with its competitors and a ...
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Runtime News @runtime.news · 12/03/2025
Apps built for or around generative AI have different hardware and software requirements than their older cousins. At the #HumanX conference, we talked to four tech leaders who gave their advice about what to do and what not to do when drawing up infrastructure plans for AI.
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How to build an AI stack on the fly
Today: four perspectives on building AI infrastructure that can launch quickly and stand the test of time, ServiceNow buys an enterprise AI assistant company, and the latest funding rounds in enterpri...
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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Rough day for Salesforce: A massive Slack outage followed by a revenue miss and lowered full-year guidance.
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Salesforce Gives Tepid Growth Outlook, Dashing AI Agent Hopes
Salesforce Inc. gave a fiscal-year revenue forecast that fell short of estimates, dimming optimism for the company’s new artificial intelligence product.
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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
New on @runtime.news: Pinecone just announced an overhaul of its serverless managed vector database infrastructure that focuses on balancing speed, performance, and freshness without making users fiddle with a bunch of dials. My interview with founder and CEO Edo Liberty:
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Pinecone's new serverless architecture hopes to make the vector database more versatile
Companies working with vector databases have to balance performance, cost, and speed as they try to get apps into production. Pinecone's new update promises to thread that needle.
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 20/02/2025
I just wrote a quick blog post about why Substack writers should switch to Ghost! micahflee.com/2025/02/not-...
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Not only is Substack right-wing broligarchy garbage, it's way more expensive than Ghost
A lot of us know by now that Substack has a Nazi problem. It not only profits from fascist voices, it actively promotes their work and recruits them. And it's funded by Silicon Valley anti-democracy b...
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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
New on @runtime.news: Our latest How We Built It features Monica Caldas, CIO of Liberty Mutual, explaining how the company quickly rolled out an internal GenAI application thanks to a strong data foundation and FinOps discipline.
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How Liberty Mutual was able to jump into generative AI thanks to a clear data strategy and FinOps
LibertyGPT is an internal application that is currently being used by more than 10,000 Liberty Mutual employees to summarize information and answer common questions. An early version was built in just...
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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
New on @runtime.news: Canva CTO Brendan Humphreys explains why it took Canva so long to wade through "gimmicky" internal GenAI tools, and how by giving employees space to try them at their own pace, found the ones that worked. Per-seat licensing is ngmi. www.runtime.news/canva-chose-...
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Canva chose its generative AI tools by letting its employees try them all. It's an argument for consumption-based pricing.
It was only in the last six months that Canva decided generative AI tools were good enough for its employees. It got there through a period of trial and error that suggests GenAI vendors need more fle...
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Alan James Kluegel @ajk.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Well, the law review submission cycle is starting up again, so it's time to share what I've been working on: a 2,000-word article on the batshit commercial in which AI overrides Matthew McConaughey's hierarchy of needs: defector.com/salesforce-i...
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Salesforce Is Using A Hallucination To Sell AI | Defector
A lot is happening in the world of Artificial Intelligence, and not a lot of it makes sense. We’re told that AI is the future of business, yet it is wildly unprofitable; investment in AI companies is ...
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 07/02/2025
"Individual engineers experimenting directly on live systems... violates every best practice for controlling risk in the industry. Elon Musk says he wants to run the government like a business, but no business operates this way." Super explanation by @lizthegrey.com of the dangers posed by DOGE.
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Why DOGE’s meddling at Treasury could have catastrophic consequences for the US economy
It’s only a matter of time until DOGE meddling inadvertently triggers a catastrophic failure of Bureau of the Fiscal Service systems.
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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
New on @runtime.news: @vercel.com is introducing a new serverless infrastructure today called Fluid Compute, which makes serverless AI apps more efficient through concurrency. As @rauchg.blue told me, "you're treating it more like a server when you need it." More details here:
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Why Vercel overhauled its serverless infrastructure for the AI era
Vercel's serverless infrastructure was designed at a time when speed was the most important goal. AI apps are a little different, and Fluid Compute is an effort to rebuild that infrastructure for the ...
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