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Guest posts from operators, agencies, and thought leaders across B2B tech.
LastPass Confirms Customer Data Stolen in Klue Supply Chain Breach
LastPass says attackers used stolen OAuth tokens from a Klue integration to pull customer names, contact details and support case records out of its Salesforce environment, one of at least twelve vendors hit by the same supply chain breach.
Bhavika J
Baseten's $1.5 Billion Raise Leads a Week of AI Infrastructure Deals
A look at three AI deals from mid-June 2026, an inference platform's $1.5 billion raise, a world-model startup's $310 million round, and OpenAI's acquisition of Ona, and what each says about where enterprise AI spending is actually going.
Bhavika J
SpaceX's $60 Billion Cursor Deal Is a Licensing Problem for Buyers
SpaceX's $60 billion deal to acquire Cursor maker Anysphere turns an independent AI coding vendor into a division of a rocket company, and enterprise buyers should treat it as a licensing event, not just an M&A headline.
Bhavika J
Retail Just Turned the Store Into a Supply Chain Node
A look at what three June 2026 retail tech announcements, from Shopify, Advance Auto Parts and Flink, reveal about where fulfillment work is actually moving.
Bhavika J
What Supplier Master Data Management Actually Fixes
A plain look at why supplier records go bad, what onboarding checks are supposed to catch, and how supplier master data software differs from a basic vendor portal.
Bhavika J
Cadence Raises $100M Series C to Expand AI-Run Chronic Care
Cadence raised $100 million to expand its AI-monitored chronic disease program, days after a federal watchdog report and a major insurer's coverage changes put remote patient monitoring billing under new scrutiny.
Bhavika J
J.D. Power Data Shows the Real CSAT Cost of Failed AI Escalations
Two 2026 J.D. Power studies, in wireless carrier support and digital banking, show that AI assistants that resolve a query lift satisfaction sharply, but AI that fails and hands off to a human drags the score down further than no AI at all.
Bhavika J
India's Central Labour Code Rules Take Effect, State Rules Lag
India's labour ministry notified final Central Rules under all four Labour Codes on May 8, 2026, but the rules apply only to centrally governed sectors, leaving most employers waiting on their own state to notify matching rules before payroll changes.
Bhavika J
Open Banking Stalls in the US as India Forces Lenders to Prove Compliance
A US court has frozen the CFPB's open banking rule pending a rewrite, while India's June 30 deadline forces digital lenders to show, not just document, that borrower protections actually work.
Bhavika J
Why Most Data Warehouses Are Bigger Than the Job Requires
Recent OLAP benchmarks show single-node engines like DuckDB and MotherDuck matching or beating multi-node cloud warehouses on typical workloads at a fraction of the cost, raising a real question about when "big data" infrastructure is actually necessary.
Bhavika J
Relationship Intelligence, Explained: How CRMs Now Map Who Actually Knows Whom
A growing category of sales tools mines email, calendar and partner data to surface warm introduction paths automatically, changing how SDRs and AEs decide who to contact first.
Bhavika J
GitHub Actions Finally Commits to a Runner Upgrade Deadline
After two delays, GitHub set firm dates in June 2026 to stop running workflows on outdated self-hosted Actions runners, while a separate switch to Node.js 24 as the default runtime lands in the same window.
Bhavika J