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Guest posts from operators, agencies, and thought leaders across B2B tech.
IBM, OpenAI and Two Inference Startups Show Where AI Money Is Going
A look at three recent AI deals, an IBM-OpenAI consulting partnership and two large funding rounds, that together show enterprise money moving from pilots to production inference.
Bhavika J
The Seat Is Dying From Both Ends at Once
Microsoft raised per-seat prices while ServiceNow moved half its new business off seats entirely, and Autodesk bought a company to lock in a new metering unit, three moves that add up to one argument: buyers can no longer budget software on headcount.
Bhavika J
Revenue Action Orchestration: Gartner's New Sales Tech Category
An explainer on Revenue Action Orchestration, the sales technology category Gartner created in December 2025 by merging sales engagement, revenue intelligence and CRM into one system.
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Kubernetes 1.37 Ships Control-Plane Fixes Days After Google Cloud Outage
Kubernetes 1.37's control-plane reliability fixes landed six days after a Google Cloud outage exposed a related failure category, and neither hyperscaler's flat per-cluster pricing reflects the difference.
Bhavika J
RBI Tightens Digital Wallet Rules, Eases Lending as US Open Banking Stalls
India's central bank is tightening prepaid wallet oversight while loosening rules for digital lending guarantees, as a stalled US open banking rule leaves embedded finance firms without a clear compliance target.
Bhavika J
Why Snowflake and Databricks Both Ended Up Building for Apache Iceberg
A guide to open table formats, the metadata layer beneath every modern warehouse and lakehouse, and the year Snowflake, Databricks and the Apache Iceberg project all ended up building toward the same standard.
Bhavika J
Deel-Rippling Spying Case Clears Trial Hurdle as DOJ Opens Criminal Probe
A federal judge cleared Rippling's corporate-espionage lawsuit against Deel for trial, and the Justice Department has opened a parallel criminal investigation into the same spying allegations.
Bhavika J
Voice Biometrics in Call Centers: How It Works, Where the Risk Sits
An explainer on how voice biometric authentication works in contact centers, why banks and retailers adopted it, and what two 2026 court rulings mean for the legal exposure that comes with it.
Bhavika J
RBI, FCA and FIS Redraw the Boundaries of Regulated Lending
India eased oversight of small non-bank lenders, the UK brought buy now, pay later under full regulation, and FIS launched an embedded banking platform that keeps deposits on a bank's own ledger.
Bhavika J
Why Supplier Risk Is Becoming Procurement's Job, Not Legal's
A look at how EU rules on vendor due diligence and IT resilience are pushing supplier risk monitoring out of compliance spreadsheets and into source-to-pay systems.
Bhavika J
FDA Adds Two AI Mental Health Firms to Its TEMPO Digital Health Pilot
The FDA has added Limbic and SonderMind to its TEMPO pilot, letting AI-based mental health tools reach Medicare patients while the agency collects real-world data on how the products perform.
Bhavika J
Anthropic Slashes Claude Agent Costs While Cognition and OpenAI Ink Big Deals
Three September developments, a Claude pricing cut, a $48 billion valuation for Cognition, and a new federal ChatGPT contract, show enterprise AI competition shifting from model capability to cost and adoption.
Bhavika J