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Guest posts from operators, agencies, and thought leaders across B2B tech.
India Cracks Open UPI Fees as US Regulator Lets Banks Charge for Data
India's Parliament has amended the law that kept UPI merchant payments free for six years, and the US consumer finance regulator has sent a rewritten open banking rule to the White House that would let banks charge fintechs for account data, and both moves land on the same underlying question: who pays for payment infrastructure that has been treated as a free public good.
Bhavika J
AWS Raises GPU Instance Prices Twice in 2026, Breaking Its Own Pattern
A look at AWS's first-ever price increase on EC2 GPU capacity, Azure's July network outage, and what's shipping in Kubernetes 1.37 and Cilium 1.20.
Bhavika J
Salesforce's Agentforce Sales and the Clari-Salesloft Merger, Explained
A plain look at how Salesforce's agentic sales rebrand and the Clari-Salesloft merger are changing the daily workflow for SDRs and AEs.
Bhavika J
CISA Adds Four Actively Exploited Flaws to KEV Catalog
CISA added four critical, actively exploited vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, SharePoint, VMware vCenter and Apple macOS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on August 18, giving federal agencies three days to patch or disconnect.
Bhavika J
Attribution Windows Are Shrinking as Ad Platforms Retreat From Third-Party Signals
Meta's cut to attribution windows, Google's shutdown of Privacy Sandbox, and Adobe's push into first-party data collaboration all point marketing teams toward the same fix: build measurement on data you own.
Bhavika J
IBM, Together AI and Google Cloud Sign Major AI Infrastructure Deals
Three deals signed in the same week, an IBM-Together AI inference cluster, a five-year Ryanair-Google Cloud partnership and a new Gemini model, show where enterprise AI spending is actually going.
Bhavika J
Autodesk-MaintainX and the End of Per-Seat SaaS Pricing
A look at what the Autodesk-MaintainX deal and ServiceNow's own numbers say about enterprise software's shift away from per-seat pricing, and what buyers need to renegotiate before their next contract cycle.
Bhavika J
Retailers' AI Shopping Numbers Don't Prove What They Claim
A look at what Walmart, Amazon and eBay's mid-2026 disclosures about AI shopping agents actually show, and what they don't.
Bhavika J
Atlantic Health Becomes Third System to Deploy K Health's PatientGPT
Atlantic Health System launched an AI assistant built with K Health on August 11, becoming the third major U.S. health system this year to deploy the tool, called PatientGPT, inside its patient portal.
Bhavika J
Supplier Risk Scoring: What It Actually Measures, and Where It Fails
A look at how supplier risk scoring works inside modern source-to-pay platforms, why EU regulation is pushing procurement teams to adopt it, and what to check before buying one.
Bhavika J
EU AI Act's Disclosure Rule Now Applies to Every Customer Service Bot
A rule that took effect August 2 requires any voice or chat AI talking to EU customers to say so, and it changes what contact centre teams need to check before they buy or deploy.
Bhavika J
Silver Lake's Reported $43B Workday Bid Lands in a Busy HCM Market
A look at Silver Lake's reported bid to take Workday private and the string of HCM acquisitions and product launches it follows this year.
Bhavika J