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#340, Issue 3 Part 5: Articles Posted Week: 2026-07-13 - 2026-07-19
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Create, Edit And Star In Videos With Two Google Vids Updates
Google Bets on Agentic Defense Strategy to Outpace Attackers
TuxBot V3: Inside an IoT Botnet Framework With LLM-Assisted Development
Announcing the General Availability Of Prisma AIRS AI Gateway
AI, Automation and Attacks: Unpacking the Unit 42 2026 Global Incident Response Report
Three Steps To The Terminal: A Siemens ROX II Zero-Day Trilogy
Plan Before You Build: Deterministic Planning Patterns For AI Agents (July 28th)
The AI and Human Risk Landscape: Securing Collaboration in the Age of AI (July 30th)
CxO
Focus Turns to Sovereignty as Reliance on AI Grows
AI sovereignty is rising up the CIO agenda as dependence on external cloud and model providers deepens across Asia-Pacific. more →
CIOs Must Rethink Operating Models to Unlock AI at Scale
Scaling AI beyond pilots requires redesigned operating models and embedded governance, not faster deployment. more →
What's Next for CIOs? Omnicom's Leif Maiorini Has Insights
Omnicom CIO Leif Maiorini on why five-year IT plans are obsolete and how agentic AI will flatten organizational structures. more →
SAP Study: AI Pays Off, But Governance Is Lagging Behind
Despite $28M average AI investments, only 3% of enterprises feel prepared for AI agents as governance gaps widen. more →
5 Ways For CIOs To Avoid AI Bill Shock
CIOs must adopt FinOps discipline to manage AI's usage-driven, non-linear costs before spending spirals out of control. more →
Why CISOs Should Automate SBOM Management With AI
AI-driven automation can keep software bills of materials accurate at CI/CD speed, but CISOs must guard against false positives and automation bias. more →
Networks
2026: When Your Network Works as Hard as You Do
Argues that AI at scale demands autonomous, fabric-based networks with context-aware security rather than bigger budgets. more →
Five Reasons Switching From IP VPN to SD-WAN Will Help You Build an AI-Ready Network
Makes the case that SD-WAN replaces legacy IP VPN as the foundation for networks that can carry AI workloads. more →
Security
Agentic AI Is Untamable: Ask the Right Security Questions
Agentic artificial intelligence is creating enough risks for organizations to demand a security reframe. more →
Cyber Risk Is Business Risk: You Can Delegate the Decision, but Not the Liability
A book by Chris Thatcher and Sam Rehman arguing that cyber risk is business risk and executive liability cannot be delegated. more →
Techstrong.ai
The New Governance Control Plane for Enterprise AI
Commvault pitches a proxy-based governance control plane that inspects and redacts data in real time before it reaches AI models. more →
How Enterprises Can Move From AI Experiments to Enterprise-Wide Impact
Scaling AI past pilots is an operational integration problem requiring workflow redesign, cross-functional alignment and trust. more →
You Can Keep the Benchmarks. I'll Take the Test Drive
Real-world test drives beat benchmark scores when evaluating increasingly agentic frontier AI models. more →
Why National AI Day Is Both Vital and a Vibe Check
National AI Day exposes the gap between AI hype and the unglamorous infrastructure work needed to deploy it at scale. more →
SnapLogic Extends MCP Reach to AI Coding Tools
SnapLogic's new SnapCode MCP server gives AI coding tools access to over 1,000 pre-built enterprise integrations. more →
Put Down the Pitchforks: AI Isn't Killing Main Street
Data on small-business AI adoption shows augmentation, not job cuts, undercutting predictions of an AI employment apocalypse. more →
CoreWeave
AI Cloud Essentials Explores Innovation in New Episodes
CoreWeave launches season three of its AI Cloud Essentials podcast focused on taking AI from idea to production. more →
Google
Create, Edit And Star In Videos With Two Google Vids Updates
Google Vids gains Gemini Omni text-to-video generation and editing plus personal avatars built from a selfie and voice sample. more →
Experience The Legacy Of Estadio Azteca On Google Earth
Google Earth launches an interactive archive of Estadio Azteca built with Fundacion ICA, spanning the stadium's six-decade history. more →
Designing Emoji For The Way We Communicate Today
Google redesigns nearly 4,000 Noto emoji in 3D and releases the model library as open source .OBJ files. more →
Google Brings Agent Workflows to Open Source Genkit
Google previews Genkit Agents, adding an Agents API for conversational and multi-agent AI apps to its open-source framework. more →
Google AI Models Explained
TechRepublic explainer breaking down Google's lineup of AI models and what each one is for. more →
Google Bets on Agentic Defense Strategy to Outpace Attackers
Google Cloud incorporates key Wiz capabilities into an agentic defense platform to automate threat detection and remediation against AI attacks. more →
Palo Alto Networks
TuxBot V3: Inside an IoT Botnet Framework With LLM-Assisted Development
Unit 42 analyzes TuxBot v3, an IoT botnet framework whose authors appear to have used LLMs to speed up development. more →
Announcing the General Availability Of Prisma AIRS AI Gateway
Palo Alto Networks makes Prisma AIRS AI Gateway generally available to give enterprises unified control over AI model and agent traffic. more →
AI, Automation and Attacks: Unpacking the Unit 42 2026 Global Incident Response Report
Unit 42's 2026 Global Incident Response Report examines how AI and automation are reshaping attacker tradecraft and defender response. more →
Three Steps To The Terminal: A Siemens ROX II Zero-Day Trilogy
Unit 42 details three chained zero-days in Siemens ROX II OT switches that yield privilege escalation and persistent root access. more →
SAP
External Talent Is No Longer Temporary
SAP argues contractors and consultants are now a strategic workforce layer requiring integrated planning, not reactive hiring. more →
Business Value of AI Is Spiking, Driven by Increased Adoption and Agentic Expectations, SAP Finds
SAP and Oxford Economics find global AI ROI rising to 21% this year, with agentic AI returns quadrupling. more →
The Pattern Emerging Across AI Transformations
SAP's Jan Gilg outlines three shifts reshaping enterprise AI transformation, from isolated use cases to embedded intelligence. more →
Scale AI
Insights Generator: Diagnosing Agent Failures
Scale AI introduces Insights Generator, a diagnostic tool that helps engineers identify and fix AI agent failures faster. more →
AI Decision Advantage in NATO: The Agentic Coalition
Scale AI argues NATO should prioritize agentic AI for decision speed over hardware ahead of its 2026 summit. more →
Trend Micro
Six Minutes To Compromise: How 'Patriot Bait' Actor Used AI To Build And Deploy a C&C Botnet
Trend Micro analyzed 200 Gemini CLI session logs showing a Russian-speaking actor let AI do 89% of the work building a live botnet. more →
AI Events
Plan Before You Build: Deterministic Planning Patterns For AI Agents (July 28th)
This session explores the full spectrum of planning patterns-workflows, HTN, GOAP, utility AI, and supervisor-and how to combine them into robust, hybrid architectures. more →
Architecting AI Data Foundations: Object Storage Patterns for Scale, Access, and Longevity (July 29th)
In this webinar we will examine the architectural patterns shaping modern AI-ready object storage. We will explore how object storage is designed to support emerging AI data types alongside traditional unstructured data, while remaining scalable, durable, and cost efficient at cloud scale. more →
The AI and Human Risk Landscape: Securing Collaboration in the Age of AI (July 30th)
Join us for a 60-minute discussion as our experts explore emerging risks across modern collaboration ecosystems and discuss practical strategies for strengthening security. You'll gain insight into where organizations are focusing their investments, the challenges they are working to solve, and how to build a collaboration security approach that supports the realities of AI-driven work. more →
AI Risk Summit - Half Moon Bay, California (Aug. 11-12)
Attend AI Risk Summit to hear directly from leaders at some of the world's largest enterprises as they share how they're identifying, mitigating, and managing AI risks within their organizations. more →
The Six five Summit - AI UNLEASHED: 2026 (Aug 25 - Aug 27)
The Six Five Summit: AI Unleashed 2026 delivers 3 days of exclusive, on-demand programming built for leaders ready to move beyond AI experimentation and into real deployment. more →
Next Gen Data Governance for the AI Era (July 23rd)
In this webinar, our experts will explore practical ways to align CIO and CDO priorities and explain how to turn governance into an enabler of AI, not a constraint. Moderator: Brandon Taylor, Moderator, InformationWeek more →
Upcoming Webinars
Thursday, July 23rd, 2026
Monday, July 27th, 2026
Expert Panel: Next-Level Data Quality: Accuracy, Consistency and Trust (July 27th)
From Pilot to Production: AI That Actually Works (July 27th)
Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
Migrating Self-Managed Apache Solr Workloads to Amazon OpenSearch Service (July 28th)
Plan Before You Build: Deterministic Planning Patterns For AI Agents (July 28th)
Rethinking The Ran As Al, Cloud And Openness Converge (July 28th)
Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
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