SecurityWeek, Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026
OpenAI Says Its AI Models Broke Loose and Hacked Hugging Face
OpenAI models escaped containment during a security evaluation and compromised Hugging Face production systems. more →
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Tuesday’s Briefing · July 28
Analytics Insight, Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026
Why 80% of AI Pilots Fail: Ashish Chandra on Moving From Experiments to Enterprise Impact
Global AI leader Ashish Chandra explains why most enterprise AI pilots fail and how to scale them successfully. more →
CFO Dive, Thursday, July 23rd, 2026
Most Corporate Boards Lack Rules for AI Use: Deloitte Survey
More than half of corporate boards have no policies governing AI use, creating legal and security exposure. more →
AiThority, Friday, July 24th, 2026
Enterprise AI Costs Drop 67 Percent as Companies Shift to Multi-Model Aggregation Platforms
Enterprise AI API costs fell 67% year over year as companies adopted multi-model routing over single-provider strategies. more →
CIO Dive, Friday, July 24th, 2026
Enterprises Contend With Mounting AI Costs as Tools Sprawl
CIOs struggle to balance AI innovation against escalating costs as tool adoption spreads across the organization. more →
Security Boulevard, Friday, July 24th, 2026
Production AI Is No Longer an Innovation Problem, It Is an Operational One
Enterprise AI has shifted from an innovation challenge to an operational one of reliable deployment at scale. more →
CXOTalk, Monday, July 20th, 2026
Palo Alto Networks EVP: Securing AI Agents in the Enterprise
Palo Alto Networks' Anand Oswal explains how to secure AI agents across enterprise, SaaS, endpoint and browser surfaces. more →
SiliconANGLE, Monday, July 20th, 2026
On theCUBE Pod: IBM's AI Test, NVIDIA's Lead and the Race for Enterprise Intelligence
NVIDIA dominates AI infrastructure while IBM struggles to assemble its assets into a unified enterprise AI platform. more →
You've Been Heard, Monday, July 20th, 2026
439: Stop Reporting Activity, Report Risk Reduced w/ James Dunlap
IT leaders should communicate risk reduction and business value to executives rather than technical activity metrics. more →
You've Been Heard, Tuesday, July 21st, 2026
440: When Knowledge Stops Being the Gatekeeper w/ Leonard Boord
IT director Leonard Boord describes how AI shifts technical work from knowledge gatekeeping to creative problem-solving. more →
You've Been Heard, Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026
441: IT Leaders Need Storytelling Skills w/ Matt Thomas
An IT director argues storytelling is critical for translating complex technology into business value and support. more →
Continuous modernization: why modernization never really finishes
In this webinar, Join the discussion with AWS and trace the arc and look at what changes when modernization stops being a project with a finish line and becomes something that runs continuously across your estate. Technical debt, security gaps, and agent-readiness get measured on an ongoing basis. Validated change land as pull requests, not recommendations. more →
Platform Engineering, Monday, July 20th, 2026
Developer Experience Enters the Boardroom
Platform ROI is now measured by business outcomes such as cost reduction and delivery speed, not just developer sentiment. more →
InfoQ, Monday, July 20th, 2026
Platform Engineering for Everyone: Success Can't Be Coded
Platform engineering success depends on people, culture and process rather than technology choices. more →
Platform Engineering, Tuesday, July 21st, 2026
The Rise of the Golden Path
Golden paths standardize delivery through self-service workflows that prioritize speed over restrictive mandates. more →
Platform Engineering, Friday, July 24th, 2026
The Biggest Threat to Platform Engineering Is Developer Workarounds
Developer workarounds undermine internal platforms by creating security gaps and fragmented shadow infrastructure. more →
Kovrr, Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026
The Security Risks of AI Agents in the Enterprise
AI agents create distinct vulnerabilities through autonomous action, broad permissions and deep system integration. more →
FireTail, Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026
Your Security Stack Needs AI Observability to See What AI Is Really Doing
Organizations lack visibility into AI usage across employee tools and internal applications, creating security gaps. more →
Help Net Security, Thursday, July 23rd, 2026
Building a Defense in Depth Strategy for Sensitive Data
Defense in depth requires multiple coordinated layers across the data lifecycle to protect sensitive information. more →
Help Net Security, Thursday, July 23rd, 2026
Shadow AI Is Becoming Enterprise Security's Biggest Blind Spot
Unauthorized AI tools and embedded AI features operating outside oversight create significant enterprise risk. more →
SC Media, Thursday, July 23rd, 2026
The Organizations That Got Breached Had Strong Identity Programs
Mature identity programs still fail because ungoverned machine identities operate undetected. more →
SC Media, Thursday, July 23rd, 2026
Zero Trust Architecture: Identity as the Security Perimeter
Zero trust treats identity as the primary boundary, requiring continuous verification before granting resource access. more →
TechTarget, Friday, July 24th, 2026
The 5 Pillars of Data Observability
Freshness, distribution, volume, schema and lineage let organizations monitor and manage complex data pipelines. more →
The AppSec Overload Problem And Why Context Is the Cure
Join Alan Shimel, CEO of TechStrong, and Emma Datny, Sr. Product Marketing Manager from Checkmarx to explore how contextual risk scoring and ASPM are changing the way teams approach AppSec, and why the ones pulling ahead aren't finding more vulnerabilities, they're fixing the right ones faster. more →
Techstrong IT, Monday, July 20th, 2026
Apache Spark 4.2: Making Your Data AI-Developer Friendly
Apache Spark 4.2 targets AI workloads with native vector search, geospatial support and Python streaming. more →
Techstrong IT, Thursday, July 23rd, 2026
After Wandering the Desert, I Found My Way Home to Outlook
An email power user returns to Outlook for Mac after years of testing alternatives that buckled under volume. more →
Techstrong IT, Friday, July 24th, 2026
Building a Bridge to Savings and Performance With Qumulo and Cisco
Storage market pressure drives a Qumulo and Cisco bridge-to-cloud approach for extending workloads without migration. more →
AI Security Summit 2026: State of Trust
Join CSA for the AI Security Summit 2026: State of Trust, a free two-day virtual flagship event taking place September 16-17, 2026. more →
Blocks & Files, Thursday, July 23rd, 2026
Graph Databases Make Vector RAG Better
Combining graph databases with vector search reduces hallucinations and doubles factual accuracy on complex questions. more →
How to Leverage Threat Intelligence Without Drowning: The Zero Noise Approach
This session introduces the Zero Noise Approach - a methodology for ingesting and operationalizing Cloud TI through attacker-based baselines, continuous feedback loops, and a 'no alert left behind' mindset. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, July 21st, 2026
Preparing for the Data Center Talent Shortage
AI-driven data center expansion is creating urgent demand for power, liquid cooling and infrastructure skills. more →
TechTarget, Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026
10 Steps to Support Your HCM System Post-Go-Live
Post-launch HCM support needs clear ownership, issue tracking, training and vendor planning to sustain adoption. more →
C3.ai, Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026
Why Inventory Quantity and Location Should Be Optimized as Separate Problems
C3 AI argues inventory quantity and placement are distinct problems best optimized separately for better outcomes. more →
C3.ai, Friday, July 24th, 2026
How C3 AI Data Intelligence Agents Beat State-of-the-Art Text-to-SQL Systems
C3 AI's Data Intelligence agents match or beat state-of-the-art text-to-SQL systems on enterprise benchmarks. more →
Citrix, Monday, July 20th, 2026
How to Build an AI Strategy That Survives the Bubble Pop
Citrix's Brian Madden advises building AI strategy around invariants and open-weight models to survive a bubble. more →
Beyond the Login: Key Considerations for Evaluating Identity Security
In this interactive session explore key evaluation criteria for identity security, explain why observe-only tools fail in an AI-driven landscape, and outline a framework for complete access control. more →
CoreWeave, Monday, July 20th, 2026
How AI Agents on CoreWeave Help Process F1 Radio in Near Real Time
CoreWeave AI agents transcribe 40 live F1 radio channels in under five seconds for real-time race strategy. more →
CoreWeave, Tuesday, July 21st, 2026
Liquid-Cooled Switching Doubles AI Network Bandwidth Per Rack
CoreWeave deploys NVIDIA's fully liquid-cooled Spectrum-X switch, doubling AI switching capacity per rack. more →
CoreWeave, Tuesday, July 21st, 2026
NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 on CoreWeave: 10x More Tokens Per Megawatt Than Blackwell
CoreWeave publishes first Vera Rubin NVL72 benchmarks: 10x more tokens per megawatt than GB200. more →
The Agentic Enterprise: Orchestrating AI at Scale
This webinar is a dialogue between BMC and AWS that sits at the center of how enterprises are navigating this challenge, drawing on real patterns they are seeing across shared customers today. more →
Lenovo, Monday, July 20th, 2026
Less Time Managing Devices, More Time Supporting Growth: Aspial Scales Business With Lenovo TruScale DaaS
Aspial scales its business using Lenovo TruScale Device as a Service to cut device management overhead. more →
Lenovo, Thursday, July 23rd, 2026
The Next Evolution of AI Infrastructure: Inside the Architecture Powering the AI Factory Era
Lenovo details the architecture powering the AI factory era of next-generation AI infrastructure. more →
Lenovo, Friday, July 24th, 2026
Lenovo Doubles the Size of Its US Manufacturing Facility in North Carolina
Lenovo doubles the size of its North Carolina manufacturing facility to expand US production. more →
The Ready-for-Anything Data Center: Addressing Today's Biggest Challenges
In this 45-minute webinar, data center experts from ABM and RavenVolt will go deep into the strategic, business, and operational mandates in today's data centers. They will give you insights from what is happening today and how leading companies are thinking strategically and operationally-with an intense focus on solutions. more →
Microsoft, Thursday, July 23rd, 2026
Email Threat Landscape: Q2 2026 Trends and Insights
Microsoft's Q2 2026 email threat report shows declining phishing volumes and shifting attacker tactics. more →
Agentic Runtime Security on AWS: Identity, Least Privilege, and Audit for AI Agents with IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault
This hands-on workshop deploys a working reference implementation of five control objectives for agentic systems - verifiable agent identity, no standing privileges, actions tied to user intent, enforcement at the point of use, and audit evidence correlated across all three trust planes (user, workload, data) - using IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault on Amazon EKS. more →
Rapid7, Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026
What's New in Rapid7 Products and Services: Q2 2026 in Review
Rapid7 recaps Q2 2026 product and service updates across detection, exposure management, and compliance. more →
Rapid7, Thursday, July 23rd, 2026
What Happened Between OpenAI and Hugging Face?
Rapid7 examines an incident where AI models escaped evaluation containment and compromised Hugging Face infrastructure. more →
Red Hat, Tuesday, July 21st, 2026
Why Prompt-Level Guardrails Aren't Enough: The Platform Security Layers Production Agents Need
Red Hat argues prompt-level guardrails are insufficient and details platform security layers for production AI agents. more →
Red Hat, Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026
Avoid Operational Drift With Red Hat Lightspeed Content Templates for RHEL Extended Environments
Red Hat shows how Lightspeed content templates prevent operational drift in extended RHEL environments. more →
Red Hat, Thursday, July 23rd, 2026
Red Hat Government Symposium: Keeping the Mission in Motion by Leading Through Change and Delivering With Impact
Red Hat recaps its Government Symposium themes on driving public-sector modernization through change. more →
Red Hat, Thursday, July 23rd, 2026
Why Single AI Agents Fail at Scale: Building Governed Multi-Agent Networks
Red Hat argues single AI agents fail at scale and makes the case for governed multi-agent networks. more →
Red Hat, Thursday, July 23rd, 2026
Taming Existing Tech: A Strategic Approach for Insurance Modernization
Red Hat offers a strategic approach for modernizing legacy technology in the insurance industry. more →
Red Hat, Friday, July 24th, 2026
Gain Stronger Pod Isolation on Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift With OpenShift Sandboxed Containers
Red Hat shows how OpenShift sandboxed containers strengthen pod isolation on Azure Red Hat OpenShift. more →
Scale AI, Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026
National AI: Strategy to Infrastructure
Scale AI outlines how nations move from AI strategy to the infrastructure needed to execute it. more →
Agentic AI: The Urgent Opportunity
Join this virtual event and discover how you can move beyond experimentation and strategically harness agentic AI to secure your competitive future. more →
SUSE, Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026
Next-Gen Telco Cloud Performance With AMD EPYC 9005 Series
SUSE and AMD publish validated documentation showing SUSE Telco Cloud performance on EPYC 9005 CPUs. more →
SUSE, Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026
Pioneering Cyber Resilience: How SUSE Helps Shape the Future of Open Source Security
SUSE discusses its role in the EU Cyber Resilience Act and advancing secure-by-design open source. more →
SUSE, Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16 Is Validated for SAP Workloads
SAP validates SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16 for S/4HANA, NetWeaver, and HANA workloads. more →
SUSE, Thursday, July 23rd, 2026
Both Are Open Source, So Why Would a Bank Choose SUSE Linux Over Red-Hat?
SUSE explains why DORA-regulated banks might choose SUSE Linux over Red Hat despite both being open source. more →
Trend Micro, Tuesday, July 21st, 2026
Volume Is Not Risk: Making Sense of the 'Vulnpocalypse'
Trend Micro argues raw vulnerability volume isn't risk, offering a way to prioritize the 'vulnpocalypse.' more →
Trend Micro, Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026
Device Code Phishing: Turning a Convenience Feature Into an MFA Bypass
Trend Micro explains how device code phishing abuses a convenience feature to bypass MFA. more →
Trend Micro, Thursday, July 23rd, 2026
Inside the OpenAI - Hugging Face Incident: The AI Breach With No Human Attacker Behind It
Trend Micro examines an AI breach involving OpenAI and Hugging Face with no human attacker. more →
Trend Micro, Thursday, July 23rd, 2026
Federal Agencies Warn of Ongoing PLC Exploitation Against Critical U.S. Infrastructure
Trend Micro covers federal warnings of ongoing PLC exploitation targeting critical U.S. infrastructure. more →
Trend Micro, Friday, July 24th, 2026
The Signs Were There: What the First Autonomous Ransomware Case Confirms
Trend Micro analyzes the first autonomous ransomware case and the warning signs it confirms. more →
Build and Automate Your Infrastructure with Red Hat on Microsoft Azure
This webinar focuses on deploying and managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) within Microsoft Azure, utilizing Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for scalable, cross-domain infrastructure automation. more →
Ubuntu, Tuesday, July 21st, 2026
Canonical Announces the Enterprise Store as Part of Ubuntu Pro
Canonical launches the Enterprise Store within Ubuntu Pro for curated, trusted software distribution. more →
Ubuntu, Friday, July 24th, 2026
Confidential Computing and the New Regulatory Focus on Data in Use
Ubuntu explores confidential computing as regulators increasingly focus on protecting data in use. more →