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Airbus selected Scaleway as its sovereign cloud provider after a tender that scored protection against non-European extraterritorial legislation alongside technical capability. Airbus frames it as complementing multi-cloud, not exiting AWS. Practitioners note the pattern is spreading past hyperscalers to small US SaaS vendors, and that sovereignty claims still require verifiable controls. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

ServiceNow's investment gives BusinessNext a strategic partner to expand its AI-powered banking software globally.

After IBM's stock crashed last week on warnings of poor mainframe sales, the CEO explained that AI wrecked corporate hardware budget, temporarily.

The company said it is reducing its headcount by 20%, or about 630 staff, to "support a leaner, more focused operating model" as it focuses on its AI Work Platform.

Synthesia launched AI Roleplay Sessions, an interactive enterprise training platform where employees practice workplace conversations with AI avatars that provide feedback, scoring, and analytics to help companies measure training effectiveness.

Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Flash Cyber, but the continued absence of Gemini 3.5 Pro raises fresh questions about its AI strategy.

Now generally available, Pinecone Nexus is a "knowledge engine" for AI agents that transforms enterprise data into a structured layer agents can query directly. It enables teams to ingest and curate business context once for all, making it reusable across agents and reducing token costs while improving accuracy. By Sergio De Simone

Databricks has remade its image into an AI company and has published research on the cost savings of open weight AI models for coding.

Amazon Web Services has recently introduced AWS Continuum, a new integrated security platform to automate the discovery, enforcement, and remediation of security issues across codebases, dependencies, and applications. AWS Continuum launches with four agentic capabilities, aiming at the entire vulnerability lifecycle: penetration testing, code review, threat modelling, and code vulnerabilities. By Gianmarco Nalin

Anthropic-backed Ode launches as AI labs bet that embedding forward-deployed engineers inside enterprises is the key to accelerating enterprise AI adoption.

Co-founded by serial entrepreneur Shai Morag, Israeli identity management startup Oak is emerging out of stealth with $60 million in seed funding.

Reflection AI has signed a $1 billion deal to access Nebius' compute. Reflection was founded in 2024 and is developing open source AI technology.

Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says enterprises increasingly want open models, due to cost, accessibility, and ownership. Do frontier models still matter if most production AI ends up running on open models?

Of all the debates raging about the potential downsides of AI, there is one worry causing the most hand-wringing among AI enthusiasts in Silicon Valley — that the giant AI labs that sell proprietary models are somehow acting like Trojan horses.

In this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke to Sarah Wells about the relationship of governance to software architecture. Governance enables teams to work effectively by establishing procedures that minimize system complexity, improve security, and reduce repetitive tasks. Targeted checklists help engineers by reducing the stress over these procedures. By Sarah Wells

Where Copilot's telemetry stream lands, decided centrally GitHub added a control on July 8 that lets an enterprise mandate where the Copilot Chat extension in VS Code and Copilot CLI send OpenTelemetry data, removing the need for individual developers to set OTEL_* environment variables. Per the GitHub changelog, the setting is delivered through a telemetry block in the enterprise-managed settings, and a managed value takes precedence over environment variables and user settings. Four things are configurable in the block: the OTLP export endpoint and transport ( otlp-http or otlp-grpc ), the OTel service name and resource attributes, exporter headers such as an authentication token for the collector, and whether prompt, response and tool content is captured, with a separate flag for whether developers can change that. Delivery uses the channels documented on the same page: native MDM (Windows Registry or macOS managed preferences), server-managed settings from a signed-in GitHub account, or a file-based managed-settings.json . Where this bites The precedence rule is the point. If a platform team owns the collector and needs traces routed to it, this is exactly the switch they wanted. If a developer had their own OTLP endpoint pointed at a local sink, they will see the session start emitting somewhere else. The changelog does not describe a per-user override once a managed value is set. A scoping note is worth reading twice. The changelog states that managed exporter headers apply only to the Copilot Chat extension's OTLP exporter. The endpoint and transport policy still reach the CLI agent host, but the auth-token flow the changelog calls out is bound to the Chat surface. On-call teams standing up the collector should plan for that asymmetry before it lands as a surprise during triage.

The AI chip boom just produced its biggest Wall Street moment yet. Now SK Hynix and Samsung are being asked to build U.S. factories.

WordPress 7.0, released on May 20, 2026, includes new AI infrastructure, a redesigned admin interface, and updated design tools. Key features comprise an AI Client, Abilities API, and Command Palette, alongside increased PHP requirements. Community feedback is mixed, particularly regarding AI integration. Developers are advised to consult the official documentation for upgrade guidance. By Daniel Curtis

Apple has signed a $30 billion+ multiyear deal with Broadcom to design and produce more than 15 billion U.S.-made custom wireless connectivity chips for Apple products.

Open source models’ success isn’t coming at the expense of frontier labs. Instead, they each seem to capture two phases of the same life cycle.