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ServiceNow Inc. is making one of the more consequential and visible bets in enterprise artificial intelligence. The company says AI Control Tower can discover and govern any agent, work across models and clouds, track cost and value, and shut down behavior that violates policy. That sales pitch plays directly to ServiceNow’s greatest asset – its installed base. Information technology and service management or ITSM, configuration management database or CMDB, risk workflows, security operations and years of operating context give the company a distribution and data advantage most AI and governance vendors do not have. Our research suggests that moat is…

More downloads, but no real buyers? Rethink your gated content strategy for 2026. Gated content is a resource that users access after submitting information, typically through a registration form. In B2B marketing, the exchange usually involves contact details, such as a name, work email address, or company, in return for a report, webinar, template, or other asset. The business receives a contact record. The reader receives information they consider worth the exchange. That is the mechanism. Whether it creates a useful business relationship is another question. A person who requests an implementation guide may be evaluating vendors. They may also…

As an embryo develops from a small cluster of stem cells, those once “blank slate” cells begin to take on more specialized roles like brain, liver, or muscle cells, and organize themselves into three-dimensional structures such as tissues and organs.The fate of each cell — what type of specialized cell it will become — depends on which genes are turned on or off in the cell. These patterns of gene activity shape the cell’s structure and function, enabling it to take on a specific role in the body.But this decision isn’t up to individual cells. They constantly send and receive…

Amazon Bee’s recording light is easy to miss, says a former AWS security engineer. (Amazon Image) Amazon’s new Bee AI devices ask the wrong person for consent, according to a privacy and security veteran who previously worked as a senior principal security engineer at Amazon Web Services. In a LinkedIn article, Jeff Williams writes that Bee’s consent safeguards are aimed at the wearer, while the people being recorded have no practical way to say no. Amazon unveiled the devices Thursday, the first new Bee hardware since it acquired the San Francisco startup last year. The $74.99 Bee Frontier goes on…

If someone you know has cryptocurrency that you might inherit, let me just say ahoy matey! I hope your pirate spirit is alive and your treasure-hunting skills sharp, because that’s what it might take to get those assets. And if you’re the one holding crypto, know that if you do nothing, it’s very possible those funds will die with you.In the US, cryptocurrency is considered a digital asset rather than money in terms of probate and estate law. With money and physical assets, you can sign a beneficiary form and create an estate plan or write a last will and…

Lately, AI data centers are public enemy No. 1. The concerns are legion: how much water and electricity they consume, the noise they generate, the sprawling buildings they bring to communities, and the technology they’re powering that may or may not take all of our jobs and usher in the robot apocalypse.Earlier this year, Gallup found that 71 percent of Americans oppose building data centers that support AI in their communities. And the backlash is bipartisan: Majorities of Democrats, Republicans, and independents opposed local construction.Even in Texas, where data center development has been booming, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has hit…

Microsoft Corp. has developed a new large language model that it says is significantly more efficient than leading open-source alternatives.  The company’s artificial intelligence research group detailed the algorithm on Thursday. MAI-Base-2 is not a full-fledged LLM but rather a base model, a kind of no-frills prototype. Developers turn base models into LLMs by putting them through several additional rounds of training. That extra training usually focuses on adding reasoning features and safety guardrails. The most capable open-source base model on the market today is DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Base. Microsoft says that MAI-Base-2 outperformed it on a series of internal benchmarks that contained…

Tesla dominated the headlines on Thursday thanks to a very cool stunt. In announcing the redesigned Roadster at its October 15 event, the electric car company put some jet fuel in the mix. After driving up a C-shaped ramp on a suction rig until it was upside-down, the Roadster floated to the ground on rocket boosters. We also learned that the new sports car is targeting a 2028 production window and that it will cost $250,000 to reserve the “Thrust” trim level with cold-gas thrusters. “We enter production in 2028,” Musk said during the event. “Actually, for real.” If you’re feeling…

Security teams don’t usually struggle when it comes to EDR alerts; they struggle when it comes to details about the critical investigation that are spread across alerts, endpoint telemetry, user activity, process trees and threat intelligence.When an alert comes in, it could be a sign of something suspicious, and the analysts must be fast to determine what, how, where and whether or not the threat has stepped beyond its original endpoint.An organized list of EDR alerts aids analysts during triage and investigation to focus on the most important evidence. This data can help expedite investigations and aid in decision making…

Learn what lead validation does, how it differs from verification and qualification, and how to improve lead quality without rejecting future buyers. “The leads are bad.” For a demand generation VP, that sentence can end a useful conversation before it begins. Does “bad” mean the email address bounced? The company sits outside your target market? The person did not answer? Or that someone downloaded research without agreeing to a sales meeting? These are different problems. Treating them as one makes it difficult to improve the campaign–or defend the budget. Lead validation should establish whether a record is genuine and usable.…