AI coding token costs are on track to rival human payroll

Enterprises may soon be paying as much for their developers’ AI token usage as they do for their salaries.

According to Gartner, these costs will meet, or even exceed, the typical software engineer’s monthly salary within the next two years.

This is not only because developers are increasingly adopting generative AI and agentic tools, it reflects a trend toward consumption-based licensing…

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Data lakehouses now a backbone for enterprise analytics and AI

The need for a central data repository for enterprise analytics and gen AI has made the data lakehouse the default choice for enterprise data. Meanwhile, the emergence of open table standards makes the shift easier and reduces vendor lock-in for enterprises while also allowing for better integration between lakehouses and other enterprise systems and service providers.

Data lakehouses combine…

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DSPM buyer’s guide: Top 10 data security posture management tools

Data security posture management (DSPM) explained

Data security posture management (DSPM) tools help security teams examine their entire data environment to find shadow data, reducing the risk of data loss.

Tracking down sensitive data across both cloud and on-premises systems can be vexing. Each environment presents its own challenges. Given the dynamic and ephemeral nature of cloud…

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Your AI agent is ready to go. Is your infrastructure?

IDC estimates there were over 28 million AI agents deployed by the end of last year, and predicts there’ll be over 1 billion actively deployed by 2029, executing 217 billion actions per day.

It’s easy to build an AI agent POC, says Venkat Achanta, chief technology, data, and analytics officer at TransUnion, a global credit reporting company with $4.6 billion in revenues. But governing, securing,…

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Google: The quantum apocalypse is coming sooner than we thought

Google isn’t just responsible for the encryption of a big chunk of the communications on the internet. It is also building its own quantum computers, so it’s well placed to evaluate how close the technology is to fruition.

Until now, the company has been aligned with the NIST timeline, which specifies 2030 for deprecating quantum-unsafe algorithms and their full disallowance by 2035.

But on…

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Google: The quantum apocalypse is coming sooner than we thought

Google isn’t just responsible for the encryption of a big chunk of the communications on the internet. It is also building its own quantum computers, so it’s well placed to evaluate how close the technology is to fruition.

Until now, the company has been aligned with the NIST timeline, which specifies 2030 for deprecating quantum-unsafe algorithms and their full disallowance by 2035.

But on…

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Palo Alto updates security platform to discover AI agents

As CISOs worry about AI agent sprawl, Palo Alto Networks has announced an update to its Prisma AIRS security platform and enterprise browser to include the ability to discover AI agents, models, and connections across the entire IT environment, to scan agents for vulnerabilities, and to allow admins to simulate red team tests for agents.

Assuming the completion of Palo Alto Networks’ planned…

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Palo Alto updates security platform to discover AI agents

As CISOs worry about AI agent sprawl, Palo Alto Networks has announced an update to its Prisma AIRS security platform and enterprise browser to include the ability to discover AI agents, models, and connections across the entire IT environment, to scan agents for vulnerabilities, and to allow admins to simulate red team tests for agents.

Assuming the completion of Palo Alto Networks’ planned…

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Who’s in the data-center space race?

Tired of paying high-sky electric bills to power your server racks? Tired of paying even more to cool them down? Tired of vibrations and high temperatures messing up your superconducting quantum computers? Tired of your unreliable connections? Get ready for data centers… in SPAAAAAAAACE.

It’s easy to imagine the pitch for space-based data centers. But clearly there are obstacles to overcome,…

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10 AI predictions for 2026

Generative AI continued its breakneck pace of adoption and technical progress last year. Now, after so much trialing and tinkering, 2026 is shaping up as the year AI starts to deliver on its promise, and reveal its limitations.

According to Gartner, enterprises will spend a staggering $2.5 trillion on AI this year, up 44% from 2025. But as enterprises demand to see ROI, Forrester estimates 25%…

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