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Editor in Chief, Runtime. We cover enterprise technology, from cloud infrastructure and AI to security and software development. https://www.runtime.news/

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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · 18h

New on @runtime.news: A series of incidents in August and early September only highlighted what startups and application developers had been talking about for months: AI reliability falls short of what most businesses expect from their cloud providers, even after last week's massive AWS outage.

As AI adoption surges, AI uptime remains a big problem

OpenAI and Anthropic both acknowledge they have a lot of work to do to improve the reliability of their services if they want to serve enterprise customers. But app developers also need to design thei...

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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · Sep 23

New on @runtime.news: The latest in our How We Built It series, this time featuring Mastercard's George Maddaloni. We talked about how Mastercard onboarded generative AI tools across its employees and its current approach to AI agents, where MCP is spurring a lot of internal agent building.

How Mastercard encouraged AI adoption with training and data

Last year Mastercard conducted a review of the different workflow patterns used by employees across the 35,000-person payments giant. In some cases generative AI tools didn't really move the needle, b...

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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · Sep 18

Did anybody else catch Jensen on a hot mic as the press conference started raving about the 1912 cognac he was presumably served in the U.K. this week?

Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · Aug 14

New on @runtime.news: Generative AI apps are forcing app developers to rethink the way users interact with their apps. There have always been apps and workflows that can be controlled with voice commands, but genAI apps open up new opportunities to move beyond the taskbar or the hamburger menu.

Beyond the prompt: Why GenAI apps require new design thinking

Generative AI apps could help software designers break out of a decades-old rut when it comes to how we use their tools. At the very least, they need to rethink their approach to avoid frustrating use...

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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · Aug 13

From last night's @runtime.news newsletter: GitHub's independence within the Microsoft ecosystem was treasured by company executives in the years following in 2018 acquisition. But that era is over, and GitHub is now just another Microsoft product.

Why Microsoft's decision to bury GitHub in its CoreAI group is the end of an era

GitHub's independence within the Microsoft ecosystem was treasured by company executives in the years following in 2018 acquisition. But that era is over, and GitHub is now just another Microsoft prod...

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Runtime News @runtime.news · Aug 6

OpenAI is living up to its name again. It hadn't shipped any major LLMs that could claim a degree of openness since 2019's GPT-2. But that just changed with the release of two new open-weight models the company says are as powerful as some of its leading closed models.

Putting the open back in OpenAI

Today: OpenAI releases two open-weight models ahead of the expected launch of GPT-5, why China was already deeply involved in Microsoft SharePoint before last month's security fiasco, and the latest f...

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Runtime News @runtime.news · Jul 16

It's been a choppy few months for Windsurf. First, news leaked that OpenAI intended to acquire the company for $3 billion. Then Google came along with a billion-dollar acquihire, agreeing to pay $2.4 billion for a non-exclusive license to Windsurf's technology and hire about 40 of its employees.

The huge stakes behind AI-driven coding

Today: several wild days prove why AI-driven coding is at the center of enterprise tech, Nvidia will once again be allowed to sell chips designed around export controls to Chinese customers, and the l...

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · Jul 8

next time you're in a national park, take some photos of the signage and upload it to help these archivists www.404media.co/save-our-sig...

'Save Our Signs' Wants to Save the Real History of National Parks Before Trump Erases It

Trump wants to erase any "negative" content from educational sites at National Parks. A group of data preservationists asks visitors to help them document placards and monuments, before they disappear...

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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · Jul 1

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Pulp Fiction – the “According to Hoyle” miracle.

Looking on IMDB there are a lot of goofs/continuity errors listed for Pulp Fiction, but none are perhaps more evident than the “bullets in the wall”. Here’s my explanation and take on it. Almost at…

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Runtime News @runtime.news · Jun 11

In this one-on-one interview, Amazon CSO Steve Schmidt tells us about:
*Increasing nation-state attacks on tech companies
*How generative AI is — and isn't — changing cybersecurity, on both the offensive and defensive sides
*How Amazon works to prevent unforced errors in code

Amazon CSO Steve Schmidt: AI is changing security, but defenders are still ahead of attackers

Schmidt discussed the frequency and style of the attacks Amazon fends off every day, the capabilities that cybersecurity defenders can bring to bear thanks to generative AI, and the potential that mac...

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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · Jun 10

New on @runtime.news: Amazon chief security officer Stephen Schmidt talks about the rise in cybersecurity threats from nation-state attackers, why generative AI is better at defense than offense, and the security pros and cons of the rush to develop software with AI tools.

Amazon CSO Steve Schmidt: AI is changing security, but defenders are still ahead of attackers

Schmidt discussed the frequency and style of the attacks Amazon fends off every day, the capabilities that cybersecurity defenders can bring to bear thanks to generative AI, and the potential that mac...

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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · Jun 3

New on @runtime.news: Snowflske CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy increasingly sees data ingestion, analysis, and production as part of a “workflow,” meaning the steps should be easy to follow and more accessible to a wider group of people. Live (kinda) from Snowflake Summit ‘25:

Snowflake wants to be the data workflow company

Today: Snowflake introduces new tools that promise to help companies find nuggets of insight in their corporate data, Thoma Bravo gears up for the coming wave of AI startup buyouts, and the latest fun...

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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · May 27

New on @runtime.news : Last year at the Databricks Data & AI Summit CEO Ali Ghodsi pledged to develop a "USB-C format" for data. The industry has made progress toward that goal, but the last mile is tricky, and new tools could let end users worry about other problems.

Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi's goal of a universal data format is close. But new efforts are aiming higher

Last year at the Databricks Data & AI Summit Ghodsi pledged to bring Delta Lake and Iceberg together in a "USB-C format" for data. The communities behind both formats have made progress toward that go...

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Runtime News @runtime.news · May 20

Don't miss our regular roundup of the week's most important new enterprise tech product releases and updates, including:
-Coding agents from OpenAI and Google
-AWS's Transform service
-Updates to Celonis's Process Intelligence API
-Boomi AgentStudio

OpenAI's coding tool; AWS tackles mainframes

Today on Product Saturday: OpenAI previews a coding agent, AWS launches a new service designed to migrate old workloads to the cloud, and the quote of the week.

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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · May 15

New on @runtime.news: An interview with Karri Saarinen, co-founder and CEO of Linear. We've been hearing a lot of buzz about Linear over the last couple of years, in part because "we have this fairly simple idea that engineering is really the front line of all this information," he said.

Linear CEO Karri Saarinen: "Our customer base is quite powerful"

Linear started off as an issue-tracking tool helping developers coordinate on eliminating blockers and fixing problems, but has expanded into a product-development system. "We have this fairly simple ...

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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · May 8

New on @runtime.news: A conversation with ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott on the sidelines of Knowledge 2025. Highlights include: the impact that AI agents could have on the enterprise, and the ongoing shift where IT departments are taking back control of their application footprints.

ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott: Agentic AI puts IT back in control

As worries about the economy accelerate, CIOs are regaining control over sprawling application footprints. According to McDermott, "What's happening is technology is the only way out. It's not kind of...

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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · May 6

New on @runtime.news: An interview with Freshworks CEO Dennis Woodside, who is trying to move the company beyond its SMB roots to take on big IT management and customer-service companies like ServiceNow.

We also covered the evolution of agentic AI pricing and Freshworks' potential for expansion.

Freshworks CEO Dennis Woodside: We can be the ServiceNow alternative

Under Woodside, Freshworks is taking direct aim at ServiceNow, which has been the leading company in several aspects of IT management software for several years. "Three years ago, our product wasn't a...

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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · May 1

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Microsoft Drops Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Law Firm from a Case

The tech giant instead engaged a firm that is fighting the president’s executive orders, Jenner & Block, in a sign that those firms can still attract clients.

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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · May 1

Synadia and the CNCF have reached a formal agreement to transfer two NATS-related trademarks to the CNCF, after Synadia CEO Derek Collison told Runtime earlier this week it planned to do so.

The CNCF's blog post: www.cncf.io/announcement...

Earlier on Runtime: www.runtime.news/how-synadias...

How Synadia's attempt to exit the CNCF by holding a trademark hostage might have backfired

When the CNCF accepts open-source projects, it requires that any trademarks related to the project be handed over. Synadia never did that, and is now backing down from an attempt to use its ownership ...

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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · Apr 30

For the #rsac crowd, check out the latest edition of the Runtime Roundtable, in which our panelists answer the question: How should companies make sure they are shipping secure generative AI apps while still moving quickly?

How should companies make sure they are shipping secure generative AI apps while still moving quickly?

Companies around the world have rushed to deploy generative AI applications over the last year, and the security considerations for genAI apps are somewhat different than traditional software. Nine me...

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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · Apr 29

New on @runtime.news: A deep dive into the dispute between Synadia and the CNCF over the NATS project. After a contentious weekend, Synadia appears to be standing down.

CEO Derek Collison told Runtime Tuesday that it intends to hand over the NATS trademark to the CNCF in the near future.

How Synadia's attempt to exit the CNCF by holding a trademark hostage might have backfired

When the CNCF accepts open-source projects, it requires that any trademarks related to the project be handed over. Synadia never did that, and is now backing down from an attempt to use its ownership ...

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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · Apr 29

New on @runtime.news: A deep dive into the dispute between Synadia and the CNCF over the NATS project. After a contentious weekend, Synadia appears to be standing down.

CEO Derek Collison told Runtime Tuesday that it intends to hand over the NATS trademark to the CNCF in the near future.

How Synadia's attempt to exit the CNCF by holding a trademark hostage might have backfired

When the CNCF accepts open-source projects, it requires that any trademarks related to the project be handed over. Synadia never did that, and is now backing down from an attempt to use its ownership ...

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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · Apr 22

From tonight's @runtime.news: It's been a year since Microsoft rededicated itself to security, and on Monday it released an update. It hasn't dealt with a serious incident since, but Microsoft still faces the inherent tension between protecting customer data and selling enterprise security software.

Microsoft's progress one year into its "security reset"

Today: Microsoft reveals its progress toward reorienting the company around security, AWS picks an interesting time for some "routine capacity management," and the latest funding rounds in enterprise ...

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Tom Krazit @tomkrazit.bsky.social · Apr 11

From last night's @runtime.news newsletter: Google Cloud fell behind AWS and Microsoft during the cloud computing land grab a decade ago, but the greenfield generative AI opportunity has allowed it to reset the playing field. Some thoughts from Cloud Next '25.

Google Cloud's second chance at the enterprise

Today: Google Cloud makes its pitch to developers and CIOs as the best place to build enterprise AI apps, the meteoric rise of MCP hits a snag, and the latest enterprise moves.

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Runtime News @runtime.news · Apr 2

Neo4j CEO Emil Eifrem says he sees a recurring pattern in how customers use the database. Due to frustration with SaaS spending paired with increased productivity of in-house engineering teams, he says, "We're moving into—in this classic build-versus-buy (dilemma)—a build era for the enterprise."

Why Klarna chose graph DBs to shed SaaS

Today: Neo4j co-founder and CEO Emil Eifrem explains how Klarna used graph databases to chart its own enterprise software path, Oracle buries its head further in the sand as customers start asking abo...

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