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Agentic AI is moving beyond experimentation and into real enterprise workflows. Unlike traditional AI models that simply generate predictions, agentic AI systems can reason, coordinate tools, trigger workflows, and operate autonomously within defined guardrails. But for medium-sized companies evaluating adoption, one major question remains: What does implementation actually cost? The short answer is: it depends on scope, integration depth, and operational complexity. However, we can provide realistic rough ranges to guide expectations.   What Drives the Cost of Agentic AI? For a medium-sized company (typically 200-1,500 employees), the cost of agentic AI implementation is influenced by five major factors: 1.…

The telecommunications industry is facing a critical moment, as we all understand the devastating vulnerabilities that span providers and regions worldwide. Bad actors are exploiting outdated network equipment, unpatched systems, and insecure protocols, highlighting the urgent need for stronger, more resilient infrastructure. These challenges expose an uncomfortable truth: the security of our networks is only as strong as their weakest components.  Modernizing telecommunications infrastructure to address security risks  While we’ve spent the past decade racing toward 5G deployment, network virtualization, and ambitious promises of 6G innovation, elements of global infrastructure have been left running on borrowed time and outdated security. Legacy appliances sit in data centers worldwide; their…

Claude appears to be having a major outage right now, with elevated errors reported across all platforms. The incident was flagged on March 2, 2026, and it’s impacting users broadly rather than being limited to one app or region. According to the latest status update, the team is still investigating the issue. The first “Investigating” notice went out at 11:49 UTC, and a follow-up update at 12:06 UTC said the investigation is ongoing. For now, that likely means you may see failed requests, timeouts, or inconsistent responses when trying to use Claude on web, mobile, or API. There’s no ETA…

VICTORIA — Joanna Kyriazis, director of policy and strategy at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the joint declaration between Canada and Germany to collaborate around their auto, battery, and critical minerals sectors. “Canada isn’t just imagining a new vision for its auto sector—it’s taking concrete steps to realize one. Today’s agreement with Germany to expand bilateral industrial cooperation around electric and hydrogen-powered vehicles, including auto and critical mineral supply chains, is yet another moment that will be remembered when Canada looks back at how it reshaped its auto destiny at a critical time. “Like the…

Let’s talk homebuilding. We are a couple of months into the new year, and there is much for homebuilders to consider as the year continues to unfold. For instance, 84% of homebuilders said that elevated mortgage rates were the most significant challenge builders faced in 2025, and 65% anticipate interest rates will remain a problem in 2026. Other serious issues builders faced in 2025, according to the NAHB (National Assn. of Home Builders)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index, include: Concern about the employment/economic situation The cost/availability of developed lots Negative media reports making buyers cautious Cost/availability of labor Rising inflation in…

Posted by Matthew McCullough, VP Product Management, Android Developer Today we’re releasing the second beta of Android 17, continuing our work to build a platform that prioritizes privacy, security, and refined performance. This update delivers a range of new capabilities, including the EyeDropper API and a privacy-preserving Contacts Picker. We’re also adding advanced ranging, cross-device handoff APIs, and more.This release continues the shift in our release cadence, following this annual major SDK release in Q2 with a minor SDK update.User Experience & System UIBubblesBubbles is a windowing mode feature that offers a new floating UI experience separate from the messaging…

In the fast moving field of two dimensional materials, even a slight rotational shift between layers can dramatically change how a material behaves. Scientists previously discovered that when atom thin crystals are stacked with a small angular mismatch, their electronic properties can transform. This approach, known as moiré engineering, has become a key strategy for designing new forms of quantum matter. Now researchers report in Nature Nanotechnology that magnetism can also behave in surprising ways under these conditions. In twisted antiferromagnetic layers, magnetic spin patterns are not limited to the small repeating moiré unit cell. Instead, they can spread into…

Enterprise IT systems have grown into sprawling, highly distributed environments spanning cloud infrastructure, applications, data platforms, and increasingly AI-driven workloads. Observability tools have made it easier to collect metrics, logs, and traces, but understanding why systems fail and responding quickly remains a persistent challenge. As complexity continues to rise, the industry is looking beyond dashboards and alerts toward agentic AI systems that can reason about operational data, reduce toil, and take action when things go wrong. SolarWinds offers solutions to monitor, understand, and remediate issues across complex, distributed systems. The company began as a leader in network and infrastructure monitoring,…

My first post made the case for what a semantic layer can bring to the modern enterprise: a single source of truth accessible to everyone who needs it—BI teams in Tableau and Power BI, Excel-loving analysts, application integrations via API, and the AI agents now proliferating across organizations—all pulling from the same governed, performant metric layer. The promise is compelling. But what happens when organizations actually build and deploy one? To find out, I interviewed several early adopters who’ve moved semantic layers from concept to production. Four themes emerged from those conversations: some surprising, some predictable, and a few that…

Enterprises are adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents at pace, sourcing from marketplaces on platforms such as Microsoft, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Amazon Web Services (AWS), while also building custom implementations using low-code builders and pro-code frameworks in core Integrated Development Environments (IDEs). The result is a rapid shift from pilots to portfolios.  Whatever the label, agents, copilots, or digital workers, these systems interpret intent, invoke tools, and take actions across enterprise applications. What matters now is whether they do it consistently, within enterprise rules, and without creating new operational risk.  For decades, enterprises have relied on the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to industrialize how they build and run applications. Yet agentic systems are still…