7 Technology Predictions Business Leaders Are Watching in 2026

7 Technology Predictions Business Leaders Are Watching in 2026

Image generated by Google’s Nano Banana Scale is the theme that takes technology to 2026. AI systems are doing more, making more decisions and operating with less direct supervision as they spread across industries. As 2026 approaches, executives and leaders in security, infrastructure and artificial intelligence are beginning to agree on what will change at … Read more

Azure Storage Innovation: Unlocking the Future of Data | Microsoft Azure Blog

Azure Storage Innovation: Unlocking the Future of Data | Microsoft Azure Blog

Whether you’re improving the resilience of critical workloads or upgrading legacy systems; Azure Storage has a solution for you. Microsoft is redefining what’s possible in the public cloud and driving the next wave of AI-driven transformation for organizations. Whether you’re pushing the boundaries with AI, improving mission-critical resiliency, or modernizing legacy systems with cloud-native solutions, … Read more

AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS re:Invent keynote recap, on-demand videos and more (December 8, 2025) | Amazon Web Services

AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS re:Invent keynote recap, on-demand videos and more (December 8, 2025) | Amazon Web Services

The week after AWS re:Invent builds on the excitement and energy of the event, it’s a good time to learn more and understand how recent announcements can help you solve your challenges and open up new opportunities. As usual, we’ve kept you updated on our major AWS re:Invent 2025 announcements, which you can learn all … Read more

IBM Aims to Expand AI with $11B Confluent Acquisition – TechRepublic

IBM Aims to Expand AI with $11B Confluent Acquisition - TechRepublic

Source: IBM IBM has AI on its mind and plans to acquire Confluent, a data streaming company built on Apache Kafka, in an $11 billion deal. The deal announced today (Dec. 8) will see IBM buy all of Confluent’s remaining stock for $31 per share, bringing under its wing the platform used by thousands of … Read more

CrowdStrike Identifies New China-Nexus Espionage Actor – TechRepublic

CrowdStrike Identifies New China-Nexus Espionage Actor - TechRepublic

Image: Adobe Stock A newly identified China-nexus cyber adversary, tracked by CrowdStrike as WARP PANDA, has emerged as one of the most technically sophisticated espionage groups targeting US organizations in 2025. According to analysts, the group has carried out several intrusions against legal, technology and manufacturing entities, targeting VMware vCenter environments and cloud platforms. Investigators … Read more

Cloudflare suffers global outage – TechRepublic

Cloudflare suffers global outage - TechRepublic

Image: Envato A widespread internet outage disrupted access to major websites and services around the world after Cloudflare – a key provider of internet infrastructure and security – experienced a major system failure today (December 5). The incident began around 09:00 UTC and exposed the fragility of the digital ecosystem, which is heavily dependent on … Read more

TikTok Invests $37B+ in Data Center in Brazil – TechRepublic

TikTok Invests $37B+ in Data Center in Brazil - TechRepublic

Image: Envato ByteDance TikTok plans to invest more than 200 billion reais ($37.7 billion) in a major data center project in Brazil. This is the first venture of this scale in Latin America and signals the rapid expansion of digital infrastructure across the region. The announcement underscores China’s broader ambitions in South America at a … Read more

New serverless customization in Amazon SageMaker AI accelerates model fine-tuning | Amazon Web Services

New serverless customization in Amazon SageMaker AI accelerates model fine-tuning | Amazon Web Services

Today I’m excited to announce new serverless customization in Amazon SageMaker AI for popular AI models such as Amazon Nova, DeepSeek, GPT-OSS, Llama, and Qwen. The new customization option provides an easy-to-use interface for the latest fine-tuning techniques, such as reinforcement learning, so you can speed the process of customizing an AI model from months … Read more

Amazon Bedrock adds boost tuning to make it easier for developers to build smarter, more accurate AI models | Amazon Web Services

Amazon Bedrock adds boost tuning to make it easier for developers to build smarter, more accurate AI models | Amazon Web Services

Organizations face a tough trade-off when adapting AI models to their specific business needs: settle for generic models that deliver mediocre results, or deal with the complexity and cost of advanced model customization. Traditional approaches force a choice between poor performance on smaller models or the high cost of deploying larger model variants and managing … Read more