Once a practice centered on cloud cost optimization, FinOps is now a fundamental part of managing the value of technology — especially AI. The just-released “State of FinOps 2026 Report“ revealed that 98% of respondents now manage AI spend, while 90% manage SaaS as part of their scope. Furthermore, FinOps practitioners with executive alignment show ...

The artificial intelligence spending frenzy has reached such a point that a company without an actual product can raise a billion dollars — but investors are seeking a return on their investment this year. TheCUBE’s experts believe that 2026 is the year of enterprise ROI. OpenAI Group PBC just reached a $850 billion dollar valuation, and ...

Will artificial intelligence be the death of software? Investors seem to think so. This week, fears over whether or not AI is an existential threat to software-as-a-service companies were felt across the stock market. Industry experts view the stock dip as an overreaction to the natural evolution of software. “Wall Street woke up and decided ...

The AI spending frenzy shows no signs of stopping in 2026, as OpenAI, Anthropic and Nvidia continue to gobble up funds. With NYSE media week coming up, everyone is watching to see if enterprise tech’s investments will pay off. Microsoft took a hit while IBM rose up 12%, and OpenAI is looking for even more ...

BitGo went public last week, with more initial public offerings expected to come from the cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence sectors. Initial trading jumped 25% over offering price for BitGo, and the stock rose over 3% on the day — a successful start for the crypto platform. It’s also a sign that crypto’s momentum isn’t slowing down ...

The new year opened with a flurry of AI news: Google LLC parent company Alphabet Inc. hit $4 trillion in market capitalization, and Nvidia Corp. cemented its dominance in the AI factory business. Alphabet’s growth can be attributed to Google’s aggressive AI strategy. The company made a deal with Apple to use Gemini for Siri ...

University of Michigan is turning its campus into a real-world AI proving ground, where emerging technology meets the next generation of workers before they even graduate. That experiment took center stage during Google LLC’s recent “GCP Goes to School” immersive event — a week-long, hands-on experience that brought cloud tools, AI workflows and career conversations directly ...

Amid concerns about artificial intelligence-based cheating and the loss of critical thinking, professors are navigating the advantages and pitfalls of AI in the classroom. At the University of Michigan, computer science and engineering faculty have the double challenge of learning how to use AI tools as they come out while also teaching best practices to ...

Today’s companies face increasing infrastructure complexity as artificial intelligence and Kubernetes push systems to scale, putting DevOps and infrastructure teams under growing pressure to modernize systems that weren’t designed for it. That challenge has sharpened as organizations try to balance legacy architecture, modern application development and rising security risk. Research shows that 70% of information technology ...

Surfing is the latest sport to undergo a technological transformation. The World Surf League has partnered with Amazon Web Services Inc. and AllCloud Inc. to create wearables for surfers. These watches serve two purposes: they give athletes real-time scoring information, and they communicate surfing competition data to fans and broadcasters. “We started collecting all the ...