Paul Gillin

Paul Gillin is the Senior Editor for Wikibon’s micro-analysis team. He is the author of five books and more than 300 articles on the topic of social media and digital marketing. Gillin has 23 years experience in tech journalism, including his time as founding editor-in-chief of B2B technology publisher TechTarget as well as editor-in-chief and executive editor of the technology weekly Computerworld. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Society for New Communications Research and a member of the Procter & Gamble Digital Advisory Board.

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Coder introduces governance stack for hybrid human/agent development teams 

Open-source development platform builder Coder Technologies Inc. today is unveiling a suite of governance and execution capabilities designed to help enterprises integrate artificial intelligence coding agents into their software development lifecycles without compromising security, compliance or platform control. The launch extends the company’s self-hosted developer-environment platform to a “full-stack foundation for governed AI development,” aimed ...

Salesforce defines Informatica’s role in unified data strategy

Salesforce Inc. today released details about its thinking in acquiring Informatica Inc. despite that company’s apparent overlap with Salesforce’s MuleSoft integration subsidiary. Executives said the deal is central to building a unified data foundation for agentic artificial intelligence and resolving long-standing issues of fragmented enterprise context. The acquisition addresses a core obstacle in enterprise AI adoption: ...

IBM will acquire Confluent to address growing needs for real-time data in AI models

IBM Corp. said today it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire streaming data firm Confluent Inc. in an all-cash transaction valued at about $11 billion, paying $31 per share in cash for all outstanding Confluent common stock. Confluent sells an enterprise version of the open-source Kafka data streaming platform, which it said is used by ...

Resemble AI hauls in $13M for its different approach to deepfake detection

Resemble AI, a Toronto and San Francisco-based startup focused on securing generative artificial intelligence systems, today announced a $13 million funding round and the launch of what it calls the industry’s strongest deepfake detection model. The investment brings the company’s total funding to $25 million. Resemble AI’s technology is urgently needed. A recent study by ...

HPE broadly expands AI-native networking, hybrid cloud and storage offerings

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is using its Discover Barcelona 2025 event today to announce a broad expansion of its networking, hybrid cloud and data infrastructure portfolio, highlighting early integration milestones following its recent acquisition of Juniper Networks Inc. The company detailed new switches and routers for artificial intelligence workloads, expanded AI operations capabilities and updates ...

AWS expands Nova foundation models, adds multimodal support

In conjunction with its announcement of Nova Forge, a platform for building customized variants of its Nova foundation models, Amazon Web Services Inc. today introduced four new artificial intelligence models under the Nova banner that expand AWS’s generative AI offerings in multimodal reasoning, speech processing and user interface automation. The additions to the Nova family, ...

The end of apps? Imagining software’s agentic future

It’s 8:45 on a Tuesday morning in 2029, and you’re running late for your first call. You haven’t logged into your customer relationship management system in months. You don’t need to. Your digital sales agent has already triaged the overnight leads, selected the ones that merit your attention, and scheduled two that look particularly promising. ...

Amplitude lays out AI-native future as brands adapt to generative search

Amplitude Inc. is preparing a major shift in its product strategy that will put artificial intelligence at the center of how companies understand customer intent and research behavior. n a recent interview with SiliconANGLE, Chief Executive Spenser Skates (pictured) said the market is entering a phase in which analytics tools must retool to be “AI-native,” ...

Microsoft rolls out major updates for building and managing enterprise AI agents

Microsoft Corp. is using its massive Ignite conference in San Francisco today to unveil a wide range of updates to its Foundry artificial intelligence development platform aimed at simplifying how developers build, deploy and manage AI agents. The previews and general releases are part of the company’s broader effort to streamline agent development and enable ...

Microsoft Power Platform get new agentic and governance capabilities

Microsoft Corp. is updating its Power Platform today at its Ignite conference in San Francisco with new artificial intelligence features, governance tools and data integrations aimed at speeding the deployment and management of applications more efficiently. The updates span Microsoft Power Apps, Microsoft Copilot Studio and Microsoft Dataverse, with many being released in preview over ...