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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Obsidian Security targets rising tide of SaaS integration threats

Obsidian Security Inc. today released a new suite of capabilities aimed at securing the software-as-a-service supply chain, offering what the company calls the first end-to-end protection for integrations between cloud-based applications. The release comes as businesses increasingly rely on interconnected SaaS environments and autonomous artificial intelligence agents embedded in workflows. The company said such integrations, while ...

Tacnode emerges from stealth with a data infra platform tuned to AI agents

Tacnode Inc. today emerged from stealth mode with a new data infrastructure platform designed to enable artificial intelligence agents to reason and act over a shared, up-to-date representation of enterprise context. The company’s Tacnode Context Lake technology and Semantic Operators feature form what it describes as a “context layer” for agent-based systems. Context Lake is intended ...

MongoDB combines database and embedding models for simplified AI development

MongoDB Inc. is making its play for the hearts and minds of artificial intelligence developers and entrepreneurs with today’s announcement of a series of new capabilities designed to help developers move applications from prototype to production more quickly. They include the general availability of the Voyage 4 family of embedding models and a planned expansion ...

IBM launches cloud platform tuned for digital sovereignty requirements

IBM Corp. today introduced a software platform designed to give enterprises and governments more direct control over artificial intelligence and cloud workloads in response to tightening sovereignty and compliance demands. The new offering, called IBM Sovereign Core, allows organizations to deploy and manage workloads under the customer’s operational authority and within a single jurisdiction. The ...

Wasabi’s cloud storage service gets $70M funding boost

Wasabi Technologies Inc. today said it has raised $70 million in new equity financing at a $1.8 billion valuation as the Boston-based cloud storage provider moves aggressively into artificial intelligence infrastructure and cyber-resilient data services. The infusion brings Wasabi’s total funding to more than $600 million and comes amid mounting demand for storage optimized for ...

Red Hat pledges day-zero support for Nvidia’s newest GPUs

IBM Corp. subsidiary Red Hat is moving more aggressively than usual to ensure its software stacks are ready the moment new generations of Nvidia Corp.’s artificial intelligence hardware reach the market, a strategy executives said is driven by surging demand for larger and more capable AI model architectures. The company disclosed this week that Red ...

SAP expands AI options for retailers

SAP SE is using the National Retail Federation’s 2026 Big Show to outline a set of new artificial intelligence features that embed planning, operations, fulfillment and commerce more tightly into its retail software portfolio. The company said the updates are intended to help retailers manage increasingly complex operations as customer engagement shifts toward AI-driven discovery ...
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Daimler Truck uses graph technology to untangle its IT estate and gains long-lasting operational windfall

When Daimler Truck Holding AG began the long and complex process of separating from Mercedes-Benz Group AG in 2021, it faced a daunting problem. Decades of tightly interwoven information technology systems, shared infrastructure and undocumented dependencies needed to be untangled. More than 1,500 IT systems and applications needed to be separated, redesigned or replaced. The ...
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LexisNexis champions AI’s move into the courtroom

The image of law firms as dark-paneled offices lined with dusty old books is being shattered by the arrival of a new associate: artificial intelligence. The legal profession has been among the first to adopt generative AI for its potential to help with the voluminous research, drafting and review often required in preparing to argue ...

Beyond SEO: How AI engine optimization is changing the equation in online visibility

The search engine optimization discipline that has guided web marketing efforts for more than two decades is now being disrupted by generative artificial intelligence systems that deliver direct answers rather than lists of links. The good news is that much of what makes content rank highly on search engines also works with gen AI, but ...