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Effective AI results will increasingly depend less on crafting ever-more-detailed prompts and more on giving systems the relevant, current, and well-structured context they need to understand intent.
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At TechMentor & CyberSecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, Microsoft's Jason Helmick and Sean Wheeler will show IT pros what's new in PowerShell 7.6, how the platform continues to evolve beyond Windows PowerShell 5.1, and how administrators can start using the latest improvements in real-world automation workflows.
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Cloud providers are investing heavily in AI infrastructure while adding tools such as prompt caching, model routing, provisioned capacity and service tiers to help enterprise customers control AI costs.
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At TechMentor & CyberSecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, John O'Neill, Sr. will lead a full-day Security Copilot boot camp designed to help security analysts, SOC managers and IT pros move from basic prompts to repeatable investigations, custom promptbooks and automated response workflows.
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By Tom Fenton
Aipex stands out as an AI-first endpoint monitoring and remediation platform that combines broad remote management coverage with practical, natural-language troubleshooting and automation.<
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Pavan Reddy's full-day TechMentor/Cybersecurity Live! hands-on lab shows teams how to attack, test, harden and document real-world RAG and agentic AI systems before they become production security risks.
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By Tom Fenton
The Lenovo ThinkPad P16 Gen 3 proves to be a strong portable AI workstation, with the CPU, iGPU, NPU, and NVIDIA GPU each excelling in different AI workloads depending on the framework and task.
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Google followed its Cloud Next '26 Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform rollout and its Antigravity CLI transition with a broader I/O 2026 agent-development stack spanning Agent Studio, Managed Agents API, Antigravity, ADK 2.0, Gemini 3.5 Flash and Gemini Spark.
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Google is transitioning Gemini CLI users to Antigravity CLI, positioning the terminal tool as part of the broader Google Antigravity agent-first development platform.
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By Tom Fenton
Lenovo's ThinkPad P16 Gen 3 delivers workstation-class AI performance in a laptop form factor, combining a high-core-count CPU, Blackwell GPU, and massive memory for demanding local model, virtualization, and creative workloads.
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HPE announced new GreenLake updates spanning private cloud, storage and data protection, led by planned unified management of virtual machines and containers in HPE Private Cloud.
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Red Hat Summit 2026 announcements around Telenet Business and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory show OpenShift Virtualization being positioned as a platform for VM modernization, hybrid cloud operations and future containerized workloads.
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VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 adds AI, Kubernetes, infrastructure efficiency, networking and security updates for private cloud deployments.
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Brien Posey explains the overlooked risk that AI-based data analytics can mistake coincidental patterns for actionable trends -- and outlines several mitigation techniques, from structured adversarial questioning to signal-strength analysis, that help businesses get more reliable insight from their data.
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At TechMentor & Cybersecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, Microsoft MVPs Joy Apple and Diego Domingos da Silva will share community-tested lessons for preparing Microsoft 365 tenants, people and content for Copilot success.
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Microsoft 365 E7 bundles Copilot, the Entra Suite, and the full Defender and Purview protection suites -- and with it, Agent 365 gives IT admins comprehensive control over AI agent discovery, governance, and security across their Microsoft 365 environment. Our working front-line consultant, Paul Schnackenburg, takes his usual deep -- really deep -- dive into all of the details.
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The Cloud Security Alliance-backed foundation announced a catastrophic risk annex, CNA authorization and two agentic AI specification acquisitions.
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At TechMentor & Cybersecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, Alex de Jong's "Build-a-Bot" session promises a practical look at how Microsoft Copilot, MCP, and modern orchestration tools can turn AI agents into useful workflow teammates.
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Many costly AI application failures stem not from the models themselves but from common architectural and strategic mistakes -- including using AI without a clear purpose, choosing oversized models, neglecting data quality, skimping on testing, and underestimating ongoing maintenance.
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Large language models can accelerate IT and security work, but only when teams pair speed with guardrails. At TechMentor & CyberSecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, Heather Wilde Renze's session explores how to use AI like a capable junior engineer -- useful, fast, and always supervised.
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Google used Cloud Next '26 to announce agent platforms, new TPUs, cross-cloud infrastructure, networking and data services aimed at AI workloads.
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By Tom Fenton
Testing small LLMs in a VMware Workstation VM on an Intel-based laptop reveals performance speeds orders of magnitude faster than on a Raspberry Pi 5, demonstrating that local AI limitations are hardware-driven -- not inherent to running AI locally.
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At TechMentor & Cybersecurity Live! @ Microsoft HQ, Pavan Reddy's "When AI Tools Go Rogue: Securing Agents, MCP, and Dev Assistants" will examine the risks emerging as AI copilots move from chat windows into real systems, and the concrete controls teams need to keep those tools from becoming attack paths.
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As AI moves from experimentation to production, IT teams are increasingly responsible for making sure it is secure, governable, reliable and cost-effective. This session explores what that looks like in practice, with Eric D. Boyd outlining the architectural, operational and security considerations organizations need to address to run AI at enterprise scale.
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During Google Cloud Next, Rubrik rolled out one announcement aimed at AI agent governance and another focused on cyber resilience for Google Cloud SQL.