Welcome to CIOFirst’s Weekly Roundup — your trusted briefing on the forces redefining enterprise IT strategy, AI-native infrastructure, data engineering, cybersecurity, and large-scale digital transformation. This week’s highlights spotlight accelerated AI cloud platforms, next-generation silicon and connectivity, governed data pipelines, industrial AI alliances, and the growing need to translate cyber risk into board-level business impact.
In AI Cloud & Advanced Computing…
Coherent and Quside Demonstrate Quantum Entropy Source For Quantum-Safe Encryption
Coherent Corp, a leader in photonics, and Quside, a quantum tech innovator, have made a big leap in hardware-based cybersecurity. They successfully demonstrated a quantum entropy source that can be mass-produced.
Microsoft Enhances Quantum Platform Versatility with New Tools
Microsoft launched new developer tools that boost the Microsoft Quantum Platform’s flexibility and power. The new toolset helps developers, scientists, and researchers create quantum applications.
In Data Centers & Connectivity…
Vertiv Introduces AI Predictive Maintenance for Data Centers
Vertiv, a worldwide leader in critical digital infrastructure and solutions, has officially revealed a new AI-powered predictive solution in line with a Vertiv-managed solution named Vertiv™ Next Predict meant particularly for contemporary data centers and artificial intelligence factories alike.
SoftBank Launches Infrinia AI Cloud OS for Data Centers
SoftBank Corp. announced that its Infrinia Team1-focused on advancing next-generation AI infrastructure architecture and systems-has developed “Infrinia AI Cloud OS,” a comprehensive software stack2 purpose-built for AI data centers.
In AI Security & Observability…
Cohesity Enhances Identity Security with Threat Detection & Response
Cohesity announced new advanced Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) features. These enhancements build on its Identity Resilience portfolio. They offer a better way to secure, protect, and recover key identity systems like Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID.
iboss Enhances AI-Powered SaaS Security Posture Management
iboss launched SSPM, a new AI-driven SaaS Security Posture Management tool. It’s part of their Zero Trust SASE cloud security platform. This addresses the rising visibility and risk issues as more businesses use SaaS apps to manage sensitive data.
In Industrial & Enterprise AI…
Kyndryl Unveils Agentic AI-Powered SAP Modernization Approach
Kyndryl has launched a new AI-driven method for quicker and cheaper SAP modernization. This approach helps businesses move from old systems to SAP S/4HANA with less manual work and improved scalability.
Anthropic Releases Comprehensive New AI Constitution for Claude
Anthropic announced an expanded AI Constitution for its main AI model, Claude. This marks a big change in how the company defines and governs its model’s behavior.
In Data Platforms & Engineering…
ServiceNow and OpenAI Collaborate Advance Enterprise AI Outcomes
ServiceNow, the AI control tower for business, and OpenAI are teaming up. They announced a new multi-year partnership. This partnership will bring advanced AI features to ServiceNow’s workflow platform.
IBM Unveils Enterprise Advantage for Businesses Scale Agentic AI
IBM introduced IBM Enterprise Advantage. This is the first asset-based consulting service in the industry. It aims to help companies speed up the development, management, and operation of tailored internal AI platforms on a large scale.
In Enterprise Growth & Strategy…
e& and IBM Introduce Agentic AI to Transform Governance & Compliance
IBM and global technology group e& have announced a strategic collaboration to deploy enterprise-grade agentic AI that advances governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) capabilities at scale.
Keysight Partners with Airbus UpNext SpaceRAN to Advance 5G NTN
Keysight Technologies is partnering with Airbus on the UpNext SpaceRAN project. This initiative looks into the future of 5G non-terrestrial networks (NTN).
⭐ Article of the Week
DevSecOps: How Enterprises Embed Security Across the Modern Software Development Lifecycle
At the same time, cloud risk has shifted. Google reports that over 70 percent of cloud breaches stem from compromised identities. Not exotic zero days. Not advanced malware. Broken access, leaked credentials, and mismanaged permissions. This is exactly the type of risk that slips through when security is treated as a final checkpoint instead of a continuous discipline.
Compliance pressure adds another layer. Regulations like GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC2 are not slowing down. Manual audits, screenshots, and spreadsheet driven evidence collection cannot scale with daily deployments. DevSecOps introduces compliance as code. Controls are defined, enforced, and logged automatically as part of the pipeline.