AWS’s New Zealand region is essential expansion, yet broader investment shifts toward high-risk, high-reward AI infrastructure will affect core cloud services.
Atlassian’s $610m browser acquisition is a high-stakes bet on secure, specialised AI productivity against free, embedded Microsoft/Google competition.
Modernising B2B contracts is key to value creation, shifting from time-and-materials to rewarding outcomes for sustainable, innovative partnerships.
Neo4j’s Infinigraph architecture unifies transactional and analytical workloads at scale, simplifying data ecosystems and enabling real-time insights for AI.
Microsoft is bundling its specific Copilots into the main M365 license, signaling a shift to specialised AI tools embedded in daily workflows.
Adobe’s AI agents represent the natural evolution of ecommerce, moving beyond chatbots to integrated, multi-step workflows for customer self-service.
ICT leaders must scrutinise ‘open source’ AI claims; the provided code is often a wrapper for a proprietary, vendor-controlled backend, creating vendor lock-in.
ServiceNow’s Zurich release balances innovation with governance, focusing on multi-agentic AI development, enhanced workflow automation, and integrated security features.
Creative AI is evolving beyond manual prompting to programmatic, high-throughput image generation with enhanced governance and analytics features.
