Anthropic closes $2.5 billion credit facility - “Annualized revenue reached $2 billion in the first quarter, the company confirmed, more than doubling from a $1 billion rate in the prior period. Revenue chief Kate Jensen said in a recent interview with CNBC that the number of customers spending more than $100,000 annually with Anthropic jumped eightfold from a year ago."
Platform Engineering: Evolution or Rebranding? - Get yourself a PaaS. // “the idea of a dedicated team removing frictions by building tools and resuable abstractions is an idea that’s here to stay."
Why so many IT projects go so horribly wrong - Latest in “why do IT projects fail?” Research.
Mexico and China didn’t take manufacturing jobs from the Rust Belt - ”A big missing part of the story: Interstate competition. The Rust Belt’s manufacturing decline isn’t primarily about jobs going to Mexico. It’s about jobs going to Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee.”
AI agents drive Boomi’s vision for scalable automation - Adding MCP support.
Shadow AI Isn’t a Threat: It’s a Wake-up Call - “Shadow AI isn’t the enemy – it’s a signal. Shadow AI tells you that your teams want AI, they need AI and they’re willing to move without you if they have to. That’s not just a risk. It’s a roadmap. This is your chance to build something better: secure, governed AI enablement that works the way your teams do."
Texas’ Regulatory Landscape | Mercatus Center - ”Texas is the 5th most regulated state in the US” // I wouldn’t have expected top 5!
Revisiting the clouds - “Fast forward to today, and the PaaS market has been significantly reshaped, largely by the rise of Kubernetes and other technologies. The landscape is very different. Apparently, somewhere along the line we lost the ease of deployment that platforms like Heroku and Cloud Foundry were well known for … progress” // Indeed…