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Europe’s Growing Fear: How Trump Might Use U.S. Tech Dominance Against It - “A few years ago, everyone was saying, ‘They’re our trusted partners.’ There’s been a radical change.” // Last week I hear people talking about “Euro Cloud,” a very new idea of building out public cloud infrastructure in Europe that, I assume, has no US public cloud ties.

Fatteh for Brunch, Cook’s Illustrated -

As Consumers Turn To Agentic AI Use Cases, Businesses Must Adapt Or Be Left Behind - ”Domain-specific agents will be rejected. Several consumer-facing businesses are building their own proprietary ‘shopping agents.’ But the power of consumer agents lies in access to holistic consumer data. A personal agent will always outperform a domain-specific corporate agent in gathering deep client insight, driving far superior personalization and curation." // Enterprise AI productivity accrues to the individual more than the organization.

Broadcom VMware hardens vDefend, drops Tanzu branding in VCF - The Tanzu Kubernetes stuff is renamed and now part of VCF: ”The Tanzu brand for the Kubernetes services within VCF is no more…. The VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service and Tanzu Kubernetes were rebranded in early March as the VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) and vSphere Kubernetes release (VKr), respectively. The Tanzu branding remains for the VMware Tanzu Platform, a DevOps platform that unifies management of Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry infrastructure.” // This is from April, 2025. But, don’t think that news got out too broadly…

Let’s talk about conversion optimisation and how we’re approaching it - Some web page marketing hacks (not exactly “dark patterns,” more like “twilight patterns”) and general funnel management tips with digital channels.

Private Cloud’s Comeback: Driving the Enterprise IT Reset -

Start small, win big: How to choose the right AI use cases - It may be the basics of any IT project, but you know what they say about common sense: the problem is it’s uncommonly applied.

Use Cases for VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 - Overview of the VMware private AI stack. Private cloud is a big deal and seems to be growing in popularity among large enterprises, especially ones outside of the US. If you’re using AI in those cases, this probably good stuff for you.

Is this your brain on ChatGPT? -

Why is digital sovereignty important right now? -

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