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Beyond the Budget: The AI Decisions That Only Humans Can Make

Jul 28, 2026 By James Fisher In Qlik
Earlier this month I spent time with a group of senior executives discussing the economics of AI: what it actually costs, where the value is and is not materialising, and what the organisations that are getting returns are doing differently from the ones that are not. That conversation encapsulates why this series is called Beyond the Budget. Not because cost does not matter. It does. But because the budget is where the consequences show up.
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smartbear

How agentic QA cuts the test maintenance tax

Jul 28, 2026 By Maggie Bean In SmartBear
Every QA budget has a line item for building test coverage, but 30–50% of that automation budget ends up spent on maintenance instead of new tests. That disparity stays invisible until a release goes out, the application shifts underneath the tests, and the QA team spends the next three days rewriting broken scripts instead of finding new bugs.
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Why Trusted Data Is the New AI Moat (w+ Rick Kranz from the AI Marketing AUtomation Lab)

Jul 28, 2026 By Databox: AI-powered analytics that answers back In Databox
Rick Kranz has built over 100 AI automations for his community and clients — he has no reason to defend Databox. But when he tried to run his AI analysis without the Databox MCP, it just stopped working. In this episode, Rick and Pete break down exactly why: the semantic layer, the metric definitions, and the standardized math that make an AI's answer trustworthy instead of a guess. If you've ever wondered why connecting five random MCP servers to Claude doesn't give you the same results as a purpose-built data layer, this is the episode.
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appian

Building Enterprise-Grade AI Agents: From Prototype to Production

Jul 28, 2026 By Wei Smith In Appian
Everyone can build an AI agent today. The hard part isn't getting an agent to answer a question or complete a demo. It's deploying one that employees trust, security teams approve, and operations teams can manage at scale. That's where many AI projects stall. As organizations move beyond experimentation, the conversation shifts from prompt engineering to production readiness. Can the agent safely access business data? Can you evaluate changes before deployment? Can you understand why it made a decision?
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Is Your AI Startup CEO Lost in the Plot? #Shorts #podcast #cloudsecuritypodcast

Jul 27, 2026 By Cloudera, Inc. In Cloudera
Drawing on his experience at Google, Google X, and as the CEO and co-founder of an AI startup, Varun Puri shares practical lessons on embedding AI into everyday workflows and building habits that stick. Discover how to maintain perspective on what is working, even when AI constantly highlights what isn’t.
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bugfender

MCP Debugging: How to Fix Broken MCP Servers and Tools

Jul 27, 2026 By Aleix Ventayol In Bugfender
Model Context Protocol allows AI models like Claude to communicate with the outside world. But MCP debugging has been one of our steepest learning curves at Bugfender. Several different layers need to work together at the same time and if one thing breaks, it can scupper the whole workflow. That’s why we’re here today. To pass on hard-won knowledge, so you can jump the curve.
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oril

Real Rental Data & AI-Ready Infrastructure - With Jonas Bordo, Dwellsy | The Innovation Blueprint Podcast

Jul 27, 2026 By Roman Havrylyuk In ORIL
For as long as there’s been a rental market, there’s been a version of this question: is the number on the listing actually the number? Ask anyone who’s built a pricing model, a forecasting tool, or a CPI estimate on top of rental data, and you’ll get the same answer — probably not, and there was never a good way to check.
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