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8 Top Social Intelligence Tools for Consumer Insights in 2026

Consumers describe products with a candor no survey ever captures. They complain that a moisturizer pills under makeup, praise a headphone hinge that survived a toddler, and debate whether a snack's new recipe ruined it, all in public, all unprompted, and at a volume no research team could read in a lifetime. That running commentary is the largest focus group ever assembled, and it never adjourns.

7 Best Virtual CISO Providers for Operational Technology Environments in 2026

Operational technology environments need a different kind of security leadership. A traditional IT security program usually focuses on users, endpoints, cloud systems, applications, identity, and data. OT environments add another layer: physical processes, industrial control systems, plant uptime, safety constraints, legacy assets, engineering priorities, and production continuity.

Introducing AI Transport v0.5.0: durable execution with Steps

AI Transport v0.5.0 is now available. It adds first-class support for running an agent turn inside a durable execution framework, such as Temporal or Vercel's Workflow Development Kit (WDK), while every client watching the conversation still sees one clean, resumable stream. The last release, v0.4.0, let an agent hydrate its history from your own database. This one is about what happens when the process running the agent isn't around for the whole turn.

How Xray's AI Test Prioritization Helps Teams Focus on High-Risk Tests

Test execution is one of the most time-sensitive stages of software delivery. Teams are expected to validate functionality, ensure stability, and support release decisions within increasingly shorter development cycles. Even with strong automation in place, there is rarely enough time to execute every Test before a release. This makes prioritization a critical part of the QA process.

Tableflow: Turn Kafka Topics into Iceberg Tables

TL;DR: Tableflow is a Confluent Cloud feature that materializes Apache Kafka topics as Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake tables, eliminating custom data pipelines by automatically handling schematization, type conversions, schema evolution, CDC stream materialization, catalog publishing, and table maintenance.

Salesforce MCP: Is CRM Data Enough for Your AI Agent?

Connecting Salesforce to Claude via MCP is the advancement the SERP says it is. You authenticate once, your AI agent queries live CRM data, and you stop copying deal records into chat windows. For a Revenue Operations Manager who spent Q1 begging an admin to export pipeline snapshots, that matters.

Scaling Enterprise GenAI on AWS: Security, Governance & Compliance

Hey, did you know that Cloudera has achieved the AWS Generative AI Competency? This major specialization milestone continues to validate the technical work we're doing to deliver high-impact Generative AI solutions on AWS. Because AWS Competencies require rigorous technical validation and verified customer success reviews, this achievement proves real-world impact where it matters most.