August 2025: All AI updates from the past month
Cloudflare One gets new capabilities to secure Shadow AI Cloudflare has added new capabilities to its zero trust platform Cloudflare One to help organizations securely adopt, build, and deploy generative AI applications. Its new Shadow AI Report provides visibility and analytics of AI activity in general purpose models like ChatGPT, code-generation assistants like GitHub Copilot, … continue reading
Kubernetes v1.34 is now available
The latest version of Kubernetes is here, with 58 enhancements: 23 stable, 22 in beta, and 13 in alpha. Kubernetes v1.34 is codenamed “Of Wind & Will (O’ WaW),” inspired by the fact that every release cycle is impacted by factors (AKA winds) out of the control of the release team, like the state of … continue reading
From reactive monitoring to intelligent orchestration – AIOps grows up
Precisely mapping the evolution of AI is practically an impossibility, considering that AI capabilities evolve extremely quickly. Whereas it may take years for people to acquire certain capabilities, current AI systems learn them in hours, days, or weeks of training. Every year of AI progress can feel like years’ worth of change from a human perspective. Amazon e-commerce consultants Ecom Ondot theorize that one year in AI could equal 10-20 human … continue reading
Project Calico’s latest updates improve ingress traffic security
Tigera has announced several updates to its open source container networking and security tool, Project Calico. The Calico Ingress Gateway now includes WAF capabilities for inspecting, authorizing, and securing ingress traffic at runtime. Users will be able to define and enforce security policies at the ingress gateway, which allows for deeper inspection of HTTP and … continue reading
Cloudflare One gets new capabilities to secure Shadow AI
Cloudflare has added new capabilities to its zero trust platform Cloudflare One to help organizations securely adopt, build, and deploy generative AI applications. According to Cloudflare, employees are using AI for numerous tasks, from writing code to generating marketing copy to summarizing confidential documents. Unfortunately, generative AI interactions can involve sending company data to these … continue reading
Network detection and response done right from the ground up
Swiftly identifying network issues is crucial for delivering both robust cyber protection and a top-notch application experience to your clients and staff. A fully featured Network Detection and Response (NDR) solution is essential for every IT infrastructure deployment. With an NDR in place, your IT administrators can quickly detect anomalies on the network, from cyberattacks … continue reading
SailPoint Accelerated Application Management facilitates application governance at scale
SailPoint, an enterprise identity security company, is introducing a new solution to help organizations discover, govern, and secure their growing number of applications. SailPoint Accelerated Application Management provides continuous application discovery to uncover inventory, ownership, user activities, and risky access patterns. According to the company, this visibility enables IT teams to identify high-risk applications, prioritize … continue reading
pgEdge’s latest platform update adds new features for scaling distributed Postgres
pgEdge has announced v25 of its distributed Postgres platform, adding several features to make it easier to manage and scale distributed PostgreSQL clusters. The company’s Spock extension, which offers advanced logical replication capabilities, was updated to version 5.0, adding several new features. In Spock 5.0, new nodes can be added to an existing Spock cluster … continue reading
Groundcover launches observability solution for LLMs and agents
The eBPF-based observability provider groundcover today announced an observability solution specifically for monitoring LLMs and agents. It captures every interaction with LLM providers like OpenAI and Anthropic, including prompts, completions, latency, token usage, errors, and reasoning paths. According to groundcover, while LLMs can offer many benefits, they also introduce a lot of negatives: performance volatility, … continue reading
Why your agentic AI project will probably fail (and it’s not the AI’s fault)
Everyone’s talking about agentic AI like it’s the silver bullet for enterprise automation. Your executives are asking when you’ll deploy AI agents. Your competitors are announcing pilot programs. Tech marketers are enthralled about autonomous systems that can reason, plan, and execute complex workflows without human intervention. Here’s what nobody wants to admit: most of these … continue reading
Grafana launches preview of AI assistant that works across all of Grafana Cloud
Grafana Labs announced a public preview of Grafana Assistant, an AI assistant that IT teams can use to interact with logs, metrics, and traces in a conversational manner. It is available in all parts of Grafana Cloud, and sees the context of what is on the page so that it can give specific, context-aware answers. … continue reading
Palo Alto Networks’ latest firewalls include defenses for post-quantum world
Palo Alto Networks is baking post-quantum security best practices into the latest release of PAN-OS, its firewall software. It is releasing Next-Generation Firewall models that are optimized for quantum computing. PAN-OS 12.1 adds support for all of NIST’s standard post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms, including FIPS 203: ML-KEM, FIPS 204: ML-DSA, and FIPS 205: SLH-DSA. It … continue reading
Chaos engineering pioneer Gremlin launches AI-driven Reliability Intelligence
Gremlin, a pioneer in Chaos Engineering, has announced the launch of Reliability Intelligence — an AI-driven solution for analyzing and remediating reliability concerns in modern, complex systems. The solution uses a combination of automated fault injection experiments, continuous resilience analysis, and a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for LLM integration to ensure the system is … continue reading
Report: Asset data is subject to a growing confidence gap between IT leaders and other company leaders
IT leaders are confident in their asset data, but in other areas of the business, there’s a lack of trust in it. According to WanAware’s Closing the ITAM Confidence Gap: 2025 Survey Insights for IT Leaders report, 95% of IT leaders trust their asset data, compared to just 35% of other managers. “This isn’t just … continue reading
