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How Google Is Constructing the Path for AI-Generation Developers
March 13, 2026

How Google Is Constructing the Path for AI-Generation Developers

In this market brief by Futurum Research, in partnership with Google Cloud, we explore how Google’s approach to AI development aims to accelerate innovation, reduce friction for developers, and help...
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OpenAI Acquires Promptfoo, Gaining 25% Foothold in Fortune 500 Enterprises
March 11, 2026
 

OpenAI Acquires Promptfoo, Gaining 25% Foothold in Fortune 500 Enterprises

Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead at Futurum, examines OpenAI's acquisition of Promptfoo and what it signals about the security and governance requirements blocking AI agents from enterprise production....
Mitch Ashley
Did GitHub Agent HQ Quietly Show Up in Microsoft VS Code 1.110
March 10, 2026
 

Did GitHub Agent HQ Quietly Show Up in Microsoft VS Code 1.110?

Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on how VS Code 1.110’s agent plugins, hooks, and Git-based distribution embed agent development control surface capabilities directly into the...
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Microsoft Leaders Have an Answer To AI Gutting the Developer Pipeline
March 4, 2026
 

Microsoft Leaders Have an Answer To AI Gutting the Developer Pipeline

Mitch Ashley, VP and Software Lifecycle Engineering Practice Lead at Futurum, examines Microsoft leaders' warning that AI productivity gains are gutting the developer talent pipeline and how their preceptorship model...
Mitch Ashley
Google ADK Is Not a Toolkit – It Is an Agent Execution Framework
March 3, 2026
 

Google ADK Is Not a Toolkit – It Is an Agent Execution Framework

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead of Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum, shares his insights on how Google ADK’s new integrations turn agent frameworks into an execution layer, connecting GitHub,...
Mitch Ashley
Nokia’s Global Data Center Network Migration: From Legacy Complexity to Automated, Reliable Operations
March 3, 2026

Nokia’s Global Data Center Network Migration: From Legacy Complexity to Automated, Reliable Operations

In our latest report, Nokia’s Global Data Center Network Migration: From Legacy Complexity to Automated, Reliable Operations, completed in partnership with Nokia, Futurum Research details Nokia IT’s automation-first data center...
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Enterprises Prioritize Agent Observability Before They've Deployed Agents
February 26, 2026

Enterprises Prioritize Agent Observability Before They’ve Deployed Agents

Mitch Ashley, VP & Software Lifecycle Engineering practice lead at Futurum, shares new research showing enterprises are prioritizing AI agent observability before agents are deployed at scale, outranking distributed tracing...
Mitch Ashley
IBM vs. Anthropic A Tale of the COBOL Modernization Tape
February 26, 2026
 

IBM vs. Anthropic: A Tale of the COBOL Modernization Tape

Mitch Ashley, VP & Software Lifecycle Engineering Practice Lead at Futurum, examines the IBM vs. Anthropic COBOL modernization debate and explains why choosing the right AI tool is the wrong...
Mitch Ashley
The Seven Principles of Observability-Native
February 25, 2026

The Seven Principles of Observability-Native

Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on why observability-native architecture is the prerequisite for enterprise AI agent deployment at scale and what the seven principles mean...
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Claude Found 500 Zero-Days. Who Patches Them Before Attackers Arrive
February 24, 2026
 

Claude Found 500 Zero-Days. Who Patches Them Before Attackers Arrive?

Mitch Ashley, VP & Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on AI-driven zero-day discovery and why Anthropic’s Claude Code Security exposes a race condition between vulnerability discovery and patch...
Mitch Ashley
AWS's Deploy-to-AWS Plugin Frictionless Deployment or Developer Honeypot
February 24, 2026
 

AWS’s Deploy-to-AWS Plugin: Frictionless Deployment or Developer Honeypot?

Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead at Futurum, examines AWS Agent Plugins for AWS and why the deploy-to-AWS plugin is less a developer productivity tool and more a strategic move to...
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Rovo MCP Server Formalizes AI Access to Enterprise Work Data
February 12, 2026
 

Rovo MCP Server Formalizes AI Access to Enterprise Work Data

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on Atlassian’s Rovo MCP Server GA and how it formalizes AI agent access to enterprise work data across Jira...
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