OpenAI Daybreak Aims For The Agentic AppSec Workflow
Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on OpenAI Daybreak and how GPT-5.5 model tiers and Codex Security position OpenAI for AppSec workflow ownership in AI-native development.
Narrowing the AI Production Gap: Red Hat’s Focus on AI-Assisted Engineering
Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on how Red Hat Summit 2026 narrows the production gap for AI-assisted engineering by moving execution, provenance, and identity controls into the developer’s loop.
MuleSoft Omni Gateway: As Close to an Agent Control Plane as It Gets
Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead for Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum, shares his insights on MuleSoft’s Omni Gateway and what it reveals about the agent control plane competition reshaping enterprise AI governance.
Red Hat Brings Developers, Product, and Operations to the Center of Agentic AI
Mitch Ashley, VP Software Lifecycle Engineering, and Nick Patience, VP AI Platforms at Futurum, share their insights on Red Hat Summit 2026, introducing AI platform foundation, metal-to-agents stack, and putting builders at the center of agentic AI.
Atlassian Teamwork Graph: The Secret Weapon That’s No Longer a Secret
Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead for Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum, shares his insights on Atlassian’s Teamwork Graph becoming a programmable platform for developer-built AI agents.
Can IREN Build a Full-Stack AI Cloud? The Mirantis Acquisition Makes the Case
Nick Patience, VP & AI Platforms Practice Lead, and Mitch Ashley, VP & Software Lifecycle Engineering Practice Lead, at Futurum, examine IREN’s $625M acquisition of Mirantis and what it means for the neocloud sector’s shift toward full-stack AI infrastructure.
AWS Pushes the Agent Stack: Quick, Connect Verticals, OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock
Mitch Ashley, Keith Kirkpatrick, Fernando Montenegro, and Alex Smith of Futurum Research share their analysis of AWS’s What’s Next event, where Quick, Connect verticals, and OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock reposition AWS across the agent stack.
Cursor 3.2 Reframes the IDE as an Agent Execution Runtime
Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead, AI-Native Software Engineering at Futurum, shares his insights on Cursor 3.2’s /multitask release and how it repositions Cursor as an agent execution runtime competitive with CI/CD and cloud dev vendors.
Why SpaceX-Cursor Works for Both, and What It Means for Google, AWS, IBM
Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead for Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum, shares his insights on why the SpaceX-Cursor deal made strategic sense for both companies and what enterprise buyers and vendors should reassess.
Atlassian and Google Cloud Expand Agentic AI Partnership
Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead for AI-Native Software Engineering at Futurum, shares his insights on the expanded Atlassian and Google Cloud agentic AI partnership and what it means for the agent control plane.
SUSECON 2026 – Big Bet On MCP and Partners for Infrastructure AI Operations
Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on SUSE’s MCP integrations with AWS, Fsas Technologies, n8n, Revenium, and Stacklok, and what they signal about MCP becoming the agent-to-infrastructure standard.
MCP: Security Community Pariah or Indispensable AI Standard? – Report Summary
Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead at Futurum, analyzes how MCP evolved from viral agent connectivity tool to indispensable AI standard requiring security, governance, and control plane maturation.
