At GTC 2026, NVIDIA Stakes Its Claim on Autonomous Agent Infrastructure

Nick Patience and Mitch Ashley, analysts at Futurum, examine NVIDIA’s Agent Toolkit announcements at GTC 2026, covering NemoClaw, AI-Q, the Nemotron Coalition, and what they mean for enterprise agentic AI adoption.
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 organizations translate AI potential into production-ready solutions.
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.
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 development environment, expanding platform engineering’s mandate.
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 addresses the junior developer gap.
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, Jira, MongoDB, and observability platforms to drive production‑grade AI agents.
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 network migration and early production outcomes—including an approximate 80% reduction in network-related incidents in the initial deployment environment.
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 and AIOps in procurement priorities.
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 first question to ask.
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 for vendors and practitioners.
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 deployment that security vendors are not yet solving.
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 embed AWS into the deployment decision at the moment developers commit to infrastructure.
