Category: Software Lifecycle Engineering

Mend.io Clears Both Frontier AI Defender Programs
November 6, 2026

Mend.io Clears Both Frontier AI Defender Programs

Mend.io has achieved verified defender status at Anthropic's Cyber Verification Program and OpenAI's Daybreak Blue, removing barriers to legitimate AI security research and enhancing SAST detection capabilities....
Palantir Q3 FY 2026 Earnings US Commercial Revenue Overtakes US Government
November 5, 2026

Palantir Q3 FY 2026 Earnings: US Commercial Revenue Overtakes US Government

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead, CIO & Technology Buyers and Software Lifecycle Engineering at The Futurum Group, reviews Palantir's Q3 FY 2026 earnings, US commercial revenue overtaking US government,...
Remediation Is Becoming a Software Delivery Capacity Problem
November 4, 2026

Remediation Is Becoming a Software Delivery Capacity Problem

In our latest thought leadership brief, Remediation Is Becoming a Software Delivery Capacity Problem, completed in partnership with Google Cloud, Futurum Research examines why the queue between a validated finding...
Microsoft Copilot harness
November 3, 2026

Microsoft Copilot Harness Preview Keeps Tool Approval Policy With Microsoft

Vikram Rathnam, Research Director, and Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead, at Futurum share insights on the Microsoft Copilot harness in Foundry, where Microsoft manages built-in tool approvals and has...
PagerDuty's Paige Bets Agentic AI Can End the 3 a.m. Page
November 3, 2026

PagerDuty's Paige Bets Agentic AI Can End the 3 a.m. Page

PagerDuty's new AI SRE Agent, Paige, automates incident management using 16 years of operational data while integrating with 750+ tools and addressing governance concerns....
FPT Opens Vietnam's First Domestic Chip Test Factory
November 3, 2026

FPT Opens Vietnam's First Domestic Chip Test Factory

FPT IS opened Vietnam's first Vietnamese-owned semiconductor chip testing and packaging factory on November 3, 2026, marking a major milestone in the nation's semiconductor sovereignty strategy with 300 million chips...
Credence Wins DLA Contract to Untangle 15,000+ Legacy Rules in DAAS
October 31, 2026

Credence Wins DLA Contract to Untangle 15,000+ Legacy Rules in DAAS

Credence won a Defense Logistics Agency contract to modernize the DAAS Business Rules Engine, analyzing 15,000+ legacy rules while deploying AI/ML to accelerate delivery and strengthen audit readiness....
Google Agent Compute Engine
October 30, 2026

Google Agent Compute Engine Puts Cross-Cloud Governance to a Parity Test

Vikram Rathnam and Mitch Ashley of Futurum share insights on Google Agent Compute Engine, its sandbox that keeps backend credentials out of reach, and the parity test that Google's cross-cloud...
Planisware Q3 FY 2026 Recurring Revenue Speeds Up as Prisma AI Enters Beta
October 30, 2026

Planisware Q3 FY 2026 Recurring Revenue Speeds Up as Prisma AI Enters Beta

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead, CIO & Technology Buyers and Software Lifecycle Engineering at The Futurum Group, reviews Planisware's Q3 FY 2026 earnings, recurring revenue acceleration, the Prisma AI...
AI Agents Are Committing Unreviewed Dependencies. Mend Just Closed the Gap.
October 30, 2026

AI Agents Are Committing Unreviewed Dependencies. Mend Just Closed the Gap.

As AI coding agents like Claude Code generate and commit full lockfiles without human review, Mend SCA now closes the dependency blind spot with Bun lockfile scanning and built-in reachability...
Upwind's $400M Series C Is a Bet on Independent Cloud Security
October 29, 2026

Upwind's $400M Series C Is a Bet on Independent Cloud Security

Fernando Montenegro, Vice President & Practice Lead, Cybersecurity & Resilience at Futurum, Upwind's $400M Series C signals strong enterprise demand for independent cloud security platforms over consolidated vendor solutions....
PyTorch 2.15: Open-Source AI's Production Inflection Point
October 29, 2026

PyTorch 2.15: Open-Source AI's Production Inflection Point

PyTorch 2.15 enhances production-ready AI with improved NCCL backend, advanced diagnostics for hang detection, and broader hardware support, directly addressing enterprise reliability as cloud concentration grows....

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Benjamin Brown, VP Custom Research, Futurum Research

Benjamin Brown

VP, Custom Research · The Futurum Group

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