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Sep
22
2026

Larry O'Brien — Technology Trends

Palo Alto Networks’ Growth Highlights the Shift Toward Unified Industrial Cybersecurity

Palo Alto Networks’ growth reflects rising demand for unified IT-OT cybersecurity platforms that support industrial resilience.

Sep
22
2026

Jim Frazer — Technology Trends

The Warehouse Is Becoming an Orchestrated, Cyber-Physical System

Modern warehouse operations require system-level orchestration across equipment, software, people, and logistics-network signals.

Sep
21
2026

Jim Frazer — Acquisition or Partnership

IFS Softeon Brings Industrial AI Deeper Into Warehouse Execution

The IFS-Softeon combination illustrates how Industrial AI could move from supply chain analytics into warehouse execution.

Sep
21
2026

Larry O'Brien — Technology Trends

Fortinet OT Cybersecurity Report Highlights the Growing Value of Maturity and Resilience

Fortinet’s report shows why OT cybersecurity maturity is increasingly essential to resilient, connected manufacturing operations.

Sep
21
2026

Jim Frazer — Industry Best Practice

Make the Tradeoffs Explicit: Stakeholders, Constraints, and Competing Objectives

A systems-engineering approach helps logistics organizations turn competing priorities into deliberate enterprise decision rules.

Sep
18
2026

Jim Frazer — Industry Trends

May Mobility’s $1.4B SPAC Tests Asset-Light Autonomy

May Mobility is testing whether autonomous transportation can scale as a technology layer without requiring the autonomy provider to own the underlying fleet.

Sep
18
2026

Colin Masson — Technology Trends

The Buyer's Tri-Domain Dilemma—Supply Chain vs. Factory Floor (OT/MES) vs. Enterprise Core (ERP/CRM)

Industrial AI architecture must be evaluated differently across supply chain, factory operations, and enterprise systems because each domain has distinct latency, governance, data, and execution requirements.

Sep
18
2026

Colin Masson — Technology Trends

Defeating the Tokenpocalypse: Edge Sovereignty, Latency, and the True Economics of Agentic Work

Industrial agentic AI is pushing enterprises toward hybrid cloud-edge architectures that balance inference cost, deterministic latency, and operational sovereignty.

Sep
18
2026

Jim Frazer — Technology Trends

OpenAI’s Misalignment Reports Point to the Next Enterprise AI Problem

OpenAI’s misalignment reports show why controlled autonomy and execution governance are becoming core requirements for enterprise AI.

Sep
18
2026

Jim Frazer — Technology Trends

Salesforce Dreamforce Keynote: The Deterministic Layer Behind the Agentic Supply Chain

Salesforce’s Dreamforce architecture shows why agentic supply chains need deterministic data, permissions, governance, and execution around probabilistic AI.

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