Research notes and analysis from the Futurum practice areas.
Octopus Deploy has deprecated its proprietary AI Assistant in favor of Model Context Protocol and Claude Agent Step, signaling industry shift toward interoperable agentic standards for software delivery workflows.
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.
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 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 annual capacity.
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.
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 analysis for enterprise security teams.
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.
