The unusual, unexpected, and human side of B2B technology
IBM's OpenAI partnership isn't just about AI models. It's about retraining an army of consultants to teach enterprises how to use them.
The software giant is collapsing the boundary between personal and work Copilot. It's a quiet pivot that says a lot about where enterprise AI is headed.
The Shai-Hulud attack spread through npm by passing real security checks, not faking them. It turned trust itself into a weapon.
Sometimes the most interesting B2B story is the one that doesn't exist yet. What happens when the content machine runs out of unusual news?
This week's assignment was to find an unusual B2B story. The research came back with CES coverage from January and marketing advice. Here's what that tells us about enterprise news.
MasTec's acquisition of Superior Group looks like a simple consolidation play. It's actually a glimpse of how B2B winners are being built across industry lines.
A recruiting platform trained on historical HR records began flagging duplicate identities, phantom workers, and suspicious payroll entries — turning a hiring tool into an accidental fraud detector.
A B2B SaaS platform built to automate API integrations is quietly becoming the back-end for collective bargaining. Unions and creator collectives are using enterprise workflow software to coordinate demands and track concessions.
Sometimes the most interesting story is the absence of one. When we went looking for unusual B2B product launches this week, we found something unexpected instead.
Enterprise AI isn't killing legacy tech—it's supercharging it. US hospitals are processing millions of faxes with machine learning models, and vendors are marketing it as a growth category.
A mid-sized company gave an AI system operational autonomy. It went haywire. Leadership's response: do it again.
Sometimes the most interesting story is the one you can't write — and what that reveals about how enterprise news actually travels.