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Cortex Wrapped 2025: The Year of AI Excellence

Every December, Spotify launches its infamous Wrapped campaign, which sends millions of users into a frenzy about their listening habits. They become pseudo data scientists and analyze how frequently they listen to their guilty pleasures, their kids' terrible playlists, or the music they love that nobody else has heard of yet. We love this tradition, so we're bringing it to Cortex.

9 Third-Party Risk Monitoring Tools That Actually Cut Vendor Assessment Time

Nearly one in three cyber breaches now start with a supplier, McKinsey found in 2024. A single vendor review cycle often spans 3 to 5 weeks due to manual evidence chasing, according to Forrester's 2024 State of Third-Party Risk Report. And a May 2025 Gartner brief warns that this "perfect storm" of attacks, supply-chain shocks and new regulations is forcing boards to modernize third-party risk-fast.

Stop Spending Hours on Slides: Use This Free AI Tool Instead

In nowadays society, time is our most valuable asset. Whether you are a social media manager creating a monthly report or a startup founder pitching to investors, the pressure to deliver visually stunning slides is constant. However, traditional slide design is often a bottleneck. Enter the era of the ppt ai maker. These intelligent tools are no longer just a futuristic concept; they are essential productivity hacks for anyone looking to scale their output without sacrificing quality.

AI agents just got smarter thanks to PagerDuty + AWS

We are on the ground with AWS and announcing innovations that give customers more powerful AI agents for incident management. These new and improved integrations bring PagerDuty context into the AWS ecosystem for faster resolution and more connected data across the business. And, with our new competency, we take this a step further by codifying these best practices into our joint customers’ day-to-day operations. Announced today, here are some of the highlights.

Observability in the AI age: Datadog's approach

Ten years ago, Datadog was a single-product company focused on breaking down the silos between dev and ops. As the shift towards the cloud accelerated and organizations transitioned to the new DevOps model, we set out to develop an observability platform that would enable these teams to safely scale faster and answer the essential questions about their services: are they available, secure, compliant, performant, and cost-efficient?

Part 1: What If Data Wasn't Just the Fuel for AI but the Foundation of Everything It Knows?

Every breakthrough begins with a question. What if we looked beyond today’s tools, buzzwords, and hype and examined the design principles shaping tomorrow’s intelligent enterprises? The What If series explores those inflection points: moments where technology meets human judgment, where automation meets accountability, and where AI begins to resemble something more like understanding than output.

Enhancing Productivity with Predictive Analytics and AI

Dex aims to improve productivity and strategic leadership through predictive analytics and AI solutions. It highlights proactive problem-solving and the necessity for visibility in monitoring systems. Leadership is urged to understand how IT affects staff satisfaction and business outcomes. Immediate goals focus on enhancing visibility, while long-term strategies should align Dex's results with business priorities to secure support and investment.

Datadog Bits AI SRE: Your new teammate for on-call shifts

Bits AI SRE is an always-on SRE agent built to handle complex troubleshooting and late-night alerts. Developed against thousands of real-world incidents and powered by Datadog’s platform, Bits AI SRE analyzes your entire stack, tests hypotheses, and identifies root causes in minutes. Resolve faster, get back to sleep sooner, and give your on-call team the confidence and capacity they need.

Your AI Needs Git Context. Meet GitKraken MCP

Give your AI-assistants and agents the repo context they need with GitKraken MCP. Now bundled with GitLens for IDEs. Give your agents full Git context, streamline decisions, and work faster across VS Code, Cursor, and your favorite AI tools. See how MCP connects your repos, providers, and Git into one smart, seamless layer if Git intelligence your agents and you can use. Perfect for developers building with AI. Perfect for teams who want clarity, speed, and zero context loss.