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AI ROI measurement: what the 23% do differently

23% of finance leaders can both allocate AI spend systematically and prove its return to a board. Only 3% of them failed to secure an AI investment, against 19% of everyone else, and they spend what their peers spend: 41% plan a FY2027 increase of 20% or more, against 38%. Measuring return alone buys nothing, because companies claiming ROI they cannot allocate report the same board-proof gap as companies claiming no return at all.

Any agent anywhere: How to use Grafana Cloud with Claude, Cursor, and any other AI agent

AI agents are becoming part of everyday engineering workflows, helping teams write code, troubleshoot issues, and automate tasks. But to be truly useful in production, these agents need access to more than code. They also need observability data and context to understand what's happening across your systems, investigate problems, and help you take action.

Your Devices Are Everywhere, You Shouldn't Have to Be. | AirDroid Business MDM Platform

A device issue shouldn't mean a trip to another site. AirDroid Business helps IT teams remotely support Android and Windows devices across locations. From bulk deployment to ongoing management and retirement, manage your device fleet with remote access, security policies, kiosk mode, app management, and workflow automation. Control your fleet. Secure your devices. Automate operations at scale.

AI Budgeting: Are We All Just Winging It?

Your AI budget was locked in January. Then the CEO said everyone should be building. Now AI spend is spread across 20 vendors, company credit cards, month-to-month invoices, and enterprise plans, and the board wants to know what it all returned. Emily Allen, Director of Finance & Accounting at CloudZero, shares how she's rewriting the rulebook for AI spend governance, budgeting, and forecasting. She uses CloudZero to see every dollar of AI spend by team, project, and feature.

Best AI for Technical Interviews When Trade-Offs Count More Than the Code

Generative AI can crank out code, yet interviewers judge how you think. CoderPad's 2026 survey found that 66 percent of hiring leads praise candidates who fix AI errors, while 56 percent reward clear trade-off explanations. Stack Overflow's 2025 Developer Survey echoes this: 66 percent of developers name AI solutions that are "almost right, but not quite" as their biggest AI frustration. Canva agrees, applauding applicants who "offer alternative approaches and weigh trade-offs thoughtfully."

Occupational Safety Tech: How Modern IoT and Sensors Are Preventing Future Worksite Toxins

Chemicals lurk in industrial air unnoticed until someone gets sick. According to estimates from the International Labour Organization, over one billion workers face hazardous substance exposure globally every year.

Cradlepoint R1900: Deployment Configuration Guide for Enterprise IT Administrators

When an enterprise IT team faces the challenge of deploying secure, high-performance wireless connectivity at remote or mobile sites, the Cradlepoint R1900 router often stands out for its rugged build and advanced networking capabilities. Imagine outfitting a fleet of emergency response vehicles or setting up edge connectivity at a construction site-both scenarios demand reliable network performance under harsh conditions. IT administrators must not only install and configure these devices but also ensure they integrate seamlessly with existing infrastructure and adhere to strict security standards.

Top tips: 4 tips to fix your phone's storage problem

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what's trending in the tech world and list practical ways to explore these trends. This week, we're clearing out the one notification nobody wants to see: storage full. You’re about to capture the perfect moment and a message pops up: Storage full. The same sentiment applies to a fridge:Nobody means to overstuff it, but a little goes in every day at a faster rate than items come out, until a lemon ends up balanced on the edge of a shelf.

Hillclimbing Meets Production: What Changes When the Agent Runs Your Infrastructure

On 28 September, Anthropic published a playbook for designing evals and hillclimbing against them, and shipped two commands that put it to work. In Claude Code, /claude-api build-eval interviews you and builds an eval inside your codebase. /claude-api hillclimb then improves your app against it, one change per round, with a held-out split to catch overfitting. It is a good piece of work, and the results are concrete.