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Install AURA to Debug Incidents Using an Open Source SRE Agent

Jul 28, 2026 By Mezmo In Mezmo
AURA is a fully open-source agentic harness built for SRE and production operations work. In this walkthrough, Mezmo forward deployed engineer Jeff iinstalls AURA on a local desktop, runs `aura init` to generate the config and connect it to an Anthropic Sonnet model, then wires in a Grafana MCP server pointed at his homelab. He hands AURA a live incident: a set of addressable LED lights that stopped responding to Home Assistant.
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How to prove the business value of AI

Jul 28, 2026 By Keith MacKenzie In CloudZero
Proving AI business value means sorting every AI investment into one of four buckets - revenue growth, cost avoidance, productivity gain, or risk reduction - then tracking spend at the unit level (per feature, customer, or team) so each dollar has a traceable return. Most companies measure one bucket well and leave the rest unattributed. That gap is why the same AI deployment can look like a $40M win and a public reversal at the same time.
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Gemini Models are Misunderstood

Jul 28, 2026 By Chris Griffing In GitKraken
Recently, Google released a couple new Gemini models. They were Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber. Many people on the internet roasted Gemini Flash and Flash Lite for their less-than-frontier performance. This makes sense when you consider that OpenAI and Anthropic have been sparring back and forth for first place for quite a while but Gemini almost never gets that first place position. After all, this is Google we are talking about.
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nexthink

The New AI Mandate: Smarter Usage, Lower AI Compliance Risk, Better Outcomes

Jul 28, 2026 By Shawn Lazarus In Nexthink
For the last two years, enterprise AI strategy has largely revolved around one message: use AI as much as possible. CIOs encouraged experimentation, CFOs approved budgets, and organizations pushed employees to adopt tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and Gemini in the hope that productivity gains would naturally follow. The prevailing assumption was that simply increasing usage would accelerate innovation and unlock efficiency across the organization. But the enterprise conversation is changing quickly.
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Meet GCX: Give Your AI Coding Agent Production Context

Jul 28, 2026 By Grafana In Grafana
Your AI agents are only as good as the context it has. Without access to what's happening in production, it can only make educated guesses. Chapters: In this video, you'll meet GCX. The bridge between AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and your Grafana observability stack. You will learn how GCX securely gives AI agents access to metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and other production telemetry so they can investigate issues, answer questions, and help you debug with real operational context.
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How Collective IQ Turns Reactive IT into Truly Proactive IT

Jul 27, 2026 By Almaden AI In Almaden AI
Most IT organizations still operate in "firefighting" mode: an employee opens a ticket, the service desk investigates, depending on severity and complexity multiple teams or people are involved to diagnose, and then the appropriate person or team fixes the issue. The whole process then repeats for the next reported incident. This model doesn't scale, drains time and budget, and leaves a huge number of issues unresolved because many employees simply don't bother to report them. And, if and when they do report them, it's too late, the problem has already impacted their productive work.
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Meet Assistant Workspace: Full-page experience for Grafana Assistant

Jul 27, 2026 By Grafana In Grafana
Introducing Assistant Workspace, a full-page surface for Grafana Assistant, built for the conversations that outgrow a sidebar. Dig into longer investigations, compare data side by side, and keep your train of thought in one place — then turn what you find into a dashboard without starting over. When a quick question becomes a real investigation, open it in Workspace and keep going. In this video, Ed Poole gives us a demo of how to use Workspace, including the use of canvases to see more information than before.
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logz.io

Executive Roundtable: Guardrails for the Autonomous Era

Jul 27, 2026 By Libi Michelson In logz.io
Ask ten engineering leaders how far their organization has actually gotten with autonomous AI, and most will admit the same thing once the marketing language drops away: not nearly as far as it looks from the outside. That was the undercurrent of a roundtable Logz.io and Twingate hosted on July 22, 2026, bringing together VPs of engineering, CTOs, senior security directors, and several product leaders across different industries and company stages.
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