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The Anti-Zombie, Battle-Tested Guide To AI FinOps: 10 Insights

When CloudZero’s CTO Erik Peterson joined the FinOps Weekly podcast in October 2025, he didn’t hold back. Instead of going on about the usual best practices of AI cost optimization, he posed challenges to how we approach AI spending. From “zombie AI experiments” eating your budget to why you should stop apologizing for using AI, these 10 insights from the podcast are worth considering in how we approach AI FinOps. (Watch the full podcast below and keep reading for more!)

Towards specialized efficient LLMs: Data Scaling Laws and Sparse Adapters

Welcome to the AI research bites. This series of short and informative talks showcases cutting-edge research work from ServiceNow AI Research team. The AI Research Bites are open to all, especially those interested in keeping up with the fast-paced AI research community.

Built for More: Unlocking a Sovereign and AI-Driven Future

Join us as Civo's leadership team, including Mark Boost, Deshish Majrekar, Kelsey Hightower, and Josh Mesout, come together to share their vision for a new kind of cloud that prioritizes data sovereignty, simplicity, and flexibility. This session explores the challenges of traditional cloud infrastructure and how Civo is addressing them with its cloud native platform. Civo's Flex Core private cloud solution is also showcased, highlighting its applications in various industries, including cybersecurity and advanced materials design.

The 2025 Guide to Open Source Status Page Software

This is an updated version of the 2024 article. Maintaining transparent communication about service availability is crucial for businesses of all sizes. Status pages are an important part of your communication strategy during times of outages and maintenance events. You can choose to go with a fully managed status page provider or host an open-source one yourself.

Announcing the AI chief of staff for engineering leaders

You see MTTR creeping up, but you don’t know why. You could ask your teams, but that means meetings, pulling people off projects, and waiting days for answers. What if you could just…ask? We’re excited to introduce the new strategic AI chief of staff for engineering leadership, powered by the Cortex MCP. By connecting your Engineering Intelligence data with your scorecards and standards, the MCP allows you to have a strategic conversation about your organization’s performance.

Understand how AI is affecting your engineering team with Cortex's AI Impact Dashboard

Rolling out a powerful AI tool like GitHub Copilot is a big win for any engineering leader. But because it’s such a significant investment, leadership will inevitably ask if it was worth the cost. Until now, answering this was nearly impossible. While GitHub provides adoption stats, connecting that data to real-world performance metrics like cycle time or code quality has been a manual, frustrating process. We built the Cortex AI Impact Dashboard to provide a clear answer.

The Future of Digital Marketing in a Technology-Driven Landscape

For many businesses around the world, digital marketing has had a big impact on their development. Thanks to the innovations and benefits of accessible advanced technology today, marketing has been taken to a whole new level, resulting in more effective outcomes! By using artificial intelligence, social media platforms, and data personalization, these marketing strategies now offer all the right things to the right people!