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AI In 2026: Autonomous, Invisible, Expensive

With all we’ve seen from AI in the last several years, it can be easy to forget that it’s still in its very early days. As torrid as its evolution has been thus far, it will only intensify. As SVP of Engineering at a B2B SaaS company, I’ve had a front-row seat for much of this evolution. Here are three ways I see AI heading in 2026.

Optimize IT Spend with AEM

Are you an IT leader or business executive looking to drastically reduce IT spending and optimize your organization's IT costs? In this insightful video, we dive deep into how autonomous endpoint management (AEM) is revolutionizing the way businesses manage their digital infrastructure. Discover the hidden sources of wasteful IT spending caused by manual processes like policy deployment, software patching and vulnerability remediation. Learn how AEM leverages AI and machine learning to automate these tasks, freeing up your IT teams to focus on higher-value strategic initiatives.

Autonomous Patch Management

Are your IT and security teams constantly battling over patching? In this insightful video, Aruna Kureti, Director, Product Management, Ivanti, dives deep into how Autonomous Endpoint Management (AEM) is transforming the landscape of IT operations and cybersecurity. Discover how AI and automation can turn complex, friction-filled patching processes into seamless, autonomous operations. Learn how AEM unifies the perspectives of IT and security teams, providing a clear, shared view of vulnerabilities and patch status across all your devices.

Announcing the Harness Human-Aware Change Agent | Harness Blog

AI that understands human insight and connects it to the changes that drive real incidents. At Harness, our story has always been about change — helping teams ship faster, deploy safer, and control the blast radius of every modification to production. Deployments, feature flags, pipelines, and governance are all expressions of how organizations evolve their software. Today, the pace of change is accelerating.

Commit Without the Lock-In: The Multi-Cloud Savings Playbook

Cloud commitments don’t fail because the math is wrong. They fail when teams chase flexibility instead of designing for it. In this short blog, I will walk you through a multi-cloud strategy (AWS and Azure) that uses Savings Plans, Reservations, and Marketplace Reserved Instances, without getting locked in.

Spark: An IT Agent for Every Employee

It’s no secret that all software and more broadly, any technology that doesn’t move atoms is ripe for disruption by the current and future capabilities of large language models. Any workflow, application, or digital process that can be expressed in code can be redesigned, improved, and transformed at speed and scale. AI-first companies will outpace legacy players by orders of magnitude, and many workflow-based models with humans in the loop will be fundamentally reshaped.

What is a Scam Checker and How Can It Protect You Online?

Here's something that should worry you: online scams are evolving faster than ever before. We're not talking about clumsy Nigerian prince emails anymore. Last year, Americans handed over billions to digital con artists, and those figures? They're accelerating at an alarming rate. The truly frustrating part is that most people only discover they've been victimized after the damage is done.