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Thursday’s Briefing · September 24

The Observation Deck, Sunday, September 13th, 2026

The Contagion of Fear

Bryan Cantrill argues that AI extinction fears spread irresponsibly despite lacking substantive evidence. more →

The Contagion of Fear

Upcoming Event · Thu, Oct 1 · 1:00pm

Agentic Runtime Security on AWS: Identity, Least Privilege, and Audit for AI Agents with IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault

This hands-on workshop deploys a working reference implementation of five control objectives for agentic systems - verifiable agent identity, no standing privileges, actions tied to user intent, enforcement at the point of use, and audit evidence correlated across all three trust planes (user, workload, data) - using IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault on Amazon EKS. more →

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Agentic Runtime Security on AWS: Identity, Least Privilege, and Audit for AI Agents with IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault (Oct. 1st)

Upcoming Event · Thu, Oct 22 · 1:00pm

Continuous Modernization: Why Modernization Never Really Finishes

In this webinar, Join the discussion with AWS and trace the arc and look at what changes when modernization stops being a project with a finish line and becomes something that runs continuously across your estate. Technical debt, security gaps, and agent-readiness get measured on an ongoing basis. Validated change land as pull requests, not recommendations. more →

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Continuous Modernization: Why Modernization Never Really Finishes (Oct. 22nd)

Upcoming Event · Tue, Oct 13 · 1:00pm

Modernization That Ships with AI

Most companies are adding AI agents to legacy systems rather than modernizing how the work actually gets done. That may create isolated productivity gains, but it rarely removes the outdated applications, fragmented data, manual handoffs, and hidden dependencies that continue to slow the business. more →

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Modernization That Ships with AI (Oct. 13th)