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The research program measuring agentic AI feasibility across 738 occupations
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Evaluating the impact of AI Agents, one job at a time.
Evaluating the impact of AI Agents, one job at a time.
Evaluating the impact of AI Agents, one job at a time.
Evaluating the impact of AI Agents, one job at a time.
Dispatches from the room — conferences, summits, and briefings
47% of Anthropic's 2025 revenue ran through Amazon and Google, its investors, suppliers, and rivals. The confidential IPO prospectus shows who really owns the customer. Read this post to learn more about Anthropic's rented reach and how it affects your AI spend.
Nobody shipped AGI on September 3rd. OpenAI shipped the first frontier model where the gates are the product: a real capability jump behind a classifier that stops tasks, a monitoring bill it has priced only for itself, and an interruption rate it has not posted. The toll is worth knowing. Make them post the rate.
I/O 2026 was the second half of a sentence Google began at Cloud Next — and the real news sat in two quiet decisions: where the agent runs…
Google Cloud Next ’26 and the three-year verdict on the agentic enterprise.
Reflections on Google Cloud Next ’25
Vendor strategy, market structure, and where the money moves
The passport test, the kill-switch, and the restore-switch — what the Fable ban really says. A CloudDon Field Note, June 30, 2026.
Published by CloudDon Research* · May 1, 2026
What Cloud-Native Still Needs to Get Right?
12 Uncomfortable Predictions for the Post-Hype Era
Everyone is (or will be soon) building AI Agents. Nobody Is Watching What They Do When Left Alone. I Did. Here is Why You Should Care.
The frameworks and first principles behind CloudDon’s research
It’s time to define your AI Agent’s dharma
The Age of Agents: Responsible, Scalable, and Transformative AI in the Enterprise
Check out my latest book from AVA Publishers, on leveraging OpenAI models/ tools to enable your business use cases. It is available on…
As the global elite gathers in Davos for the World Economic Forum (WEF), conversations about AI, sustainability, and pay equality dominate…
This is a summary of conversation with Kalyan Veeramachaneni, CEO/ Co-Founder of DataCebo at KubeCon EU. Watch/ read to learn more about…
The historical record — cloud analysis, 2013–2016, preserved as published
As an industry analyst, I get queried around OpenStack software from potential customers and industry peers. Despite the improvements in…
Hello, Snap! Congratulations on a successful IPO! You made the right choice by choosing multiple cloud service providers (GCP[1] and…
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