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October 15, 2026

Constellation Research's 2026 AI Survey

Data to Decisions
The AI experimentation phase is over. In 2026, AI is becoming part of the enterprise operating infrastructure. The question is no longer whether to use AI, but where to deploy it, which models to use, and how to manage the economics and risk.
R "Ray" Wang
Hannah Mason
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October 15, 2026

Sales Force Automation: Salesforce

Matrix Commerce
Salesforce Furthers Headless CRM Strategy and Unlocks Long-Cycle AI Sales Agents With Dreamforce Announcements
Martin Schneider
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October 9, 2026

Caterpillar’s AI Autonomy Efforts Accelerate, But Domain Knowledge Drives Returns

Innovation & Product-led Growth
Caterpillar says its autonomous equipment efforts are accelerating, but the company is focused on using its domain knowledge as the differentiation as it trains its world models. Speaking at CoreWeave’s Fully Connected 2026 conference in San Francisco, Brandon Hootman, vice president of physical AI platforms and…
Larry Dignan
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October 12, 2026

Trust, Identity & Control: Every Action Earns Authority

Board Strategy
Enterprise access was designed around a relatively static bargain. Establish an identity, decide what that identity may access, grant the permissions, and assume they remain appropriate until something triggers a review. Authentication has improved, and permissions have become more granular, but the underlying model st...
Esteban Kolsky
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Microsoft's releases MAI-Base-2 aimed at open models with a twist
Data to Decisions
October 16, 2026

Microsoft's releases MAI-Base-2 aimed at open models with a twist

Microsoft released MAI-Base-2 and said it performs open weight models from China and is more efficient. The twist is that Microsoft makes an open weight model comparison, but it said it will license MAI-Base-2 weights in what could be another avenue for enterprises to train models with their own data. ...
Meta launches Muse Spark Open, may appeal to enterprises
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October 15, 2026

Meta launches Muse Spark Open, may appeal to enterprises

Meta launched Muse Spark Open, which it describes as the quot;most capable US open-weight model to date.quot; Although Meta has been ramping its frontier model efforts, the open model from the company is arguably more important to enterprises. ...
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