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Cloud CISO Perspectives: The 4 lessons that guided AI Threat Defense

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for June 2026. Today, we introduce Chris Betz as the new CISO of Google Cloud. For his first Cloud CISO Perspectives, Chris shares four key lessons we learned about using AI to the defender’s advantage while building AI Threat Defense. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents …

Love at first prompt? How AI-assisted courtship is rewriting the rules of online dating

In the famous French play Cyrano de Bergerac, the brilliant but insecure Cyrano lends his eloquence to the handsome, tongue-tied Christian to help him woo his lover. Today, a remarkably similar scene is playing out among millions of dating app users, with the role of the lovelorn poet played not by a human but by …

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Building Supercharger: How Rocket Close optimized title operations with agentic AI

Rocket Close is a Detroit-based title agency and appraisal management company within Rocket Companies that provides title insurance, property valuation, and settlement services. As demand for mortgages and loans grew, title operations became a bottleneck in the homebuying process. Time-intensive, state-specific title examinations, combined with manual research and fragmented systems, slowed throughput and made it …

Introducing the Open Knowledge Format

As foundation models continue to improve, the lack of relevant context often limits what they can do, especially as they are used to build agentic systems. While these models can help you write code, summarize documents, or analyze a dataset, they still need the right information to produce accurate and actionable results.  That’s why today, …