Presented by Retool The logic used to be: buying software is cheaper, faster, and safer for most use cases. Building was reserved for companies with large engineering teams, deep pockets, and problems so specific that no vendor could address them. But now, the cost to code a piece of software has dropped to zero. Anyone can build their own software now, but enterprise and governance models have yet to catch up. Retool’s 2026 Build vs. Buy Shift Report, based on a survey of 817 builders, traces exactly how this shift is playing out.The cost curve changed; SaaS pricing didn’tTwo years ago, a custom internal tool might have taken an engineering team weeks or months and cost six figures. Today, an operations lead with the right platform can have a working prototype in a day or two. This st [...]
Perplexity, the AI-powered search company valued at $20 billion, announced on Wednesday at its inaugural Ask 2026 developer conference that its multi-model AI agent, Computer, is now available to ente [...]
Decision makers at 72% of organizations claim to have two or more AI platforms that they identify as their "primary" layer, according to a survey of 40 enterprise companies conducted by Vent [...]
In the race to deploy generative AI for coding, the fastest tools are not winning enterprise deals. A new VentureBeat analysis, combining a comprehensive survey of 86 engineering teams with our own ha [...]
For many enterprises, there continue to be barriers to fully adopting and benefiting from agentic AI.IBM is betting the blocker isn't building AI agents but governing them in production.At its Te [...]
Writer, the enterprise AI agent platform backed by Salesforce Ventures, Adobe Ventures, and Insight Partners, today launched event-based triggers for its Writer Agent platform, enabling AI agents to a [...]
Were you a Lego set kid or a giant-bucket-of-Legos kid? I was a sets kid all the way — I loved, and still love, the zen feeling of building something incredible a little bit at a time. Also, every t [...]
Were you a Lego set kid or a giant-bucket-of-Legos kid? I was a sets kid all the way — I loved, and still love, the zen feeling of building something incredible a little bit at a time. Also, every t [...]
For the last 24 months, one narrative justified every over-provisioned data center and bloated IT budget: the GPU scramble. Silicon was the new oil, and H100s traded like contraband. Reserve capacity [...]
Jensen Huang walked onto the GTC stage Monday wearing his trademark leather jacket and carrying, as it turned out, the blueprints for a new kind of monopoly.The Nvidia CEO unveiled the Agent Toolkit, [...]