Ian Thomas is an Editor at CNBC.com. He specializes in covering technology, software, artificial intelligence, and finance, with a keen focus on AI platforms, business conferences, and the intersection of sports and business. Ian's work has been featured in notable outlets such as Security Boulevard, NBC Los Angeles, and The Comics Journal, among others.
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Key Points Oura announced its new Ring 5 and says it's the smallest smart ring yet.
As always, the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway (GWRS) held its annual Festival of Steam over the Spring Bank Holiday, and 2026 was no exception,
By: Ian Thomas
At its ONE Amsterdam conference, OutSystems introduced its Agentic Systems Platform in a bid to bring enterprise context, deployment control, agent orchestration, agentic systems engineering and industry solutions into one governed environment.
By: Ian Thomas
In a recent discussion at TDX in San Francisco, travel company Engine shared how it is succeeding with agents in a market scattered with the dusty bones of failed enterprise AI initiatives. Perhaps the answer to this question is simple – its people already had agency.
By: Ian Thomas
There are two kinds of friction. One is a tax. the other is how you become useful. AI is very good at removing the first. The danger is when it starts on the second.
By: Ian Thomas
Enterprise AI has spent the last two years fixated on ever more powerful models. But a largely hidden layer is emerging around them – the agent harness. This new layer will increasingly determine who succeeds, who fails, and who gets to set the rules.
By: Ian Thomas
As Couchbase launches its AI Data Plane, the more interesting question is whether the NoSQL-era strengths it built for cloud-scale applications can now be carried into the messy, fast-moving memory layer production agents need to operate at scale.
By: Ian Thomas
As natural language starts to replace drag-and-drop interfaces, Appian CEO Matt Calkins argues that the company's real value lies in the production architecture it can use to constrain, govern and operationalize AI within enterprise applications at scale.
As always, at this time of year, the annual trek to the far Southwest takes to the stage,
TL;DR: I’ve built a new open-source toolkit for branching, voiced dialogue in games. It’s called PatterKit and it’s available now at…
