Dragging the mainframe into the AI era
Today: IBM and Arm strike a partnership to keep customers on mainframes as AI coding agents circle a modernization opportunity, Google drops a new open model, and the latest enterprise moves.
The most important issue in AI is a lack of open models that could allow researchers — who know surprisingly little about how the generative AI craze that upended the tech industry actually works — to set the parameters of the larger discussions around AI regulation.