This week we feature articles from Michael Andrews, and Daniel Thilo, Jonas R. Kunst, & Gary Marcus. Additional reading comes from Stephen O’Grady, Bob Ducharme, and Thomas Claburn. News comes from Verndale, MongoDB, Box, and Algolia & Microsoft. Our next issue will be published on 2/11/26 All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index Opinion / Analysis […]

Verndale, a digital experience and technology company, today announced the acquisition of the Product Experience Division of Amp, from Advantage Solutions. They will operate as Verndale as part of the acquisition. The move is to Verndale’s position as a modern growth partner, expanding its ability to take brands from initial concept to fully built digital products, […]

MongoDB, Inc. announced an upcoming expansion to MongoDB for Startups, designed to help founders and builders take applications from prototype to global deployment. MongoDB for Startups companies now represent more than $200 billion in combined valuation, and this expansion gives early-stage companies a faster, more reliable path to scale by providing a production-ready data foundation […]

Box, an Intelligent Content Management (ICM) platform, released Box Extract. Powered by generative AI models from companies like Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI, and combined with agentic capabilities, Box Extract enables enterprises to intelligently and securely pull valuable information from content and save it as metadata in Box. With Box Extract, it is now easier for enterprises […]

This week we feature articles from Kurt Cagle, and Ethan Mollick. Additional reading comes from Jacob Steinhardt, Tony Seale, and Tom Krazit. News comes from Microsoft, Snowflake & Observe, WP Engine & Big Bite, and Squirro. Our next issue arrives 1/28/26. All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index Opinion / Analysis Context Graphs, Data Traces & Transcripts Some […]