Weekly news update - 1.5.2026

Cloud: From Infrastructure to Managed Intelligence The Unification of AI and Infrastructure: The Wiz State of AI in the Cloud 2026 report confirms that AI has moved from experimental tooling to a default component of cloud architecture, though this transition has introduced significant "Shadow AI" risks—with 81% of environments now using managed AI services while 25% of organizations lack visibility into these active integrations. Cybersecurity: The Identity and Skills Tipping PointOperationalizing the Identity Attack Surface: Identity Attack Path Management (APM) has reached a critical tipping point where 75% of enterprises are increasing spending to move beyond mere visibility toward the complex task of remediating non-human identity risks—specifically the explosion of AI agents, now used by 88% of organizations, which create exploited delegated permissions. AI/ML: Breaking Model Lock-in and Scaling Planetary AnalysisOpen Access and Multi-Cloud Sovereignty: The landscape is shifting toward extreme flexibility, highlighted by the General Availability of Gemma 4 on AWS SageMaker and Microsoft's new "Bring Your Own Model" (BYOM) capability in Foundry Agent Service; meanwhile, Google has democratized planetary-scale analysis by integrating Google Earth AI models and datasets directly into BigQuery.https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/weekly-news-update-152026-eyal-estrin--66dif/