Google’s Gemini 3 moves from hype to the front door of enterprise AI
Google has launched Gemini 3, its newest flagship AI model, and immediately wired it into Google Search and the broader Gemini ecosystem. Gemini 3 is accessible through the Gemini app, AI Studio, and Vertex AI, turning it into a practical building block rather than a future promise.
For CIOs and CTOs, this consolidates Google’s position as a potential “front door” for AI-driven search, knowledge work, and app development. It raises strategic questions about multi-model strategy, data residency, and how much control you want to hand to a single provider over how your users ask questions and get work done.
Sources:
Google Blog – “A new era of intelligence with Gemini 3” blog.google
Reuters – “Google launches Gemini 3, embeds AI model into search immediately” Reuters
Cloudflare’s November 18 outage is a live-fire test of concentration risk
On November 18, 2025, a mis-sized configuration file in Cloudflare’s Bot Management module cascaded into widespread HTTP 500 errors across its global edge network. For several hours, key sites and apps—including ChatGPT, X, Spotify, Canva, and others—were intermittently unreachable. Cloudflare later clarified that the incident was not an attack but a change gone wrong.
For executives, this is the definition of third-party concentration risk. When a single CDN and security edge provider carries roughly 20% of web traffic, its internal failure looks like the internet is down. This is the moment to revisit your dependency map, validate whether mission-critical apps are single-homed on one provider, and prioritize multi-CDN, failover, and playbooks that assume your edge vendor—not your own code—is what fails.
Sources:
Cloudflare Blog – “18 November 2025 outage” The Cloudflare Blog
Reuters – “Cloudflare outage cuts access to X, ChatGPT and other web platforms for thousands” Reuters
Guardian Live Coverage – “Cloudflare says ‘incident now resolved’ after outage…” The Guardian
Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Anthropic: Claude at Azure scale
Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Anthropic have inked a major deal that brings Claude firmly into the Azure tent. Anthropic has committed to purchase $30B of Azure compute, with the option to contract up to one gigawatt of capacity, while Microsoft and NVIDIA plan to invest up to $15B in Anthropic. The Official Microsoft Blog+1
For enterprise buyers, this sharpens Azure’s multi-model story. You can now plan around OpenAI and Claude on the same cloud, tuned to NVIDIA’s latest AI infrastructure. The practical work is to map where Claude is a better fit, revisit your cloud and GPU negotiations, and ensure your AI governance layer can treat multiple models consistently without fragmenting risk controls.
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Microsoft Blog – “Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic announce strategic partnerships” The Official Microsoft Blog
Reuters – “Microsoft, Nvidia to invest in Anthropic as Claude maker…” Reuters
ServiceNow + Figma: From UX boards to production apps
ServiceNow and Figma announced a strategic collaboration that lets teams use Figma designs as direct input to the ServiceNow AI Platform. The integration transforms design artifacts into secure, scalable enterprise apps, reducing the manual coding required and accelerating delivery. servicenow.com+1
This is a significant example of AI compressing the software development lifecycle. Your design repositories now sit one step away from production systems. Governance, role-based access, and review workflows must adapt so that “anyone with access to a Figma file” does not implicitly become “anyone who can change the behavior of a production workflow.”
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ServiceNow – “ServiceNow and Figma launch strategic collaboration to turn design vision into enterprise transformation” servicenow.com
OpenText’s AI Data Platform aims to be the AI backbone for content-rich enterprises
At OpenText World 2025, OpenText launched the AI Data Platform (AIDP)—an open framework combining data governance, multi-cloud and multi-model support, and native integration with its Aviator AI agents. The company laid out an 18-month roadmap and highlighted new partnerships, including tighter ties with Databricks.
If your risk posture is wrapped around documents, email, and records already stored in OpenText products, AIDP offers a potential single control plane for how that information feeds AI workloads. The decision is whether to promote AIDP into that central role or treat it as one of several governed endpoints in a broader enterprise data strategy.
Sources:
OpenText – “OpenText World 2025: OpenText Unveils Next-Generation AI Data Platform for Secure Information Management” PR Newswire
CISA’s six ICS advisories: OT risk in sharp relief
CISA has released six new Industrial Control Systems advisories, including one for Schneider Electric EcoStruxure Machine SCADA Expert, detailing vulnerabilities that may allow remote code execution and unauthorized actions on operational technology systems. CISA
For organizations in manufacturing, energy, or critical infrastructure, these are not theoretical. They require coordinated work between cybersecurity, plant operations, and vendors. Even where immediate patching is impossible, you can tighten segmentation, restrict remote access, and boost monitoring while you plan a safe remediation window.
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CISA – “CISA Releases Six Industrial Control Systems Advisories” CISA
CISA – “ICSA-25-322-01 Schneider Electric EcoStruxure Machine SCADA Expert” CISA
LincolnIT breach highlights MSP supply-chain exposure
BreachSense and other security trackers report a 50GB data leak involving New York-based managed service provider LincolnIT, claimed by the Sinobi threat group. LincolnIT offers infrastructure, cloud migration, cybersecurity, and business continuity services—exactly the kind of high-trust access that can amplify the blast radius of a breach. Breachsense
Whether or not you work with LincolnIT, the incident is a live reminder to re-evaluate MSP contracts, access paths, and monitoring. Third-party risk is not just about questionnaires—it is about exactly who can reach your production systems, with which accounts, and under which controls.
Sources:
BreachSense – “LincolnIT Data Breach” Breachsense
Topics We’re Tracking (But Didn’t Make the Cut)
Dropped Topic: Misconfigured Box enterprise accounts leaking sensitive data
Why It Didn’t Make the Cut: The widely cited incident traces back to 2019, so it does not meet today’s recency bar, even though it’s still used in current commentary. Bitdefender
Why It Caught Our Eye: It’s a textbook example of SaaS misconfiguration risk—“it wasn’t a zero-day, it was our settings”—which still applies to modern content platforms.
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