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What does it take to build a great software company today? Hear leaders from discuss how AI is changing the economics of software, and Bain & Company , , and Insight Partners Gorgias what operators and investors should be paying attention to now.

BOSTON-( BUSINESS WIRE)- InvoiceCloud, a leading provider of online billing and digital payment solutions, today announced the findings of its second annual Consumer Claims Experiences Survey, revealing a top industry pain point for policyholders: the slow disbursement process. Of those surveyed, only 15% of consumers report receiving a payout within a week of their claim, followed by 25% who received payment one-to-several weeks later.

Sales & Marketing , Sales & Marketing More organizations than ever are investing in revenue enablement. As those investments grow, however, so do executive leaders' expectations. What results do revenue teams get from using this technology? Is this investment worth the price? To get those answers, you must look deeper than training completions, number of coaching sessions, or content usage.

On August 19, 2026, the Federal Circuit issued its decision in VDPP, LLC v. Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., No. 24-2226, holding that the patent-marking requirement of 35 U.S.C. § 287(a) is triggered by settlement agreements that include a patent license-obligating patentees to make "reasonable efforts" to ensure that settling defendants mark any licensed products, even if those settling defendants do not admit that their products practice the licensed patent.

For many organizations, sustainability reporting still feels like a finish line. After months of data gathering, supplier outreach, internal alignment, and validation work, the report is finally published. It is shared externally, acknowledged internally, and filed away as a completed milestone. Then something subtle happens. The intensity drops. Teams move on to other priorities. The data that was carefully assembled starts to age immediately.

This article is based on a talk by Jellyfish's Head of AI & Research, Nicholas Arcolano, and AI Product Lead Nik Albarran forPlatformCon 2026. PlatformCon is the world's largest platform engineering conference, bringing together more than 50,000 practitioners for a week of virtual sessions. AI coding tool adoptionis now pretty much universal, and we know it's driving raw productivity gains.

BURLINGTON, Mass.,Aug. 18, 2026(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Progress Software(Nasdaq: PRGS), an AI infrastructure software leader, today announced the appointment ofBridget Collinsas Chief Information Officer (CIO). A seasoned technology executive with more than 30 years of experience in enterprise IT, business transformation and AI strategy, Collins will lead the company's global IT and security organization and report directly to CEOYogesh Gupta.

A $200K full-time VP of Sales hire doesn't fit the budget for most growing companies. So, you're looking at a Fractional VP of Sales instead - and wondering how someone who's only in your building a few days a month can actually run a sales organization. That skepticism is fair. The fractional model works because a strong Fractional VP of Sales doesn't manage by presence, they manage by installing operating cadences that make your sales organization self-managing.

After rereading my piece on job titles ( ), I found myself drifting into a bigger line of inquiry. Titles aren't just labels-they're signals. And once you start looking at them that way, you can't help but think about the labor economics driving the tech world behind the scenes. The old startup playbook is over. Growth once meant hiring more people. Bigger teams signaled bigger companies, bigger burn, all in pursuit of a bigger vision. AI-native companies operate differently.

Before your organization can unlock AI's potential, whether through predictive analytics, intelligent automation, or generative AI assistants, it needs a data governance framework that is fit for purpose. Not a theoretical governance charter that lives in a SharePoint folder, but an operational discipline that ensures data is accurate, accessible, traceable, and trustworthy. This is the work that separates organizations that successfully scale AI from those stuck in perpetual pilot purgatory.