Alan, Mike, Jon, Chris Blask, Ira Winkler, Fred Wilmot and Futurum Group president Dan O'Brien dive into how alliances between providers of artificial intelligence (AI) platforms such as Google, Anthropic, IBM and Groq are creating some strange bedfellows. Then the gang takes a look at the degree to which cybersecurity teams are starting to lose the AI arms race before debating to what level observability is now being applied across the entire IT estate.