In Podcast Episode 69 of This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO office:

1. Cloudflare Charges Web Crawlers for Access
2. AI Agents Call the APIs, But Will They Work?
3. Agents Screw Up Business Tasks 70% of the Time
4. Potemkin AI: Don’t Believe the Hype
5. In Chess, ChatGPT Vs. Atari 2600 is No Contest
6. The Latest Overused AI Buzzword: Superintelligence
7. Flexera Finds Millions Being Spent on SaaS Visibility
8. On-Prem Data Center Utilization Down to 34%
9. CS Education Must Change in the AI Era

Sources:

Cloudflare Charges Web Crawlers for Access

Cloudflare: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-pay-per-crawl/

Marketing Tech: https://www.marketingtechnews.net/news/cloudflare-launches-pay-per-crawl-to-help-sites-monetise-ai-access/

AI Agents Call the APIs, But Will They Work?

VentureBeat: https://venturebeat.com/ai/enterprise-giants-atlassian-intuit-and-aws-are-planning-for-a-world-where-agents-call-the-apis/

TWIET on Gibberlink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDo4-0ZNHEY&t=2710s

Gibberlink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtNagNezo8w

Agents Screw Up Business Tasks 70% of the Time

The Register: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/29/ai_agents_fail_a_lot/

Arxiv: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.14161

Potemkin AI: Don’t Believe the Hype

Arxiv: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.21521

In Chess, ChatGPT Vs. Atari 2600 is No Contest

Robert Jr. Caruso’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/robert-jr-caruso-23080180_last-episode-the-atari-2600-blew-up-chatgpt-activity-7345180141079175169-wSCk

The Latest Overused AI Buzzword: Superintelligence

Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-07-03/what-does-superintelligence-mean

Flexera Finds Millions Being Spent on SaaS Visibility

CIO Dive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/saas-costs-climb-despite-finops-itam-flexera/752233/

On-Prem Data Center Utilization Down to 34%

CIO Dive: https://www.ciodive.com/news/hyperscale-ai-infrastructure-eclipses-enterprise-data-center-capacity-srg/751744/

CS Education Must Change in the AI Era

New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/technology/computer-science-education-ai.html

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights