Friday Five — September 26, 2025

Friday Five — September 26, 2025 The adaptable enterprise: Why AI-readiness is disruption-readiness Beginner's Guide to AI : Why AI needs its railroad barons TFIR : The search for the Linux of AI The New Stack : When is MCP actually worth it? FinTech Magazine : How financial services can harness LLMs safely & effectively About the author Red Hat Corporate Communications More like this Blog post Blog post Original podcast Original podcast Keep exploring Browse by channel Automation Artificial intelligence Open hybrid cloud Security Edge computing Infrastructure Applications Virtualization Share AI is a powerful tool, but your business needs the right foundation—and culture—to sustain it. In this new Red Hat e-book from SVP, Chief Strategy Officer Mike Ferris, you’ll learn how to build an AI-ready enterprise that’s prepared to turn change into innovation. Learn more In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI, Matt Hicks, CEO of Red Hat, unpacks why the future of business strategy in AI mirrors the age of the railroads. Just as railroads transformed industries, AI is laying down the tracks for the next wave of innovation — and businesses must decide whether to board or be left behind. Learn more AI may be the hottest technology story of our time, but its foundations remain unstable. Red Hat's Steve Watt made a case for why open source must define the core of AI—just as Linux did for operating systems and Kubernetes did for cloud-native infrastructure. Learn more Model Context Protocol (MCP) shines in novel, multitenant agentic environments. But you might not need it for predictable automation. Learn more Expert insights on balancing innovation with compliance, risk management and regulatory requirements in financial AI deployment. Learn more Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments. Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make Red Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500.