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O’ Reilly and Microsoft launch Open Source NLWeb – enabling simplified creation of AI apps across the internet
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’ Reilly, the learning platform for technology professionals, has entered into a strategic collaboration with Microsoft to become one of the pioneers integrating Natural Language Web( NLWeb) into their websites.
NLWeb’ s decentralized search understands context and intent, allowing both human users and AIs to ask complex, conversational questions and get relevant results without going to a centralized AI chat or search site.
O’ Reilly’ s integration will initially enable conversational search across 59,000 books, using Schema. org metadata to ensure accurate results without web crawling. This naturally extends the O’ Reilly learning platform’ s core mission of connecting diverse audiences, from individual practitioners to enterprise teams, with precisely the knowledge they need.
“ We see NLWeb as a crucial component of an open ecosystem of protocols and tools that will shape the next evolution of the internet,” said Tim O’ Reilly, Founder and CEO, O’ Reilly.“ By implementing this technology early, we’ re reminding our technically savvy audience that the original promise of the decentralized World Wide Web does not need to be abandoned to get the benefits of conversational AI.”
“ Tim and the O’ Reilly team have always been one of the bedrocks of the open internet – protocols, formats, code,“ said Ramanathan Guha, Technical Fellow and CVP, Microsoft.
“ It is wonderful to be able to work with them( again) on the first step towards bringing AI to the web.”
“ Deployment gold rush” ignites next phase of cloud-native security growth
“ What makes this market explosive is the deployment-phase‘ gold rush.’ Visibility and compliance tools grew nearly 50 % last year and our research shows they will add more absolute dollars than any other CNAPP segment through 2029,” Sanchez said.
Additional highlights from the May 2025 Cloud Workload Security Advanced Research Report include: report from the Dell’ Oro Group says the CNAPP market is on
A track to surge from $ 2.8 billion in 2024 to $ 7.7 billion in 2029 – expanding at a five-year CAGR of 22 % and growing nearly twice as fast as overall public-cloud infrastructure.
“ Enterprises are voting with their wallets: cloud security is no longer a bolt-on – it is the control plane,” said Mauricio Sanchez, Sr. Director, Enterprise Security and Networking, Dell’ Oro Group.
• Deployment security rose 48 % in 2024 and is forecast to deliver a 28 % CAGR through 2029 as asset-inventory and audit-ready configuration demands intensify.
• Market leadership is in flux. In 4Q 2024, CrowdStrike wrested quarterly revenue leadership from Palo Alto Networks – even as Palo Alto retained the number one revenue share for the full year – while Wiz and CrowdStrike posted robust 95 % and 70 % annual growth, respectively.
• Consolidation accelerates. Cisco and Check Point exited in-house development to partner with Wiz before Google’ s record-setting bid, highlighting a shift toward platform alliances rather than niche feature wars.
• Runtime remains the bedrock. At $ 1.4 B, runtime protection constituted the largest subsegment in 2024.
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