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Even in a rapidly changing IT landscape, accessories remain a vital growth category for resellers. In this Q&A, Kensington experts share why accessories are still essential to enterprise, SLED, and healthcare clients—covering emerging trends, evolving device needs, and how smart accessory recommendations help VARs boost margins and strengthen customer loyalty.

Find out how MSPs can initiate IT hardware procurement by selecting, purchasing, and acquiring physical tech equipment for their clients. Read more here.

AI adoption is outpacing governance inside many SMBs. Learn how MSPs can help clients identify Shadow AI, reduce data exposure, and build the leadership alignment needed to move from unmanaged usage to structured adoption.

Cloudflare is giving AI agents identities and programmable wallets, creating new integration, security, and payment opportunities for channel partners.

Mistral’s open-weight Shieldstral model lets developers define custom text and image moderation policies at runtime without retraining the classifier.

Anthropic is reportedly committing $10 billion to Volta for AI compute from Norway, raising capacity, residency, and supplier-risk questions for EMEA partners.

OpenAI says its unreleased Astra model produced 10 major mathematical advances, but independent review and commercial availability remain pending.

OpenAI published messages disputing parts of Apple’s trade-secret case, raising questions about employee access, rival hiring, and hardware discovery.

The White House is meeting OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Anthropic to review voluntary cybersecurity tests for advanced AI models.