There is a moment in every major technology cycle when the market’s imagination runs ahead of its understanding, and right now artificial intelligence has pushed us into exactly that kind of moment. Every week seems to bring another prediction that AI will hollow out entire categories of software, replace armies of knowledge workers, and rearrange the economic order of the enterprise. In the middle of this noise, ServiceNow President and CFO Gina Mastantuono is offering a calm but firm counterargument. The idea that AI is somehow “disrupting” enterprise software, she says, is simply false. That is not a small statement.…

It begins not with a bang, but with a whisper — a baseless social media statement released in 2024, carrying no evidence and no named source. Yet, by October 2026, that whisper had grown into an elaborate, multi-stage disinformation campaign, complete with a supposedly award-winning book, and finally, an AI-generated book cover. The target of this campaign was Dr. Hiniduma Sunil Senewi, the current Minister of Buddhasasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs in Sri Lanka. The most recent, and perhaps most blatant, episode in this unfolding saga occurred on the night of October 30, 2026. At around 10:01 PM, a Facebook…