Enterprise AI Strategy
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Podcast
07 Oct 2026
Reflection Beam aims U.S. open-weight AI model at Chinese rivals
Nvidia-backed open source startup makes splashy entrance. AI hits U.S. K-8 education. Continue Reading
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Tip
07 Oct 2026
What competitive edge do AI-native companies have?
While AI has emerged as a powerful enterprise tool, many businesses struggle to integrate AI to its fullest potential. These lessons from AI-native companies can help. Continue Reading
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News
07 Oct 2026
Governments prepare for the next wave of AI
AI adoption in the public sector is on the rise, but data, legacy systems and governance remain barriers to effectively scaling the tech. Continue Reading
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News
07 Oct 2026
Webex Dialog targets long-tail customer relationships with AI
Webex Dialog pushes agentic AI beyond individual service interactions, raising questions for CIOs about customer context, orchestration and governance. Continue Reading
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News
07 Oct 2026
Scaling AI puts enterprise architecture to the test
New research finds only 13% of organizations with implemented AI have scaled fully as planned, putting architecture and modernization decisions under scrutiny. Continue Reading
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News
07 Oct 2026
When is AI work really done? CIOs need a clearer finish line
AI can finish a task while the business result remains unfinished. CIOs must define what "done" means to measure AI's true productivity, cost and value. Continue Reading
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News
06 Oct 2026
Reflection’s Beam model signals deepening split in global AI market
The U.S. startup holds an advantage in the open-weight market due to its funding and technology relationship with Nvidia. Continue Reading
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Opinion
06 Oct 2026
Data centers aren't enough: The real AI infrastructure is people
The AI race isn't won by chips alone -- it's won by preparing people to use them. Vasileios Maroulas explains that without workforce readiness, technology investments fall short. Continue Reading
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News
06 Oct 2026
Is AI making the CIO role harder? IT leaders respond
AI is making the CIO role harder as business leaders demand faster results and the technology brings more risks and decisions. Continue Reading
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News
06 Oct 2026
The context factor for AI agents
Process Intelligence helps organizations provide AI agents with the right context and data needed to know how their businesses run. Continue Reading
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News
05 Oct 2026
Humanoid hard sell: building robots for the manufacturing age
Where humanoid publicity outpaces reality, why purpose-built machines deserve more attention and how the West can get automation onto the factory floor. Continue Reading
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News
05 Oct 2026
AI makes workers faster -- and reviewers busier
AI productivity gains can disappear when review, verification and exception handling pile up elsewhere. CIOs need to measure the downstream work, not just the initial speed. Continue Reading
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Tip
05 Oct 2026
The risks of AI overreliance in software engineering
It's unquestionable whether generative AI provides productivity gains for software engineers. But developer overreliance on AI comes with its share of risks. Continue Reading
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News
05 Oct 2026
Self-improving AI is widening what counts as a software change
AI systems are beginning to propose changes to agents' prompts, tools and models. CIOs must decide what counts as a change and how far the evidence lets it travel. Continue Reading
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News
05 Oct 2026
AI vendor lock-in moves beyond the model
Open protocols can connect agents across vendors and clouds, but CIOs still need portable context, controls and business logic to avoid deeper dependencies. Continue Reading
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News
05 Oct 2026
Physical AI moves beyond traditional robotics
Physical AI is moving beyond traditional robotics into real enterprise tasks, but enterprises still face big challenges integrating and scaling robotic systems. Continue Reading
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Podcast
05 Oct 2026
How to avoid data paralysis with a practical AI data strategy
In this podcast, Helena Jochberger and Gaby Martin of CGI explain why starting with a small set of imperfect data can be an effective way to scale agentic AI for the enterprise. Continue Reading
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Opinion
02 Oct 2026
The hidden data costs missing from AI budgets
Operational work to shore up a weak data foundation can distort the economics of AI projects. Bringing these costs to light helps clarify ROI and what to prioritize. Continue Reading
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News
02 Oct 2026
Prompt: AI is removing rungs from the corporate career ladder
AI is doing more junior-level work, forcing organizations to rethink how employees gain the experience and judgment they need to move into senior roles. Continue Reading
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News
02 Oct 2026
Outcomes-based AI pricing works in theory -- but in practice?
Outcomes-based AI pricing sounds great at a macro level, but CIOs must define results, settle disputes and meet procurement requirements before it works in practice. Continue Reading
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News
02 Oct 2026
New book urges CIOs to envision better futures
AI risk matters, but CIOs also need to imagine what could go right. Nikolas Badminton's book shows how futures thinking can turn hope into action and shape what's next. Continue Reading
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News
01 Oct 2026
Nvidia agent safety push raises questions about who governs AI autonomy
The AI chipmaker’s new safety platform adds controls around AI agents, while enterprises remain responsible for defining their authority and setting boundaries. Continue Reading
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News
01 Oct 2026
Gemini 4 Argon is late, but Google’s expertise may be an advantage
As a top cloud provider, Google has deep experience integrating its infrastructure with the other Google products that enterprises use. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
01 Oct 2026
Evaluating agentic AI for demand forecasting
Agentic AI offers autonomous, goal-driven demand forecasting that adapts to disruption. CIOs must assess data infrastructure, explainability, integration costs and phased rollouts. Continue Reading
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Opinion
01 Oct 2026
The hidden cost of getting AI decisions wrong
FICO's Mike Trkay says the AI cost conversation focuses on tokens and models, but the real question isn't what a model costs to run -- it's what a wrong decision costs. Continue Reading
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News
01 Oct 2026
Meta expands Muse to small businesses
The move comes as agentic AI plays an increasingly big part in business operations, sparking oversight concerns. Continue Reading
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News
01 Oct 2026
Humanoid buildup overlooks the robots already running factories
Millions of robotic machines are already operating in factories worldwide, but oversight and safety standards risk falling behind. Continue Reading
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News
01 Oct 2026
Token counts tell CIOs less as AI agents do more
Token counts don't capture the full cost of agentic work. CIOs need to measure retries, tool calls and human intervention against successful outcomes. Continue Reading
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Podcast
30 Sep 2026
Anthropic plugs regulation, AI leaders meet with Trump, and open models
The AI world buzzes about stopping out-of-control agents. President Trump appears to slightly modify his anti-AI regulation stance. Open source AI could lose out. Or not. Continue Reading
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News
30 Sep 2026
AI gives OneDigital more capacity, but ROI remains to be seen
OneDigital's AI coworkers are freeing up employee capacity. The company is now figuring out how to turn those gains into measurable business value. Continue Reading
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News
30 Sep 2026
AI is now ‘super intelligence,’ but federal oversight is still missing
President Trump calls AI by a new name and asserts the U.S. will not be slowing down AI development. Continue Reading
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News
30 Sep 2026
As AI agents take action, CIOs have to govern the outcome
As Oracle and Progress push AI agents deeper into business processes, CIOs need governance that measures outcomes and defines when humans intervene. Continue Reading
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News
30 Sep 2026
AI industry copes with out-of-control agents. Here’s OpenAI’s response
The generative AI vendor delayed the release of GPT-6.1 Astra after testing exposed new safety concerns, showing why AI models need continued evaluation and enterprise runtime controls. Continue Reading
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News
29 Sep 2026
Oracle Fusion Claw the new grab for fully autonomous agentic AI in ERP
Execution runtime software has governance and auditing features that address concerns about agentic AI security risks, enabling Oracle's new class of outcome-based AI apps. Continue Reading
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Feature
29 Sep 2026
Physical AI security threats and how to mitigate them
Malicious prompt injections, sensor manipulation, hardware tampering and vulnerable software take on greater urgency when robotic systems interact with humans and the real world. Continue Reading
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News
29 Sep 2026
While agents cause trouble, calls for AI regulation mount from Anthropic, lawmakers
It seems nearly everyone is calling for regulation. Chief among them is Anthropic, whose AI agents are also key troublemakers. Continue Reading
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Feature
29 Sep 2026
Physical AI in business gets smarter and more autonomous
Leaping from the computer screen into dynamic real-world environments, physical AI and embodied robotics take on increasingly more complex and dangerous tasks. Continue Reading
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Opinion
29 Sep 2026
Mind the gap, not the doom: An operational guide to AI pacing
Business leaders should focus on near-term AI risks and capabilities gaps rather than existential debates to survive coming disruptions. Continue Reading
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News
28 Sep 2026
Nvidia launches AI safety platform after agent security breaches
The vendor's new system is designed to contain rogue AI agents as companies race to secure increasingly autonomous systems. But it has not been proven yet. Continue Reading
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Feature
28 Sep 2026
Salesloft targets token effectiveness to measure AI's value
Some businesses riding the AI wave have high costs with little understanding of ROI. To bridge the gap, Salesloft is looking at token effectiveness metrics. Continue Reading
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News
28 Sep 2026
Microsoft’s Copilot redesign provides an experimental opportunity
The revamp transforms Copilot from a simple AI assistant into a content workspace, providing knowledge workers with advanced developer tools. Continue Reading
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News
28 Sep 2026
AI safety is falling behind the pace of development
Businesses need continuous monitoring, stronger guardrails and human oversight to keep increasingly capable AI systems under control. Continue Reading
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Guide
28 Sep 2026
Enterprise AI accelerates as calls for a slowdown grow
Follow TechTarget News coverage of the AI slowdown debate, current advances in AI technology and new approaches to monitoring and governing autonomous AI. Continue Reading
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Feature
25 Sep 2026
Supply chain AI agents: Where should autonomy begin and end?
AI agents can scan emails, audit invoices, flag billing issues, develop transactional data and negotiate contracts along the supply chain -- but they can't execute the deal (yet). Continue Reading
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News
25 Sep 2026
AI agents can act. It's unclear if enterprises can stop them.
As AI agents gain more authority to act on their own, recent incidents are exposing gaps in how enterprises monitor, control and intervene when agents cross established boundaries. Continue Reading
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Opinion
25 Sep 2026
Enterprise AI got better, but the ROI didn't
A year after MIT Project NANDA exposed the 'GenAI Divide,' adoption and AI capability have surged. Enterprise-level financial impact has not. Continue Reading
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News
24 Sep 2026
As AI gets faster, the enterprise bottleneck moves
AI can accelerate one part of a workflow only to move the bottleneck somewhere else. CIOs need to figure out where it landed -- and where it might move next. Continue Reading
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News
24 Sep 2026
Anthropic, OpenAI launches show shift toward multi-model enterprise AI
Anthropic and OpenAI released new models this week, expanding the range of models enterprises can use for different workloads and raising new considerations for multi-model management. Continue Reading
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Tip
24 Sep 2026
Robotics needs real-time edge AI: Why and where
AI provides robotics the edge they need in dynamic environments ranging from manufacturing to healthcare, where fast response times and real-time decision making are critical. Continue Reading
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News
24 Sep 2026
AI agents know what to do -- but should they have authority to do it?
AI agents are gaining access to enterprise systems, but moving from reading data to making changes requires new rules about authority, permissions and human oversight. Continue Reading
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News
24 Sep 2026
Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech refines voice AI capabilities
The features Google introduced build on existing technology and provide enterprises with a hub for all their AI model capabilities. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
24 Sep 2026
Why soft skills matter more in the age of AI
AI success depends on human skills like adaptability, judgment and collaboration -- not just technical expertise. Organizations must rethink hiring to find talent that can evolve. Continue Reading
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News
24 Sep 2026
China leads dexterous hand supply for humanoids
Chinese firms supplied nearly all dexterous hands for humanoid robots in early 2026, but Western players are starting to close in. Continue Reading
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News
24 Sep 2026
CIOs must rethink third-party risk as AI creeps into tools
AI creep is making point-in-time vendor checks less reliable. IT leaders need continuous oversight of the added AI capabilities vendors are putting in place. Continue Reading
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Feature
24 Sep 2026
How to prepare enterprise data for advanced AI
AI projects need reliable data, but it's not necessary to prepare all assets at once. Focus the improvements on the structured and unstructured data each use case requires. Continue Reading
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News
24 Sep 2026
CoreWeave connects AI coding tools to infrastructure intelligence
The neocloud vendor provides AI agents with access to data from its infrastructure management platform, helping developers troubleshoot slow or underperforming AI workloads. Continue Reading
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News
23 Sep 2026
OpenAI takes AI price war to next level with GPT-6 Sol, Luna pricing
The vendor is reacting to U.S. rivals Google and Anthropic, as well as the growing popularity of open source models. Continue Reading
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News
23 Sep 2026
Gartner sees CIOs becoming AI 'evidence custodians'
A conventional log may not be enough. CIOs could need end-to-end evidence showing what AI did, why it was allowed and what changed as a result. Continue Reading
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News
23 Sep 2026
Persistent AI memory adds another layer to enterprise data
Persistent AI memory is spreading across enterprise platforms, adding a data layer that must be mapped and validated against authoritative systems. Continue Reading
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News
22 Sep 2026
Anthropic unveils Opus 5.5: powerful performance, still premium price
The AI lab still lags in the price war with rivals. Continue Reading
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Feature
22 Sep 2026
The automated workforce: Physical AI's labor impact
Humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles and other machines will augment some jobs, replace others and create new roles. Emerging use cases include logistics and worker safety. Continue Reading
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Opinion
22 Sep 2026
More Salesforce ICE protests at Dreamforce; buyers remain unmoved
At Dreamforce, Silicon Valley reality distortion is hard to miss as Salesforce celebrates nonprofits and NGOs inside while protesters outside demand it cut ICE ties. Continue Reading
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News
22 Sep 2026
Is AI really paying off for companies? CIOs weigh in
AI is delivering measurable value for some companies, but most are struggling to turn productivity gains into meaningful business returns. Continue Reading
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Feature
21 Sep 2026
Can Nvidia's physical AI strategy replicate its AI dominance?
Nvidia is building a broad physical AI ecosystem across training, simulation and deployment, but in a fragmented market, the chipmaker will need to coexist before it can dominate. Continue Reading
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Video
21 Sep 2026
Global, tech leaders weigh in on AI development debate
In this episode of Tech News this Week, Esther Shittu explains the AI development debate, the arguments against a slowdown in AI advancement, and how business leaders can respond. Continue Reading
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Opinion
21 Sep 2026
The quiet rise of AI technical debt
AI technical debt can hide in prompts, data, models and workflows. David Linthicum explains why CIOs need production discipline before pilots scale. Continue Reading
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News
21 Sep 2026
Accelerating AI adoption and governance amid an AI slowdown
While many organizations are accelerating their use of AI, they need to focus on governance and invest in trust, security and alignment. Continue Reading
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Podcast
21 Sep 2026
How Agile development principles can help with scaling AI deployment
In this podcast, Andrew Sales, chief methodologist at Scaled Agile, says lean and Agile methods can help companies take full advantage of AI's transformative impact on work. Continue Reading
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News
18 Sep 2026
Seismic shift in Splunk pricing spotlights AI data management
The era of simply amassing heaps of raw telemetry is over, Splunk users say. Viable AI agents for automated IT ops will depend on putting all that data in context. Continue Reading
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Feature
18 Sep 2026
Colossus data center buildouts: Can they ever be duplicated?
SpaceX's fast pace, energy capacity and crafty permitting in building the Colossus 1 and 2 data centers provide some worthy lessons that can be emulated -- and others that can't. Continue Reading
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Feature
17 Sep 2026
Why multi-agent systems are an enterprise architecture challenge
Multi-agent systems require strong governance frameworks to ensure agents share consistent assumptions, policies and data, which are critical for achieving alignment and ROI. Continue Reading
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News
17 Sep 2026
AI changes the ROI equation. Here’s how some have found success
A significant portion of enterprises struggle to demonstrate clear ROI from AI initiatives, but some have found areas where AI can provide productivity gains and even revenue growth. Continue Reading
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News
17 Sep 2026
Calls for AI slowdown raise new challenges for open-weight models
Regulating frontier AI could sideline smaller open source developers and push enterprises to take on more of the safety and governance burden themselves. Continue Reading
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News
16 Sep 2026
Gemini 3.8 Live Transforms Conversational AI
The models support real-time conversation by enabling users to interact without the traditional prompt-response structure. Continue Reading
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Tip
16 Sep 2026
Guide to AI data pipeline security and resilience
AI pipelines are critical enterprise infrastructure. Leaders must manage business risks, strengthen security and resilience and establish governance to scale AI safely. Continue Reading
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News
15 Sep 2026
Splunk's path to autonomous AI starts with tightly constrained agents
Splunk's new security GM sees autonomous AI agents as 'inevitable' – but says that enterprises will need to introduce them slowly, with strong limits on what they can do. Continue Reading
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News
15 Sep 2026
Zoom launches AI-powered revenue OS to compete in CRM market
Zoom is aiming to diversify its product offerings amid declining enterprise adoption. However, the video communications vendor faces fierce competition. Continue Reading
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Tip
15 Sep 2026
Prompt engineering and other tips to prevent AI sycophancy
AI sycophancy can reinforce biases and lead to poor business outcomes. But what are the signs that AI has become sycophantic, and are there techniques to avoid it? Continue Reading
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Opinion
15 Sep 2026
Why AI should build on, not copy, your data stack
The model might be the face of AI, but the data architecture performs the heavy lifting. Its strength determines the consistency and reliability of AI-generated results at scale. Continue Reading
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Opinion
15 Sep 2026
Why enterprise AI fails at the org chart, not the model layer
AI models are easy to access. Organizational authority is not. David Linthicum explains why the org chart -- not the model layer -- keeps enterprise AI from delivering. Continue Reading
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News
15 Sep 2026
Salesforce AI agent governance, development key themes at Dreamforce
Salesforce goes deep under the hood of AI architecture and agentic management with new releases. Continue Reading
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News
14 Sep 2026
Enterprises in shaky spot amid calls for an AI slowdown
Calls for an AI slowdown come as enterprise demand is building for cheaper and unregulated open source models from China. Continue Reading
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News
14 Sep 2026
Harnesses bring coordination and guardrails to enterprise AI agents
The meaning of harness is still evolving. Continue Reading
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Tip
11 Sep 2026
Physical AI deployment challenges and how to address them
Physical AI can conjure up unique but solvable issues surrounding unpredictability, data quality, safety and cost overruns. Avoid business disruptions with these best practices. Continue Reading
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News
11 Sep 2026
The AI safety crunch and how enterprises should deal with it
The competitive landscape, particularly the geopolitical clash between the U.S. and China, complicates the AI safety dilemma. Continue Reading
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Tip
11 Sep 2026
Key guardrails to defend against rogue AI agents
AI agents go rogue for many reasons. Businesses must establish defense mechanisms and guardrails that counter the potential damage from an agent's rogue actions. Continue Reading
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News
11 Sep 2026
Prompt: AI governance enters its verification phase
California's new AI auditing laws point to a shift from companies making their own safety claims to proving those claims in independent review. Continue Reading
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News
11 Sep 2026
Mistral bets enterprise AI will be about control, not just intelligence
The French AI lab is using a $3B fundraise to sell control over AI infrastructure, not just model power -- a shift in direction that could matter to U.S. firms in Europe too. Continue Reading
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Tip
11 Sep 2026
How AI agents transform UCaaS workflows and ROI
AI agents can boost UCaaS workflows, but IT leaders must follow best practices to identify high-value workflows, determine ROI metrics and establish governance guardrails. Continue Reading
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Tip
10 Sep 2026
How much does conversational analytics cost in 2026?
Early estimates will often cover the technology but miss much of the added work. Expenses often rise as organizations prepare the platform for wider, reliable enterprise use. Continue Reading
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Feature
10 Sep 2026
What it finally takes to make quantum commercially viable
Turns out quantum computing still has several missing links on the road to commercial viability, including better fault tolerance, lower error rates and more qubits per system. Continue Reading
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Feature
10 Sep 2026
Why hope is a CIO leadership skill
CIOs need to inspire teams as well as manage technology. Futurist Nikolas Badminton explains how hope can help leaders build vision, empower teams and drive action. Continue Reading
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Feature
09 Sep 2026
Key enterprise strategies for AI agent observability
Monitoring AI agents encompasses three pillars: agent intent, method and outcome. Explore all three, along with best practices for AI agent observability. Continue Reading
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Feature
09 Sep 2026
To justify physical AI costs, choose high-value use cases
Physical AI is starting to drive business value in industries like manufacturing and healthcare. But the ROI calculus is subtle and calls for a wide-angle view of metrics. Continue Reading
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Opinion
08 Sep 2026
Mistral’s €3B round shows value beyond AI benchmarks
Mistral’s record €3 billion funding round highlights the enterprise value of AI models that customers can deploy, customize, retain and control. Continue Reading
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Tip
08 Sep 2026
AI cloud migration: Key steps to success
Migrating AI to the cloud demands strategic planning, system assessments, component modernization, data pipeline optimization and phased deployment. Find out what you need to know. Continue Reading
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Tip
08 Sep 2026
Planning AI infrastructure upgrades: Four steps for success
AI infrastructure upgrades require proactive planning. Steps include setting business goals, assessing existing infrastructure, and optimizing hardware, security and governance. Continue Reading
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News
04 Sep 2026
The human in the loop is falling asleep
AI agents can overwhelm human reviewers, creating new security risks. CIOs must rethink how they oversee AI agents and decide when humans should step in. Continue Reading
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Feature
03 Sep 2026
What businesses really need from an AI off switch
Turning off an AI feature doesn't necessarily stop AI processing. Businesses need meaningful controls over AI features, data access, third parties and software updates. Continue Reading
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News
02 Sep 2026
Enterprises make strides with private AI on-premises
Discussions at VMware Explore show that private AI usage is growing as smaller models gain power, but the tug-of-war with public cloud isn't necessarily a zero-sum game. Continue Reading
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Feature
02 Sep 2026
Why AI enablement teams shouldn't live within IT
AI enablement teams can sit outside IT to stay focused on business needs. That can help CIOs avoid costly AI projects that fail to deliver value. Continue Reading
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Feature
02 Sep 2026
Negotiating AI licensing and costs: A step-by-step guide for CIOs
CIOs must balance access to innovation with cost control as AI becomes standard. The goal: to avoid paying a premium for features that should be included. Continue Reading