Enterprise AI Strategy
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News
19 Oct 2026
The AI happy path is easy, but enterprise reality isn't
David Linthicum says the AI happy path ends where enterprise reality begins. CIOs must design for messy data, exceptions and failure before production. Continue Reading
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News
19 Oct 2026
AI can find IT problems faster, but fixing them is another matter
AI tools can be bossy and prescriptive. They are getting better at telling us what's wrong and how to fix it, but CIOs must decide who authorizes changes and verifies results. Continue Reading
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News
19 Oct 2026
AI can find IT problems faster, but fixing them is another matter
AI tools can be bossy and prescriptive. They are getting better at telling us what's wrong and how to fix it, but CIOs must decide who authorizes changes and verifies results. Continue Reading
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Podcast
19 Oct 2026
How open ERP APIs and data speed up agentic AI integration, deployment
In this podcast, Max Fisher explains Infor's open approach to ERP data, how it compares to SAP's controversial API policy and why it improves agent-to-agent communication. Continue Reading
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News
16 Oct 2026
Open source and on device: the strategy behind Nvidia’s new AI models
The latest Nemotron 3.5 models show how the AI giant is focusing on reinforcing its own GPU infrastructure while supporting the open source community. Continue Reading
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Tip
16 Oct 2026
Cost per task: A new method for AI spend management
Rather than relying on traditional metrics such as per-seat or per-token pricing, some businesses are measuring AI cost per successful task to manage their AI spending. Continue Reading
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News
16 Oct 2026
Enterprise controls can't keep up with AI agents
Companies are giving agents more authority, but many are still struggling to track what they can access, what they're doing and how to stop them. Continue Reading
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News
16 Oct 2026
CEOs press CIOs to rethink IT's role in the AI era
CEOs want CIOs to take a bigger role in business strategy as AI adoption grows. Eight executives share what they need most from their IT leaders in the AI era. Continue Reading
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Feature
15 Oct 2026
How a premortem reveals data modernization project pitfalls
By questioning assumptions early, leaders can spot workflow dependencies, adoption barriers and ownership gaps that a technology-first plan could miss. Continue Reading
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News
15 Oct 2026
Robots can't talk to each other yet -- that's a big AI bottleneck
Coordinating robots and autonomous systems will be critical to unlocking physical AI, but it’s still unclear whether interoperability is an immediate barrier to adoption. Continue Reading
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News
15 Oct 2026
AI agents are changing the math on software spending
As vendors mix seats with credits, actions and consumption-based charges, CIOs face new questions about how to compare, forecast and fund software costs. Continue Reading
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News
14 Oct 2026
IBM: Agentic AI is reshaping governance, controls and trust
As AI agents move from answering questions to making decisions and acting, businesses face a growing challenge of keeping accountability in step with the pace of change. Continue Reading
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Podcast
14 Oct 2026
Musing about Muse’s new AI models, unruly DeepSeek
The social media giant tries to capitalize on, monetize its successful personal agent and maybe crack the business market. Chinese models go astray, like their U.S. counterparts. Continue Reading
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Feature
14 Oct 2026
Anthropic IPO: Market forces and enterprise AI effects
Anthropic's pending move intensifies the financial scrutiny on AI companies' business models, which will have downstream effects on enterprise AI adoption. Continue Reading
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Opinion
14 Oct 2026
AI tokens got cheaper, but the deployment bill didn't
Falling token prices are lowering AI prices. But as enterprises shift from chatbot questions to multi-step, agent-enabled workflows, costs can skyrocket unless managed properly. Continue Reading
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Opinion
14 Oct 2026
We need responsible people to drive responsible AI
Rules alone can't make AI safe -- IAPP's Trevor Hughes argues it's time to build and scale a professionalized AI governance workforce before risks outpace oversight. Continue Reading
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News
14 Oct 2026
AI puts more gray behind CIOs' yes-or-no decisions
CIOs still make yes-or-no decisions, but AI is making everything behind those choices more complicated -- from change and cost to architecture and productivity. Continue Reading
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News
14 Oct 2026
Infotech launches CIO Analytics platform, acquires Zluri
Infotech makes its first acquisition to expand CIO Analytics. The platform uses AI and updated IT data so CIOs can spend less time explaining their environments to analysts. Continue Reading
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Tip
13 Oct 2026
Secure your agentic AI with identity management
AI agents are an invisible workforce that ushers in a new generation of vulnerabilities and threats. Enforce strict identity management to secure these agents. Continue Reading
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News
13 Oct 2026
DeepSeek and what enterprises should learn from AI agent exploits
A new case of an out-of-control AI model shows that enterprises should treat models and agents as toddlers that need supervision and explicit instructions. Continue Reading
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Tip
13 Oct 2026
On-premises vs. edge AI implementations for AI inference
AI inference can run on-premises for high-volume tasks or at the edge for real-time decisions. Business leaders must weigh the tradeoffs of each method to choose the right fit. Continue Reading
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News
13 Oct 2026
Workday expands agentic AI automation for HR teams
Workday introduced AI agents for HR and finance workflows and previewed tools for workforce planning as enterprises look to automate administrative work. Continue Reading
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News
12 Oct 2026
Meta joins enterprise agent race with Muse Wonder, facing a trust gap
The company’s new releases point to an AI market that is becoming more personal, with agents and models completing tasks, but enterprises still aren’t ready for this new phase of AI. Continue Reading
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News
12 Oct 2026
Vendors fortify AI in ERP to assure buyers, deter frontier AI rivals
Four trends are crystallizing in an unusually busy month of AI announcements by ERP leaders. They show just how thoroughly AI is disrupting ERP while proving its indispensability. Continue Reading
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News
12 Oct 2026
CIOs face an AI expertise paradox as automation reshapes experience
AI can increase demand for experienced human judgment while automating the work that helps create it. CIOs need to plan for the expertise pipeline AI still depends on. Continue Reading
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News
12 Oct 2026
AI spending shifts beyond IT, testing CIO-CFO decision rights
AI spending is moving outside IT, forcing CIOs, CFOs and business leaders to clarify who owns funding, architecture, governance and business value. Continue Reading
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News
12 Oct 2026
Exception handling in AI: The silent killer of enterprise deployments
AI systems can fail without throwing errors. CIOs need deterministic checks, escalation paths and telemetry to catch plausible but wrong outputs before they compound. Continue Reading
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News
09 Oct 2026
AI coding tools run riot over SBOM controls as EU CRA looms
Shifting open source dependency liability under the EU CRA intensifies AI-related software supply chain security issues, per discussions at Open Source Summit Europe. Continue Reading
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News
09 Oct 2026
Prompt: AI agents are running into the limits of access
As agents take on more work for users, companies are deciding whether to let outside AI systems act on their platforms. Continue Reading
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News
08 Oct 2026
Google’s workplace agent is out, but questions abound
The agent can use enterprise business context for knowledge work. However, challenges about cost and integration with other tools could be difficult for enterprises. Continue Reading
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News
08 Oct 2026
Western open-weight campaign could give enterprises more control over AI
New Western open-weight models could give enterprises an alternative to Chinese and proprietary AI, but greater control also brings new responsibilities. Continue Reading
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Tip
08 Oct 2026
Consolidated vs. best-of-breed AI strategies: A C-suite guide
Deciding to buy AI is only the first step in procurement. Next, leaders must evaluate whether to go with a single vendor or specialize AI tools for different parts of the stack. Continue Reading
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News
08 Oct 2026
Zapier explores extra pay for employees driving AI gains
Zapier has planned a compensation pilot for select marketing employees driving AI gains, raising questions for CIOs about rewards and retention. Continue Reading
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News
07 Oct 2026
Anthropic opens cyber program applications, releases cheaper Haiku
Under the program, the vendor provides enterprises with models that can defend against bad actors. Continue Reading
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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
AI teaching systems raise new questions for school districts
As AI moves into K-8 instruction, district technology leaders must weigh external evidence, data protection and results-based contracts before scaling these systems. Continue Reading
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News
07 Oct 2026
Stacklet targets AI token spending with policy controls
Stacklet's early-preview Token Custodian brings policy controls to AI spending, raising a question for CIOs: Who decides which work gets access to more expensive AI models? 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