AI incidents cost enterprises $2M or more, and the biggest shadow AI culprit is IT

Among enterprise decision-makers, 47% named IT and infrastructure as the top source of shadow AI, per a WitnessAI survey.

By Nidhi Sharma • Aug. 4, 2026

The AI access gap is widening amid uneven adoption

Senior leaders report better access to AI tools and training than junior staff, creating adoption disparities and strategic misalignment across enterprises.

By Roberto Torres • Aug. 3, 2026

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Ongoing AI adoption efforts and the evolution of the executive scope ruled CIO priorities in the first half of the year.

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Amazon ups AI investments as cloud sector chases windfall

Yearly enterprise cloud spending jumped to $500 billion in support of AI buildouts, according to Synergy Research Group.

By Paige Gross • Aug. 3, 2026

Enterprises seek help to deploy AI as complexity mounts

Forward deployed engineers are supporting companies by linking technical AI rollouts to business processes and easing adoption.

By Makenzie Holland • Aug. 3, 2026

Cost-per-token worked for AI’s first wave — but not the next

A clear assessment of AI costs requires a complete, nuanced understanding of compute environments.

By Chen Goldberg • July 31, 2026

Anthropic says human error let Claude AI models escape test environment and hack third parties

The company said the discovery, which followed OpenAI’s similar admission, proved the need for better testing guardrails.

By Eric Geller • July 31, 2026

Microsoft holds the line on infrastructure spending

The company is well-positioned with its current data center investments as cloud revenue soars, executives said Wednesday.

By Paige Gross • July 30, 2026

As token costs mount, leaders revise their AI plans

Some businesses are charging ahead instead of pulling back despite mounting bills, according to an EY survey.

By Roberto Torres • July 30, 2026

Most US companies lack mature AI governance frameworks

Companies are spending on governance, but aren't fully prepared as agentic AI spreads, a Schellman report found.

By Paige Gross • July 30, 2026

Companies fear AI risks more than common cybersecurity threats

The oversight could blind companies to the threats they should be focusing on, Arctic Wolf said in a Tuesday report.

By Eric Geller • July 29, 2026

1 in 4 dollars spent on AI goes to waste, report finds

More than half of businesses lack a dedicated owner for AI costs, which can lead to overspend, according to a Harness report.

By Scarlett Evans • July 29, 2026

Demand outweighs supply for AI-skilled workers

Businesses must sharpen upskilling efforts to bridge the looming gap in talent availability, according to Indeed.

By Roberto Torres • July 29, 2026

AI shifts mainframe modernization strategy

To stay or not to stay on the mainframe? AI might help enterprises do both.

By Makenzie Holland • July 28, 2026

SAP aims to ‘build AI at scale’ for the enterprise

The vendor's cloud business buoyed its Q2 earnings, but the company is pinning its future on its Business AI Platform.

By Paige Gross • July 27, 2026

Tech industry giants say US must embrace openness, transparency in AI

Nvidia, Microsoft and other top vendors joined a pair of initiatives to recognize open-source and open-weight AI models as essential cybersecurity tools.

By Eric Geller • July 27, 2026

How CIOs can evaluate enterprise software vendors

The ecosystem of providers is expanding rapidly, leaving CIOs with complex decisions that can make or break modernization efforts.

By Sudhakar Shivaraju • Updated July 30, 2026

The October 2027 deadline that should change how CIOs think about infrastructure

Why the VMware renewal has become the most critical infrastructure decision in a decade.

July 27, 2026

Enterprises contend with mounting AI costs as tools sprawl

Vendors are working to help CIOs reach a delicate balance of enabling technology adoption — without breaking the budget.

By Roberto Torres • July 24, 2026

Most corporate boards lack rules for AI use: Deloitte survey

The deployment of AI for tasks at the board level is "comparatively new, uneven and still maturing,” according to the firm.

By Jim Tyson • July 24, 2026

Tech leads all other industries in Q2 wage growth

Salaries in the tech sector jumped 6.9% year over year, according to Payscale data. But growth is uneven across job categories.

By Roberto Torres • July 24, 2026

IBM attributes mainframe revenue collapse to delays, not destruction

Customers redirected budgets to beat server price hikes, CEO Arvind Krishna said Wednesday.

By Matt Ashare • July 23, 2026

Google hikes capital expenditures to $205B, citing demand growth

The tech provider will continue to expand compute in response to capacity constraints, CFO Anat Ashkenazi said during a Wednesday earnings call.

By Makenzie Holland • July 23, 2026

Big tech sovereign AI tools promise control, but drive lock-in

Nvidia has emerged as a dominant player in sovereign AI, which accounts for roughly 14% of the company’s revenue, according to a Stanford HAI study.

By Makenzie Holland • July 23, 2026

What OpenAI’s model breach says about future enterprise security

Businesses don’t need to panic, but they should be ramping up their incident response capabilities, Gartner VP analyst Dennis Xu said.

By Paige Gross • July 22, 2026

Bank of America upgrades customer service employee tool

Generative AI capabilities added to EricaAssist will allow customer service employees to handle client inquiries more quickly, the lender said.

By Caitlin Mullen • July 22, 2026