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

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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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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 • July 27, 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

Employee distrust hinders AI scale

Companies can overcome the skepticism by working with their employees so that they understand governance and risk, a TeamViewer report found.

By Paige Gross • July 22, 2026

AI skills gap persists despite widening personal use

Companies assuming employees will bring AI skills into their jobs will set themselves up to fail, according to CompTIA VP of Research Seth Robinson. 

By Roberto Torres • July 21, 2026

Are grocers making smart investments in back-end AI?

Retailers should lean into tech partnerships to alleviate operational pain in the short term, but they should also lay the rails for agentic operations, experts said.

By Jeff Wells • July 21, 2026

Tech chiefs enlist AI agents to manage cloud app sprawl

Leaders expect agentic AI to play a key role in cloud management. But few businesses have moved beyond pilot deployments, according to Unisys.

By Scarlett Evans • July 21, 2026

End-user AI spending to soar as CIOs grapple with costs

Contract management, AI architecture and governance are key to keeping AI budgets in check, according to Gartner.

By Paige Gross • July 20, 2026

OpenAI pushes new yardstick for measuring AI investments

The company’s CFO floated a “useful-intelligence-per-dollar” approach as organizations face growing pressure to show returns on their AI spending.

By Alexei Alexis • July 20, 2026

Banks report operational changes driven by AI adoption

Executives at Bank of America, Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase highlighted the scale of ongoing AI adoption efforts and its effects on operations.

By Makenzie Holland • July 20, 2026

Levi’s builds toward unified ERP system by mid-2027

The apparel brand recently migrated its Asia and Beyond Yoga business operations to a single platform that it first rolled out in North America.

By Phil Neuffer • July 17, 2026

How to keep AI costs in check as agentic drives usage

CIOs need to establish clear visibility into demand for AI, spend and risk, to determine whether the technology is generating value, according to OpenAI.

By Makenzie Holland • July 17, 2026

Sharp rise in AI adoption for cyber defense exposes major governance gap

More than half of practitioners said there are no established frameworks for AI audits in a survey from the SANS Institute.

By David Jones • July 16, 2026

AI pushes enterprises back to the drawing board on cloud

Growing AI compute demands, cost and sovereignty are driving more enterprises toward hybrid cloud, an Information Services Group report found.

By Paige Gross • July 16, 2026

Wells Fargo debuts AI-powered teammate for financial advisers

The new capability aims to simplify access to Wells Fargo’s core technology platform, enabling plain language queries and faster access to insights.

By Makenzie Holland • July 15, 2026