AI adoption helps sustain confidence in the mainframe

Companies are enlisting agents to help manage the platform amid ongoing modernization, according to BMC’s annual survey.

By Paige Gross • Sept. 1, 2026

Frontier AI tips the scales toward cyber adversaries

Threat actors are already using AI to accelerate cyberattacks beyond the abilities of modern defenses, researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 said.

By David Jones • Sept. 1, 2026

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AI costs are skyrocketing as adoption efforts widen across the enterprise. Amid rising concerns over soaring bills, FinOps practices are offering tried-and-true advice.

By CIO Dive staff

Retailers bet on AI for supply chain, ‘smart’ shopping

Large retailers are using AI technologies to overhaul their customer experience, supply chain and personalized shopping offerings, according to Q2 earnings calls.

By Paige Gross • Aug. 31, 2026

Security policies fail to keep up with a hybrid cloud world

Roughly two-thirds of companies have suffered a business-critical app outage due to misconfigured security policies, a Cloud Security Alliance report found.

By Makenzie Holland • Aug. 31, 2026

Agentic AI is shifting the pricing models CIOs rely on

A trend toward outcome-based billing is prompting executives to rethink vendor management strategies, executives and analysts told CIO Dive.

By Patrick Thibodeau • Aug. 31, 2026

Trader Joe’s names new CIO

Prabash Coswatte joins the specialty grocer from Heritage Grocers Group, where he served as chief operating officer.

By Peyton Bigora • Aug. 28, 2026

AI transformation starts with building employee trust

Companies expect employees to significantly retool the way they work. But first they must empower them with the confidence to do so.

By Santhosh Keshavan • Aug. 28, 2026

Enterprises bet on agents to build in-house software, boost productivity

While they parse out ROI, cost-conscious organizations are finding ways AI can replace technology line items.

By Paige Gross • Aug. 27, 2026

Nvidia warns of supply bottlenecks into 2028

Despite ongoing memory supply challenges, the company’s data center revenue catapulted to $89 billion in Q2 2027.

By Makenzie Holland • Aug. 27, 2026

One-third of employees overstate AI skills: report

Workers are grappling to translate AI confidence to results as executives push AI adoption, according to a WalkMe survey.

By Nidhi Sharma • Aug. 27, 2026

CIOs are still waiting for AI’s cost savings

Pressure to deploy, not measurable gains, are setting the pace for enterprise AI investments, according to an Infosys report.

By Paige Gross • Aug. 26, 2026

Google rolls out flexible billing, cost controls for AI agents

The tech giant joins a string of vendors launching tools to help customers manage rising AI costs.

By Makenzie Holland • Aug. 26, 2026

Managers say they are using public AI tools to prepare for hard conversations

Some leaders are inputting employee names and performance details into public AI platforms, according to data from The Predictive Index.

By Kathryn Moody • Aug. 26, 2026

How CIOs can navigate a disrupted software market

AI will upend the state of play for software providers, but the changes will not be uniform across verticals, according to Forrester research.

By Paige Gross • Aug. 25, 2026

Apple debuts PCs, chips dedicated to AI workloads

On-device compute can help enterprises navigate rising AI costs and future complexity, said Ranjit Atwal, senior director analyst at Gartner.

By Makenzie Holland • Aug. 25, 2026

Women are significantly underrepresented in the AI workforce

The gender disparity is even more pronounced in the highest-paying jobs and top executive levels, according to LinkedIn research.

By Lara Ewen • Aug. 25, 2026

Verizon taps Google for enterprise AI, infrastructure deployment

The telecommunications company plans to deploy Gemini Enterprise and Google's data infrastructure as it makes AI central to the customer experience.

By Paige Gross • Aug. 24, 2026

AI data center spending drives growth in semiconductor market

CIOs are contending with rising compute costs, looking to cheaper models to rein in spending amid rapid infrastructure expansion. 

By Makenzie Holland • Aug. 24, 2026

Travelers builds its own LLM, cutting AI costs

The insurer built TravelersLLM to handle insurance-specific queries, while broad reasoning, research and coding queries are saved for frontier models.

By Makenzie Holland • Aug. 24, 2026

AI is showing a revenue payoff: Carnegie Mellon

Despite positive signs on the revenue front, AI adoption has yet to translate into significant operating-margin gains, the study found.

By Alexei Alexis • Aug. 21, 2026

4 leadership pain points that stall AI pilots — and how to fix them

Effective efforts to redesign a company’s operating model need to focus sharply on the systems surrounding the technology.

By Jason Gu • Aug. 21, 2026

Only 1 in 5 organizations are prepared to move toward autonomous AI agents, Deloitte finds

Fragmented data systems and entrenched ways of working are impeding the transition, according to the report.

By Laurel Kalser • Aug. 21, 2026

AI efforts drive up demand for analytics, database architecture skills

CIOs must clearly tie technology to business goals to attract talent, according to Heidrick & Struggles’ Sunny Ackerman.

By Roberto Torres • Aug. 20, 2026

AI productivity gains aren’t translating to IT workload relief

Despite saving hours weekly, most IT professionals report unchanged or increased workloads, according to a SolarWinds survey.

By Nidhi Sharma • Aug. 20, 2026

Target eyes bigger tech investments amid growth efforts

The retailer is betting on tech to simplify work and connect with customers as it executes its turnaround plan, executives said in a Q2 earnings call. 

By Paige Gross • Aug. 19, 2026