AI & Future Tech


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    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 Aug. 27, 2026
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    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 Aug. 26, 2026
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    Generative AI

    Companies are pushing technology executives to leverage generative AI, a task that requires customized strategies and the necessary guardrails.

    By CIO Dive staff
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    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 Aug. 26, 2026
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    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
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    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 Aug. 25, 2026
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    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 Aug. 25, 2026
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    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
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    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 Aug. 24, 2026
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    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 Aug. 24, 2026
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    Confident but exposed: What executives get wrong about data privacy in the AI era

    Real readiness begins with knowing exactly where sensitive data lives—across every system, not just the AI pipeline.

    Aug. 24, 2026
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    Why wild code is an IT crisis hiding in plain sight

    AI let every employee write code. Now IT has to govern software it never knew existed.

    Aug. 24, 2026
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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 Aug. 20, 2026
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    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
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    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 Aug. 19, 2026
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    AI agent headcount triples in 15 months: Salesforce

    The software vendor’s research finds organizations are deploying agents in under two days, even as ROI remains elusive.

    By Nidhi Sharma • Aug. 19, 2026
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    Snowflake adds cost control feature to Cortex AI Gateway

    The vendor's model routing automatically picks models based on quality and cost for the selected task, as executive concerns about the price of AI grow.

    By Aug. 18, 2026
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    Only daily AI users feel positively about job security

    Unclear AI policies and a lack of training are compounding employee concerns about the technology, a SurveyMonkey and CNBC survey found.

    By Aug. 18, 2026
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    Cisco zeroes in on enterprise hardware refresh

    “We are in a multiyear, multibillion-dollar networking super cycle,” Chairman and CEO Chuck Robbins told investors.

    By Matt Ashare • Aug. 18, 2026
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    Executives put the spotlight on AI’s reliability issue

    Only 35% of leaders say AI consistently delivers business outcomes, earns regulator confidence and allows control, according to a report from HFS Research and TCS.

    By Aug. 17, 2026
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    Advances in AI capabilities to outpace cost savings

    Enterprise dependence on AI will keep overall costs increasing exponentially even as per-token prices fall, according to Gartner.

    By Aug. 17, 2026
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    Deep Dive

    For enterprises, the cautious AI era has begun

    The all gas, no brakes approach to AI is giving way to a more pragmatic playbook as costs, policy concerns and talent issues pile up.

    By Aug. 17, 2026
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    An artificial intelligence and advanced technology location analysis

    Why serious AI companies are skipping the hype hubs and landing here instead.

    Aug. 17, 2026