Microsoft launches agentic security platform designed to combat AI-based attacks

The rollout comes amid growing concerns about the ability of hackers to launch campaigns using autonomous methods. 

By David Jones • July 28, 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

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Agentic AI

CIOs face an enormous challenge: Fielding a technology that could forever change how enterprise work gets done.

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The evolving skill set of the CIO

Communication skills, a commercial mindset and change management chops are three key areas businesses look at when evaluating CIO candidates. In today’s market, companies often come up short.

By Roberto Torres • July 28, 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 • 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

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

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

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

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

Ulta Beauty names Domino’s veteran as CTO

Kelly Garcia joins the cosmetics retailer in the midst of a tech-driven strategy to drive growth and customer personalization.

By Paige Gross • July 15, 2026

US launches vulnerability clearinghouse amid AI-fueled surge in flaws

The Trump administration hopes the program will accelerate the discovery and fixing of serious technical problems before hackers exploit them.

By Eric Geller • July 15, 2026

AI ROI is rising, but not where companies expected

Enterprises reported that AI is helping them find business insights and interact with customers, but not necessarily save money or time, an SAP survey found.

By Paige Gross • July 15, 2026

AI adoption surges as trust plummets: report

Nearly half of users distrust AI companies despite widespread chatbot usage, according to fintech firm Tether.

By Nidhi Sharma • July 14, 2026