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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Agentic AI

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

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

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

The autonomous enterprise runs on trust, not just technology

The bottleneck stalling enterprise AI isn't the model. It's trust.

By Seyi Verma • Aug. 31, 2026

What the great universities teach us about sovereign AI, and who really owns the agentic record

Put everything that matters in one place, under one roof, by design.

By Max Romanenko, Chief Technology Officer, EDB • Aug. 31, 2026

As agentic AI scales, orchestration moves center stage

An upcoming survey report shows AI is moving beyond individual use cases into interconnected systems of agents, creating new demands for control and measurable value.

By OutSystems • 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

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

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

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

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

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

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