AI & Future Tech

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    Why AI governance gained ground in 2025

    CIOs addressed risk mitigation gaps and strengthened guardrails to expedite AI projects without sacrificing on security.

    By • Dec. 19, 2025
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    House passes bill that could fast-track AI infrastructure projects

    The SPEED Act aims to cut red tape in order to meet soaring energy demand and growing competition in the global AI race, according to the bill’s sponsors.

    By • Dec. 19, 2025
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    Automation

    In search of productivity gains, IT leaders are making automation their top priority. But successful enterprise AI deployments depend on access to the right data sets.

    By CIO Dive staff
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    NIST adds to AI security guidance with Cybersecurity Framework profile

    Organizations have a new resource to map AI considerations onto NIST’s widely used security blueprint.

    By Eric Geller • Dec. 19, 2025
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    Microsoft, Google rule AI vendor market for enterprises

    The two tech titans provide the most advanced offerings for businesses, according to a Gartner analysis. The firm also highlighted OpenAI’s strength as an LLM provider.

    By • Dec. 18, 2025
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    Red Hat acquires Chatterbox Labs to boost AI governance

    The deal is aimed at expanding the risk assessment, safety testing and governance capabilities within Red Hat’s AI portfolio.

    By Scarlett Evans • Dec. 18, 2025
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    CIOs name AI adoption as top imperative: survey

    Despite strong deployment goals, most C-suite executives believe new technology investments will take more than six years to reach 48% of expected returns.

    By • Dec. 18, 2025
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    Amazon AI chief exits, triggering leadership shakeup

    Peter DeSantis was tapped to lead a new group focused on AI, silicon and quantum as Amazon’s AI Chief Rohit Prasad plans to step down at the end of the year.

    By • Dec. 17, 2025
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    Cloud cost management just got easier

    The FinOps Foundation added contractual commitments to its unified billing data matrix.

    By Matt Ashare • Dec. 17, 2025
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    IBM releases SAP tool as migration deadline looms

    Fueled by generative and agentic AI, the IBM Consulting Application Management Suite for SAP aims to simplify the transition to S/4HANA.

    By • Dec. 16, 2025
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    UBS tech chief to depart as bank focuses on AI

    Mike Dargan, group chief operations and technology officer, will leave at the end of December, marking the latest in a string of leadership shifts at the bank.

    By • Dec. 16, 2025
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    5 CIO predictions for AI in 2026

    IT leaders will look to make use of agentic systems, focus on projects with productivity gains and rethink workforce strategies next year.

    By • Dec. 16, 2025
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    Nvidia Nemotron 3 seeks to power scalable, multi-agent systems

    Nvidia’s latest generation of open models builds on the growing development of multi-agent systems and expands the company’s sovereign AI efforts.

    By • Dec. 15, 2025
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    How Paramount flipped the script on AI adoption

    An internal roadshow of targeted use cases helped gain employee buy-in, EVP and CIO Lakshman Nathan said at the AI Summit in New York.

    By • Dec. 15, 2025
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    New general-purpose Amazon EC2 M8a instances are now available

    Built with 5th Generation AMD EPYC processors, EC2 M8a instances provide higher performance and better price performance.

    By Betty Zheng (郑予彬) • Dec. 15, 2025
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    Most AI programs are built — but few are governed: Why sovereignty is the missing link to scalable success

    Governance isn’t a barrier—it’s the very foundation upon which scalable, compliant and high-value AI rests.

    By Quais Taraki, Chief Technology Officer, EDB • Dec. 15, 2025
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    Broadcom buoyed by AI boom, steady VMware growth

    The company’s AI revenue shot up 65% year over year to $20 billion in 2025, driven by massive deals with OpenAI and Anthropic.

    By Matt Ashare • Dec. 12, 2025
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    Trump calls for federal policy framework preempting state AI laws

    The executive order comes as Big Tech pushes back on local AI regulation while pouring billions into building out AI infrastructure and deploying new products.

    By • Dec. 12, 2025
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    Opinion

    5 human readiness barriers for enterprise AI value

    CIOs must spot deeply rooted behavioral reflexes that can stall transformation, inflate costs and erode competitive advantage — if left unaddressed.

    By Gabriela Vogel • Dec. 12, 2025
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    Oracle defends infrastructure spending spree amid mounting AI demand

    The company raised its fiscal year capital investments forecast by $15 billion as its cloud backlog surpassed $500 billion.

    By Matt Ashare • Dec. 11, 2025
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    Enterprise AI PC adoption set to slow in 2026

    A second adoption wave is expected to hit in 2027 as enterprises shore up their AI capabilities, according to The Futurum Group.

    By • Dec. 11, 2025
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    Mary Kay blends generative, agentic AI portfolio

    The beauty company’s slower start with generative AI resulted in a clearer path for adopting AI agents, according to CIO James Whatley. 

    By • Dec. 11, 2025
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    Big tech takes steps to build open standards for agentic AI

    Anthropic said it will donate the Model Context Protocol to the Linux Foundation, a move that could ease AI agent interoperability and enterprise adoption.

    By • Dec. 10, 2025
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    Workato crafts a practical playbook for agentic AI deployment

    The orchestration platform provider used clear scripts to govern automated processes and build stakeholder trust in the technology, Workato CIO Carter Busse said.

    By Matt Ashare • Dec. 10, 2025
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    EU probes Google’s use of online content for AI models

    The European Commission will investigate whether Google is “distorting competition” among AI model builders through privileged access to content.

    By • Dec. 9, 2025
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    Nationwide appoints CTO amid $1.5B tech push

    Michael Carrel takes over the role from veteran IT executive Jim Fowler, who will join Lumen Technologies in January.

    By • Dec. 9, 2025