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 Makenzie Holland • Dec. 18, 2025

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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Agentic AI

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

By CIO Dive staff

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 Makenzie Holland • Dec. 18, 2025

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 Makenzie Holland • Dec. 17, 2025

Cloud cost management just got easier

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

By Matt Ashare • Dec. 17, 2025

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 Makenzie Holland • Dec. 16, 2025

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 Roberto Torres • Dec. 16, 2025

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 Lindsey Wilkinson • Dec. 16, 2025

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 Makenzie Holland • Dec. 15, 2025

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 Roberto Torres • Dec. 15, 2025

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

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

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

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 Makenzie Holland • Dec. 12, 2025

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

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

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 Makenzie Holland • Dec. 11, 2025

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 Lindsey Wilkinson • Dec. 11, 2025

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 Makenzie Holland • Dec. 10, 2025

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

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 Makenzie Holland • Dec. 9, 2025

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 Nicole Laskowski • Dec. 9, 2025

IBM shells out $11B for Confluent to help disparate data flow together

The acquisition will create public and private cloud integrations to help drive generative and agentic AI adoption, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said Monday.

By Matt Ashare • Dec. 8, 2025

BNY looks to Google Cloud for agentic AI push

The bank will integrate Gemini Enterprise into its proprietary AI platform, Eliza. It's the latest effort from a financial services company to scale AI use.

By Roberto Torres • Dec. 8, 2025

Realizing the power of AI for content in an agentic world

Enterprises are adopting AI at a breakneck pace, but the speed of adoption is creating new risk surfaces that hinder or even halt AI initiatives.

By Matt Blumberg, CEO, Markup AI • Dec. 8, 2025