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

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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

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

HPE gets a boost from Juniper Networks integration amid server shipment slump

Memory chip shortages and AI project delays took a bite out of the company’s Q4 revenue growth, executives said during a Thursday earnings call.

By Matt Ashare • Dec. 5, 2025

Microsoft 365 to include more AI tools – at a higher price

Commercial pricing for Microsoft’s flagship subscriptions will rise 16% on average starting in July 2026 as the catalog of AI tools expands, the company said Thursday.

By Makenzie Holland • Dec. 5, 2025

Snowflake deepens partnerships as customer AI use ticks up

As enterprises seek to build AI agents, vendors are partnering to expand data access, interoperability and AI functionality.

By Makenzie Holland • Dec. 4, 2025

CIOs grapple with role change amid AI influx

Nearly 2 in 3 tech chiefs say their roles have evolved in recent years as their focus has shifted to business outcomes.

By Roberto Torres • Dec. 4, 2025

AWS pitches enterprises on frontier agents built for scale, autonomy

IT teams stand to see the most benefit from AI that can continuously work in the background to put out fires, triage issues and monitor the tech stack.

By Makenzie Holland • Dec. 3, 2025

Nike cuts CTO, chief commercial roles in leadership overhaul

Chief Supply Chain Officer Venky Alagirisamy will become COO and oversee the technology department beginning Monday.

By Cara Salpini • Dec. 3, 2025

Retailers turn to AI for marketing, merchandising

AI investments are widespread across retail, but using the tech doesn’t automatically translate to business impacts, per a Berkeley Research Group report.

By Tatiana Walk-Morris • Dec. 3, 2025

Expedia names its first chief AI, data officer

Xavier Amatriain, a former Google executive, will don dual hats for the travel company. The move is a nod to data quality's criticality for IT initiatives.

By Nicole Laskowski • Updated Dec. 3, 2025

SAP deploys EU AI Cloud in latest push for data sovereignty

The ERP giant has been working to expand EU-based compute capacity, having pledged more than $20 billion to the effort in September.

By Makenzie Holland • Dec. 2, 2025

Congress mulls preempting state-level AI laws — again

A coalition of state CIOs is asking Congress not to “strip states of their ability to address real AI risks in their communities.”

By Ryan Kushner • Dec. 2, 2025

Australian bank nabs Lloyds data chief to lead AI

Ranil Boteju will return to the Commonwealth Bank of Australia as its chief AI officer to advance the financial services firm’s strategy.

By Roberto Torres • Dec. 1, 2025

AWS, Google link up to ease multicloud deployments

Microsoft Azure will also join the service in 2026. It's the latest hyperscaler move to ease interoperability.

By Makenzie Holland • Dec. 1, 2025

HP plans workforce trim despite rising AI PC demand

The company unveiled a restructuring plan that includes cutting up to 6,000 jobs by 2028 as it bows to cost pressures and looks to capitalize on AI.

By Makenzie Holland • Nov. 26, 2025

Microsoft tightens cloud login process to prevent common attack

Hackers have spent decades exploiting a ubiquitous type of vulnerability. Microsoft is trying to change that.

By Eric Geller • Nov. 26, 2025