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    Verizon taps Google for enterprise AI, infrastructure deployment

    The telecommunications company plans to deploy Gemini Enterprise and Google's data infrastructure as it makes AI central to the customer experience.

    By • Aug. 24, 2026
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    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 • Aug. 24, 2026
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    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 • Aug. 24, 2026
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    Snowflake adds cost control feature to Cortex AI Gateway

    The vendor's model routing automatically picks models based on quality and cost for the selected task, as executive concerns about the price of AI grow.

    By • Aug. 18, 2026
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    Cisco zeroes in on enterprise hardware refresh

    “We are in a multiyear, multibillion-dollar networking super cycle,” Chairman and CEO Chuck Robbins told investors.

    By Matt Ashare • Aug. 18, 2026
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    Executives put the spotlight on AI’s reliability issue

    Only 35% of leaders say AI consistently delivers business outcomes, earns regulator confidence and allows control, according to a report from HFS Research and TCS.

    By • Aug. 17, 2026
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    Scaling AI hinges on the enterprise data layer

    Limited data access weakens agentic AI results, which creates a lack of trust in the technology, according to a Google Cloud and MIT report.

    By • Aug. 13, 2026
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    Legacy IT forces enterprises to delay AI projects

    Data governance and regulatory challenges are pushing CIOs to revamp their infrastructure to support modern workloads, according to a Cloudera report.

    By • Aug. 12, 2026
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    AI infrastructure spending shifts in latest sign of deployment maturity

    Enterprises are now pouring more resources into operating the technology at scale rather than on training models, according to Gartner.

    By • Aug. 10, 2026
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    With AI, CIOs need a new playbook

    IT leaders need to rewrite operations from the ground up while facing regulatory pressure, capacity constraints and concerns about vendor lock-in.

    By • Aug. 10, 2026
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    Amazon ups AI investments as cloud sector chases windfall

    Yearly enterprise cloud spending jumped to $500 billion in support of AI buildouts, according to Synergy Research Group.

    By • Aug. 3, 2026
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    AI shifts mainframe modernization strategy

    To stay or not to stay on the mainframe? AI might help enterprises do both.

    By • July 28, 2026
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    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 • July 23, 2026
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    Big tech sovereign AI tools promise control, but drive lock-in

    Nvidia has emerged as a dominant player in sovereign AI, which accounts for roughly 14% of the company’s revenue, according to a Stanford HAI study.

    By • July 23, 2026
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    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 • July 15, 2026
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    IBM stock tumbles after Q2 infrastructure revenue warning

    The dip reflects a trend among CIOs to secure compute power amid supply constraints rather than invest in infrastructure upgrades.

    By • July 14, 2026
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    Texas Capital picks U.S. Bank alum as chief digital, information officer

    Mo Jamous will lead the Dallas-based bank’s AI initiatives and strengthen its technology platform.

    By • July 13, 2026
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    Agentic AI strains legacy IT systems

    More than 4 in 5 organizations need to upgrade their tech stacks to support AI agents at scale, according to Google’s 2026 State of AI Infrastructure report.

    By • July 10, 2026
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    Liberty Mutual preps legacy systems for AI scale

    The insurer is reaping the rewards of a yearslong modernization strategy to build systems that allow for as much flexibility as possible.

    By • July 8, 2026
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    Microsoft pours $2.5B into push to embed engineers with customers

    The tech giant will deploy 6,000 engineers through the Microsoft Frontier Company. It’s the latest big tech effort to support AI deployment at scale.

    By • July 2, 2026
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    ServiceNow, Accenture team up to target enterprise security

    Tech vendors are aiming to address security concerns over legacy implementations as agentic AI reaches more parts of the business.

    By • June 30, 2026
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    Albertsons works to scale merchandising intelligence platform

    The grocer plans to fully deploy the platform — which incorporates agentic AI tools and governance — by the end of the year.

    By • June 30, 2026
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    The Magnum Ice Cream Company enlists six vendors to build tech stack

    The ice cream giant tapped Microsoft, SAP and others to lay the groundwork for its departure from Unilever’s IT systems.

    By • June 25, 2026
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    Tech debt, process gaps keep firms in AI ‘pilot purgatory,’ study finds

    Collectively, the world’s top 2,000 public firms have nearly $18 trillion in untapped AI value due to broken processes and other weaknesses, according to the research.

    By Alexei Alexis • June 16, 2026
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    Dell, HPE server supply upended by memory crunch

    Despite similar challenges, the two computer makers are using different strategies to battle supply constraints, including passing costs on to customers.

    By Antone Gonsalves • June 15, 2026