How CIOs can attract top AI talent without spending billions

Athough big tech players are luring AI pros with large compensation packages, most companies are better equipped to attract top talent than they realize.

By Kjell Carlsson • Sept. 10, 2025

HP sees earlier than expected spike in AI PC shipments

“We see CIOs making that decision to refresh their installed base with AI PCs because they don't want to be outdated in a year or two,” CFO Karen Parkhill said Monday.

By Matt Ashare • Sept. 9, 2025

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Shifts in enterprise software use, ongoing generative AI adoption plans and budget pressures ruled CIO priorities in the first half of the year.

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Salesforce still sees a place for live customer service agents after massive cuts

The company slashed about 4,000 customer service agents as its use of AI picked up, but CEO Marc Benioff still expects people and AI to work together.

By Bryan Wassel • Sept. 9, 2025

Broadcom enters ‘second phase’ of VMware consolidation

The company converted its largest customers to subscription software bundles. Now it wants to help them find value in private cloud.

By Matt Ashare • Sept. 5, 2025

Salesforce banks on AI deals as customers move past pilot stage

The vendor doubled the number of paying customers for its agentic AI platform in six months, executives said during a Wednesday earnings call. 

By Roberto Torres • Sept. 4, 2025

SAP pours more than $23B into EU sovereign cloud buildout

The ERP will expand access to its software through infrastructure services running in SAP data centers in Europe and to on-premises estates.

By Matt Ashare • Sept. 2, 2025

How Bank of America’s Erica raised the stakes for virtual assistants

The virtual assistant has serviced 3 billion client interactions since its 2018 launch, the bank said.

By Kristen Doerer • Aug. 29, 2025

Walmart buys into VMware’s private cloud

The retail giant plans to deploy the vendor’s virtualization software across its globally distributed operations, VMware parent company Broadcom said.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 26, 2025

Why Morgan Stanley open-sourced its app development tool

A software validation framework helps the bank accelerate compliance and security reviews. Last week, it released the tool through FINOS.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 22, 2025

RaceTrac to hire first CIO as top tech exec retires

John Lukas transformed RaceTrac’s store technology infrastructure, revamped its loyalty app and spearheaded the IT integration of RaceTrac’s 2023 acquisition of Gulf Oil during his tenure.

By Brett Dworski • Aug. 21, 2025

AI hiring tools push tech workers to reconsider the industry

Nearly 1 in 3 IT professionals said they might leave the industry altogether as AI screening tools muddy the hiring process, a Dice survey found.

By Roberto Torres • Aug. 21, 2025

Cyber, AI drive software spending to double-digit growth through 2029

Cloud security and identity and access management tool purchases insulated the market from tariff-induced economic shocks, according to Forrester.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 19, 2025

Microsoft axes volume discounts for SaaS suites

The move is intended to standardize pricing for online services, including Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365, the company said Tuesday.

By Matt Ashare • Updated Aug. 14, 2025

FedEx appoints new tech chief

Vishal Talwar will join the logistics giant Friday as EVP, chief digital and information officer and president of Dataworks.

By Roberto Torres • Aug. 13, 2025

6 CIO goals on AI for the rest of 2025

Tech leaders need to focus on unifying data structures, modernizing architectures and shaping governance ahead of agentic AI adoption.

By Loren Absher • Aug. 11, 2025

‘Big bang’ tech deployments fade amid optimization focus

“Instead of 24- or 36-month projects, we’re talking six- to eight-week cycles,” Grant Thornton’s Tony Dinola said.

By Alexei Alexis • Aug. 8, 2025

Cybersecurity budgets tighten as economic anxiety rises

Uncertain tariff policies and fluctuating inflation rates are leading to stagnant or reduced budgets, according to an IANS Research report.

By Alexei Alexis • Aug. 6, 2025

Why Capital One’s software division created its own data security tool

When the bank couldn’t find a commercially available tokenization software tool, it tapped its engineering team to build one.

By Matt Ashare • Aug. 4, 2025

Microsoft rebuked by UK regulators as cloud revenues soar

Azure revenue increased 34% year over year to more than $75 billion in the last year, despite an ongoing capacity crunch, executives said Wednesday.

By Matt Ashare • July 31, 2025

How 10 years of technology shifts transformed the CIO role

CIO Dive began publishing its newsletter a decade ago this month. Here's an in-depth look at how this C-suite position has evolved.

By Roberto Torres • July 31, 2025

Research shows LLMs can conduct sophisticated attacks without humans

The project, launched by Carnegie Mellon in collaboration with Anthropic, simulated the 2017 Equifax data breach.

By David Jones • July 30, 2025

PNC embeds commercial finance platform in Oracle Fusion ERP

The bank’s cloud-based Pinacle Connect treasury management system automates transaction processes and breaks down data silos, the two companies said Tuesday.

By Matt Ashare • July 29, 2025

Java licensing snafus cost millions, drive developers to open source

More than 1 in 4 organizations spend between $100,000 and $500,000 in audit penalties annually, according to a joint study by Azul and the ITAM Forum.

By Matt Ashare • July 21, 2025

Risk management, legacy tech pose major threats to healthcare sector

Companies have improved their recovery processes and user controls but still lag in risk preparedness, according to a report from Fortified Health Security.

By Eric Geller • July 16, 2025

Retail accelerates investments in generative AI

The industry is also one of the leaders of AI agent and multiagent system adoption, according to a Capgemini report. 

By Xanayra Marin-Lopez • July 11, 2025