Google, Microsoft offer specs to help you prove your AI is behaving nicely

Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and others want to help enterprises demonstrate that their AI applications are behaving themselves through the creation of a new foundation. The Appia Foundation will, it explained rather impenetrably, “establish modular specifications that provide a connecting layer to bridge foundational global standards with practical, trusted assessments across the global AI value chain.”…

Gracia Sánchez-Vizcaíno (Securitas): “El CIO que solo gestiona sistemas va a perder relevancia frente al que lidera la transformación del modelo operativo completo”

La ingeniera informática Gracia Sánchez-Vizcaíno es una destacada ejecutiva española responsable, desde 2020, de liderar la transformación digital y tecnológica de la multinacional de seguridad Securitas en España y Latinoamérica. La CIO forma parte este año del jurado de los CIO 50 Awards en España, la convocatoria de premios de referencia en el país que…

Why the FDA’s new real-world evidence guidance ends the era of structured-data-only submissions

On February 17, 2026, the FDA’s final guidance on the use of real-world evidence to support regulatory decision-making for medical devices became operational. It asks sponsors to demonstrate that their real-world data is relevant, reliable, complete and traceable, for every clinical fact rather than each dataset as a whole. The first wave of submissions under…

Your next data center could soon be in space. Here’s why you should care

For the past two decades, enterprise infrastructure strategy has been shaped by one dominant assumption: the cloud is where modern computing happens. Applications moved from corporate data centers to hyperscale cloud regions. Data moved into globally distributed storage platforms. Analytics, cybersecurity, collaboration and enterprise software followed. More recently, artificial intelligence accelerated the shift, making cloud…