Picture the meeting. A slide goes up, a number goes down and somewhere in the room, someone claps. The line item is a renegotiated managed services contract, a hardware order trimmed to “just enough,” or a headcount freeze that quietly became a headcount decrease. Whatever it is, it looks great in the deck. The CFO…
Achieving return on investment is impossible without knowing the total cost of ownership (TCO) of an initiative — and when it comes to AI, CIOs are finding cost calculations anything but straightforward. Subscription and token costs are a big part of the calculus, but several other factors go into the cost of AI projects, says…
Every decade or so, a new form of infrastructure becomes the thing that separates economies that compound from economies that stagnate. In the 20th century, it was ports, highways and power grids. Right now, it’s compute. And governments around the world are scrambling to get a piece of it — offering land, tax breaks and…
Over the past few years, much of the conversation has focused on autonomous AI and how quickly organizations can remove humans from decision-making. In financial services, we’re seeing the opposite trend. The organizations making the most sustainable progress aren’t eliminating human oversight—they’re redesigning it. The model taking hold within the banking industry isn’t AI that…
Earlier this year, Meta, one of the industry’s loudest AI advocates, was ready to slash up to 60% of the members of some teams and replace them with AI, as part of what it called Project OT (Organization Transformation), an initiative to make Meta “AI native.” But it backed off at the last minute after…
Salesforce and Anthropic today announced they have expanded their strategic partnership to deliver Claudeforce, enabling customers of both companies to leverage Salesforce data, workflows, business logic, actions, and governance within Claude. “What we’re seeing is that when people stop using Salesforce through the traditional human interface and start using it through an agentic interface, it…
AI-powered attacks are becoming faster and more automated, putting pressure on security teams that still investigate alerts sequentially. At RSAC 2026, Arctic Wolf introduced the Aurora® Superintelligence Platform and Aurora® Agentic SOC, shifting from a human-led Security Operations Centre (SOC) to an agent-led model with humans in the loop. Here’s how these solutions are changing…
AI agents could make software development and other enterprise tasks more productive, but they are also making technology spending harder to predict. Unlike traditional software licenses, the cost of running an agent can vary depending on the models it uses, the number of tokens it consumes, and how long it runs. Google on Wednesday added…
There is a tidy story going around about the end of enterprise software. Call it the SaaSpocalypse. AI and vibe coding have made it cheap enough to rip out your software-as-a-service contracts and build your own replacements. The rush to rebuild carries its own risk, one that surfaces only after the SaaS is gone. Teams…
A factory can forgive a late email. It won’t forgive a robot arm that arrives three milliseconds after the conveyor. That sounds absurdly small. Three milliseconds barely qualify as waiting. Yet inside operational technology, tiny gaps can carry heavy consequences. A protection relay trips late. A vision system pairs an image with the wrong product.…