With AI increasingly tucked into every cranny of the enterprise, someone has had to step up and provide the tools necessary to discover, track, and monitor all the agents and LLMs and keep them humming along in their various workflows. Thankfully, the DevOps world answered the call, building the tools to support our new overlords…
I have sat in a lot of ERP training sessions over the years. Some were excellent. Most were not. And the ones that failed share a pattern I have come to recognize almost immediately: a vendor trainer at the front of the room, working through the same slide deck they use for every client, at…
Every major sporting and pop culture event creates a familiar conversation among employers: How much productivity will be lost? This year’s FIFA World Cup was no exception. Before the tournament began, UKG research found that 37% of employees globally planned to adjust their work schedules during the tournament. Some intended to take time off. Others…
Recent data from the CompTIA Tech Jobs Report shows that tech jobs have seen a drop in unemployment, down to 3.1% in May from 3.5% in April, accounting for an increase of around 6,700 in May. Roles that saw the highest demand include software developers and engineers, systems engineers and architects, tech support specialists, cybersecurity…
Today’s CIOs must master a complex balancing act of maintaining operational excellence while enabling AI experimentation, modernizing legacy environments while accelerating innovation, leading workforce transformation while maintaining culture, and communicating fluently across boards, business units, customers, and technical teams alike. Few leaders understand this balancing act better than former Verizon CIO Jane Connell. Over her…
Enterprises that use AI in hiring and firing decisions continue to be under scrutiny, and this time it’s Meta under the microscope. A legal complaint filed on July 13 in a US District Court in California alleges that Meta used AI systems that unfairly and illegally selected workers for termination while they were out on…
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on Tuesday reiterated his push for an AI industry self-regulation effort, led by the US government, that is particularly focused on artificial general intelligence (AGI) and national security. But it is precisely that focus on national security that may make the results of such an effort, assuming it happens, less…
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is pushing for the US AI industry to self-regulate, with the support of government, as a starting point for an international creating shared international standards. In a blog post, he called for a focus on artificial general intelligence (AGI) and national security. But it is precisely that focus on national…
Enterprises are facing two simultaneous challenges with AI: The risks associated with it are evolving faster than governance frameworks, while the business benefits are often difficult to measure. This is one of the key findings of The Value of AI, a study commissioned by SAP from Oxford Economics. Now in its second year, the study…
If you just read the headlines, it would seem as if AI is now writing all of the world’s code and powering every application businesses run on. That’s far from true. Just 4 of 33 AI pilots reach production, according to IDC Research — leaving legacy applications still fueling the wheels of commerce. This “silent…