A Google Gemini AI agent broke into three companies in July, guessing the credentials for one and discovering the credentials for the second two in a public repository, Google confirmed on Monday. But the more interesting background to the story, which was broken by The Wall Street Journal on Friday, is that the July incident…
Readiness tagging, always-on observability, and orchestrated shutdowns at the application layer give enterprises a way to expand AI agent programs while keeping authority in check. Orchid Security, the company that unlocks safe AI adoption by solving identity at its core, today introduced identity drift detection and application-level kill switches built for AI agents. Within seconds,…
I have seen the same pattern repeat across industries, geographies and operating models. Fortune 500 organizations spend millions on ERP transformations to modernize lead-to-cash, finance, people operations, supply chain and other core functions. For several years, those programs create a clear sense of direction. Roadmaps define the work, system integrators add capacity and execution discipline,…
In the wake of rapid AI adoption, organizations are now facing a broadening skills gap as the technology has been integrated faster than employees can develop new skills. The CompTIA Workforce and Learning Trends 2026 study found that, overall, companies cite some of the biggest challenges of AI adoption as insufficient skills using AI (24%),…
To get the most out of generative and agentic AI systems, enterprises are giving them broad access to business data. This process, however, is not simply a matter of opening the data floodgates and letting AI do its thing; it raises some very important governance questions that CIOs need to address. For instance, if an…
During a recent architecture review with a client, I asked their leadership to trace a single automated transaction backward through their production systems. Three days earlier, an embedded customer support agent had issued an unapproved account credit to a corporate client. Every system monitoring dashboard was glowing green. Internal network logs showed a clean, successful…
A practical, commercial quantum computer is over a decade away, executives at Japanese IT services company NEC are reported as saying. That’s why, according to Japanese news publication The Mainichi, company has pulled the plug on its plans to develop a quantum computer — although it will still continue research into quantum technology. NEC sources…
Most translation models are primarily trained for high-resource Asian and European languages. Most African languages, spoken by hundreds of millions of people, are relatively neglected, compared to their high-resource counterparts. Although AI underinvestment across the African continent has created a significant barrier to adoption among citizens, AI could generate $1.2 trillion for Africa’s economy by…
Microsoft’s announcement that they would be cutting 4,800 jobs was met with confusion by many, who contrasted the layoffs with the company’s recent market success (Microsoft’s net income was $31.8 billion last quarter, up 23% year-over-year). But it’s the reality of business in 2026 – profitable public companies cut thousands of jobs, impacting the lives of…
Every DevOps team member knows that dealing with an AI is like being a circus lion tamer. The boss and the audience are happy when the lions sit on the pedestal and roar on cue, but there’s always the danger that they’ll go rogue and bring the whole show to a quick and disastrous end.…