The compounding enterprise

On July 20, a federal judge gave final approval to the largest copyright settlement in U.S. history. Anthropic will pay $3,000 per work for roughly 500,000 books it pulled from pirate libraries to train its models. Here’s the detail most of the coverage missed: The court had already ruled that training AI on copyrighted text…

AI and the workforce have the same blind spots

Every AI rollout comes with the same internal pitch: We’ll move faster, and we’ll stay accurate, because humans will review the output. It’s a two-part promise. Most organizations have spent the last two years measuring the efficiency of this, but not many have seriously tested the second part. New research suggests we should be questioning…

IT jobs report: Demand for AI fluency rises

AI skills continue to drive IT job postings, with 75% of US technology openings requiring AI fluency in June, up 178% year-over-year, according to the Dice July 2026 Jobs Report. Roles in the software industry continue to rise, ranking second behind consulting as the industry seeking the most IT help right now. Aerospace/defense, finance/banking, and…

AI sovereignty through diversification

Technology procurement has changed more in the last year than in the previous 20 due to a combination of political, economic, and technological factors. Countries and organizations are realizing that dependence on a handful of platforms is no longer sustainable. For enterprises, this was brought home with the on-off-on saga of Anthropic’s Fable 5. For…

The hidden ERP risk CIOs miss: When ‘job succeeded’ doesn’t mean the business was protected

Process Monitor is the built-in PeopleSoft tool administrators use to track the status of scheduled jobs. CIOs who only measure success or failure are missing where the real risk lives. For most CIOs and ERP leaders, ERP reliability conversations center on uptime, integrations and transaction throughput. Those are the visible risks. They show up on…