What changes when AI becomes part of how the business runs The more I speak with CIOs and technology leaders, the more I realize most of us are working through variations of the same AI challenge. How quickly should we move? Which opportunities are worth pursuing? What risks are acceptable? And how do we move…
DetailsFor most of my career, technology governance began with a familiar set of questions: Is the system secure? Is it resilient? Does it meet the architecture standard? Can we afford it? Those questions still matter. But they are no longer enough. AI is moving rapidly from producing content and recommendations to initiating actions. It can…
DetailsCIOs are being asked to improve user experience and strengthen identity controls while preserving access to the systems that still run critical workloads. Balancing those priorities becomes harder when the access environment has evolved piecemeal around the systems themselves. Yet the way employees securely connect to those systems often receives far less attention. Many organizations…
DetailsMost organizations don’t realize they have a data readiness problem until they try to do something new with their data. I’ve seen organizations invest heavily in modernization only to discover they’re still spending too much time finding and validating data. Many have more information than ever before yet answering a simple business question can still…
DetailsOpenAI will stop AI coding platform Cursor from accessing its models from November 12, following the acquisition of Cursor parent Anysphere by Elon Musk‘s SpaceX. “Today, we notified SpaceX that we intend to wind down our contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor, with a proposed shutoff date of November 12, 2026,” the company wrote in…
DetailsLunar Cyber today announced Token Exposure Monitoring, a new capability designed to identify, attribute and validate Non-Human Identities (NHI) and machine credentials inside infostealer logs, connect them to the affected organization, and determine which exposures require action. The rapid adoption of AI development tools, cloud platforms and automated infrastructure has put a new class of…
DetailsThe advent of AI is precisely why organizations need technology economists, not just IT finance professionals. IT finance is primarily concerned with budgeting, accounting, cost allocation, depreciation, chargebacks and financial reporting. These disciplines remain important, but they assume a relatively stable relationship between technology spending and business outcomes. AI breaks that assumption. Technology economics asks a fundamentally different…
DetailsAcross dozens of enterprise procurement reviews, I see technology executives make the same expensive mistake. They start their cloud AI strategy with the wrong question: “Which provider offers the smartest model today?” I sat through a meeting where a client’s leadership team listened to a slick 45-minute vendor pitch highlighting benchmark scores, processing limits and…
DetailsMore than four years ago, Blake Lemoine, a senior software engineer assigned to Google’s internal responsible AI organization, noticed something quite odd happening with the language model for dialogue applications (LaMDA) project he was working on. As he conversed with the experimental model, he felt the chatbot responses were becoming more humanlike. The AI programming…
DetailsSomebody in finance has already forwarded you the pricing comparison. A downloadable frontier-class model at a fraction of what you’re paying now, with the obvious question attached: why are we still on flagship rates? The honest answer comes in two halves. Open weights are the best thing to happen to enterprise AI buyers since the…
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