I spent the early part of my career building database systems, managing Oracle’s storage engine group and later helping build Aster Data. That work taught me to watch the gap between benchmark results and production behavior. When the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) was formed in 1988, it was because vendors, customers and researchers lacked…
DetailsOpenAI says true agentic AI has finally arrived, pushing beyond the trivial capabilities of early-stage virtual assistants. This week at OpenAI Dev Day, the company introduced Dots, which CEO Sam Altman described as “remarkably capable, always-on” agents powered by GPT‑6 Astra. Dots have their own cloud computer, can be accessed in ChatGPT, Slack, or Teams,…
DetailsBOSTON — Business leaders are looking beyond a single-minded focus on artificial intelligence and the returns generated by individual agents as they confront the broader challenge of continuously reinventing their organizations around what emerging technologies make possible. This shifting mindset emerged during CIO 100 Leadership Live Boston, where discussions began with the human dimensions of…
DetailsXi Jinping left Washington on September 25 with an agreement to keep talking, a phone line and on generated text, images, audio and video. The White House fact sheet lists three AI items: the leaders agreed to call the technology “super intelligence,” established a dialogue with the next exchange due by November 2026, and agreed…
DetailsUS President Donald Trump has ordered the federal government to call artificial intelligence “Super Intelligence,” while keeping the technology’s legal definition unchanged and relying on industry to set the rules for its use. In an executive order, the White House administration said modern systems “far exceed what was envisioned when the term ‘Artificial Intelligence’ first…
DetailsFor most of computing history, performance was an engineering problem you could reason about at your desk. Profile the code, count the database calls, size the hardware. If a system was slow, the cause was usually something you could hold in your head: an unindexed query, a synchronous call that should have been async, a…
DetailsAI’s ascent in business is rapidly impacting nearly every industry and job role. But, according to data from Indeed Hiring Lab, IT remains the epicenter of AI’s role revolution, with AI skills still proving to be most valuable to those working technology positions. When it comes to AI’s impact, Indeed identifies software development, IT systems…
DetailsAlternative clouds have emerged amid major cloud providers such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, and often specialize in niche areas like AI-native computing, and sovereign and edge deployments, while professing to provide cost reductions and best-of-breed performance. “Many organizations are rebalancing away from all-in hyperscaler strategies to avoid lock-in and concentration risk,” says…
DetailsEnterprise AI transformation has moved beyond experimentation. Organizations are no longer asking whether artificial intelligence can improve productivity, decision-making, customer engagement and operating efficiency; they are asking how to adopt it responsibly, repeatedly and at scale. A Client Zero strategy offers a practical answer to this challenge. In this approach, an enterprise becomes the first…
DetailsOver the last four years, artificial intelligence has captured the imagination of technology and business leaders worldwide, holding out the promise of revamped business models, new growth avenues and efficiency gains. In the past 12 months, however, enterprise conversations have undergone a sharp strategic pivot. As the initial AI hype cycle cools, corporate boards and…
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