Picture two retail chains. Akkar & Co Group is the giant — hundreds of stores, the biggest revenue in the sector, the name every shopper recognizes. Tripoli Boutique is the smaller player — a regional chain with a loyal but modest footprint, competing against Akkar & Co’s sheer size. Both start the same way: manual…
Worldwide AI spending will increase 49.5% in 2026, to $2.7 trillion, and grow another 36.2% in 2027 as AI usage continues to expand, Gartner predicts in the latest quarterly update to its IT spending forecast. But there’s been no diversion of money from other areas of IT to feed AI, said Gartner Distinguished VP Analyst…
OpenAI published a detailed list of priorities and principles on Tuesday designed to govern its third-party model assessors, a list that industry observers agreed was a good one. But they also stressed that it lacked any enforceable controls to truly maintain safety. If the goal is to encourage enterprise CIOs to trust OpenAI more, it…
Over the last three decades, the major innovations in enterprise tech have focused on scaling the infrastructure. From VMs, to containers, to big data, to supporting millions of concurrent users on web and mobile applications – the focus was evolving distributed systems to handle more traffic and data, faster, without falling over. What we’re seeing…
Enterprises can now buy frontier AI for far less per token after OpenAI and Anthropic cut prices on their newest models on Tuesday. OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna with per-token costs half those of their GPT-5.6 predecessors. “These models help distribute the benefits of that intelligence by advancing the frontier on cost efficiency,”…
I run interviews every week. Around minute 25, I ask about customer-facing experience. Have you sat in front of the people who use what you build? The answer I get most often: “That’s not really my cup of tea.” A few minutes later, I ask a Python engineer which metrics he’d use to autoscale the…
Writing a specification requires a precision that a contract does not. This year, I focused on an internet draft for privacy-preserving federated learning in multi-tenant agent systems. The privacy budget could not go in as a number. It had to be presented with the privacy unit, the accounting method, the noise and clipping parameters, and…
Data is the fuel for AI since generative, agentic, and ML systems are only as effective as the information they consume. Across all stages of the data lifecycle, including creation, storage, usage, archival, and destruction, CIOs and their business peers must consider how information feeds AI services. Almost two-thirds of organizations are unsure whether they…
If you’re going to run your business like a rental car, at least admit it. There’s a certain kind of company that doesn’t have a strategy. It has an exit. And if you work in IT for one of these outfits, you already know it in your bones before you ever see it in a…
When I first became a CIO, remarkably few CIOs I knew seemed to have set out to become one. In fact, the title itself was still relatively unusual at the time. In many organizations, the most senior technology person was the IT Director. The idea of deliberately building a career towards becoming a CIO wasn’t…