AI datacenter capex will far exceed forecast revenue through 2030
Investors are pouring more into AI data center infrastructure than they can hope to recoup by 2030, according to Gartner. “Enterprise and consumer AI revenue will be insufficient to support profitable...
View ArticleChange saturation is not a communication problem
On a major S/4HANA transformation, the first signs of trouble did not look like resistance. They looked like missed stand-ups. Then deliverables started slipping, readiness checkpoints came back with...
View ArticleAI won’t kill jobs. Bad team design will
In a recent finance training session, an FP&A analyst took the prompting method we had covered twenty minutes earlier and applied it to a monthly variance report spanning four business units. The...
View ArticleIT leaders still on the hunt for VMware alternatives
Nearly three years after Broadcom purchased VMware, IT leaders still aren’t convinced they will stick with the leading virtualization technology provider over the long term. Ninety percent of current...
View ArticleIT jobs report: Employers consider AI risks and ethics
The IT job hiring market appears to remain strong, as data from the Dice September 2026 Jobs Report shows that IT job postings continued to increase through September after experiencing a slight dip...
View ArticleThe agent-to-agent economy is closer than you think
Stripe recently acquired AI routing platform OpenRouter for a reported $7.5 billion, making it one of the largest venture-backed AI startup exits and fintech M&A deals of the year. It’s a...
View ArticleBefore you ask what an AI agent can do, ask who it is
Companies routinely rely on authenticating the identities of humans who access sensitive company data across their networks. There’s an established and accepted set of protocols, done upfront and in a...
View ArticleOnboard your AI agents like new hires to prevent automated mistakes
Imagine a brand-new marketing hire being handed a spreadsheet and expected to execute a campaign on day one. Would you blame them if it went badly, when no one had explained customer profiles,...
View ArticleTechCrunch’s Founder Summit Boston: 25% discount
The next generation of founders aren’t pinned to one mindset, one technology, and for that matter, one coast. TechCrunch’s Founder Summit event in Boston’s SoWa Power Station on November 4 gives the...
View ArticleSecure your AI estate: 5 things CIOs must know about AI agents
What CIOs need to know about AI agents Enterprise AI adoption is entering a new phase. Generative AI gave employees new ways to create content and access information, primarily through AI web...
View ArticleServiceNow makes it easier to build AI agents, gives them verifiable identities
ServiceNow is giving its AI Control Tower new features to make AI agents more governable — and a new name, Super Intelligence Control Tower (SICT), to please the US President. It is also updating...
View ArticleWhat a cockatoo can teach us about the evidence AI wasn’t built to hear
AI systems do not make decisions from reality. They make decisions from representations of reality: records, observations, measurements, histories, labels, documents, and whatever else an organization...
View ArticleHow to make sense of the agentic AI tools ecosystem
For the past half century or more, the teams running enterprise software stacks have nurtured a vast ecosystem of tools to keep software humming along. They’ve built CI/CD pipelines, elaborate test...
View ArticleToken efficiency: Building AI that spends intelligence wisely
Last year, my company decided to rebuild our enterprise AI platform, which our customers had been using for over a decade. But instead of simply updating it, we started over with a different ambition:...
View ArticleIT reinvention requires mastering the art of translation
Today’s most successful IT leaders must be master translators, interpreting technical complexities with clarity and precision for the business units that rely on their services for into decisions and...
View ArticleWhat hundreds of Microsoft 365 deployments have taught me about cybersecurity
I’ve spent more than 20 years running IT and security for organizations across California and around the country. Over that time, my team has taken over, deployed and cleaned up Microsoft 365...
View ArticleWorkday expands AI ambitions with C1.ai identity platform acquisition
Fresh off its $1.1 billion acquisition of AI startup Sana, Workday is making another bet on enterprise AI, this time targeting the governance challenge. The company said it will acquire agentic...
View ArticleMCP is changing the questions marketers can afford to ask
Picture a regional marketing director on a Monday morning. She’s got 80 locations, a cup of coffee, and a nagging feeling that something is off in the Southeast. Reviews seem quieter. A couple of...
View ArticleHuman in the loop is an engineering problem
A customer leaves a one-star review at one of your locations. An AI drafts a reply in seconds. It’s warm, on-brand, grammatically perfect, and it thanks the customer for their feedback and invites...
View ArticleBeyond the perimeter: The network as the security fabric for the AI era
Enterprises have historically built separate network and security architectures, but this separation is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain as frontier AI models mature and security...
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