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Getting a grip on shadow tokens and AI blowouts

Your developers aren't being innovative with AI — they're "tokenmaxxing" on your dime, burning through annual budgets in months without proving a dime of ROI.

By Apu Pavithran

Jul 24, 20267 mins

Artificial IntelligenceBudgetingDevelopment Tools

Atos launches sovereign cloud service to power comeback

By Maxwell Cooter

Jul 24, 20262 mins

Cloud Computing

Why I changed how I pitch AI: It’s no longer about saving money, but managing tokens and adoption

By Enrique Camacho

Jul 24, 20268 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDigital TransformationIT Strategy

Google CEO distracts from Gemini 3.5 Pro delay with talk of Gemini 4 and monthly releases

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 23, 20263 mins

Artificial IntelligenceGoogleVendors and Providers

OpenAI Presence raises new questions about enterprise automation and jobs

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Jul 23, 20265 mins

Artificial Intelligence

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How to navigate the AI talent wars

In managing this novel type of IT talent gap, balancing protection with velocity is key.

By Francis Brero

Jul 23, 2026 6 mins

HiringIT Skills and TrainingTechnology Industry

The new value architecture of the AI-native SaaS era

As AI transforms SaaS, software success is shifting from seat-based access to credit-centric metrics that track actual work performed.

By Malinda Gentry and Harvind Raman

Jul 23, 2026 9 mins

BudgetingPricingSaaS

Stop asking AI nicely: Here’s how to get work-ready results every time

Advanced prompting techniques like Chain-of-Thought and ReAct transform basic AI into reliable, enterprise-ready systems.

By Archana Choudhary

Jul 23, 2026 5 mins

Artificial IntelligenceEnterprise Applications

7 CRM trends for 2026: AI brings decisive action to customer workflows

Agentic AI continues to accelerate the evolution of customer relationship management (CRM) into a more decisive, action-oriented solution, with subsequent workforce, budgeting, and business process impacts CIOs must account for.

By Neal Weinberg

Jul 23, 2026 9 mins

CRM SystemsIT StrategyTechnology Industry

CyCognito Brings Always-On AI Pentesting to External Attack Surface Management

By CyberNews Wire

Jul 22, 2026 5 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCyberattacksCybercrime

Principles every enterprise must test before the attack arrives

True cyber resilience requires independent backups, board-aligned recovery plans and stress-testing for total, destructive blackout scenarios.

By Tony Colon

Jul 23, 2026 7 mins

Business ContinuityData and Information SecuritySecurity

Smaller, smarter, safer: How to build agentic AI on the right foundation

At the CIO 100 Leadership Live New York event last week, Zoho’s head of sales and account management walked through lessons the software provider has learned about deploying effective agentic AI.

By Thor Olavsrud

Jul 23, 2026 8 mins

CIO 100CIO Leadership LiveDigital Transformation

AI success requires a full-stack CIO

Today’s IT leaders must be masters of everything from the boardroom to the command line to help reinvent their organizations with AI. Former Colonial Pipeline CIO Afshean Talasaz knows how.

By Dan Roberts

Jul 23, 2026 10 mins

CIODigital TransformationIT Strategy

Sovereign AI has become the public-sector CIO's control problem

As governments embed AI into services, sovereignty shifts from training native models to public CIO control over data, vendor dependency, audits and continuity.

By Collin Hogue-Spears

Jul 23, 2026 8 mins

GovernmentGovernment ITMarkets

Monday.com cuts 20% of its workforce to restructure for the AI era

The company says the move isn't about margins, but about creating a flatter organization built around AI agents, autonomous teams, and deeper customer engagement.

By Taryn Plumb

Jul 22, 2026 7 mins

Artificial IntelligenceSoftware ProvidersTechnology Industry

Oracle’s July update fixes ten 10.0 vulnerabilities in Fusion Middleware

The record number of fixes in this quarter’s Critical Patch Update cover 32 product families.

By Gyana Swain

Jul 22, 2026 6 mins

DatabasesOracle DatabaseRelational Databases

Oracle expands Cloud@Customer with new database service for mid-sized workloads

Base Database Cloud@Customer could help regulated enterprises modernize databases and deploy AI closer to sensitive data, although its appeal is likely to remain strongest among existing Oracle customers, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 22, 2026 5 mins

Cloud ComputingDatabasesHybrid Cloud

The $3 trillion assembly line: Why CIOs must industrialize the data center supply chain

Building data centers isn't civil engineering anymore; it’s high-stakes product assembly where a disconnected software tool can create a $500M blind spot.

By Joydeb Mandal and Sourav Mallick

Jul 22, 2026 7 mins

Data Center DesignMarketsTransportation and Logistics Industry

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Spotlight: Setting the 2026 IT agenda

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Our annual State of the CIO Survey, now in its 25th year, highlights the ongoing evolution of the CIO role from IT operator to strategic business leader. The data is brought to life in conversations with IT leaders about their experience shaping enterprise strategy, enabling business growth, and leading cultural change. State of the CIO illuminates key areas of business and technology investment and this focus provides an ideal opportunity for sponsors to align with the opportunities highlighted by the research.

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