How infinite agentic execution rewrites SaaS economics, systems of record, and the CIO agenda.

Microsoft will enable usage-based billing by default for new Copilot Business CSP sales. Why the seat is becoming the access layer to metered agentic AI—and what CIOs should do now.

Centralize analytics, and it gets slow. Decentralize it, and it gets messy. The answer is a shared seam that keeps data and decisions connected.

“The bottleneck has moved from writing code to trusting it,” Purna Doddapaneni, partner at Bain & Co., told CIO Dive.

Cloudflare Birthday Week 2026 reveals an agent-native global cloud strategy spanning compute, data, streaming, AI, developer tooling, monetization and trust.

NetApp expanded AI Data Engine discovery and Commvault recovery integration. The CIO question is whether governed, in-place AI access can replace more data copies.

Facing what industry observers call an upgrade ‘supercyle,’ IT leaders are considering options in a market disrupted by AI, end-of-life deadlines, modernization decisions, and modular upstarts.

Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic are reportedly preparing to found a new industry body for frontier AI safety, but enterprises still need their own controls for model risk, data exposure, and agent behav...

Every CIO seeks to create a highly productive IT organization. Here are seven ways to remap your IT org to reduce friction, break silos, and supercharge problem-solving.

Most businesses are overrunning their AI budgets as software teams rely more heavily on automated coding, according to McKinsey.

This week two conversations about AI safety went viral that demonstrate just how hard it is to discern AI fact from fiction.

ERP customization used to be a competitive advantage. Now it’s the biggest thing standing between CIOs and their returns on AI.

The tools driving transformation keep changing. The truths about leading people through it mostly haven’t.

Explore how CIOs can create an effective AI operating model to navigate the opportunities and risks of emerging machine intelligence.

AI agents are escaping cybersecurity testing environments and reaching real-world systems, raising questions about whether safety infrastructure, industry standards and regulation can keep pace with i...

Supermarket giant has turned to third-party support as court sets date to hear licensing dispute

IT leaders should expect budget volatility and cost prediction uncertainty ahead as SaaS providers seek new pricing models likely to transfer forecasting risk onto buyers.

The agent could improve accountability, accelerate remediation, and make cloud financial governance more operational as enterprises grapple with increasingly complex cloud and AI spending, analysts sa...

Salesforce’s Headless 360 strategy may help enterprises embed CRM into AI agents and external copilots, but analysts warn the company’s evolving monetization plans could turn CRM spending into a cloud...

Organizations that deploy AI agents without observability processes and tools in place are disasters waiting to happen, some experts say.

IT leaders are increasingly open to business users leveraging AI coding assistants to build pilots and solutions. Here’s how they’re establishing governance and guardrails to ensure secure results.

Just 16% of companies say the tools are delivering significant, measurable impact as governance lags, according to Appian data.

Seasoned at driving change across the enterprise, savvy IT leaders are turning their process improvement chops and AI acumen inward to overhaul an often-overlooked area of operations: IT itself.

As the tech giant expands its AI toolkit, it’s also working to address interoperability gaps hindering the technology’s functionality.

Google’s is moving to counter AWS and Microsoft in the emerging AI data stack race.

The new platform packages Salesforce’s AI and developer tools into a headless, API‑driven layer designed for software agents to execute business processes without human interfaces.

FinOps teams are tackling the difficult nature of AI spend to help tech chiefs get costs under control, analysts said during Flexera’s FinOps Forward 2026 event.

As organizations use AI to automate more work, CIOs have a central role in rethinking and re-engineering the processes themselves — and thus how business gets done.

Holistic views of enterprises afford IT leaders a unique advantage should they decide they want to become CEOs, say CIOs who have done just that.

Tech leaders are caught in 'the AI moment' and feel an onus to deploy AI before the right guardrails are in place, an Altimetrik report found.

Fewer than half of companies are satisfied with the role cloud plays in innovation, according to an NTT Data report.

SaaS isn’t dying any more than on-premises software, but IT leaders face huge challenges managing all manner of AI as it seeps deeper into the systems that fuel business operations.