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Analysts differ on the likely impact, some arguing that the deal gives Cursor the compute expansion it needs, while others worry that Cursor’s trustworthiness could be threatened.

By Evan Schuman

Jun 16, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Mergers and Acquisitions

Anthropic’s new privacy policy offers US consumers a way around the Fable ban

A policy provision for scanning customers’ identity documents could enable Anthropic to distinguish between foreign and domestic users of its most powerful AI model.

By Peter Sayer

Jun 16, 2026 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Government Laws and Regulations

Salesforce buying agentic AI firm Fin for $3.6 billion

Analysts debate whether the deal, slated to close by early next year, will accelerate the Salesforce product timeline or just confuse it.

By Evan Schuman

Jun 15, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Mergers and Acquisitions Salesforce

Anthropic locks enterprises out of Fable and Mythos following government order

Anthropic wanted Claude to avoid the draft; now its customers are caught in the cross-fire.

By Maxwell Cooter

Jun 15, 2026 4 mins

Government Laws and Regulations Markets

Samsung reverses years-long ban on external gen AI use

The electronics giant, which blocked ChatGPT after a high-profile source code leak, is now rolling out ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude company-wide as part of an AI transformation.

By Jihyun Lee (이지현)

Jun 12, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Skills and Training IT Strategy

OpenAI buys Ona to help rein in AI agents

The acquisition will provide Codex users with self-hosted sandboxes, moving tool execution into infrastructure that the users control.

By Evan Schuman

Jun 12, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Mergers and Acquisitions

Microsoft president responds to students’ distrust for AI

Learn to adapt, Microsoft President Brad Smith tells the future workforce.

By Maxwell Cooter

Jun 12, 2026 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Careers

Oracle wades into outcome-based AI billing waters

The pilot program discussed during the analyst call is viewed as a sound move because ‘token pricing is a dreadful language for enterprise budgeting,’ says an analyst.

By Paul Barker

Jun 11, 2026 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Oracle Vendors and Providers

Amazon claims its data centers are 7x more water-efficient than the industry average

New figures position the company ahead of rivals on water consumption as hyperscalers race to prove AI’s growing infrastructure footprint is sustainable.

By Taryn Plumb

Jun 11, 2026 7 mins

Amazon Web Services IaaS Sustainable IT

Google is held liable for false information from its AI

The German court ruling could have implications for all AI models in the future.

By Maxwell Cooter

Jun 11, 2026 4 mins

Google Government Laws and Regulations

The hidden cost of enterprise AI: 6.4 hours a week babysitting bots

AI is automating more than a quarter of digital work, but employees are spending hours managing the technology, creating new bottlenecks.

By Taryn Plumb

Jun 10, 2026 7 mins

Chatbots Employee Experience Natural Language Processing

Salesforce to acquire usage-based billing specialist m3ter

Salesforce talked up the benefits of the acquisition to its customers — but with its move to usage-based charges for its own services, it is in dire need of a billing system to match.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 10, 2026 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Finance and Accounting Systems Salesforce

EU rules on securing IT products begin this week, but enterprises aren’t ready

The EU’s Cyber Resilience Act aims to make hardware and software more secure, and applies to vendors and to end-user organizations.

By Maxwell Cooter

Jun 10, 2026 5 mins

IT Governance IT Leadership Open Source

AWS adds FinOps Agent to bring cloud cost management into engineering workflows

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 say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 9, 2026 6 mins

Cloud Computing IT Leadership IT Strategy

Enterprises know AI-generated code is vulnerable; they’re shipping it anyway

As AI systems discover and exploit flaws at unprecedented speed, organizations are still deploying software they know contains security weaknesses.

By Taryn Plumb

Jun 9, 2026 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Business Enterprise

DocLang aims to make documents readable by AI, not humans

Development of the AI-native DocLang document format raises questions about its impact on human workers, as well as on governance and accountability.

By Paul Barker

Jun 9, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Governance IT Governance

Anthropic releases Mythos-class Fable 5 with safeguards for cyber risks

Claude Fable 5 brings previously restricted Mythos-class AI capabilities to general users with automated guardrails to prevent misuse — though initial testing suggests those safeguards may cast a wider cybersecurity net than Anthropic acknowledges.

By Cynthia Brumfield

Jun 9, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Technology Industry

CIOs get temporary relief as US court blocks $100,000 H-1B fee

The ruling gives technology leaders room to resume hiring plans, but continued uncertainty may push CIOs to rethink which roles require US-based sponsorship.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Jun 9, 2026 4 mins

Hiring IT Management Staff Management

Lovelace boasts it can equal Gemini Deep Research at less than 1% of the cost

Benchmark results, it says, ‘suggest that context, not compute will be defining factor in next generation of enterprise AI.’

By Paul Barker

Jun 8, 2026 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Google Vendors and Providers

CIOs are being held accountable for AI they don’t fully control, IBM study finds

As AI deployment spreads across enterprises, technology leaders are increasingly being asked to answer for systems operating beyond their direct oversight.

By Gyana Swain

Jun 8, 2026 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Governance Data Management

Linux Foundation targets AI’s cost-management problem with Tokenomics Foundation

The initiative could give CIOs and developers a common framework to measure, benchmark, and optimize AI spending across models, clouds, and vendors as multi-agentic systems move into production, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 8, 2026 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Leadership ROI and Metrics

Tech industry cut 38,242 jobs in May, worst since 2024

And 40% of job cuts across all industries were blamed on AI that month.

By Maxwell Cooter

Jun 5, 2026 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Careers IT Jobs

Anthropic’s AI services are too expensive, says Microsoft AI head

The company is reportedly in the process of cancelling subscriptions to Claude Code for many of its engineers.

By Maxwell Cooter

Jun 5, 2026 2 mins

Budget Microsoft Pricing

Anthropic suggests slowing AI research until we can align it with human goals

The accelerating pace of AI development, and the possibility that AI may soon be able to build itself, is once again raising concerns in the enterprise about the alignment problem: Ensuring that AI will work for our, not its, benefit.

By Gyana Swain

Jun 5, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Governance IT Leadership

Meta wants to turn a billion customer chats into enterprise AI agents

Meta says businesses can deploy AI agents across messaging channels in minutes, but analysts say the company must prove it can compete in a market dominated by software giants.

By Taryn Plumb

Jun 4, 2026 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Business Enterprise

What Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs spell for CIOs’ AI budgets

With Anthropic filing for an IPO and an OpenAI public stock offering potentially happening as soon as September, the AI innovators will be under pressure to turn a profit, with enterprises a key revenue source to squeeze.

By Grant Gross

Jun 4, 2026 8 mins

Budgeting Markets Technology Industry

Rayfin signals Microsoft’s push to make Fabric an AI app runtime

Beyond productivity gains, the platform play focuses on unifying data, governance, and deployment for enterprise AI.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 4, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Governance Data Management

AI saves workers a day a week, but they don’t know what to do with it

BCG’s fourth annual Global at Work Survey finds that regular users ‘receive limited or no guidance’ on what to do with that time they save.

By Paul Barker

Jun 3, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Employee Experience IT Management

OpenAI fixed a visibility problem; the governance problem remains.

OpenAI’s new ChatGPT session controls improve visibility, but experts say continuous model updates are creating a far bigger challenge for enterprise risk and compliance teams.

By Taryn Plumb

Jun 3, 2026 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Governance Risk Management

Microsoft’s Frontier Tuning aims to teach AI how enterprises work, not just context

The service will train AI models on real enterprise behavior, not just documents, to improve decision-making and output quality.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 3, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Enterprise Architecture IT Leadership

Anthropic grants Project Glasswing access to 150 more companies, with a focus on critical infrastructure

As the number of vulnerabilities identified soars, analysts see a patch development bottleneck as the big problem; vendors can’t keep up now.

By Evan Schuman

Jun 2, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Security

Snowflake’s Horizon Context aims to give AI agents a common understanding of the business

These new capabilities could help CIOs reduce the complexity of deploying AI agents into production, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 2, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Business Data Governance

Workday launches Agent Passport to test and monitor AI agents in the enterprise

Workday is also releasing new developer tools to enable customers to rapidly move agents from prompt to production.

By Lynn Greiner

Jun 2, 2026 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Workday

Snowflake recasts its AI strategy around action, not answers, with CoWork

The move could help CIOs operationalize AI across business processes while advancing Snowflake’s ambition to play a larger role in orchestrating and governing enterprise AI workloads, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 2, 2026 5 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Data Warehousing

FTC broadens Microsoft probe to cloud, AI, and software bundling

New reports reveal regulators are examining licensing, interoperability, and product bundling practices that could affect enterprise customers’ ability to switch vendors.

By Taryn Plumb

Jun 1, 2026 5 mins

Government Laws and Regulations Markets

Nvidia stacks up agentic AI infrastructure

Open-source tooling, runtime security controls and a CPU that suits AI agents signal a broader push to operationalize autonomous AI workers.

By Gyana Swain

Jun 1, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Nvidia Vendors and Providers

Oracle’s first monthly patch release fixes 35 flaws, including 11 rated ‘critical’

New Critical Security Patch Update (CSPU) addresses urgent vulnerabilities ahead of quarterly updates.

By John E. Dunn

Jun 1, 2026 3 mins

Open Source Oracle Vulnerabilities

Salesforce’s Headless 360 monetization play could give CIOs a familiar budgeting headache

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-like consumption problem for CIOs.

By Anirban Ghoshal

May 29, 2026 8 mins

Budgeting CRM Systems Salesforce

Amazon deletes devs’ tokenmaxxing leaderboard to minimize costs

An unofficial initiative to promote the use of AI internally has come unstuck.

By Maxwell Cooter

May 29, 2026 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Budgeting IT Management

AI hiring monoculture is delivering racial bias at scale

Is AI giving IT managers the best candidates to fill job vacancies?

By Maxwell Cooter

May 29, 2026 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Hiring IT Management

Many autonomous agents doomed by governance failures

Gartner predicts that by 2027, governance issues will trigger 40% of enterprises to demote or decommission autonomous AI agents.

By Lynn Greiner

May 29, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Governance IT Leadership

Snowflake to acquire MCP-focused Natoma to boost governance for AI agents

The acquisition could help enterprise CIOs struggling to deploy agentic workflows spanning heterogeneous systems via MCP while positioning the vendor as the orchestration layer for AI agents, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

May 28, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Governance Data Management

Another IT governance headache: AI-enabled sanction evasion

A new report from RUSI focuses on how AI models are enabling regimes such as North Korea and Iran to execute cyber operations while evading detection.

By Paul Barker

May 27, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cybercrime IT Governance

Netherlands blocks Kyndryl’s Solvinity acquisition citing public risk

Kyndryl’s bid for the Dutch IT services company that provides the infrastructure for DigiD has been scuttled for the public interest.

By Mikael Markander

May 27, 2026 2 mins

Government Laws and Regulations Managed IT Services

Google adds open source Agent Executor to support AI agents in production

The new runtime could help enterprises address operational challenges tied to scaling AI agents in production, although broader governance concerns persist, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

May 25, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Business Google

IBM plans $2B quantum chip foundry; government will pay half

IBM hopes to build on its expertise to develop wafers for other vendors.

By Maxwell Cooter

May 22, 2026 1 min

Emerging Technology Quantum Computing

Microsoft, EY to spend $1 billion on helping customers buy agentic AI

Microsoft’s AI doesn’t (yet) deploy itself, so the company is assigning its “forward-deployed engineers” to help EY staff roll out agentic AI for clients.

By Lynn Greiner

May 22, 2026 4 mins

IT Consulting Services Microsoft Outsourcing

Workday extends Sana AI to ITSM after HR, finance

Workday’s tighter integration of HR, finance, and IT workflows could simplify enterprise operations and improve AI context, but entrenched ITSM ecosystems may slow broader adoption, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

May 22, 2026 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence ITSM Workday

xAI-Anthropic deal signals the rise of AI compute as a standalone business

SpaceX IPO filing reveals rival model makers are buying infrastructure from each other, pointing to a new market for frontier-scale compute.

By Gyana Swain

May 22, 2026 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Data Center

Salesforce extends its headless push into enterprise data via Informatica

The update could spare developers much of the integration and custom plumbing work typically required to build AI-driven workflows, although CIOs should be wary of cost, accuracy headaches, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

May 21, 2026 6 mins

Commercial Providers Informatica Master Data Management