2026 CIO Benchmark Report
Where CIOs stand on AI, budgets, influence, and more.
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Enterprise AI
Agentic AI News & Strategy for Technology Leaders
Agentic AI News & Strategy for Technology Leaders
Ashish Kulkarni, Principal Enterprise Architect on how frontier models have converged enough that the sole differentiation in enterprise AI is orchestration, governance, and surrounding data quality.
Wendy Turner-Williams, Chief Data and AI Officer at SymphraAI, on were enterprise AI transformations are stalling on ROI as leaders measure technology deployment instead of the decision quality.
Jason Andrews, VP of Strategy and Planning for Engineering Operations at Cisco, on why platform migrations work best when teams leave process debt behind.
Sergey Sergeyev, VP of EA and Chief AI Architect, on why vibe-coded replacements are pulling the foundation out from under the enterprise.
The AI bill is coming for everyone. CIO Mastermind founder Scott Smeester explains how technology leaders can avoid getting caught flat-footed.
Andy Armstrong, Head of Business and Market Strategy for Credit Analytics at S&P Global, on why risk data must reach the analyst, not just the system, to accelerate credit and supplier decisions.
Tom M. Gomez, Managing Partner at Luminity Digital, on how LLM providers are systematically collapsing the middleware stack, structurally displacing cognitive-era data platforms.
Vikas Krishan, Chief Digital Business Officer at Altimetrik, on why AI governance becomes the velocity layer when banks move past experimentation and confront years of deferred architecture.
A new tier of AI capability arrived this week. So did a new set of questions about who controls what.
CIOnews talked to UF Health's Craig Richardville about the importance of a digital foundation in healthcare, deciding when to build and when to buy, and the new mandate for technology leaders.
Opinion
CIO Commentary, Expert Analysis & IT Leadership Perspectives
CIO Commentary, Expert Analysis & IT Leadership Perspectives
The Complex Costs of AI No One Is Budgeting For
Can AI Do the Work Economically?
Leadership
CIO Strategy, Digital Transformation & IT Executive Insights
CIO Strategy, Digital Transformation & IT Executive Insights
AI can do the work. The harder question for CIOs in 2026 is whether it can do it economically. Todd Mazza on token costs, AI FinOps, and the case for a "token P&L."
Talking to the CFO about AI takes two answers, not one. Motti Finkelstein on separating AI value from cost, and the vocabulary that keeps programs funded.
Jeff Brzycki, former CIO at Autodesk and VeriSign, on why the integration and control layer that IT has long owned by default is becoming the strategic foundation of the agentic enterprise.
Christoph Wargitsch, CEO of Wargitsch Transformation Engineers, on why the boundaries between business and IT exist on paper but collapse in practice.
Caroline Carruthers, Chief Executive of Carruthers and Jackson, on why AI governance only works when it changes what people actually do, not what they say.
From the Edge to the Core:
Bringing Agentic AI to the Heart of the Enterprise.
Security, Governance, Risk
AI Governance, Cybersecurity & Enterprise Risk News
AI Governance, Cybersecurity & Enterprise Risk News
Sandeep Shilawat, Hybrid Cloud CTO Lead, & AI/Automation Leader at IBM, on how agentic attacks are already operational and enterprises need to step up their continuous architectural enforcement.
Gineesh Madapparambath, Architect at Red Hat, on how Mythos has collapsed the vulnerability window and what security workflows must do to match the speed of exposure.
Ira Winkler, Field CISO at AISLE, on why AI vulnerability discovery solves only half the security problem, and what closing the remediation gap actually requires.
CTO and CISO Stewart Alpert warned that while security is approaching the limits of human scalability, human-led AI guardrails are more essential than ever.
Hemil Deshmukh, Group Head of Data & AI at Wilson Group, on why resilience beats policy, and how CIOs can pressure-test governance by starting with decisions rather than models.
Vid Desai, CEO of Desai Technology Consulting LLC and former CIO at the FDA, on healthcare deregulation shifting the compliance burden to enterprise IT, and why most organizations aren't ready.
Industry News
Enterprise Technology Trends, IT Vendor News & CIO Moves
Enterprise Technology Trends, IT Vendor News & CIO Moves
Quantum computers will break the encryption protecting banking and government secrets—and "harvest now, decrypt later" attacks are already underway. Why CIOs and CISOs must act now.
The Complex Costs of AI No One Is Budgeting For
Ann Dunkin breaks down AI's true costs: trillions in infrastructure spending, soaring energy and water use straining the grid, and job disruption from AI investment and layoffs. Hidden costs, she argues, are unmanaged costs.
AI Hype Hits a Wall of Messy Data, Costing Firms Billions: Hitachi Vantara Report
A Hitachi Vantara report found enterprises are wasting an estimated $108 billion annually on AI because poor data infrastructure undermines their return on investment.
The European Commission launched formal proceedings to compel Google to share its AI and search data with competitors under the Digital Markets Act.
A new report from Pearson finds that AI could add $6.6 trillion to the U.S. economy by 2034 if businesses invest in upskilling their workforce.
A new survey reveals widespread use of unvetted "shadow AI" by healthcare workers, creating significant risks for patient safety and data privacy.
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Only 9% of business have fully deployed agentic AI, according to the recent “From the Edge to the Core: Bringing Agentic AI to the Heart of the Enterprise” report.
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As Frontier AI Model Capabilities Converge, Enterprise AI Wins Or Loses At The Orchestration Layer
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