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2026 CIO Benchmark Report
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Agentic AI News & Strategy for Technology Leaders
Agentic AI News & Strategy for Technology Leaders
With hundreds of AI agents in production, Richard Teachout, Chief Technology Officer at Ashley Furniture, is replacing the central knowledge base with a self-correcting layer that flags when reality drifts from documented process.
Jason Jodoin, President of 23 Advisory Group, on why an agent headcount tells CIOs nothing about the risk underneath it, and how product discipline turns a sprawling estate into a governed one.
Florencia Ardissone, who leads AI pricing transformation for the bank's payments business, on why a correlation only earns the word "insight" after a layer of scoped, cross-checking agents clears it.
CIOnews talked to Anderson Trucking Service CIO Tracy Koenig about keeping technology from overwhelming users and rethinking the build-versus-buy equation.
Christophe Theys, Global Head of AI, Data & Analytics at DHL Supply Chain, explains why the company runs software agents and warehouse robotics as a single program, and the deployment discipline that decides which solutions earn a global rollout.
As health systems head toward thousands of AI capabilities, Craig Richardville, Chief Digital and Information Officer at UF Health, on the discipline that matters most is knowing when to decommission a model, not just how to deploy one.
Edward Cheng, Senior Advisor for Safe AI Agents at Stanford’s Deliberative Democracy Lab, on how shared rules and decision records let companies judge when an agent can act alone.
Srinath Gopinath, a reliability and observability leader at a major U.S. financial institution, on judging agent decisions and building systems to catch fall-through.
Caio Fernandes, VP of Technology at Checkers & Rally's, on why the voice model is the smallest piece of a drive-thru AI rollout, and why the baseline and the trusted data around it decide whether it pays.
Opinion
CIO Commentary, Expert Analysis & IT Leadership Perspectives
CIO Commentary, Expert Analysis & IT Leadership Perspectives
Leadership
CIO Strategy, Digital Transformation & IT Executive Insights
CIO Strategy, Digital Transformation & IT Executive Insights
Charles Vojtas, Chief Information Officer at URM Stores, details how he wins agreement from the business before a single system is selected.
M&A success is decided in post-close execution. In this exclusive preview of his upcoming book Make IT Work: An IT Playbook for Mergers and Acquisitions, CIO Jason James covers repeatable playbooks, quick wins, and handling outages and human crises.
Bindu Chanagala, Vice President of Performance Insights at CommonSpirit Health, on why AI in healthcare moves only as fast as the governance around the data and the clinicians who act on it allow.
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Bringing Agentic AI to the Heart of the Enterprise.
Security, Governance, Risk
AI Governance, Cybersecurity & Enterprise Risk News
AI Governance, Cybersecurity & Enterprise Risk News
Chetna Mehrotra, Senior Enterprise Architect at Ascension, makes the case for EA to lead the build when approved AI projects stall without an owner.
Emmanuel Dahunsi, former Executive Director and Security Architect at Goldman Sachs, makes the case for agent permissions and approval rules that malicious prompts can’t override.
Subba Raju Vathsavai, Chief Information Security Officer at iBASIS, on why AI agents now act as non-human identities inside the network, and why trust in them has to be shown in production, not certified on paper.
The Missing Half Of Enterprise AI Is The Operations Manual
Nate Busa, a longtime CTO specializing in AI & Automation and formerly of NEOM, on why external benchmarks can't identify which model truly works at the lowest cost, and why real governance has to be operationalized with tests you build yourself.
Britton Burton, CISO at D4C Dental Brands, secured 180 pediatric dental and orthodontic practices across 10 states. His method: narrow security to the handful of controls, and get non-technical leaders to fund them.
Jigar Shah, Chief Information Security Officer at healthcare firm Medusind, on why security teams manufacture their own agentic AI complexity, and how sequencing the problem, the data, and the identity keeps it from happening.
Industry News
Enterprise Technology Trends, IT Vendor News & CIO Moves
Enterprise Technology Trends, IT Vendor News & CIO Moves
Kapil Viren Ahuja, Partner and CTO of Digital at Nagarro, explained how AI code generation pushed engineering into specification and review, and how a custom harness, and role-based agents rebuilt trust at enterprise scale.
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.
The Federal Government Wants a Seat at the Frontier AI Model Launch Table
Ann Dunkin breaks down how the GPT-5.6 launch and the Fable/Mythos suspension show Washington now shapes when and to whom frontier AI models ship, and what that means for CIOs.
Missing AI ROI Traces Back To Ungoverned Value Adoption And Decisions
Dr. Elena Alikhachkina, board director, founder of InfoFluence.ai, and author of AI Oversight, on how enterprises drowning in technical AI controls have left value, adoption, and decisions ungoverned, and what it means for ROI.
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.
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.
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From the Edge to the Core:
Bringing Agentic AI to the Heart of the Enterprise.