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    4 CIO styles to boost business performance

    Aligning leadership skills to an organization’s needs can accelerate results and build trust with key stakeholders.

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    Technology executives extol the virtues of ‘old-school’ AI

    “One of our jobs as CIOs is not to get so swept up in generative AI that we don’t make use of all the tools that are available to us,” Mathematica CIO Akira Bell said, speaking Tuesday at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium.

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    Meta to shut down Workplace platform, underscoring AI focus

    Facebook's parent company will wind down the tool by 2026, giving customers the option to migrate to Zoom's Workvivo platform.

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    Most Gen Z tech workers say they’d consider new career opportunities

    With high dissatisfaction rates, young tech workers pointed to career development as a vital aspect of engagement and retention in a recent survey.

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    AWS CEO steps down, sales chief to take over

    After a three-year stint helming the cloud titan, Adam Selipsky is passing the baton to AWS veteran Matt Garman.

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    What LinkedIn engineers learned while building in generative AI

    The social media company’s engineers wanted the technology to improve experiences and engagement. But the final product required more tweaking than previously thought.

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    OpenAI introduces faster, cheaper GPT-4o model

    GPT-4o is the LLM maker’s first multimodal model and will begin to roll out to customers Monday. 

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    Only one-third of firms deploy safeguards against generative AI threats, report finds

    Generative AI gives attackers an edge over cyber defenders, according to a survey of security experts.

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    White House wants to hold the software sector accountable for security

    Federal officials are taking steps toward a long-stated goal of shifting the security burden from technology users to the companies that build it.

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    Enterprises outsource data storage as complexity rises

    An overload of operations data, ongoing business growth and expanding web analytics are pushing data estates to their limit, according to a Forrester report.

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    Mattel tech chief departs company after 7 years

    Sven Gerjets joined as EVP and CTO in 2017. He was responsible for technology innovation and implementation at the toy company. 

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    68 tech, security vendors commit to secure-by-design practices

    Microsoft and Google are among the providers signing a voluntary pledge to boost cyber resiliency and transparency.

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    Employees are using AI at work — even without CIO approval

    Shadow IT is proliferating as burnout and challenging workloads push workers to find their own AI solutions, according to Microsoft and LinkedIn.

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    IBM embeds AI business solutions in SAP’s cloud

    The two companies plan to build tailored tools for manufacturing, consumer goods, retail and automotive industries.

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    US businesses want to hire more tech workers this year, CompTIA says

    More than one-quarter of companies plan to significantly grow their IT ranks this year.

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    Microsoft unveils $3.3B AI infrastructure plan as it grows US data center capacity

    The plan will feature a data center campus in Wisconsin, upskilling targets and an AI innovation lab focusing on manufacturers, the tech company said.

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    Oracle to add AI coding companion to cloud portfolio

    The tech company joins a growing group of enterprise software vendors contributing to the proliferation of coding tools powered by large language models.

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    Generative AI interest now shapes talent strategy, employers say

    Talent limitations are slowing down the ability to scale the technology, leaders said, prompting organizational changes.

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    IT services spend will reach $2 trillion by 2028: Forrester

    Tepid growth this year will give way to a landslide of cloud infrastructure spending driven by AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud, the analyst firm said.

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    Financial industry alliance pushes for collective AI governance framework

    Citi, Morgan Stanley, Databricks and Microsoft will help guide a FINOS initiative aimed at devising best practices for onboarding the technology.

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    Microsoft restructures security governance, aligning deputy CISOs and engineering teams

    The company will enhance management roles under the CISO and partially tie compensation to security performance.

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    Tech skills gaps put pressure on existing IT staff

    Technologists surveyed by Pluralsight said workloads have increased and projects have been abandoned as tech proficiency gaps mount.

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    Enterprises prep for big AI spending, but data woes prevent progress

    Modernizing IT estates will cost enterprises an average of $35.5 million this year, according to a Couchbase survey.

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    Tech jobs are bouncing back as IT unemployment rate falls again in April

    The February spike in IT unemployment is steadily reversing, CompTIA said Friday.

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    Amazon tempts enterprises to customize AI on AWS

    CEO Andy Jassy called the hyperscaler’s move to open its Bedrock platform to tailored models “a sneaky big launch.”