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The agentic AI transition is underway

While enterprises differ on how far along they are in the process, nearly every company is adopting AI agents to some degree. The most mature are rebuilding operations and even business models around them.

By Maria Korolov

Sep 16, 20269 mins

IT Skills and TrainingIT StrategyROI and Metrics

Recent news & fresh reads

Big Tech’s AI safety rift signals disruption and disparity for enterprises

Diverging safety approaches could fragment access and complicate enterprise AI strategy.

By Gyana Swain

Sep 16, 2026 5 mins

Artificial IntelligenceIT GovernanceIT Leadership

AWS bets that AI agents need an inbox, not another chat window

Pizza Bot is a self-hosted open-source interface for interacting with AI agents asynchronously that AWS hopes to help enterprises manage longer-running agent tasks; analysts say integration and governance requirements could hamper its adoption.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 16, 2026 6 mins

Amazon Web ServicesIaaSOpen Source

Oracle’s September patches put Fusion Middleware back in the hot seat

The security update addresses 673 patches across 17 product families, including five CVSS 10.0 flaws and 13 rated 9.9 in Fusion Middleware.

By Shweta Sharma

Sep 16, 2026 4 mins

Application SecurityOracleVulnerabilities

Connecting AI agents was only the beginning. Now they need to think together

Autonomous agents are learning to find, trust and communicate with one another. Now comes the harder task: sharing meaning, resolving conflicts and reasoning together.

By Keith Ferrazzi and Wendy Smith

Sep 16, 2026 9 mins

Artificial IntelligenceEmerging TechnologyInnovation

How to Launch Your AI Projects from Pilot to Production – and Ensure Success

IT leaders can take an active role in improving how many AI projects get fully off the ground.

By Isaac Sacolick

Nov 7, 2022 4 mins

Artificial IntelligenceData ScienceMachine Learning

When does a system become legacy?

Turns out "legacy system" is less about old code and more like a bad relationship — it's legacy the moment you start eyeing other options.

By David Stephens

Sep 16, 2026 8 mins

Emerging TechnologyEnterprise ArchitectureIT Leadership

AI will not replace leaders. It will expose them

AI isn't coming for your leadership job, but it will show everyone exactly how clear your thinking and your intentions really were all along.

By Prashant Mishra

Sep 16, 2026 9 mins

Artificial IntelligenceIT Leadership

European cloud watchdog slams Broadcom over VMware licensing practices, issues warnings about SAP

ECCO condemns VMware licensing changes and the shutdown of its main reseller program; SAP fares slightly better.

By Taryn Plumb

Sep 15, 2026 6 mins

SAPSoftware LicensingVMware

Salesforce, Nvidia unveil CRM domain-specific reasoning model

Dubbed Koa, the new model is designed to power sales and service agents.

By Thor Olavsrud

Sep 15, 2026 2 mins

CRM SystemsIT StrategyNvidia

Oracle forecasts 33% increase in restructuring costs as new round of layoffs hits

The company won’t comment on the scale of layoffs, but a regulatory filing is doing the talking.

By Gyana Swain

Sep 15, 2026 5 mins

Enterprise ApplicationsHiringOracle

Cockroach Labs bets on database pooling to cut cost of AI-era workloads

Cockroach Continuum aims to reduce idle database capacity and operational overhead by pooling infrastructure, although analysts say the savings will depend on how enterprises provision and use their databases.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 15, 2026 5 mins

BudgetingData ManagementDatabase Administration

AI cloud bills are forcing technology leaders to rethink AWS, Azure and GCP commitments

Your cloud deal may have made sense three years ago. Now AI is changing what you need — and what those commitments actually cost.

By Scott Smeester

Sep 15, 2026 5 mins

Amazon Web ServicesGoogle Cloud PlatformMicrosoft Azure

AI is removing the first rung of the career ladder — and we have a responsibility to help fix that

AI can help young workers learn faster — but if it removes their first jobs, who will build tomorrow’s leaders?

By Rebecca Fox

Sep 15, 2026 8 mins

Artificial IntelligenceHiringIT Skills and Training

Enterprise Spotlight: Rethinking cloud strategy in the age of AI

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Cloud computing has reached a crossroads. The high cost and data sensitivity of AI workloads are raising the appeal of private clouds, even as neoclouds and sovereign clouds shake up the cloud provider landscape. Download the June 2026 issue of the Enterprise Spotlight and learn how to navigate the latest cloud strategy developments.

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