CIOs drop shotgun approach to get more strategic with AI pilots

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CIOs drop shotgun approach to get more strategic with AI pilots Huge failure rates are leading many IT leaders to focus more on strategic and targeted AI projects, instead of launching dozens, or hundreds, of POCs. Read more

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The agentic AI reset is here Now we can get down to serious AI integration and production-grade implementations. Read more Why cloud costs are skyrocketing, and what IT leaders can do about it Cloud costs are exploding — and it's forcing IT leaders to rethink everything. In this episode of Global Tech Tales, Keith Shaw and Matt Egan are joined by Lucas Mearian, senior writer at Computerworld, to dive into what's driving rising cloud expenses and how enterprise leaders are responding. Read more

Despite its ubiquity, RAG-enhanced AI still poses accuracy and safety risks Though Retrieval-Augmented Generation has been hailed — and hyped — as the answer to generative AI's hallucinations and misfires, it has some flaws of its own. Read more TikTok-style bite-sized videos are invading enterprises More and more companies are turning to video snippets and shorts to communicate with their employees — and customers. Read more What are Gemini, Claude, and Meta AI doing with enterprise data? Quite a bit, according to new findings from Incogni that uncover 'alarming data collection and sharing practices' by leading LLMs. Read more College grads face a chaotic, nearly indiscernible IT job market A new ISC2 study finds that outdated hiring practices are blocking entry-level cybersecurity talent and worsening the IT skills gap. Read more New 'Echo Chamber' attack can trick GPT, Gemini into breaking safety rules A novel jailbreak method manipulates chat history to bypass content safeguards in large language models, without ever issuing an explicit prompt. Read more AI agents are the new cybersecurity nightmare | Ep. 233 AI agents are revolutionizing productivity, but they're also creating a massive, growing security crisis for businesses. In this episode of Today in Tech, we chat with Clarence Hinton, Chief Strategy Officer at CyberArk, exploring the alarming findings from a new identity security survey covering over 2,600 cybersecurity leaders across 20 countries. Read more 10 ways to boost Windows security Windows has all sorts of buried security options that most users never notice. Read more

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