Madeleine Streets

Tech stocks on course for $1 trillion plunge; Oracle diversifies AI chips; hackers exploit PHP firewall flaws; Alibaba expands public cloud in Europe.

Microsoft's latest head count cuts highlight how IT systems could be vulnerable if employees take specialized skills and undocumented knowledge with them.

Microsoft unveils new AI chip; ASML warns of chipmaking equipment shortages; FERC rejects key data center power rules; China proposes AI export controls.

Post-acquisition layoffs highlight how ownership changes can reshape vendor priorities, product roadmaps and long-term commitments to enterprise customers.

Google secures nuclear power; US suspends tech firms' green-card processing; OpenAI revenue figures raise questions; Ukraine strikes Yandex data centers.

As more critical systems span vendors and service providers, fixing vulnerabilities increasingly depends on organizations that CIOs don't fully control.

Microsoft proposes an AI code of conduct; the AI Energy Management Alliance aims to expand data grid capacity; Salesforce outage reveals dependency risks.

As AI vendors debate the safety of frontier models, IT leaders have to build organizational confidence in their own enterprise deployments.

Getting systems back online isn't business recovery. Here's how CIOs measure whether critical operations and revenue have actually been restored.

Nvidia's earnings point to years of AI infrastructure growth, but shifting compute economics and more options make infrastructure bets harder for CIOs.

Nvidia puts $105 billion behind new data center; Anthropic walks back an enterprise data retention policy; Pennsylvania sets new data center requirements.

AI-assisted coding is making software faster to produce but harder to validate, forcing enterprises to rethink the broader development lifecycle.

The White House exempts open-weight AI models from security testing; Google's leadership is reshuffled; JP Morgan expands cross-industry AI risk effort.

AI dominated security conversations at Black Hat, but this year's event saw a clear shift from hype cycles to pragmatic deployments and real-time threats.

August is the secret to a longer growing season — 7 vegetables to plant now.

Anthropic has its own AI testing mishap, Nvidia leads an initiative for open AI in cybersecurity, AWS reports revenue increase but also record spending.

IBM's recent earnings show a reallocation of investment toward AI infrastructure, yet CIOs must still find a way to fund IT as a whole.

In this week's roundup: Lawmakers propose an AI Kill Switch bill, Verizon commits $1billion to Google, and Alphabet burns cash on AI.

OpenAI models hacking into Hugging Face's digital library has reminded CIOs that they need more than AI governance — they need effective AI containment.

In this week's roundup: Meta launches new AI products, Reddit moves against AI slop, and China plans for greater AI access restrictions.