CIO Dive

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. More than three-quarters of cybersecurity leaders said their organizations have experienced a cyberattack in the past 12 months, a report released Monday from Sygnia showed. And 73% of the same respondents said they would not be adequately prepared to respond to a future incident. The report, based on a survey of 600 senior cybersecurity decision managers, highlights a readiness gap that has plagued organizations for years.

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Companies are spending enormous amounts of time, energy and money to train their workers to be ready for AI tools, but these efforts are often falling short — or failing outright, recent reports indicated.

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Almost 4 in 10 executives plan to boost technology and AI spending as a strategic move against geopolitical disruption and economic volatility, a PwC survey found. The company surveyed 633 C-suite executives in March for the Monday report. The boost in tech spending was the No. 1 strategic action taken by executives and landed in the top three responses for 73% of respondents, according to survey results.

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Global semiconductor revenues will surpass $1.3 trillion this year, increasing 64% compared to 2025, according to a Wednesday Gartner report. The analyst firm expects the market to grow 17% to nearly $1.6 trillion next year as demand begins to level off. An AI building boom continues to consume available semiconductor resources, driving across-the-board price inflation in components.

The business infrastructure is evolving from a static licensed layer into a programmable, context-rich ecosystem. At the same time, software features and utility functions are commoditizing; licensing and raw capability are becoming table stakes while measurable outcomes are becoming the basis for value. These trends together force companies to rethink how they engage customers, structure deals, design products and organize operational governance.

GenAI adoption in the enterprise is no longer experimental. Daily use has grown by nearly 60% in just one year, and weekly use has tripled in the past two, according to Wharton research. But employees are embracing AI faster than security teams can keep up. Traditional security tools weren’t designed for the full visibility and granular controls needed to secure GenAI use in the browser, where employees spend more than 80% of their workday.

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Amazon President and CEO Andy Jassy stumped for the company's $200 billion capital expenditure plan for 2026 in a Thursday letter to investors, citing a compute bottleneck hindering AWS' growth and future customer commitments for significant portions of upcoming capacity. “AI is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity where the current growth is unprecedented and the future growth even bigger,” Jassy said.

NOTE FROM THE EDITOR Enterprises are diving headfirst into widescale AI adoption — but most are lacking a comprehensive strategy to help guide use cases. That dichotomy puts CIOs and other leaders in a tough spot as they feel pressure to deploy the technology before governance strategies are in place, according to an Altimetrik survey published today. The report also found training efforts are not in line with ambitious plans for AI deployment.

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. AI automation has proved its mettle speeding up technology support service delivery, according to help-desk platform provider Fixify. Automation tools helped resolve requests sixteen times faster than tickets serviced without AI assistance, Fixify found in an analysis of more than 50,000 support tickets submitted across 30-plus organizations over 14 months.

For decades, enterprise encryption has relied on established algorithms. However, quantum computers capable of breaking current encryption may emerge within this decade, accelerating the move to post-quantum cryptography (PQC). Unlike today’s battle-tested algorithms, PQC is still developing. “It’s literally year one,” explains Richu Channakeshava, Senior Product Manager who leads quantum security initiatives at Palo Alto Networks.