CIO Dive

08/27/2026

With the set of updates released this week, Google joins a growing list of vendors offering AI cost management tools as CIOs contend with mounting bills: https://buff.ly/RAyQyXP

The tech giant joins a string of vendors launching tools to help customers manage rising AI costs.

08/25/2026

Women made up just 26% of AI hires last year despite comprising half of the hires for non-AI roles, LinkedIn research found: https://buff.ly/gsJQkNP

08/24/2026

Along with TravelersLLM, a homebrewed AI model, the insurer uses a variety of models to avoid depending on a single external model or vendor: https://buff.ly/M8BzMe0

The insurer built TravelersLLM to handle insurance-specific queries, while broad reasoning, research and coding queries are saved for frontier models.

08/17/2026

Rising AI spend is just one factor leading companies to take a more pragmatic approach to AI deployment in recent months, consultants and experts told CIO Dive: https://buff.ly/LYRPk9m

07/27/2026

SAP CEO Christian Klein says the company will continue to push ahead on its AI efforts — both for its customers and its internal operations: https://buff.ly/oguIFEt

The vendor's cloud business buoyed its Q2 earnings, but the company is pinning its future on its Business AI Platform.

07/22/2026

More than four in five professionals use AI tools several times per month, yet fewer than one-third describe themselves as having a high level of familiarity with the technology: https://buff.ly/DxuWiuw

Companies assuming employees will bring AI skills into their jobs will set themselves up to fail, according to CompTIA VP of Research Seth Robinson.

06/25/2026

The rise in price of tokens will lead AI coding to become more expensive than an average developer’s salary by 2028, according to a Gartner report released Wednesday. https://buff.ly/PCpwT3D

Enterprises will likely blow past their IT budgets without proper AI audits and clear objectives, according to Gartner.

06/24/2026

With tech leaders under pressure to build successful AI programs while delivering ROI, there are lessons for enterprise CIOs within the lean, cost-conscious innovation work happening in the public sector:

A “try and fail fast” strategy can help tech leaders who want to reel in AI budgets, said Dru Rai, CIO for the State of New York.

06/22/2026

Long seen as a laggard in digital adoption, the heavily regulated financial services sector has proven that an established cloud strategy can propel AI initiatives forward. Here are three lessons from SMB banks on AI deployment: https://buff.ly/gaTpsRQ

Starting with targeted use cases, focusing on underlying data and managing change are key to successful use cases, banking leaders said.

06/02/2026

Gap, Best Buy and Dick's Sporting Goods are not alone in their pursuit of AI adoption. Investment into the technology by retailers is steadily increasing, with 39% anticipating AI will account for more than 10% of their tech spend by 2028, the National Retail Federation found: https://buff.ly/SwGKcv8

Best Buy, Gap and Dick’s Sporting Goods said their AI investments were yielding rewards and reshaping their businesses during their Q1 earnings calls.