The CIO role is expanding from technology infrastructure into workforce design, AI governance and business operating models as artificial intelligence becomes embedded across enterprises. New global research from Thoughtworks, based on a survey of 3,200 CIOs across 10 countries, finds that 89% of CIOs now see themselves as more responsible for redesigning workforce workflows and…
As data centers compete for increasingly constrained power capacity, energy management is becoming an AI infrastructure problem of its own. Hanwha says EnergyFluo™, an agentic AI energy management system developed by its TransGrid Energy business, has been named to Fast Company’s 2026 Next Big Things in Tech in the Applied AI category. The platform is…
Nuix is adding a governance layer to generative AI deployments in legal, risk and investigative environments, where unreliable answers, uncontrolled model costs and weak audit trails can create significant operational and evidentiary risks. The company has announced the Nuix Neo Generative AI Framework, an orchestration layer designed to connect customer-selected large language models (LLMs) with…
AI infrastructure is running into a problem that cannot be solved by faster GPUs alone: getting enough electricity to increasingly dense compute systems. As AI racks move toward much higher power levels, data center operators and server manufacturers are reassessing how electricity travels from the grid to accelerators. A new DIGITIMES Intelligence report, “AI Data…
One Model has launched One Model AI Impact, a workforce intelligence solution designed to help enterprises understand whether their AI investments are changing how work gets done. Instead of focusing only on licenses, logins, tokens and spending, the platform analyzes AI activity at the prompt level to show what employees are using AI for, which…
Works360 is introducing PLAiPulse, an AI PC experience intelligence technology designed to show customers how CPU, GPU and NPU resources behave during real-world use. The platform is being added to select Works360-operated evaluation programs, giving organizations a way to assess AI PCs using their own applications and workflows rather than relying only on processor specifications…
Silicon Labs is expanding its AI developer platform to connect AI-assisted software development with embedded hardware, open-source collaboration and enterprise machine learning operations. Announced at its Works With Summit 2026, the company is putting the Simplicity AI SDK into public beta, introducing Simplicity Design Intelligence, launching a Bluetooth LE open-source community and connecting its edge…
Flagship Pioneering has launched iris labs, a new company developing personal AI products focused on human wellbeing rather than conventional productivity tasks. Its first product, iris chat, is an AI thought partner that communicates through iMessage and RCS and is designed to help users reflect on relationships, goals, resilience and purpose through ongoing personalized conversations….
Cognizant and Gilead Sciences are extending their technology relationship for another five years, with the expanded agreement putting greater emphasis on DevOps modernization and selected uses of agentic AI. The work builds on more than a decade of collaboration across Gilead’s IT infrastructure, applications, platforms and analytics, as the biopharmaceutical company looks to apply AI…
