OpenAI’s Foundation play reframes the AI roadmap for IT leaders The OpenAI Foundation is targeting disease research, workforce disruption, and model safety, highlighting where IT leaders should focus next.

The OpenAI Foundation's approach to solving societal problems offer some insights on how enterprises can use it to solve their own problems. #openAI #AIstrategy #CIOsky #AIROI www.computerworld.com/article/4149...

Should Employers Ban AI Devices From The Workplace? The nature of AI devices with discreet recording capabilities threatens to erode the feeling of privacy and safety in the workplace.

The impending surge of AI devices will create an "insider threat" nightmare for employers. It's time to act now and create a clear and restrictive policy before someone's Raybans are stealing your corporate secrets. www.forbes.com/councils/for... #AIdevices #insiderthreat #workplacePrivacy #CIOsky

A deep and actionable research report on how to get started on quantum computing, with an appendix that acts like a catalog of partners to help your organization advance. ised-isde.canada.ca/site/spectru... #quantumcomputing #CIO #CIOsky #quantumCanada

Nvidia partners with optics technology vendors Lumentum and Coherent to enhance AI infrastructure Its investment of $2B in each company is viewed as laying the groundwork for its future as a competitive provider of AI training infrastructure.

Recent AI training deals made by Google and Amazon are pushing NVIDIA to innovate its GPUs and achieve better energy efficiency. Read my comments and more www.networkworld.com/article/4139... #Nvidia #photonics #AItraining #CIOsky

Amazon Bets Big on Agentic AI Development With $50 Billion OpenAI Investment Amazon will bring OpenAI models to its customers for the first time with a $50 billion investment into the ChatGPT creator. Amazon will support AI agent development on the latest GPT models both throu...

Amazon admits that its exclusive third-party provider of OpenAI Frontier comes with overlap with Amazon Bedrock for AI agent development. But it prefers to give customers choice.
www.infotech.com/software-rev... #AmazonOpenAI #OpenAIFrontier #AmazonBedrock #CIOSky

Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ Have it your way?

Burger King employees to be surveilled by AI assistant that monitors their politeness, among other features. #employeesurveillance #AIagents #CIOsky
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Why Quantum Computing Still Isn’t Close To Its ChatGPT Moment The next time someone tells you that quantum computing is ready for prime time, take a breath.

The hype is all focused on gate-based quantum processors But there’s another type of quantum computer that’s seeing commercial deployments in enterprise environments today.
www.forbes.com/councils/for... #quantum #ciosky #qubits

I highlighted quantum sensors in Tech Trends 2026 with a specific example of gravity sensing. A new initiative from NASA on using a quantum sensor to study earth's gravity field working with Infleqtion, which is pursuing neutral atoms tech. #CIOsky #quantum
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AI Sovereignty Extends The Concept Into Customer Experience The new push for AI sovereignty is seeming governments invest in initiatives to build out competitive, local LLM alternatives.

AI sovereignty is about so much more than data sovereignty. It goes beyond compliance and contends with the customer experience. My latest for Forbes Tech Council: www.forbes.com/councils/for... #AIsovereignty #LLMs #sovereignAI #CIOsky

MIT Tech Review has published its 10 breakthrough technologies list for 25 years. It tracks the flops and students also predict future flops. Selected this year: synthetic data for training AI; TikTok's algorithm. #CIOsky #techtrends #MIT

If you ever wonder why Canada has a hard time keeping startups from moving to the U.S., this graphic from CB Insights sums it up. #startups #VC #CIOsky

The exposure allowed strangers to see unattended children in a playground. #privacy #surveillancecapitalism #ciosky

It’s everyone but Meta in a new AI standards group Report indicates that Mark Zuckerberg has other plans: to pull an open source U-turn and make Meta’s best AI models proprietary.

Meta was never really interested in open source AI. Now it's just being honest about it. My comments in @syegulalp.bsky.social today - www.infoworld.com/article/4104... #Meta #CIOsky #opensource #LLMs

OpenAI tops leaderboard of 'Thinking Algorithms'

My thoughts on the AWS Nova Forge announcement in The Deep View this morning. I get pedantic about the "frontier" model labels being thrown around.
archive.thedeepview.com/p/openai-top... #AWSreinvent #NovaForge #CIOsky

What CIOs need to know about the RSL protocol | TechTarget The Real Simple Licensing (RSL) protocol offers clarity and revenue opportunities for web content, but has security, compliance, and adoption challenges.

Could a new RSL protocol help address the power imbalance between publishers and AI companies? There's potential but the plan needs some more teeth. I spoke with @techjournalist.bsky.social at @techtargetnews.bsky.social www.techtarget.com/searchcio/fe... #CIOsky #AIcopyright #AItraining

Zoho’s Distributed Business Provides Unique Perspective on Digital Sovereignty Recent geopolitical shifts have renewed interest in digital sovereignty, and the emergence of AI has expanded the concept up the stack to consider the risks of third-party LLMs. At Zoholics Canada 202...

I wrote about how Zoho's unique perspective as a global software service provider that's headquartered in India gives it an advantage in offering customers "digital sovereignty" www.infotech.com/software-rev... #Zoholics #zoho #AIsovereignty #CIOsky #digitalsovereignty

In my Tech Trends 2026 report, I wrote about "Service as Software" as the new business model competing with SaaS in which customers pay for outcomes. On stage at SaaS North, Vidyard CEO Michael Litt had a different term for the trend: Results as a Service (RaaS). betakit.com/is-saas-dead... #CIOsky

Don't think that big tech won't try to use its market power to push out AI agent competitors. They don't want to lose the relationship with the customer, and there's a threat of that happening as AI agents rise in popularity. #CIOsky #AIagents

How executives can counter AI impersonation | TechTarget AI deepfake attacks are rising, costing companies millions and targeting executives. Learn how CIOs can protect communication, trust and financial security.

CIOs and other executives are battling the rise of AI impersonation and deepfakes. No single tool will save them.
www.techtarget.com/searchcio/ti... #deepfakes #AI #fraud #CIOsky

I'd say this is the sort of "high risk AI systems" that the EU AI Act is talking about. You know, considering that police pointed loaded guns at a 16 year old that was at school. #CIOsky #AIrisk #AIsurveillance

Where is AI useful in cybersecurity? ISACA's new State of Cybersecurity report shows the top use cases for adoption. #CIOsky #ITsec #cybersec #AIsecurity

Tech Trends 2026 Tech Trends Report 2026 helps organizations cross this liminal space by highlighting eight trends that will define the journey. Drawing on ins...

My annual Tech Trends report is out for 2026! Delve into the future of Agentic AI, next-gen IoT sensors, enterprise resilience, cybersecurity, and data mesh. #CIOsky #techtrends #AI #IoT #cybersecurity #datamesh

Download our Tech Trends 2026 report now: www.infotech.com/research/ss/...

How does Canada's cybersecurity resilience hold up against other countries? Property insurer FM places Canada as 59th out of 122 countries on its index, which combines proprietary and United Nations’ Global Cybersecurity Index data. Released February 2025. #CIOsky #cybersec #ITsec #canada

"I have reviewed and don't have any changes." - The best email I received all year. #CIOsky

Wow this sounds like a Star Trek technology to me. Soon enough we'll have those regenerating beams shooting out of mobile tools, I'm sure. #CIOsky #AI

Telco’s botched firewall upgrade left emergency callers unable to connect Australia's telecommunications regulator is investigating an outage at Optus after an upgrade went wrong and network monitoring failed to spot the problem.

A telco outage in Australia led to four deaths. It's a startling reminder of how reliant we are on critical infrastructure providers and how connected our systems are. One failure can lead to many unforeseen downstream effects. www.networkworld.com/article/4061... #CIOsky #optus #criticalindustry

Nvidia to Invest Up to $100 Billion in OpenAI The companies say the partnership will enable OpenAI to build and deploy at least 10 gigawatts of Nvidia systems for its artificial intelligence data centers to train and run its next generation of mo...

It seems that OpenAI's top incentive is not to satisfy its AI customers, but to consume as many Nvidia chips as possible.
www.wsj.com/tech/nvidia-... #CIOsky #openAI #Nvidia #GPUs

Some fascinating data in OpenAI's report "How people use ChatGPT" - like this chart showing user growth. I feel like we were just talking about the journey to one million users and now it's close to 800 million. #chatGPT #CIOsky #openAI

In Quantum Computing Investment, ‘The Race is On’ ‘It will require a lot of R&D investment to unlock that potential.’

Recent investment boosts to quantum computing show that there's optimism in the field of achieving commercialization. It comes from government, academic, and private sector sources. www.thedailyupside.com/technology/s... #CIOsky #quantumcomputing #emergingtech #techtrends

The idea that Apple determined a sealed chamber of water was worth including in its smartphone architecture is pretty mind bending. #CIOsky