Teaching employees to use AI could add up to $6.6T to US economy www.ciodive.com/news/augment... The roughly lines up with our research as well. There are several big buckets where productivity + effectiveness, driven by mass-self automation with agents, can be significantly increased.

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1/ Watching the saga of Moltbot (Clawdbot) unfold + trip over itself in real-time a perfect example of what’s happening with AI in general: - Speed run to capitalize - Crash into failure modes + unintended outcomes - Bad actors find lots more of them - Step back, do the design + security right

How enterprise CIOs can scale AI coding without losing control www.cio.com/article/4122... My take: As AI coding moves quickly into the forefront of mainstream software development, making the transition to it while managing risk has become paramount for IT chiefs.

1/ Agentic sprawl is emerging as one of the fastest-growing risks in enterprise AI. You can’t manage what you don’t know about or can’t see. And my research shows agents are being adopted widely. If CIOs can’t see what agents exist, they can’t govern, secure, or scale them.

A new McKinsey chart says something important: AI doesn’t replace jobs. It reshapes skills — unevenly. Human skills face the lowest automation risk. Structured + digital skills rise fastest. Even coding trends upward. Not tech vs people. Judgment beats repetitive work.

#CIOChat: Good chat today. Join us at 2pm ET next Thursday. Topic: New Budget Innovations This is month 10 of our movie tie-ins. Hope you’ve enjoyed them. Please suggest topics and invite your IT colleagues. Every Thursday at 2pm ET.

#CIOChat Q4: Endgame: careers built around adaptability, judgment, and systems thinking — not tools. What’s your strategy to help employees thrive alongside AI, not chase it, as the pace of change accelerates?

#CIOChat Q3: Prompting, orchestration, model governance, and human-AI teaming are becoming core skills, but most HR frameworks still reward static competencies. How are you measuring performance and potential in an AI-augmented workforce?

#CIOChat Q2: Many CIOs say the biggest shift isn’t job loss (yet), but job volatility: Skills expiring in months, workflows changing quarterly, and titles losing meaning. How are you redefining careers when learning and roles never stabilize?

I will note that Chief AI Officer came on very quickly. #CIOChat

I will note that Chief AI Officer came on very quickly. #CIOChat

#CIOChat Q1: AI isn’t just automating tasks, it’s reshaping entire roles. Which IT and digital careers are you seeing fundamentally change or disappear with AI or other tech, and which new roles are emerging faster than you expected?

I’ll have limited opportunity to reply from rainy Portugal today until later. A reminder you can join and reply to answers at any time as well. #CIOChat

#CIOChat: Welcome to today’s chat. Topic: IT Careers in the AI Era Please follow along or join in if you can! A friendly reminder that going forward, I am also simulcasting #CIOChat on Bluesky, for those of you who prefer to participate there.

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Work-from-office mandate? Expect top talent turnover, culture rot www.cio.com/article/4119... For the tech industry, this has been a tough call. And will continue to re-contour the IT landscape.

Walmart: This year, AI tinkering ‘becomes transformation’ www.ciodive.com/news/walmart... After two years of experiments, the company is going into high gear around putting AI “out front” in both the digital and in-store experiences.

#CIOChat Good chat today. Join us at 2pm ET next Thursday. Topic: IT Careers in the AI Era This is month 10 of our movie tie-ins. Hope you’ve enjoyed them. Please suggest topics and invite your IT colleagues. Every Thursday at 2pm ET.

#CIOChat Q4: Endgame: AI everywhere means GPU economics everywhere: On-prem clusters, regional GPU clouds, edge inference, and vendor-hosted models each with radically different cost and risk profiles. What’s your next-gen GPU portfolio strategy and why?

#CIOChat Q3: CIOs tell us GPU operating models now a strategic architecture decision. How are you designing for cost control + sovereignty as GPU demand grows across LLMs, agents, RAG, and streaming inference?

#CIOChat Q2: New GPU clouds (CoreWeave, Lambda Cloud, etc.) promise cheaper inference, better scheduling, and more than hyperscalers. But raise questions around sovereignty, lifecycle maturity, and IP safety. Are you using any of these platforms, and what’s your evaluation?

#CIOChat Q1: Inference is now the real cost center of AI, not training. Many CIOs say spend is shifting to continuous inference, including guardrails, vector search, and routing. Where are you seeing inference costs explode, and what keeps them predictable?

#CIOChat: Welcome to today’s chat. Topic: GPU Economics

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IBM pushes sovereign computing with a software stack that works across cloud platforms www.networkworld.com/article/4117... I shared my thoughts with @networkworld.bsky.social on IBM’s interesting new approach to autonomy-based cloud.

I’ll be speaking at #Predict2026 today, January 15! Join me as I dive into how #AI is forcing the CIO to reinvent cloud, security, and ops as it powers an entire new economy. Register for free: buff.ly/AQQFZdw

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The AI readiness gap: Why healthcare and insurance struggle to scale beyond pilots www.cio.com/article/4115... Pilots work great, but grappling with the reality of the regulated world stops them from going beyond. It turns out the CIO is uniquely equipped to address, however.

4/ Culture, not compute, is the primary adoption lever. Employees adopt AI when norms support experimentation, leaders model behavior, and people feel psychologically safe. This shifts the CIO’s role into organizational design as much as AI technology itself + both matter.🧠

2/ The strategic takeaway from the study, emphasized by @jteevan: • AI’s next value frontier is collaborative productivity • Teams, workflows, and org design are now the bottleneck Not tools, models, or licenses. 🤝 The data shows much upside potential (below.)

1/ We’ve all watched as AI has dramatically transformed work for two years now, so I studied Microsoft’s just-out Future of Work study with great interest. Here’s my analysis, and exactly what CIOs should prepare for next. 🧵👇

A3) Never ever slash the people who manage and maintain your infrastructure before that infrastructure is gone. Dropping the people first is a nightmare. #ciochat

A2) Last shop was all about rationalizing after the departure of various business lines. Sadly, legal entanglements kept their parent from helping out more. Mapping out a division being sold can surface a host of opportunities. #ciochat

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#CIOChat Q4: Endgame: A leadership model where teams move fast, disagreements are surfaced early, and alignment comes from shared purpose + not endless meetings. What does your post-consensus operating model look like, and how do you maintain trust while moving at modern speed?

#CIOChat Q3: CIOs increasingly pivot to decision clarity, role authority, pre-declared principles, and fast escalation paths instead of universal agreement. What new leadership practices are you using to make decisive calls without alienating partners or creating political debt?

#CIOChat Q2: We each have examples: Roadmaps stalled waiting for decisions, initiatives blocked by a stakeholder, or steering committees that meet monthly while competitors ship weekly. What real-world bottlenecks have you seen where consensus-based leadership harmed outcomes?

#CIOChat Q1: Consensus management is breaking down as decision velocity becomes a competitive necessity. Markets shift too fast, AI accelerates everything, and alignment cycles can’t keep up. Where are you seeing consensus hampering the org most + where is it no longer tenable?

Hoping everyone had a restful New Year. Joining #CIOChat from Portugal, where it’s finally getting a little colder.

#CIOChat: Welcome to today’s chat. Topic: The End of Consensus Management

My take: I now believe AI will make knowledge work so cheap + plentiful that the only premium left will be “humanity”. Expect niche luxury markets for certain ‘white glove’ types of human work/experience: Talent sourcing, building communities, live person customer service, etc.

The Landscape of AI Models for 2026 Agentic/orchestration, reasoning, and (to some degree) action models on the rise this year…

Join this week’s #CIOChat 2-3 p.m. EST tomorrow. Topic: The End of Consensus Management

Nvidia’s new Rubin platform aims to cut AI training, inference costs www.ciodive.com/news/nvidia-... An admission + direct response to inference costs continuing to skyrocket as models increase in size 10x a year. Can treat the entire data center as the unit of compute.

Cloud outages 2025: How global businesses survived blackouts restofworld.org/2026/cloud-o... My take: Last year was a watershed in cloud outages, and not in a good way. Driving serious focus on workload versatility. By year: • 2021: 10 • 2022: 10 • 2023: 7 • 2024: 8 • 2025: 22

Most people think AI in business in 2026 will be about agentic AI. Instead, it’s actually going to be more about redesigning broken processes before they can actually automate anything.

1/ Did @microsoft.com succeed in turning 400M Microsoft 365 users into AI users overnight? That question is suddenly getting a lot of attention this week, as the Microsoft 365 → Microsoft 365 Copilot rebrand resurfaces across search + social (via a @askperplexity.bsky.social viral thread).

9 IT resolutions for 2026 | @cio.com www.cio.com/article/4109... Great round up from actual CIOs, from AI to creating value. 1/

The challenge for software engineers in 2026 and beyond www.ciodive.com/news/softwar... My take: CIOs with engineering teams have a great deal work to do this year to address the enormous implications of AI on the entire software development lifecycle.