{"id":612674,"date":"2026-09-02T22:48:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T22:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/612674\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T22:48:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T22:48:23","slug":"ai-leadership-budgets-10-it-stories-that-defined-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/612674\/","title":{"rendered":"AI, leadership, budgets: 10 IT stories that defined this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Students may get the summer off, but CIOs don’t. AI implementation remained front and center for InformationWeek readers, as it has all year, but so did the ever-growing demands on IT leaders.<\/p>\n

Get caught up before the end-of-year rush, and find out what resonated with CIOs, CTOs and the rest of the C-suite this summer.<\/p>\n

The AI coding rollout worked. Now CIOs have a bigger problem<\/a>
Eighty-four percent of developers are using or plan to use AI tools, according to a recent survey. Yet productivity gains have plateaued at 10%. Meanwhile, AI coding is changing how developers work and how teams are built. Now what?<\/p>\n

Poor UX undermines security policies, says Texas A&M University System CIO<\/a>
InformationWeek Senior Editor Kelsey Ziser sat down with Texas A&M University System CIO Vince Kellen at Cisco Live, where he explained why security controls can backfire when they create too much friction \u2014 and how to secure agentic AI.<\/p>\n

Related:InformationWeek Podcast: Overcoming middle managers’ AI pushback<\/a><\/p>\n

10 women who fundamentally changed enterprise computing<\/a>
It was a busy summer full of conferences and news, but InformationWeek took a moment to look back. Contributing writer George Lawton profiles 10 women who made a lasting mark on enterprise computing. Find out who made the list in this slideshow.<\/p>\n

How the memory shortage hits CIOs as Apple boosts hardware prices<\/a>
Memory and storage chips are getting more expensive and harder to find. Learn why, and how it’s affecting enterprise IT leaders.<\/p>\n

The real heat behind OpenAI’s new Jalape\u00f1o chip<\/a>
OpenAI rolled out its Jalape\u00f1o chip this summer. InformationWeek Senior Editor Madeleine Streets examines the growth of custom AI infrastructure and what it could mean for enterprise customers.<\/p>\n

AI takes a shot at goal at FIFA World Cup <\/a>\u2014<\/a> here’s what’s powering it<\/a>
Gooooooal! The World Cup descended on North America for five weeks this summer. Lenovo CIO Arthur Hu tells InformationWeek how the company used edge AI, high-density servers and real-time data processing to help power the games.<\/p>\n

Apple’s OpenAI lawsuit signals a new AI battleground: Talent<\/a>
Apple filed suit against OpenAI and two of its former employees in July, alleging misappropriation of trade secrets. InformationWeek Senior Editor Madeleine Streets examines why institutional knowledge and employee experience may be the next competitive advantage in AI.<\/p>\n

InformationWeek Podcast: Is quantum readiness worth a CIO’s effort?<\/a>
Pal Narayanan, chief digital and information officer at Kenco, and Rishi Kaushal, CIO of Entrust, stopped by the InformationWeek Podcast to discuss how much CIOs should be doing now to prepare for quantum computing. Tune in and then get caught up on InformationWeek Podcast episodes<\/a> you may have missed.<\/p>\n

Related:How to submit an IT leadership column to InformationWeek<\/a><\/p>\n

SAP’s Robinson says enterprise AI is beyond baby steps<\/a>
InformationWeek Senior Editor Joao-Pierre S. Ruth talked with SAP North America President David Robinson about moving enterprise AI beyond experimentation and into real-world operations.<\/p>\n

2026 tech company layoffs<\/a>
AI continued to affect IT workers at large companies such as Oracle and Microsoft, but other employers said AI didn’t factor into their layoffs this summer. But as AI changes how work is done, that distinction isn’t always so clear. Learn more in InformationWeek’s ongoing tech layoffs tracker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Students may get the summer off, but CIOs don’t. AI implementation remained front and center for InformationWeek readers,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-612674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}