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  AWS outages in Middle East highlight importance of disaster recovery

  Cloud services remained disrupted in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates into Tuesday morning after a series of drone strikes in the region.

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  AI engineering tops list of in-demand skills: LinkedIn

  Employers want an AI-ready workforce, but less than half of U.S. professionals feel supported to advance their training, according to the report.

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  TD Bank eyes $150M in claims cost reductions — with help from AI

  A core tenet of the banking giant’s AI strategy is to “build once and use many times,” Group President and CEO Raymond Chun said.

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  Albertsons brings AI expertise to board

  The grocery company expanded its board to include McDonald’s EVP and Global CIO Brian Rice, who brings decades of digital leadership experience.

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  AI training efforts give ROI a boost

  Data and AI literacy have emerged as critical skills in the enterprise as the value of investments comes into focus, according to a DataCamp report.

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  Dell reacts to memory chip crunch as PC, server revenues soar

  “We're compressing discounting,” COO Jeff Clarke said Thursday. “Our quotes are valid for the shortest period of time they've ever been.”

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  AWS gains enterprise edge with OpenAI partnership

  The tech giant’s deal to exclusively distribute OpenAI Frontier is a “gamechanger,” said Gartner Distinguished VP Analyst Jason Wong.

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  Unilever picks alum as CIO to oversee core IT

  Reema Jain, who rejoined the consumer goods giant in 2025 as global VP of digital technology, will report to the company’s chief digital and technology officer.

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  HSBC names generative AI a leading investment area

  The global bank plans to use the technology for employee assistance, process reengineering and customer experience.

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  AI boom propels Nvidia to record $215B in annual revenue

  The data center segment soared as deliveries of the Blackwell architecture ramped up, the company said.

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  Heineken appoints tech chief to drive transformation efforts

  Romain Apert spent more than 25 years at Mars and comes to the role with expertise on how to modernize core IT systems and data foundations.

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  Software vulnerabilities are being weaponized faster than ever

  Threat groups are exploiting a small percentage of critical flaws well before security teams can mitigate, a VulnCheck report shows.

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  Hormel Foods taps first CTO to drive enterprise IT, data strategy

  The global food company appointed Donald Monk, a longtime General Mills executive, to help modernize the company’s tech stack.

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  App sprawl bogs down operations, fuels shadow IT growth

  AI proliferation is adding unsanctioned tools to workflows as enterprises grapple to keep costs in check, a Torii report found.

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  Few 10-Ks tie AI to tangible revenue gains, study finds

  The technology remains an “operational tool” instead of a primary revenue driver for most top U.S. companies, according to the report.

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  Intel, SambaNova link up to support AI compute

  The collaboration aims to cut costs for enterprises deploying agents and cloud-scale inference capabilities.

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  AI triggers hiring shift for Fortune 500

  Demand for AI governance skills increased 81% year over year as enterprises continued to prioritize the technology, according to a report from Draup.

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  Why chief AI officers need to become change agents

  CAIOs should reframe experiments as learning opportunities, focus on talent density and address security risks before they become existential threats.

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  FinOps teams gain clout as AI costs climb

  Cost management efforts have spread beyond cloud as enterprises work to get AI spending under control, according to the FinOps Foundation.

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  A CIO toolkit for AI adoption

  Executives are being tasked with leading complex tech adoption efforts as everything around them changes. 

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  VMware customers shrink deployments in lieu of full-scale migrations

  While a mass exodus from the virtualization software never materialized after Broadcom bought the company, scale-backs are underway, according to a CloudBolt report.

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  Banks boost venture deals to scale AI

  Wells Fargo and Citigroup topped the leaderboard for AI VC investments as the financial services industry works to build and scale the technology.

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  AI’s ‘connective tissue’ is woefully insecure, Cisco warns

  In a new report, the company also said businesses should beware of the “SolarWinds of AI.”

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  Skills are evolving too quickly for current training cycles, report says

  Core responsibilities shift every 18 months for IT workers, but learning was still seen as a benefit rather than an operational necessity, according to Info-Tech Research Group.

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  Walmart touts early AI wins as revenues rise

  CFO John David Rainey described the company’s tech vendor partnerships as critical to success during a Q4 earnings call on Thursday.

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