IT Leadership – Computerworld

Editor’s picks

Enterprise Spotlight: Setting the 2026 IT agenda

Download the January 2026 issue of the Enterprise Spotlight from the editors of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World and learn about the trends and technologies that will drive the IT agenda in the year ahead.

By Amy Bennett and Computerworld Staff

Apr 1, 20261 min

Artificial IntelligenceEnterprise Buyer’s GuidesIT Operations

More about IT Leadership

With its latest layoffs, Microsoft goes all in on AI

…And Xbox takes the hit.

By Preston Gralla

Jul 14, 20265 mins

Artificial IntelligenceIT StrategyMicrosoft

OpenAI to release delayed models Thursday amidst a sea of regulatory confusion

By Evan Schuman

Jul 8, 20267 mins

Generative AIGovernmentLaws and Regulations

Anthropic shines a light into the Claude AI black hole

By Evan Schuman

Jul 8, 202610 mins

Artificial IntelligenceIT StrategyRisk Management

6 ways to make AI accountability stick

By Pat Brans

Jul 6, 202611 mins

Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AIIT Strategy

About the Best Places to Work in IT

By Best Places to Work in IT Team

Jul 2, 202610 mins

CareersIT Leadership

New Linux Foundation project aims to bring DNS-style trust to AI agents

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 25, 20265 mins

Artificial IntelligenceIT GovernanceIT Governance Frameworks

Your AI strategy may be training employees to stop thinking

By Taryn Plumb

Jun 22, 20267 mins

Artificial IntelligenceIT LeadershipIT Strategy

Solving an ARD problem in AI: Agentic Resource Discovery

By Maxwell Cooter

Jun 19, 20262 mins

Artificial IntelligenceIT GovernanceIT Governance Frameworks

Google, Microsoft offer specs to help you prove your AI is behaving nicely

By Maxwell Cooter

Jun 19, 20262 mins

Artificial IntelligenceComplianceIT Governance

Articles

How companies are racing to solve the AI token problem

Generative AI services and tools that use tokens to produce results can get expensive quickly. That’s spurring IT leaders to look for new ways to reduce token use — and save money.

By Agam Shah

Jun 18, 2026 6 mins

Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AIIT Strategy

Q&A: A look at forward-deployed engineers, AWS style

A lot of companies suddenly seem to be hiring FDEs to oversee successful AI deployments. With that in mind, AWS exec Taimur Rashid talked about how his company approaches the role, what FDEs do, and why teams of engineers are better than hired guns.

By Agam Shah

Jun 16, 2026 8 mins

Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AIIT Strategy

AI vendor FDEs: Key considerations and concerns

IT leaders are increasingly turning to forward-deployed engineers from AI vendors for help with AI deployments. Here’s what you need to know before taking the FDE plunge.

By Evan Schuman

Jun 11, 2026 12 mins

Enterprise ArchitectureGenerative AIIT Strategy

DocLang aims to make documents readable by AI, not humans

Development of the AI-native DocLang document format raises questions about its impact on human workers, as well as on governance and accountability.

By Paul Barker

Jun 9, 2026 5 mins

Artificial IntelligenceIT GovernanceIT Leadership

Minimus Taps Yael Nardi to Lead Strategic Operations as Chief Business Officer

For immediate release

By TechnologyWire

Apr 7, 2026 2 mins

IT Leadership

Anthropic suggests slowing AI research until we can align it with human goals

The accelerating pace of AI development, and the possibility that AI may soon be able to build itself, is once again raising concerns in the enterprise about the alignment problem: Ensuring that AI will work for our, not its, benefit.

By Gyana Swain

Jun 5, 2026 5 mins

Artificial IntelligenceIT GovernanceIT Leadership

Enterprise Spotlight: Rethinking cloud strategy in the age of AI

Download the June 2026 issue of the Enterprise Spotlight from the editors of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World, and learn how to navigate the latest cloud strategy developments.

By Computerworld staff

Jun 3, 2026 1 min

Cloud ArchitectureCloud SecurityIT Strategy

The AI pricing conundrum — it started as a nightmare, now it’s worse.

Is there a good way for IT to pay for AI? Not really, but there might be some slightly less horrific ways.

By Evan Schuman

Jun 2, 2026 6 mins

Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AIIT Strategy

Another IT governance headache: AI-enabled sanction evasion

A new report from RUSI focuses on how AI models are enabling regimes such as North Korea and Iran to execute cyber operations while evading detection.

By Paul Barker

May 27, 2026 7 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCybercrimeIT Governance

5 ways to curb AI sprawl without stifling innovation

AI is spreading across enterprises in ways IT can’t fully see or manage. New approaches are emerging to restore visibility, reduce risk, and support innovation.

By Pat Brans

May 18, 2026 10 mins

Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AIIT Strategy

How Southwest Airlines is putting endpoint operations on autopilot

The company is using technology to resolve IT problems for its frontline workers before many employees even know there’s an issue.

By Matthew Finnegan

May 14, 2026 7 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDigital TransformationUnified Endpoint Management

Nearly every enterprise is investing in AI, but only 5% say their data is ready

Dun & Bradstreet found widespread experimentation and early returns, but few organizations believe they can deploy AI reliably at enterprise scale.

By Taryn Plumb

May 13, 2026 6 mins

Artificial IntelligenceIT LeadershipROI and Metrics

Microsoft, Google push AI agent governance into enterprise IT mainstream

The companies are giving admins more ways to control AI agents, but the harder problem for enterprises may be governing agents that operate beyond native platform boundaries.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

May 5, 2026 5 mins

Generative AIGoogle WorkspaceMicrosoft 365