Technology expert Evan Schuman takes an authoritative look at the faults and foibles of enterprise IT.
Cloudflare’s latest maneuver is to give enterprises a choice: they can block genAI bots or charge them. But if you make a money grab now, you might soon regret it.
The Web cert world has undergone a lot of change this year, and Google has now set a June 2026 deadline for being even stricter about which certificates can be used for which functions.
Given that genAI hallucinates and ignores guardrails, do we really want it to have access and control apps from PayPal, Stripe, Shopify, Square, Slack, QuickBooks, Salesforce and GoogleDrive?
Despite how expensive genAI is right now, there’s an assumption pricing will soar in a year or two — as soon as enterprises are so invested in the tech that almost any price hike will cost less than making a switch.
Three recent incidents are reminders that generative AI tools remain troublesome and unreliable. IT buyer beware.
Online generative AI robots that scrape content and ignore websites’ ‘Do Not Enter ‘signs can cost enterprises a lot of money. But the underlying issue is how those bandwidth charges are calculated.
The Mayo Clinic has been experimenting with forcing the technology to reveal source links for everything. And there are other approaches that might be viable.
As the reliability of generative AI data remains doubtful, IT leaders need to seriously consider their risk tolerance. Most corporate boards certainly won’t.
Whether it’s genAI, new cybersecurity concerns, or the actual threats from Quantum computing, there’s a lot of misinformation bouncing between the board, C-level execs and various business units. IT leaders now need to be tech explainers.
Non-English generative AI models are far less accurate and useful than their English-based counterparts — sometimes dramatically so. Companies paying for them should know what they’re getting, and push for price cuts.
If IT execs want to avoid doing business with genAI firms that help make weapons, that demand needs to go into RFPs. It’s the only effective way to change policy.
The glitches that shut down American Airlines on Christmas Eve and stopped all train traffic in Norway on Christmas Day both involved third-party IT vendors. But how the two enterprises handled each mess was very different.
When Macy’s on Wednesday reported more details about the “hiding” of $151 million, it became clear their accounting controls simply didn’t work. It exposed a massive software hole in just about every enterprise environment.
The TikTok owner fired — and then sued — an intern for ‘deliberately sabotaging’ its LLM. This sounds more like a management failure, and a lesson for IT that LLM guardrails are a joke.
Enterprise CIOs today allow any user to choose pretty much any freeware browser they want — and then use it to access their most sensitive systems. Does anyone see a problem here?
In a perfect universe, the persuasiveness of an argument would not be based mostly on who said it. In the world we live in, though, it is. And it’s hard to find a less credible entity to create a genAI accuracy test than OpenAI.
A group of Harvard students experimented with AI-linked eyeglasses, offering a powerful peek into the AI nightmares coming for IT in 2025.
The adoption of generative AI is moving too quickly — and its dangers remain too unknown — for any meaningful rules to be put in place on AI vendors. Regulating enterprises makes far more sense; influence enterprise behavior and the vendo....
Just about every generative AI vendor offers enterprise CIOs all kinds of promises about the technology. But they’re talking up 2026 capabilities when trying to make 2024 sales. That’s a recipe for disaster for both buyer and seller.
Sponsored Links