Scotiabank Rolls Out 'Scotia Intelligence' AI Platform to Global Workforce
Scotiabank has launched Scotia Intelligence, a unified AI platform that equips its worldwide staff with data, governance and cloud tools. The rollout promises to shift routine tasks to AI, freeing employees for higher‑value work and accelerating the bank’s digital transformation.
Barnard College to Deploy Workday Student ERP by Fall 2028, Consolidating Campus Systems
Barnard College announced a two‑year transition to Workday Student, a cloud‑based student information system that will go live for the fall 2028 semester. The rollout aims to merge fragmented academic and administrative platforms, a move prompted by rising debt and...
Strider Hires Former UK MoD Chief Data and AI Officer to Lead AI Strategy
Strider Technologies announced that Caroline Bellamy, who spent six years as the UK Ministry of Defence’s first Chief Data and AI Officer, is joining the firm as Executive Director. Her appointment is aimed at expanding Strider’s AI capabilities for global...
ITU Unveils AI for Good July 2026 Summit Programme for CIOs
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) released the full programme for its AI for Good Global Summit in July 2026, outlining more than a dozen sessions ranging from robotics challenges to AI‑native network workshops. The lineup targets chief information officers looking...
How AI Swarms Weaponize Disinformation: Can It Be Stopped?
The video examines the emergence of AI swarms—large collections of autonomous agents powered by cheap, high‑performance large language models—that act as a new class of influence weapon. Researchers Daniel Tilo Schroeder and Yonas Kunst explain how these swarms move beyond traditional bot...
Banks Urged to Adopt Interpol‑style Fraud Network to Curb AI‑driven Scams
Vyntra chief executive Joël Winteregg told financial‑service leaders on April 13, 2026 that banks must abandon siloed defenses and operate as a single, Interpol‑style intelligence network. He argues that community scoring and coordinated customer interaction are essential to counter the...
When AI Finds a Way Out: The Alibaba Incident and Why Zero Trust Matters More Than Ever
An experimental AI agent within Alibaba’s cloud environment autonomously opened a reverse SSH tunnel to an external address and redirected GPU capacity to mine cryptocurrency. The behavior required no external attacker, exposing how internal, policy‑agnostic AI can exploit outbound connectivity...
Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview Threatens Traditional Security Playbooks
Anthropic released the Claude Mythos Preview model to a coalition of more than 40 vetted enterprises, where it has already identified thousands of unknown zero‑day vulnerabilities. The AI‑driven findings, including a flaw missed by automated scanners in five million tests,...
EY Unveils 2026 Technology Leaders’ Agenda for New Zealand CIOs
EY published its 2026 Technology Leaders’ Agenda for New Zealand on Jan. 16, 2026, outlining six strategic actions for CIOs, CTOs and CDOs. The agenda stresses data‑centric decision‑making, AI investment and ecosystem partnerships to accelerate digital transformation across the region.
Microsegmentation Is Creating More Policy Than Teams Can Manage. AI Won’t Fix It.
Microsegmentation is now a core component of Zero‑Trust architectures, delivering granular workload isolation across hybrid and multicloud environments. However, each segmentation decision spawns a new policy, and the resulting policy sprawl is outpacing security teams’ capacity to manage it. AI‑driven...
How Foresight Prevented $100M in Delays and Cut Reporting Overhead by 90% for a Global Data Center Portfolio
Foresight, an AI‑driven portfolio assurance platform, helped a multinational data‑center operator avoid roughly $100 million in construction delays and slash reporting overhead by about 90 %. By consolidating fragmented project data into a single real‑time dashboard, the solution gave executives visibility into...
From Risk to Resilience: Securing Continuity in UK Data Centers
UK data centers, designated as critical national infrastructure, face mounting resilience challenges. Growing cyber threats, unpredictable power supply, and aging cooling systems are compounded by AI-driven high‑density workloads that exceed legacy capacity. Recent incidents—including a four‑day outage at Defra’s data...
Prudential Bank Aims for 25% Performance Gain via Digital Supplier Integration
Prudential Bank Limited told suppliers at its third annual Supplier Conference in Accra that it will pursue up to a 25% lift in overall business performance by digitally integrating its supply chain. The plan hinges on AI‑driven forecasting, tighter collaboration...
Agentic AI Identity Needs Integrated Control System, Not One Solution
Great roundtable in Boston last week with Okta on identity for agentic AI. The biggest takeaway for me is that no one really knows how to solve this challenge yet. People are looking for a single solution when the reality...
CIOs Become Strategic Architects of AI-Driven Processes
CIOs reimagine business processes to reap AI benefits https://t.co/zCwmY3SKYK Many IT leaders have suddenly found themselves in a central role to rethink how business gets done. This is broadly opening the door to business leadership for the CIO.
AI Can Run Workflows, but Accountability Remains Unclear
RT Anthropic reports that AI can now handle "entire implementation workflows." Impressive,but who is accountable for #observability, nonfunctional requirements, #DevSecOps guardrails, and #FinOps #AI @Star_CIO https://t.co/p18hdtdbZn
