McDonald’s US CIO to Depart, Successor Named
McDonald’s announced that U.S. CIO Valerie Ashbaugh will depart at the end of April after less than a year in the role, concluding a five‑year tenure at the fast‑food giant. Mustafa Husain, the former vice‑president of restaurant technology engineering, will take over on May 1, bringing experience with point‑of‑sale and crew‑facing systems. The change aligns with the company’s "Accelerating the Arches" technology modernization program, which aims to unify its global tech stack and accelerate digital initiatives. McDonald’s reported FY 2025 revenue of just over $27 billion, up 4 % year‑over‑year.
What Google’s “Unified Stack” Pitch at Cloud Next ‘26 Really Means for CIOs
At Cloud Next ’26 Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian unveiled a “unified stack” that stitches together custom TPUs, Gemini Enterprise, the Agentic Data Cloud and security services into a single AI operating fabric. The pitch positions the stack as a turnkey...
DDN and Google Cloud Are Redefining AI Storage Infrastructure for the Agentic Era
Enterprises moving from AI pilots to production are hitting storage bottlenecks that limit GPU and TPU utilization. DataDirect Networks (DDN) and Google Cloud unveiled a co‑designed Managed Lustre service built on DDN’s EXAScaler, delivering up to 10 TB/s throughput. The offering...
Cirrascale to Offer On-Prem Google Gemini Models
Cirrascale Cloud Services will deliver Google Gemini large‑language models on‑premise through Google Distributed Cloud, using Dell‑built appliances equipped with Intel CPUs and Nvidia GPUs. The offering supports fully air‑gapped or connected deployments, letting government, defense, finance, healthcare and education customers...
X Square Robot Launches Wall‑B AI Model, Pledges Home Robot Rollout in 35 Days
X Square Robot unveiled Wall‑B, a new embodied AI foundation model for home robots, and said it will begin placing robots in everyday households within 35 days. Backed by major Chinese tech investors, the company highlighted its World Unified Model...
Taboola Unveils Realize+, Agentic AI Platform to Automate Campaign Management
Taboola announced the launch of Realize+, an agentic AI system that automates key performance‑marketing tasks such as budget allocation and ad generation. The platform aims to lift conversion rates beyond search and social while cutting manual workload, a move that...
Claude Labels Menu‑bar Launcher “Dumb” But Solves UI Split
Ha! This is new — I love it? Claude Opus 4.6 just called one of my ideas dumb. (I asked it to argue both sides of an idea.) "The menu bar app is dumb — it's a process launcher...
Meta to Cut 8,000 Jobs as AI Tracking Tool Sparks Employee Backlash
Meta announced a 10% workforce reduction—roughly 8,000 jobs—effective May 20, as it pushes a new AI‑training software that logs employee keystrokes and mouse movements. The cuts and the surveillance tool reflect a broader cost‑cutting drive overseen by finance leaders and...
85% of Enterprises Are Running AI Agents. Only 5% Trust Them Enough to Ship.
Eighty‑five percent of enterprises are running AI‑agent pilots, yet only five percent have moved those agents into production, highlighting a massive trust gap. Cisco’s President Jeetu Patel blamed the lack of a trust architecture and announced a suite of security...
Nike Trims 1,400 Jobs, Targeting Tech Division in Global Operations Overhaul
Nike will eliminate roughly 1,400 roles across its Global Operations team, with the bulk of reductions hitting the technology division. The move, outlined by COO Venkatesh Alagirisamy, is the latest step in the company’s Win Now turnaround strategy aimed at...
Meta to Cut 10% of Global Workforce, About 8,000 Jobs, in AI‑Focused Layoffs
Meta announced a 10% reduction of its global workforce—roughly 8,000 positions—effective May 20, 2026. The cuts target engineers, IT staff and other roles as the company accelerates AI investments worth up to $135 billion this year. CIOs face immediate talent‑gap challenges...
Google Cloud Next 2026: Scaling AI Agents
Google Cloud Next 2026 showcased a full‑stack AI push, highlighted by the eighth‑generation 8t TPU pods that can deliver 121 exaflops of FP4 compute across 9,600 chips. The event emphasized Google’s multi‑cloud stance, promising seamless integration for customers who refuse vendor...
Telstra's AI Bid to Nip Customer Complaints in the Bud
Telstra is deploying Microsoft AI Foundry’s agentic AI to scan customer data after migrations from legacy CRM systems. The AI agents proactively flag discrepancies, allowing Telstra to resolve issues before customers call the call centre. By automating this detection, Telstra expects...
S&P Global Appoints Firdaus Bhathena as EVP and Chief Technology & Transformation Officer
S&P Global has named Firdaus Bhathena as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology & Transformation Officer, a newly created role that will centralize the firm’s tech organization and accelerate AI adoption. Reporting to CEO Martina Cheung, Bhathena brings experience from FIS...
Adobe's Real AI Strategy Defies Market Skepticism
.@Adobe Summit 2026: Liz Miller Calls Out the Market on AI Strategy – and She’s Not Holding Back https://t.co/bbXv2HFi9W @cxtodaynews “When financial markets say Adobe doesn’t have an AI strategy, my answer is: you haven’t been paying attention. An AI...
Gemini Models Handle 6+ Trillion Tokens Monthly via ADK
"More than six trillion tokens are processed monthly on Gemini models through ADK." https://t.co/OcL9RxiiKq < quite the little nugget snuck into this broader post about the new @googlecloud Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. ADK 2.0 looks pretty great.
EBANX Appoints Kalecser Kurtz as CTO Amid 48% TPV Surge and Asian Expansion
Payments‑tech firm EBANX announced Kalecser Kurtz as its new chief technology officer, joining a broader executive reshuffle that also brings in a new CHRO and risk head. The move follows a 48% jump in total payment volume and the launch...
Open‑source Marathon Planning System with Multi‑Agent Architecture
That gorgeous marathon planning system we showed off on stage yesterday at #GoogleCloudNext? The one that shows a coordinated multi-agent architecture with memory and MCPs? We open sourced all of it. Run it locally or on the cloud. Party on. https://t.co/MeDZLkI3ww https://t.co/1qHbupJp2d
Anthropic Secures European Data Centers to Boost Compute
Anthropic is focusing on a key bottleneck By securing data center deals in Europe, the company is ensuring it has the infrastructure needed to scale its models. The priority is clear. In AI, access to compute is becoming as strategic as the...
Guzman Y Gomez Cooks up Plan for Agentic Kitchens
Guzman y Gomez is deploying HP‑supplied kitchen display units with on‑site neural processors across its 225 Australian restaurants, beginning in May. The hardware will run agentic AI algorithms that balance order flow between two production lines, fine‑tuning line openings to the minute....
Q.ANT Expands to U.S. and Appoints Former IBM Executive as CTO
Q.ANT, a Stuttgart‑based photonic computing firm, opened a U.S. headquarters in Austin, Texas, and hired former IBM executive Bruno Spruth as chief technology officer. The company’s native processing units, built on a thin‑film lithium niobate platform, claim up to 30× higher...
Kubernetes v1.36: User Namespaces in Kubernetes Are Finally GA
Kubernetes 1.36 makes User Namespaces generally available, a Linux‑only feature that lets pods run with root privileges confined to a user namespace. Setting hostUsers:false isolates capabilities such as CAP_NET_ADMIN to the container, preventing host‑wide escalation. The GA release relies on...
Gemini + Veo: A Deep Dive Into Google’s High-Fidelity Video Generation Pipeline
Google unveiled Veo, a high‑fidelity 1080p video generation model that leverages latent diffusion in a 3‑D latent space, and paired it with Gemini, its multimodal reasoning engine, to act as a cinematic director. The integration, accessible through Vertex AI, lets Gemini...
Google Pitches Agentic Data Cloud to Help Enterprises Turn Data Into Context for AI Agents
Google unveiled the Agentic Data Cloud, an architecture that layers a unified semantic Knowledge Catalog atop its existing data services—BigQuery, Dataplex and Vertex AI. The offering adds preview tools such as a LookML‑based agent, a BigQuery feature for embedding business...
Grid Dynamics Posts Record Q4 2025 Revenue, AI Services Now 25% of Sales
Grid Dynamics (GDYN) posted $106.2 million in Q4 2025 revenue, a 5.9% year‑over‑year increase, with AI‑related services surpassing $90 million and representing 25% of quarterly revenue. The company highlighted new CTO‑led AI platforms, strategic cloud partnerships and a shift toward outcome‑based contracts...
Talking to AI Agents Is One Thing — What About when They Talk to Each Other? New Startup BAND Debuts...
BAND, a startup founded by former Israeli intelligence veterans, emerged from stealth with a $17 million seed round to tackle the growing fragmentation of generative‑AI agents. The company introduces a deterministic "agentic mesh" that lets autonomous agents built on different frameworks—LangChain,...
Circle CPTO Envisions Agentic Economic Activity
From Tokenized podcast, Circle CPTO @chandhok lays out our vision for agentic economic activity. https://t.co/CN2qKRsbqp
Inside River Island’s Next Chapter in Ecommerce and Personalization | RTS 2026
In this RTS 2026 interview, River Island’s Director of Technology, Delivery and Transformation, Muriel Naber, shares her unconventional career path—from hospitality to retail tech—and how it shapes her customer‑centric transformation agenda. She explains River Island’s shift from technology‑driven projects to...
CAI Software Appoints Gaurav Maini as Chief Technology & AI Officer
CAI Software announced the appointment of Gaurav Maini as its first Chief Technology & AI Officer. In the newly created role, Maini will define an enterprise‑wide AI strategy, standardize engineering practices, and oversee the India innovation center that houses roughly...
Why AI Governance without Guardrails Is Theater
Enterprises are grappling with a widening gap between AI governance policies and reality, as shadow AI proliferates across workstations and SaaS tools. Surveys show 45% of employees use AI without manager knowledge and more than half connect unauthorized AI services,...
Modernizing KYC with AWS Serverless Solutions and Agentic AI for Financial Services
Financial institutions are turning to AWS serverless services and agentic AI to overhaul legacy Know Your Customer (KYC) processes. By leveraging Amazon MSK for real‑time event streaming, Amazon Bedrock for AI‑driven document analysis, and AWS Lambda for on‑demand compute, the...
Cogna Hires Former Amazon AI Leader Sam Ng as CTO to Accelerate AI Platform Growth
Cogna announced the appointment of Sam Ng, a former senior engineering leader at Amazon AI, as its new chief technology officer. Ng will steer the company’s engineering organization and AI platform as it expands internationally and deepens its presence in...
Enterprise Architecture in the Age of AI: More Critical Than Ever
Enterprise Architecture (EA) is becoming indispensable as organizations embed artificial intelligence across their tech stacks. The article argues that AI cannot replace the strategic oversight EA provides, especially when coordinating disparate SaaS solutions and ensuring data governance. It highlights how...
Forward Edge-AI Names Veteran Dell Exec Brad Vier as CTO to Accelerate Defense AI
Forward Edge-AI announced the appointment of Brad Vier as chief technology officer. The veteran engineer brings nearly three decades of experience at Dell Technologies to lead the company’s AI‑driven defense portfolio, signaling an aggressive push into national‑security markets.
Your AI Coding Agent Isn’t a Tool. It’s a Junior Developer. Treat It Like One
The article argues that AI coding agents should be treated as junior developers rather than mere productivity tools. By onboarding, pairing, and mentoring these agents, organizations can harness their speed while avoiding rapid technical debt and security vulnerabilities. Treating them...
LIV Golf Engages Fans with Agentic AI
LIV Golf has introduced two agentic AI tools—Fan Caddie (nicknamed “Chip”) for fans and Agent Caddie for broadcasters—to deliver real‑time stats, personalized content, and on‑site logistics. The AI agents are built on Salesforce’s Agentforce 360 platform after extensive data‑cleaning work....
How I Doubled My GPU Efficiency without Buying a Single New Card
A global retailer’s LLM search service was over‑provisioned, running 48 H100 GPUs at 55% average utilization because the inference workload alternates between compute‑heavy prefill and memory‑bound decode phases. Profiling revealed 92% compute usage during a 200 ms prefill, then a drop...
WPP Media NZ Appoints Sarah Kenny as Head of Data and Technology
WPP Media New Zealand has created a new Head of Data and Technology role and appointed Sarah Kenny, who returns from WPP Media UK, to fill it. Kenny previously led data and technology solutions at Wavemaker in the UK and helped...
Inside The Standard's Bengaluru Bet: Building the AI-Ready Workforce of Tomorrow
The Standard opened a global capability centre in Bengaluru to accelerate AI‑driven modernization of its 119‑year‑old insurance platform. The centre will house AI engineering, cloud, data analytics, and API integration teams that support the recent Allstate Employer Voluntary Benefits acquisition....
Harness Teams with Google Cloud to Fuse AI Into Software Delivery Pipelines
Harness announced at Google Cloud Next that it is integrating Google Cloud's Developer Connect with its Software Delivery Knowledge Graph, giving joint customers a unified, AI‑ready view of the entire delivery lifecycle. The move, highlighted by Harness winning the 2026...
Intel-Google Alliance Signals CPU Resurgence in AI Infrastructure Era
Intel has teamed with Google to pair Xeon CPUs with custom infrastructure processing units (IPUs) for AI workloads, emphasizing a balanced, heterogeneous architecture. The collaboration targets latency‑sensitive inference, data pre‑processing, and system management, offloading networking, storage, and security to IPUs....
Meta Will Install Keystroke and Screenshot Tracking Software on Employee Computers to Train Its AI Models, with No Opt-Out Option
Meta is deploying a software suite called the Model Capability Initiative on U.S. employee and contractor laptops, silently logging keystrokes, mouse movements and capturing screenshots of work apps such as Gmail, GChat and its internal AI assistant Metamate. The data...
Reapit Rolls Out New AI Offering for Estate Agents
Reapit has unveiled the next phase of its Reapit AI (RAI) platform, adding a voice‑led AI copilot, an AppMarket for task‑specific agents, and a no‑code builder for custom agents. The copilot, optimized for mobile, helps agents prepare for viewings, retrieve...
Former XPeng VP, Joins ENGINEAI Robotics
Li Liyun, a former vice president at XPeng who led the company’s AI‑driven autonomous‑driving transformation, has been appointed chief technology officer of ENGINEAI Robotics. A multidisciplinary scientist with stints at LinkedIn, Baidu’s Apollo team and JD.com, Li will oversee the...
Google and AWS Split the AI Agent Stack Between Control and Execution
Google and AWS are diverging on how to manage enterprise AI agents, with Google placing governance on a system‑level control plane and Amazon Web Services focusing on rapid execution via a harness in Bedrock AgentCore. Google’s Gemini Enterprise now consolidates...
GTT Rolls Out 2026 Strategy Emphasizing Cloud Services and AI‑Enabled Security
GTT announced a 2026 roadmap that puts cloud services and AI‑enabled security at the core of its enterprise networking offering. The plan builds on the GTT Envision platform and introduces a new AI‑driven cybersecurity framework, aiming to serve thousands of...
Mozilla Uses Anthropic’s Mythos AI to Fix 271 Firefox Bugs
Mozilla partnered with Anthropic to run the Mythos Preview model on Firefox code, automatically identifying and fixing 271 bugs. The effort showcases how generative AI can accelerate vulnerability remediation and forces CTOs to rethink security tooling.
BoQ Looks to Legacy Decommissioning as Core Consolidation Gains Pace
Bank of Queensland (BoQ) is 80‑85% through moving Me Bank customers to a new Temenos‑based core, with over 300,000 accounts and 70% of its retail base now live on the platform. The bank will begin decommissioning the Me Bank system...
Google Cloud Spanner Omni: Portable, Best‑in‑Class Database Everywhere
The best database on the internet is now available ... anywhere? We just announced @googlecloud Spanner Omni, with reimagined TrueTime and Colossus components for portability. https://t.co/iHBOKF7nH2 Pull the container here: "docker pull https://t.co/g26aVGW0aX" https://t.co/zqU7Z1g3Lp
Google AI Now Writes Three‑quarters of New Code
75% -> Google says 75% of new code created inside the company is now generated by AI and reviewed by human engineers, up from 50% last fall https://t.co/iAQrM8UHCQ