IT leaders are setting their operations strategies for 2026 with an eye toward agility, flexibility, and tangible business results.  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

Heavy industry relies on people to inspect hazardous, dirty facilities. It’s expensive, and putting humans in these zones carries obvious safety risks. Swiss robot maker ANYbotics and software company SAP are trying to change that. ANYbotics’ four-legged autonomous robots will be connected straight into SAP’s backend enterprise resource planning software. Instead of treating a robot

Huskeys, an Edge Security Management company, has closed an $8 million seed round to tackle one of enterprise security’s most ignored failures: web application firewalls that nobody wants to touch. The round includes venture capital firms 10D, SV Angel, toDay Ventures (part of Merlin Ventures), CCL, and Alumni Ventures, alongside cybersecurity angels Ariel Maislos, Michael

Variance, a San Francisco-based company building AI agents for risk and compliance, has closed a $21.5 million Series A round. Ten Eleven Ventures led the investment, joined by 645 Ventures, Y Combinator, Urban Innovation Fund, and Okta Ventures. The company has now raised $26 million in total. The new capital will go toward expanding the

Banking house JPMorgan Chase is asking its roughly 65,000 engineers and technologists to use AI tools as part of their regular workflow. Business Insider reported that managers are tracking how often staff use these tools. That use may also influence performance reviews. The report states employees are encouraged to use tools like ChatGPT and Claude

A developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, Kong, has announced that Bruce Felt has joined it as CFO. Felt is a seasoned finance leader who brings experience guiding enterprise software companies through their growth phases, including several IPOs, acquisitions, and global expansions. Mr. Felt has led finance organisations from early-stage environments to significant global

As artificial intelligence becomes a driving force in financial prediction, the reliability of its forecasting tools faces increasing scrutiny. Many traders question whether claims of high accuracy translate into consistent results under live market conditions. Understanding how these AI systems are evaluated reveals important distinctions between performance in theory and practice. Few financial domains are

When Pew Research Centre analysed 68,879 Google searches in March 2025, one finding stood out: users who encountered an AI-generated summary clicked on a traditional result just 8% of the time. Those who didn’t see a summary clicked nearly twice as often, at 15%. A quarter of users who saw an AI summary ended their

Glia, a customer service platform providing AI-powered interactions for the banking sector, has been named a winner in the Banking and Financial Services Category at the 2026 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards. The awards recognises achievements in a range of industries and use cases, spotlighting “companies and leaders moving AI beyond experimentation and into practical, accountable

Financial institutions are learning to deploy compliant AI solutions for greater revenue growth and market advantage. For the better part of ten years, financial institutions viewed AI primarily as a mechanism for pure efficiency gains. During that era, quantitative teams programmed systems designed to discover ledger discrepancies or eliminate milliseconds from automated trading execution times.