As companies struggle to articulate AI's value proposition, IT leaders crave meaningful information and resources.

While the global cybersecurity workforce has grown to help defend against mounting threats, the gap of required workers remains at an all-time high.

DevRev analyzed regional average monthly searches for AI-related search terms in the last 12 months to identify what it calls the “the top 10 most AI-obsessed states in America.”

“Change management is extremely important when any new technology comes into the enterprise," Randstad Digital CEO Venu Lambu said.

While horizontal AI is broad-reaching and can be layered across multiple industries and use cases, vertical AI is tailor-made for specific ones.

"I don't want to sound crazy, but like vacations on the moon could be possible, and those are our big dollars,” EY's Michael Misrahi said.

The leaders in the Forrester's report all have long-term goals to further integrate their zero-trust platforms with artificial intelligence.

DataSum focuses on ethical guidelines, methodologies and standards to help ensure responsible, transparent and unbiased artificial intelligence training data.

Artificial intelligence tools can help generate code and build applications, but the human touch is still required.

The company's Resource Advisor Copilot, based on an OpenAI large language model, took just four months to transform from an idea to beta-ready.

"The cost of operating dedicated infrastructure makes very little sense," Cisco VP of Data Center Networking Thomas Scheibe said.

Telecom market growth presents a global talent shortage, which will snowball in the next five years unless it's addressed now.

Existing development practices drive adoption of bigger artificial intelligence models. Frameworks, tooling and libraries are adjusting to meet the needs.

"AI systems – automated systems – discriminate by default," NYU's Meredith Broussard said during a VMware Explore panel on responsible artificial intelligence.

Federated Wireless CEO Iyad Tarazi stated private 5G "requires you to think about the broader integration model.”

We spoke with Krishna Subramanian, cofounder, president and COO of software startup Komprise, about tips for advancing your tech career at a startup.

"The transition from air to liquid cooling will be an evolution, not an overnight revolution," Dell'Oro Research Director Lucas Beran said.

Databricks' $1.3 billion MosaicML buy tops the money moves, but it wasn't the only billion deal ... plus, more funding, merger and acquisition news.

A growing number of enterprises are turning to synthetic data. This, as its name suggests, isn't real data, but closely resembles it.

"Zero trust and platform are intertwined. If you want to have an enterprise zero trust, you need to go to a platform-centric approach,” Anand Oswal argues.

"When you have a lot of noise, it obscures what's really important," VMware Chief Sustainability Officer Nicola Acutt said.

The deal is a “foundational contract extension” in his firm’s now 10-year relationship with Verizon, Synchronoss CEO Jeff Miller said.

Kyndryl now has 500 global customers on the platform and is delivering services alongside tech industry partners Amazon, SAP and Red Hat.

If organizations don’t adapt and adopt zero trust, “they probably will be going out of business in this digital world,” PwC's Prakash Venkata argued.