A stunning wave of investment is rushing into the battle against antibiotic-resistant diseases: the Ellison Institute has granted £118 million to Oxford University’s Vaccine Group to kick off a five-year, AI-powered vaccine initiative targeting pathogens like E. coli, pneumococcus, and staph—organisms that have stubbornly evaded traditional vaccination efforts. This is one of Oxford’s most significant

In recent years, the global conversation around cloud computing has shifted from a focus on technology to geopolitics. Data sovereignty, privacy, and control are now top concerns for enterprises outside the United States—especially across Europe, the UK, Asia, and Africa. Regulations and shifting political winds are prompting companies to reassess the risks of storing their

As large language models (LLMs) evolve from static responders into autonomous actors, developers are facing a new kind of systems challenge: building infrastructure that can support reasoning, decision-making, and continuous action. Gravity’s agentic AI platform is one of the most advanced real-world examples, a system where LLMs interact with tools, memory, and guardrails to execute

Productivity wins  Leadership can be a lonely position, and the writers of CIO.com often share insights designed to lighten the load. A good example is a recent article on IT management practices that are certain to kill IT productivity.  It is a popular piece, and it prompted our CIO readers to ask the obvious opposite

In a recent episode of the First Person podcast we spoke to Ian Mountford, a  senior consultant in governance, risk, and compliance who made the decision to switch to cyber at the age of 49 after never previously working in IT.   Ian told us how hard the change was, principally because the lack of a clear

Download the September 2025 issue of the Enterprise Spotlight from the editors of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World. aria-label=”Embed of Spotlight report: IT careers in the AI era.”>Spotlight report: IT careers in the AI eraDownload Original Link:https://us.resources.computerworld.com/resources/form?placement_id=9ca36661-91ab-4c0e-ace4-5f8a2eb6b9ad&brand_id=128&locale_id=1Originally Posted: Mon, 01 Sep 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Prognosticators have been prognosticating for 20 years about a future in which hackers use AI to breach networks, steal data, and socially engineer credulous employees. And like so many AI-related futurisms in the age of LLM-based generative AI, this prediction is coming true. Anthropic reported last week that a hacker used its technology for an

Meta has released an important update for WhatsApp that patches CVE-2025-55177, a serious vulnerability that is actively exploited. The vulnerability, along with another vulnerability (CVE-2025-43300), has been used to install spyware on iPhones and Macs. According to Meta’s spokesperson Margarita Franklin, nearly 200 people have been monitored using the installed spyware and have been informed

Ever wondered what it’s like to date someone who remembers your coffee order, your weird jokes, and sends you images—or even video—just because it wants to? That’s the wild, surprisingly emotional world of AI dating chatbots. You get companionship that’s always there, uncensored conversations that don’t judge your midnight rants, and more virtual personality than

The big three cloud providers — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) — all offer the essentials of modern infrastructure, including virtual machines, storage, serverless computing, and managed databases. But there are key differences in how their services are packaged, priced, and incorporated into an enterprise’s tech stack, whether standalone