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The Attackers Only Have to Be Right Once
CXOTalk Episode 926

The Attackers Only Have to Be Right Once

Anand Oswal of Palo Alto Networks explains how CISOs can discover, govern, and secure AI agents across four digital surfaces before attackers exploi…

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Shadow IT, Now on Steroids
CXOTalk Episode 924

Shadow IT, Now on Steroids

Andy Baldwin of IBM Consulting on why AI governance is old shadow IT on steroids, and why observability has to come before control when two-thirds o…

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Your AI Vendor’s Charter Is the Only Mission Statement That Counts
CXOTalk Episode 923

Your AI Vendor’s Charter Is the Only Mission Statement That Counts

Eric Ries says success corrupts good companies unless the mission is written into the legal charter. On CXOTalk 923 he explains why fewer than best-…

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Why Most AI Pilots Never Reach Production
CXOTalk Episode 922

Why Most AI Pilots Never Reach Production

Fewer than 100 companies have captured most of the value AI has created. McKinsey QuantumBlack leader Alexander Sukharevsky explains the invariant r…

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What CIOs Get Wrong About AI Agents
CXOTalk Episode 921

What CIOs Get Wrong About AI Agents

Agentic coding works. Agentic knowledge work does not, yet. Box CEO Aaron Levie explains why agents break enterprise permission models on CXOTalk ep…

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You Are Renting Your AI, and You Cannot Leave
CXOTalk Episode 920

You Are Renting Your AI, and You Cannot Leave

Raffi Krikorian, CTO of Mozilla, says most enterprises are renters, not owners, of their AI. On CXOTalk 920 he explains why 85% think they can switc…

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Human in the Loop Is Often Theater, Not Oversight
CXOTalk Episode 919

Human in the Loop Is Often Theater, Not Oversight

Tim Crawford and Anthony Scriffignano join Michael Krigsman on CXOTalk to argue that agentic AI is breaking enterprise IT assumptions faster than CI…

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Code Review Is the New Bottleneck in AI Software Development
CXOTalk Episode 917

Code Review Is the New Bottleneck in AI Software Development

Vitality’s CTIO says AI now writes code faster than his team can review it. Blitzy underwrites this episode and is its subject, so the perform…

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You Don’t Flip a Switch to Full Autonomy
CXOTalk Episode 918

You Don’t Flip a Switch to Full Autonomy

Enrique Ibarra, CIO of GNP Seguros, ran a four-month pilot testing Blitzy’s autonomous development platform across a 1,000-developer organizat…

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AI Swarms: An Arms Race We Have Not Joined
CXOTalk Episode 915

AI Swarms: An Arms Race We Have Not Joined

Daniel Thilo Schroeder of SINTEF and Jonas R. Kunst of BI Norwegian Business School co-led a 22-author study in Science on AI swarms. On CXOTalk epi…

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Finance Does Not Accept a Probabilistic Answer
CXOTalk Episode 914

Finance Does Not Accept a Probabilistic Answer

HPE CFO Marie Myers is deploying AI agents across a 3,600-person finance organization. On CXOTalk episode 914 she explains why determinism, not mode…

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The Security Architecture You Have Was Not Built for Agents
CXOTalk Episode 913

The Security Architecture You Have Was Not Built for Agents

Cvent runs more than 6,000 AI agents with about 1,300 in active use. On CXOTalk episode 913, the company CIO and CISO explain why existing security…

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The 93/7 Problem: Why Enterprise AI Budgets Are Backwards
CXOTalk Episode 912

The 93/7 Problem: Why Enterprise AI Budgets Are Backwards

Deloitte’s Tech Trends research found that 93% of enterprise AI spend goes to technology and only 7% to culture, change and work redesign. Glo…

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Your Pilot Ran on Five Tables. Production Has a Hundred Thousand.
CXOTalk Episode 903

Your Pilot Ran on Five Tables. Production Has a Hundred Thousand.

Christian Kleinerman, EVP of Product at Snowflake, told me the technology is ahead of what enterprises can absorb. The bottleneck is the data estate…

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AI Is Not Automation. It Is Coordination.
CXOTalk Episode 900

AI Is Not Automation. It Is Coordination.

Executives say AI and mean automation. Sangeet Paul Choudary argues AI is coordination infrastructure, and that the difference explains why AI strat…

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Nothing Works the First Time With AI Agents
CXOTalk Episode 897

Nothing Works the First Time With AI Agents

Will Grannis, CTO of Google Cloud, told me nothing works the first time with AI agents. The distance between an agent demo and an agent in productio…

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