“As AI becomes integral to business strategy, CIOs are being forced to reconsider how and where it’s optimal to deploy compute resources. The need for low latency, cost efficiency, and compliance in AI applications is driving a rapid shift toward hybrid and multi-cloud strategies. For IT leaders, this means 2025 will be a pivotal year for a comprehensive realignment of their infrastructure with the realities of the AI era.”
Enterprise IT in 2025 is entering a period of profound reinvention as CIOs push AI beyond isolated functions, wrestle with the immature foundations of agentic AI, and escalate efforts to counter suddenly looming post-quantum threats. Futurum’s Q2 2025 CIO Insights survey reveals 89% of IT leaders driving AI for strategic transformation, 80% elevating quantum-resilient security to board-level priority, and 71% rethinking optimal cloud environments under intensifying AI workload pressures.
Three primary reasons are driving this change.
Dion Hinchcliffe is a distinguished thought leader, IT expert, and enterprise architect, celebrated for his strategic advisory with Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies. With over 25 years of experience, Dion works with the leadership teams of top enterprises, as well as leading tech companies, in bridging the gap between business and technology, focusing on enterprise AI, IT management, cloud computing, and digital business. He is a sought-after keynote speaker, industry analyst, and author, known for his insightful and in-depth contributions to digital strategy, IT topics, and digital transformation. Dion’s influence is particularly notable in the CIO community, where he engages actively with CIO roundtables and has been ranked numerous times as one of the top global influencers of Chief Information Officers. He also serves as an executive fellow at the SDA Bocconi Center for Digital Strategies.
Now the financial layer of AI agents is forming.
Developers will be able to charge agents more easily, to pay for goods and services they are procuring on behalf of humans.
When financial ...transactions can be executed by AI, the true automation of commerce begins.
Autonomous agents are an entirely new category of users to build for, and, increasingly, to sell to.
Today, we’re launching (a preview) of machine payments on @stripe—a way for developers to directly charge agents, with a few lines of code. 🤖💸
$ Let’s start tinkering… ⤵️
We keep re-inventing management theory with metaphors from computing.
Mainframe era → Company = a hierarchy
PC era → Company = a file system
Internet era → Company = a network
Social era → ...Company = a social graph
AI era?
Company = a living model
Management→architecture
For the 1st time in a while, the Azure enterprise roadmap is all orange/red.
Not because Microsoft can’t ship, but because what’s ahead now = hard.
Agents, governance, confidential AI, Arc as a... control plane, platform consolidation aren’t features. They’re architectural shifts.
80% of apps will disappear.
90% of work will be automated.
95% of IT will be autonomous.
99%+ of orgs will run core processes entirely on AI.
The seismic shift in the market is palpable.
Peter Steinberger predicts that 80% of apps will disappear in the age of AI agents.
He argues that most apps simply manage data, something agents can do more naturally.
Tasks like tracking meals, setting reminders, or fitness planning can be handled passively by AI.
Users
.@openclaw exposes the security vulnerabilities which were always there but were exposed at human scale… great comment 👇🏽 Erika! I agree with you and @dhinchcliffe, both!
A major congrats to @OxideComputer on their new $200M round 🎉
The result of years of hard work by @sdtuck + team.
Backstory:
Oxide builds a true cloud computer you actually own. Not servers or ...a stack. A full rack-scale system where hardware + software are co-designed end to
Thrilled to share that we have closed our $200M Series C.
Thank you to Thomas Tull's @USITfund for leading, along with @EclipseVentures, Riot Ventures, @JaneStreetGroup, @intelcapital, @counterpartvc, @friendsfamcap and all of our additional investors.
https://buff.ly/ozCrZUE
The latest version of Chrome includes a preview of WebMCP. This makes it possible for agents to use Web apps without the oft-confusing visual user experience.
If it happens, as seems likely, it will... help make the agentic Web real, reliable, and useful.
Chrome 146 includes an early preview of WebMCP, accessible via a flag, that lets AI agents query and execute services without browsing the web app like a user.
Services can be declared through an imperative navigator.modelContext API or declaratively through a form.
1/ OpenClaw for the enterprise has just begun to arrive. It emerged out of sheer necessity.
Once workers try to use OpenClaw agents to run workflows, touch credentials, access systems of record + ...act for the business, then security, governance suddenly becomes basic
Amazon adds $200B to AI spend blitz
@ajassy reports they are monetizing AI capacity as fast as they can install it.
My take: Overall, the spend is vital to catch up and (they very much hope) ...lead in AI. They know this playbook and did it for years in
Amazon adds $200B to AI spend blitz
“We’re monetizing capacity as fast as we can install it,” said CEO Andy Jassy. The company joins Google and ...
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AI gold rush to drive 2026 IT spending — as IT services get the squeeze
Overall IT spend increases by huge 10% but it’s bursty, somewhat uncontrolled as AI remakes the computing landscape. ...Some SaaS starting to get moved out, as the AI surge continues.
AI gold rush to drive 2026 IT spending — as IT services get the squeeze
Spending on AI and data centers is expected to skyrocket this year, while IT leaders look to their services budget for savings.
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@wildpinesai So far, the out-of-the-box agent experience in OpenClaw (defined in ) has been quite good for me.
What’s really been exposed (by having to attach an AI via an API) is the true cost of... AI services.
The reality is that most people simply can’t afford to run
AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md is a simple, open format for guiding coding agents. Think of it as a README for agents.
AGENT.md
My Take: OpenClaw signals a real platform shift. But it’s still a power user’s tool. High leverage, high risk.
The breakout opportunity is obvious: Simplify, commoditize + de-risk personal ...agents for the masses. Whoever cracks this layer becomes the OpenAI of the agentic era.
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