In today’s 2-Minute Tech Briefing, European CIOs are moving toward local cloud providers amid rising geopolitical concerns. Analysts warn of AI market volatility after tech giants lose $1.2 trillion in value and OpenAI’s brief mention of a government loan “backstop.” Meanwhile, researchers uncover widespread copy-and-paste vulnerabilities across major AI inference frameworks, exposing systemic security risks.
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Hello and welcome to your 2-Minute Tech Briefing from Computerworld. I'm your host, Arnold Davick, reporting from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Here are the top IT news stories you need to know for Thursday, November 20th. Let's dive in!
First up from computer world, Western European IT leaders are preparing for geopolitical disruption, and many are moving their cloud strategies closer to home. A new Gartner survey of CIOs shows 61% plan to increase their use of local and regional cloud providers.
More than half say they'll restrict future dependence on Amazon, Google and Microsoft. Analysts say concerns over digital sovereignty are rising. This is driven by cases where sanctions or political pressure temporarily cut off cloud access.
Also from Computerworld, Big tech companies saw $1.2 trillion erased from their market caps in recent weeks. This is sparking new fears that the AI boom may be overheating.
Those concerns intensified after open AI CFO Sarah fryer briefly suggested the US government might provide a backstop for AI infrastructure loads. The statement she quickly walked back analysts tell CIOs, stay pragmatic, not panicked.
Long term, AI demand is still strong, but market volatility is becoming a real stress test for enterprise AI investments. And finally, from CSO, a new report has uncovered a chain of critical remote code execution flaws impacting AI inference servers from meta Nvidia, Microsoft and some open source projects.
Security firm oligo says the same vulnerability spread across frameworks because developers copied unsafe code patterns. Researchers warn this reveals a systemic security gap, one that could affect any enterprise building on shared AI infrastructure. That's today's 2-Minute Tech Briefing for more enterprise tech news, visit Computerworld and CSO online.
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