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AI Governance, AI Browsers, and the New Frontier of Digital Risk
Virginia Mace Fletcher, CIO Artificial Intelligence is no longer an experiment, it’s infrastructure. Every modern organization, especially in media and publishing, now finds itself managing not just servers and platforms, but systems that can think, write, and act. As these capabilities grow, so too does the responsibility of the CIO to define how AI can be used, and how it cannot. My organization recently published our Artificial Intelligence Acceptable Use Policy, a documen
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Dec 26 min read


Vibe Coding: Moving Beyond the Hype to Practical Enterprise Use
By Virginia Fletcher, CIO A New Paradigm: Coding by Intent Rather than Syntax In the age of AI, how we think about building software is changing in profound ways. A new term, vibe coding , has surfaced to describe the practice of describing intent in natural language and letting an AI generate the implementation. Instead of painstakingly writing instructions line by line, a developer or even a non-developer simply communicates the outcome: “Create a mobile app that lets user
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Nov 104 min read


How CIOs Can Rein In Tech Sprawl—Before AI Supercharges It
By Virginia Fletcher, CIO Shadow IT and technology sprawl aren’t new, but generative AI has poured rocket fuel on both. In the last two...
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Aug 215 min read


From Bottleneck to Breakthrough: How AI Helped Us Reclaim Performance and Redefine IT’s Role
By Virginia Fletcher, CIO, and Zac Harlan, Chief Architect On Thursday, June 10th, something familiar happened in our technology...
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Jul 173 min read


The Rise of AI Learning Assistants: What CIOs Need to Know
By Virginia Fletcher, CIO As we operationalize AI across our enterprise, from internal efficiency gains to new customer-facing products,...
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Jul 84 min read


Lifelong Learning Isn’t Optional Anymore... It’s Mission Critical
By Virginia Fletcher, CIO As someone who has spent much of my career building EdTech platforms and career learning products, and who also...
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Jun 305 min read


Why CIOs Must Understand AI Model Pricing: And What It Means for Your Product Roadmap
By Virginia Fletcher, CIO/CTO Artificial Intelligence is evolving fast. What’s even more transformative is not just the pace of model...
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Jun 123 min read


Technology Transformation: A Bi-Modal Approach Rooted in Trust, Architecture, and Outcomes
Virginia Fletcher, CIO/CTO Across industries, from healthcare and finance to media and education, technology transformation is no...
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May 194 min read


Zero-Shot, Few-Shot, and Fine-Tuning: How LLMs Learn on the Fly
By Virginia Fletcher, CIO/CTO Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 have transformed the way we interact with technology. From...
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May 123 min read


Why Data Interoperability Is the Lifeblood of the Digital Economy
By Virginia Fletcher, CTO / CIO Across the arc of my career, from connecting the world's largest supply chains, to ensuring real-time...
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Apr 274 min read


Thinking Budgets: The Strategic Discipline Every Technology Leader Needs in the AI Era
By Virginia Fletcher, CTO The rapid acceleration of AI is changing the rules of product and engineering. Today’s CTOs, CIOs, and Heads of...
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Apr 243 min read


MCP vs MCP: Understanding Both in the Age of AI
By Virginia Fletcher, CTO/CIO In TRON (1982), the Master Control Program (MCP) ran the digital world from behind the scenes,...
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Apr 164 min read


Crisis as Catalyst: Why the Toughest Moments Reveal the Strongest Teams
By Virginia Fletcher, CIO/CTO No matter what else is happening around me at work, I sleep well at night knowing I have an incredible...
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Apr 112 min read


The Skills Shift Is Here: How AI Is Reshaping the Workforce – And What It Means for the C-Suite
By Virginia Fletcher, CIO, CTO & Chief Product Officer The ground is shifting beneath our feet. As artificial intelligence, automation,...
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Mar 263 min read


The DeepSeek Revolution: Why Open-Source AI is Reshaping Business Strategy
By Virginia Fletcher, CIO & CTO The artificial intelligence landscape is undergoing a seismic shift. For years, enterprises have been...
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Feb 24 min read


The Imperative of Collaborative Defense Against AI-Driven Cyber Threats
By Virginia Fletcher, CIO No single company, government, or security team can combat the rise of AI-driven cyber threats alone. As we’ve...
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Feb 22 min read


Rethinking Cyber Defense in the AI Era: Lessons from Gemini-Enabled Cyberattacks
By Virginia Fletcher, CIO The cat-and-mouse game between cybercriminals and cybersecurity professionals has taken a dramatic turn. AI has...
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Feb 22 min read


The Dual-Edged Sword of AI in Cybersecurity: How Gemini and Other AI Models Are Fueling Cyber Threats
By Virginia Fletcher, CIO Artificial Intelligence has revolutionized nearly every industry, from healthcare to finance to media. It’s a...
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Feb 22 min read


The Future of AI Governance: Balancing Innovation with Responsibility
By Virginia Fletcher, CIO AI is no longer a futuristic concept—it is embedded in everything from hiring decisions to medical diagnoses to...
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Feb 22 min read


AI and Social Engineering: Why Your Employees Are the First Line of Defense
By Virginia Fletcher, CIO In the security world, we often assume that the greatest threats come from outside—sophisticated hackers,...
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Feb 22 min read
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