Campus Technology Feed Campus Technology Feed Campus Technology: All ArticlesThe Wrong Battle: Why Your Institution's AI Policy Is Probably Solving the Wrong Problem May 28, 2026The conversation on most campuses has become consumed with detection: How do we catch students using AI when they shouldn't? The impulse to protect academic integrity is legitimate, but the detection-first approach has a fatal flaw.Google Moves AI Agents into the Mainstream May 27, 2026At its recent I/O developer conference, Google presented artificial intelligence agents not as a distant research project, but as a product strategy spanning Search, personal assistants, productivity software, developer tools, and smart glasses.IBM Announces New AI-Powered Cybersecurity Tools May 22, 2026IBM has announced an expanded portfolio of AI-powered cybersecurity products, positioning the company to compete more aggressively in a rapidly evolving market where enterprises are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to defend against automated cyber threats.Google Unveils Android XR Smart Glasses, Powered by Gemini AI May 22, 2026More than a decade after the commercial failure of Google Glass, Google is returning to the smart-glasses market, this time betting that advances in artificial intelligence, miniaturized hardware, and conversational computing can turn wearable devices into a mainstream platform.Gartner Estimates Worldwide IT Spending at $6.31T for 2026 May 20, 2026Gartner recently forecast that worldwide IT spending will total $6.31 trillion in 2026, a 13.5% increase from 2025. Sectors experiencing the largest growth include data center systems, software, and IT services.Microsoft Releases Open Source AI Safety Tools for Agent Development May 20, 2026Microsoft released RAMPART and Clarity as open-source projects intended to help developers test AI agents earlier in the software lifecycle and turn red-team findings into repeatable engineering checks.Microsoft Intros New Agentic AI Security Multi-Model Defense System May 18, 2026A new multi-model agentic AI security system built by Microsoft's Autonomous Code Security team helped researchers find 16 new vulnerabilities across the Windows networking and authentication stack, the company anounced in a recent security blog post.Report: Global AI Use Rises as Adoption Gap Continues to Widen May 18, 2026AI usage has reached 17.8% among the world's working-age population, while adoption remains far higher in developed economies than in the Global South.It's Time for Higher Ed to Get Serious About AI Strategy May 18, 2026Without a coordinated strategy that involves multiple academic and administrative units across the entire campus, colleges risk wasting resources, duplicating efforts, and ultimately failing to deliver on the promise of deploying technology to improve learning and operations.Why Universities Need to Align Data Storage with Data Value May 15, 2026Institutions need to move away from a reactive habit of expanding storage and towards a more deliberate data management model based on understanding and control.USC Launches AI Initiative to Accelerate Innovation in Health Sciences, Security, Business, and the Arts May 13, 2026The University of Southern California recently announced that it has launched a "transformational" new AI initiative thanks to a $200M gift from venture capitalist Mark Stevens and his wife. The project will leverage AI toward breakthroughs and innovations in subjects like the health sciences, business, security, and the arts.An AI Adoption Imperative: Centralized Sources of Governed Truth May 11, 2026Strategies for enterprise teams who aim to build a data foundation to move the institution from AI experimentation to real-world execution.Meta Expands into Physical AI with Acquisition of Robotics AI Startup May 6, 2026Meta Platforms has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI), a robotics artificial intelligence startup focused on humanoid systems, as the company expands its AI work beyond software and into models that could help robots operate in physical environments.Cloud Security Alliance Expands Focus on Governance and Assurance for Agentic AI Systems May 6, 2026The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) recently announced a series of CSAI Foundation milestones aimed at securing what it calls the agentic control plane, including a new catastrophic risk initiative, CVE Numbering Authority authorization, and the acquisition of two agentic AI specifications.Why AI Strategy Belongs in the President's Office May 6, 2026Institutions that are succeeding with AI share one thing in common, and it is not a better committee, a larger budget, or a more sophisticated technology stack. It is a president who never handed off the steering wheel.Nvidia Unveils 'Ising' Quantum AI Model May 5, 2026Nvidia has announced a new family of open source AI models, dubbed "Ising," designed to accelerate quantum computing by improving calibration and error correction.Google Intros New Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform May 4, 2026Google Cloud has announced a new platform for building and managing enterprise AI agents, as the company seeks to turn its Gemini models and Vertex AI tooling into a broader system for automating business workflows.Microsoft and OpenAI Rework Alliance, Loosening Exclusive Ties May 4, 2026Microsoft and OpenAI have adjusted the terms of their high-profile partnership, signaling a shift in how the two companies will collaborate as competition in the AI market intensifies.Why ERP and AI Initiatives Stall at the Execution Layer: A CIO Perspective April 28, 2026Higher education institutions are investing heavily in ERP modernization, analytics, and AI-driven capabilities. Yet even with these investments, many are running into the same issue: turning insight into coordinated, timely action.Survey: Enterprises Say They Are Ready for Agentic AI Failures, but Few Test Recovery Often April 27, 2026Most enterprise organizations say they are ready to recover from disruptions involving agentic AI, but a new survey of more than 300 IT decision-makers from Australia, New Zealand, Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States suggests relatively few test those plans often enough to prove it.
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