IT Leaders Will Focus on Hiring Specialists in the New Year
In 2025, employers were wary of general hiring due to past over-expansion, writes TNS’s Heather Joslyn. At the same time, a clear trend emerged that prioritized hiring specialists in AI, data engineering and other “forward deployed” roles. Today, Heather looks at what the path to employment looks like in 2026.
In other AI-related technology shifts:
OpenAI employees need to navigate 70,000 internal datasets. Obviously, that’s a problem just waiting for an AI solution, so OpenAI developed an internal AI agent called Kepler that streamlines complex data retrieval and analysis for employees. The tool is powered by GPT-5, reports TNS Senior Editor Joab Jackson. Find out what Kepler can do in today’s post.
Thanks to AI, automation and robots, traditional data dashboards are quickly becoming obsolete. They simply cannot keep pace with the millisecond-speed decision-making of machine-to-machine intelligence, argues Chris Willis, chief design officer for AI, business intelligence and data products platform Domo. In this contributed post, Chris explains why companies need to dump dashboards and shift to a governed, orchestrated intelligence fabric.
After an exhaustive search, The New Stack names Nick Lucchesi as editor-in-chief to lead coverage of an AI-driven future while maintaining the publication's commitment to making complex technology clear for 47 million developers worldwide.
Happy first Monday of 2026 to The New Stack (TNS) readers! It is with great pleasure that I introduce you to Nick Lucchesi, our new editor-in-chief (EIC).
After an exhaustive search, we found our person, who comes with a combination of longtime experience and vision for what’s next. Most recently, Nick served as...
New Webinar: How To Architect a CI/CD Pipeline That Really Scales
Join us on February 3 as we welcome Harness’s Eric Minick and Stephen Cihak for a spirited discussion on why copying CI/CD templates creates technical debt and leads to operational paralysis (the “scaffolding trap”). You’ll learn why the future of DevOps scaling isn’t about copying YAML; it’s about inheriting it.
In case you missed it — or haven’t had a chance to download yet — this new eBook by Janakiram MSV dives into the growing convergence of virtualization and Kubernetes, offering practical guidance for IT leaders and enterprises planning VM migrations.
TNS Makers: Do All Your AI Workloads Actually Require Expensive GPUs?
Not all AI workloads require expensive GPUs. Learn how Google's Arm-based Axion CPUs provide a cost-effective alternative for specific AI and cloud tasks.
