John Kell

John Kell is a freelance journalist. He's the writer of Fortune's CIO Intelligence newsletter.

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Christophe Weber, president and chief executive officer of Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., at the company’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, on Monday, June 24, 2024. Takeda Pharmaceutical will keep up efforts to forge partnerships with Chinese biotech companies, as the drugmaker scouts for promising drug candidates to bolster its pipeline, Weber said. Photographer: Kosuke Okahara/Bloomberg via Getty Images

In an uncertain world, CEOs seek growth while bracing for disruption

Tye Brady smiles for a photo portrait

Amazon’s big bet on warehouse robots is already getting a boost from generative AI

Tiago Azevedo, Carl Froggett, Rafee Tarafdar

CIOs are allured by DeepSeek’s promise of lower costs. What’s next is evaluating data privacy and regulatory challenges

Rajat Taneja

How Visa places big bets on AI and gen AI to secure 639 million daily transactions

An armed Hamas militant keeps watch during the release of Israeli hostage Agam Berger, as part of a prisoner exchange, in Jabalia camp, northern Gaza, on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. Israel briefly delayed the release of Palestinian prisoners in protest over chaotic scenes during an earlier handover of hostages by Hamas, with the government saying it’s now satisfied future releases will be better managed. Photographer: Ahmad Salem/Bloomberg via Getty Images

International turmoil is the top concern of business leaders for 2025

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How tech leaders are rethinking their cloud strategies in the face of fast-rising costs

middle-aged man wearing blue shirt and suit jacket poses for a photo portrait

Dell’s employees had 800 different gen AI ideas. Here’s how the PC maker winnowed the list to 8

Foil-wrapped Cadbury Creme Eggs move along the production line at the Bournville Cadbury factory, operated by Mondelez International Inc., in Birmingham, U.K. on Thursday, April 10, 2014. Mondelez, formerly Kraft Foods Group Inc.’s snack business, plans to spend $110 million on a new factory in Russia, navigating an increasingly tense geopolitical climate. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg via Getty Images

How snack giant Mondelez is trying to keep pace in the fast-changing realm of AI, cybersecurity, and cloud

Fortune Brainstorm Tech Dinner, Jan 6 2025<br />
The evening featured a panel discussion on how to lean into agentic AI featuring Teddy Bekele, Chief Technology Officer, Land O’Lakes; Sagar Mehta, Chief Technology Officer, OpenTable and Lauri Palmieri, Senior Vice President, Solution Engineering, Salesforce
Photograph by Jacob Kepler/Fortune

AI agents are boosting productivity at companies from OpenTable to Salesforce to Land O’Lakes

Zulfikar (Zulfi) Jeevanjee is executive vice president and chief information officer at Allstate.

How Allstate’s CIO is leaning on gen AI to make insurance policy coverage and claims requests more effective and empathetic

RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA – DECEMBER, 2002: Kingdom Center (Burj al-Mamlaka), the tallest skyscraper in Saudi Arabia, dominates the evening cityscape on December, 2002 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Photo by Reza/Getty Images)

Saudi Arabia wants to be your next destination

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The meetings and events industry is evolving, and Saudi Arabia is part of its future

Seemantini Godbole is the chief digital and information officer and executive vice president at Lowe’s.

How Lowe’s is trying to spruce up shopping with AI, mixed-reality headsets, and other new technologies

People queuing up outside the new Ikea store on Oxford Street

CEOs are walking uncertain terrain when it comes to climate

Jim McCann is the founder and chairman of 1-800-Flowers.com.

Corporate leaders are facing disruptive threats on multiple fronts