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Dec 31, 20255 mins
The most-read AI stories from CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World.
It’s safe to say that AI was the story of 2025: It topped CIOs’ tech agendas; vendors rolled out a constant stream of new AI products and features; and IT professionals and other knowledge workers got down to the business of integrating it into their workflows.
AI’s current and future impact on IT jobs and how work gets done featured in six of our top 10 articles. In particular, the use of AI in software development captured reader interest, as coding assistants became more widely used and vibe coding became part of the vernacular.
But for every story about how AI is revolutionizing some aspect of IT is another that points to ongoing challenges — with finding workers with the requisite skill, with AI’s propensity to produce “false outputs,” and, notably, with getting real business value from AI projects.
Here, in reverse order, are our top 10 AI stories of 2025.
10. The emergence of AI marks a point of inflection in the evolution of the top tech exec position, with greater strategic responsibilities and career growth on the horizon for those who embrace the challenge that change brings.
9. Executives and analysts frequently note that, going forward, successful IT careers will blend human skills with AI. Early reports suggest that AI is already reshaping the IT job landscape — and showing signs of taking over junior IT positions. Add in IT leaders’ belief that IT workforces may be contracting in the years ahead, and there is a lot of uncertainty these days regarding the long-term outlook on IT careers.
5. Forrester projected that global enterprise technology spending would grow by 5.6% in 2025, reaching $4.9 trillion, as enterprises continued to prioritize investments in cybersecurity, cloud computing, generative AI, and digital transformation.
4. Soon AI agents will be writing better, cleaner code than any mere human can, just like compilers can write better assembly.
3. AI tops the list as the skill that can earn you the highest pay bump, earning tech professionals nearly an 18% premium over other tech skills.
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Amy is Editor-in-Chief of CIO, CSO, Computerworld, InfoWorld, Network World. A veteran editor with more than 15 years of experience in B2B tech publishing, Amy oversees editorial operations for these award-winning media brands unwaveringly focused on serving the information needs of IT and security leaders. Amy cut her teeth in publishing spending summers answering phones and writing product announcements at a series of small trade publications that are now long forgotten except to vintage tech enthusiasts.
