Eye On A.I.

The Single Biggest Barrier to AI Adoption Isn't the Technology — It's This | Errol Gardner of EY

May 22, 2026

Errol Gardner has spent 35 years advising the world's largest organizations through major technology transitions, and his assessment of where enterprise agentic AI actually stands is one of the most grounded you'll hear anywhere. His number: less than 1 out of 10 on a maturity scale. Not because the technology isn't ready, but because deploying agentic AI across an organization doesn't tweak how it works, it requires rebuilding how it works. And that is a fundamentally different kind of chall...

Oliver Dial of IBM: Quantum Advantage Is Happening This Year

May 19, 2026

IBM's VP of Quantum Systems, Oliver Dial, has spent his career building quantum computers from the ground up, and he's unusually direct about what they can and can't do. In this conversation with Craig Smith, Oliver Dial walks through where the field actually stands in 2026: quantum utility was achieved in 2023, quantum advantage is the target for this year, and a fully error-corrected machine capable of tackling the hard problems is on IBM's roadmap for 2029. That last milestone, Dial says, ...

Why Agentic-First Startups Won't Disrupt Enterprises as Fast as Everyone Thinks | Kris Lovejoy

May 15, 2026

Kris Lovejoy, Global Strategy Leader at Kyndryl, has spent her career at the intersection of IT infrastructure and security. Right now, she's one of the people enterprises call when they want to move from AI experimentation to real deployment. Her diagnosis is clear: agentic AI is a bullet train sitting on tracks built for 30 miles per hour. The technology is ready. Most organizations aren't, and the gap between a successful pilot and a production system running at scale is far wider than the...