India, Oct. 22 -- AI can generate code, handle voice conversations and support decisions. But for businesses, making AI more capable is only half the job. The bigger challenge is keeping it accurate, secure and under control.

Gartner's list of the top strategic technology trends for 2027 points to this shift. The ten trends cover AI models, software development, security, digital sovereignty and even biological computing. Together, they highlight a key question for IT leaders: how can organisations use new technology without losing control of their systems and data?

Several trends focus on improving what AI can understand and do. Large quantitative models are designed for numerical tasks, while speech reasoning models aim to follow cont...