The Agentic Commerce & Payments Summit 2026, the first dedicated to agentic commerce, will take place in September in Stockholm, focusing on trust, identity, fraud, and embedded finance rather than AI…
A developer's analysis suggests that the economic promise of AI replacing human workers is faltering, citing examples like Klarna rehiring customer service reps and Gartner's forecast that half of com…
AI-driven software testing is transforming quality assurance in 2026, with tools like Testim, Mabl, and Functionize cutting manual test creation time and reducing flaky failures. Companies such as Atl…
Ingka Group, the owner of most IKEA stores, retrained 8,500 customer service workers displaced by its AI chatbot Billie into remote design and sales roles, generating 1.25 billion euros ($1.37 billion…
Gartner estimates that $234 billion in enterprise application software spending, roughly 20 percent of enterprise SaaS spending, is at risk from 'agentic arbitrage' by 2030, but the firm frames the sh…
An engineer graded 18 dated AI predictions from 2024-2025 against actual outcomes, finding most missed their marks. Predictions by Sam Altman, Marc Benioff, and Eric Schmidt received poor grades, whil…
Only a small percentage of generative AI pilots reach production, and the gap is typically in the five layers underneath the model, according to a new article. The piece highlights five tools—LangGrap…
Boards are now pressing startups on AI vendor concentration risk, asking founders to prove their business isn't dependent on a single model provider. OpenAI's August 2025 GPT-5 rollout briefly cut off…
TrueFoundry's working definition of graph engineering—designing the topology of an AI system as an explicit, versioned artifact—addresses a gap that LangChain's 2026 State of Agent Engineering report …
Only 38% of banks that have adopted AI report a financial return, while McKinsey estimates generative and agentic AI could add close to $2 trillion annually to banking, according to Gartner and McKins…
Enterprise governance research shows that every AI agent in production needs a named human owner, not a team, to close accountability gaps that lead to costly failures. Regulators and courts are alrea…
Startups in 2026 are replacing customer support headcount with AI agents, but successful deployments treat it as a tiered system, not a blanket replacement. Klarna's OpenAI-built assistant, which repo…
CIO magazine, citing MIT's GenAI Divide report, found that 88% of enterprise AI agent pilots never reach production and 95% of generative AI pilots delivered no measurable profit-and-loss impact despi…
ElevenLabs announced that its ElevenAgents platform now handles over 10 million conversations weekly, signaling widespread enterprise adoption of conversational AI agents for tasks like refunds, booki…
Klarna, the Swedish fintech company, reversed its aggressive AI-driven cost-cutting strategy after its CEO admitted the company went too far in replacing human agents, negatively impacting service and…
Apple launched Apple Upgrade, a new U.S. leasing program for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch, in partnership with Klarna, replacing the iPhone Upgrade Program and iPhone Payments. The company also …
Apple Inc. shares fell nearly 10% on Friday after the company warned of significant supply chain shortages, erasing nearly $500 billion in market value and potentially ceding the title of world's most…
Apple launched Apple Upgrade in the US on Tuesday, a device leasing program run by Klarna that covers iPhone, Apple Watch, Mac and iPad starting at $17.99 a month, replacing the iPhone Upgrade Program…
Apple announced a new iPhone leasing program through Klarna starting at $17.99 per month, replacing the previous iPhone Upgrade Program that cost $42 per month. The shift to monthly payments aims to s…
Apple became the second company to reach a $5 trillion market capitalization, hitting $5.04tn on Tuesday, as investors fled AI and semiconductor stocks amid a broader tech sell-off. The iPhone maker's…