McKinsey's June 2026 analysis finds that 75% of advertisers expect AI to increase total media spend, with one-third forecasting at least a 10% ROAS increase. Over 50% say AI has reshaped discovery and…
A new report from British Progress found no measurable job displacement from generative AI in the UK labor market, even in occupations considered most vulnerable to automation. The analysis shows AI a…
Cybersecurity startup NewCore emerged from stealth with $66 million in seed funding to provide identity management for AI agents, treating them as employees with permissions and lifecycle controls. Th…
Gartner predicts universal semantic layers (USLs) will become critical infrastructure by 2030, with 44% of data leaders already implementing them. However, CIOs remain skeptical due to past hype cycle…
AI adoption has slashed finance analyst job openings in London by nearly 80%, from over 350 to roughly 80 in four years, according to a Bloomberg report. Banks like Standard Chartered are cutting thou…
Vladimir Nagin, founder of LeadUp AI, defines an AI employee as an autonomous agent with a job description, KPIs, tools, and reporting that works end-to-end without constant human prompting. He contra…
Asian enterprises are adopting AI in three stages—assistance, automation, and augmentation—but most are struggling to move beyond pilot projects and achieve material financial impact. McKinsey's resea…
Eighty-eight percent of organizations now use AI in at least one business function, while 13% have experienced breaches of AI models or applications, according to McKinsey and IBM reports cited by ITS…
Financial services companies are investing in quantum computing and agentic AI, with McKinsey estimating quantum technologies could generate up to $2.7 trillion by 2035. The shift toward AI-native arc…
The founder of McKinsey's CEO practice argues that operational excellence, once a key driver of value, has become a liability as geopolitical fragmentation, industrial policy, infrastructure constrain…
Nils Boeffel launched a Leanpub book titled 'Modernizing Legacy Software with AI: A Technical Leader's Guide to AI-Driven Transformation,' which presents a methodology that completed a legacy moderniz…
Rutger Bregman, co-founder of the School for Moral Ambition, faces criticism for comparing AI skepticism to climate change denial and for questioning the impact of investigative journalism. The author…
Hiring must shift from evaluating code production to evaluating engineering judgment because AI has collapsed the cost of typing but raised the cost of misunderstanding. AI accelerates code production…
A developer detailed a fully open-source AI stack that runs in production with zero API costs, addressing the financial reality of scaling AI applications where every new user adds a fixed marginal co…
A FinOps strategist argues that generative AI is transitioning from an experimental phase to one demanding financial accountability, warning that without rigorous resource management, it risks becomin…
Macy's launched an AI-powered shopping assistant called "Ask Macy's" in March, featuring a "Complete the Look" virtual try-on tool that has driven a significant increase in customer spending. Shoppers…
A C# Corner article by John Godel, published May 2026, reports that 78% of organizations used AI in 2024 and generative-AI adoption across business functions rose to 71%, while governance maturity has…
A developer team built and tested a suite of AI-driven automations targeting small business back-office workflows in early 2025, including invoice follow-ups, payroll planning, contract review, and ca…
Small businesses face growing compliance risks as they adopt AI tools that were not built to meet emerging regulations like the EU AI Act. A McKinsey survey found that 54% of organizations identify pe…
Tether has launched a cross-platform LoRA fine-tuning framework for Microsoft's Bitnet LLM, enabling billion-parameter AI training and inference on consumer-grade devices like smartphones and personal…