{"slug": "ai-is-the-canal-forward-looking-data-is-the-new-water", "title": "AI Is The Canal. Forward-Looking Data Is The New Water.", "summary": "AI is the canal, but forward-looking data is the new water, and most firms are filling their AI canals with the same data everyone else already has, according to Forbes contributor Gary Drenik. Companies that leverage proprietary, predictive data will gain a competitive edge in the AI era.", "body_md": "# AI Is The Canal. Forward-Looking Data Is The New Water.\n\nBy Gary Drenik, ContributorSource:\n\n[Forbes Innovation](https://www.forbes.com/innovation/)AI may be the canal. But data is the water. And most firms are filling their new canals with the same water everyone else already has.\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-is-the-canal-forward-looking-data-is-the-new-water", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/ai-is-the-canal-forward-looking-data-is-the-new-water-ashb", "published_at": "2026-07-27 14:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-27 14:57:17.294524+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Gary Drenik", "Forbes"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-is-the-canal-forward-looking-data-is-the-new-water", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-is-the-canal-forward-looking-data-is-the-new-water.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-is-the-canal-forward-looking-data-is-the-new-water.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-is-the-canal-forward-looking-data-is-the-new-water.jsonld"}}