How companies adopt AI: strategy, ROI, case studies, and enterprise AI trends for business and technology leaders.
Your public Instagram photos can now become someone else’s AI creation. Meta’s new AI image generator, Muse Image, prompted Hollywood groups and privacy advocates to demand an opt-in system after the company enabled it by default for eligible public Instagram accounts. Adults with public accounts are also eligible unless they turn off the feature. What…
As AI agents go beyond the hypothetical and enter actual workflows, many leaders see a gap between the promise and the reality. Are the agents ready? Moreover, are the humans? At the 2026 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, we sought expert perspective and advice. We asked technology and business leaders, “What have you learned this year…
Artificial intelligence training data company Mercor.io Corp. announced today that it has acquired Deeptune Inc., a startup that builds simulated software environments used to train AI agents. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal closed nearly four months after Mercor Chief Executive Brendan Foody wrote a personal angel check into Deeptune’s $43 million Series A…
SAN FRANCISCO and ALISO VIEJO, Calif., July 10, 2026 — UST, a leading AI and technology transformation solutions company, has announced a strategic alliance with Anthropic, the AI safety and research company behind the Claude family of models. The partnership is focused on helping Global 1000 enterprises become AI-native. UST will embed Claude into the…
Two frontier AI model developers, OpenAI and Google, have reportedly been supplying Chinese tech giants in violation of a Pentagon blacklist. Both companies have been selling access to their AI models to Singaporean subsidiaries of Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent, three of China’s leading technology companies. It suggests that US government efforts to slow China’s AI…
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Matt Harrison Clough/Ikon Images Summary: Many leaders and companies shy away from a high-risk strategy built around big gambles. But they still want to grow. According to BCG Institute research, companies that succeed with lower-risk growth have strategies that feature four elements: the commercialization of existing capabilities, small acquisitions, smart partnerships, and diversified bets. Learn…
OpenAI Group PBC today launched a new “agentic” tool called ChatGPT Work as it announced the global rollout of its most advanced model family so far in GPT-5.6. ChatGPT Work is a new mode within ChatGPT that’s designed to perform actions autonomously across user’s connected applications, files, web tools, desktops and recurring workflows. It’s meant…
PLANO, Texas, July 10, 2026 — Simplilearn, a global leader in digital upskilling, in collaboration with UC Santa Barbara Professional and Continuing Education (UCSB PaCE), has launched the Professional Certificate in AI and Machine Learning program. The program covers machine learning, deep learning, generative AI, agentic AI, and machine learning operations (MLOps). Delivered over six…
Humanoid robots are moving beyond factories and into healthcare. Researchers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) completed two laparoscopic gallbladder removal procedures on live animal models using teleoperated humanoid robots, marking the first reported demonstration of humanoid robots completing this class of surgery in a preclinical setting. The work explores whether general-purpose humanoid…