How companies adopt AI: strategy, ROI, case studies, and enterprise AI trends for business and technology leaders.
China’s answer to AI’s growing appetite for computing power may involve moving data with light instead of adding more GPUs. Peking University researchers developed an optical interconnect system that reportedly made distributed AI inference more than 100 times faster while using one-ninth of the usual computing resources, according to the South China Morning Post. The…
Enterprise artificial intelligence infrastructure startup Mindbeam AI Inc. today published research showing how generative AI can aid in the discovery of safer pain-relief drugs. The company used acetaminophen, one of the most widely used over-the-counter pain relievers worldwide, as a starting point. Using a combination of generative AI, computational modeling and virtual screening, the Mindbeam…
Metal fists fly and humanoid bodies hit the mat in Unitree’s first look at a new 2026 robot combat event. Unitree has teased the CMG 2026 Humanoid Robot Combat Competition, a follow-up to China’s first televised humanoid fighting tournament. Its trailer shows robots fighting one another and trading blows with people, though Unitree has yet…
Christian Gralingen The Research From 2022 to 2025, the authors conducted in-depth, semistructured interviews with senior leaders and practitioners responsible for AI governance, risk, compliance, data, and product decisions. Core interviews were conducted at Microsoft, Barclays, Kyriba, Nasdaq, Lloyds Bank, Danske Bank, and the Abu Dhabi Department of Finance. The interviews focused on how governance…
Ollama Inc., the largest artificial intelligence platform connecting developers to open models, today announced it has raised $65 million in a new funding round led by Theory Ventures. Benchmark, 8VC, Y Combinator, Pace Capital, 49 Palms, GTMFund, and other investors and angels also participated in the Series B round. Today’s funding brings the company’s total…
Your next fitness tracker may not just monitor your body—it could try to read your emotions. A recently published Meta patent describes an AI-powered wearable capable of estimating a user’s emotional state by combining speech patterns, laughter, sighs, daily activities, and times when user’s take their medication. The patent was filed on Dec. 16, 2025,…
Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images Summary: Companies want to harness insights about customers from a wide variety of places. Generative AI tools can help in new ways, but some classic knowledge management obstacles remain. Here’s what customer and market insight leaders at companies like P&G, PepsiCo, and Novartis have learned about getting the best…
As agentic AI accelerates enterprise transformation, data sovereignty is crystallizing from a compliance checkbox into a foundational strategic imperative — one that determines not just where data lives, but who captures the economic value it generates. The debate is particularly acute in Europe, where nations are pressing to retain both data residency and the commercial…
Claude users can now get their own version of Spotify Wrapped, except the dashboard tracks prompts, work habits, and late-night chatbot sessions instead of favorite songs. Anthropic launched Reflect, a beta dashboard that gives Free, Pro, and Max users a memory-enabled visual summary of how they have used Claude over the past one, three, six,…
Magazine Summer 2026 Issue Research Highlight Changing how finance offices think about their mandate, their approach, and the insight they offer can lead to more strategic use of AI. Stijn Viaene, Kristof Stouthuysen, and Bjorn Cumps June 02, 2026 Reading Time: 16 min Christian Gralingen The Research The authors engaged in two complementary research streams….