The Pulse of Artificial Intelligence
The insurance industry is sitting on one of the most promising AI opportunities in all of finance — and it is almost entirely unable to act on it. Not because the technology isn’t ready, but because decades of messy, fragmented, siloed data have created a foundation that AI simply cannot build on. This is the … Read more
Something quietly significant happened in online retail over the past year — and most consumers didn’t notice it. The way people discover, research, and buy products is shifting away from traditional search engines and toward AI agents that do the searching, comparing, and even purchasing on your behalf. Trustpilot’s recent moves to partner with major … Read more
The first wave of AI investment was, frankly, a bit of a gold rush. Companies slapped “AI-powered” onto their pitch decks and watched their valuations climb. But Goldman Sachs is now telling a very different story — and if you care about where the real money in AI is heading over the next two years, … Read more
Something significant happened in early 2026 that most people outside of finance and policy circles barely noticed — and that’s exactly the problem. The US Treasury, working alongside more than 100 financial institutions, published a first-of-its-kind AI risk management framework specifically built for the financial sector. It’s not a set of vague suggestions. It’s a … Read more
The dirty secret of enterprise AI is that most of it never leaves the lab. Companies spend months building impressive pilots, only to watch them stall somewhere between “proof of concept” and “actual production system.” A new initiative from NTT DATA and NVIDIA is directly targeting that gap — and the way they’re doing it … Read more
The software industry built a trillion-dollar empire on a deceptively simple idea: charge companies per employee who uses the product. OpenAI just launched something that makes that idea look dangerously fragile. Frontier, OpenAI’s enterprise AI agent platform, is not just another productivity tool — it is a direct structural challenge to how the entire SaaS … Read more
The most important thing happening in the automotive industry right now isn’t electric batteries or faster charging — it’s the quiet but profound shift toward vehicles that learn from the world around them. A new technical partnership between Qualcomm and Wayve isn’t just another corporate announcement. It represents a fundamental rethinking of how AI gets … Read more
Most financial institutions are still treating AI like a science project — sandboxed, cautious, and kept well away from anything that actually matters. Manulife, one of Canada’s largest insurers, is making a different bet: it’s moving AI agents directly into the operational core of its business, not the margins of it. That shift is more … Read more
The idea of sending a human-shaped robot into a coal mine or a petrochemical plant used to belong firmly in the realm of science fiction. Today, it is the stated business objective of at least two serious technology companies — and what they are building together tells us something important about where physical AI is … Read more
There’s a quiet assumption baked into most robotics research: that teaching a machine to handle real objects requires real human effort, real time, and real money — lots of it. The Allen Institute for AI just challenged that assumption directly, and the results are difficult to ignore. Their open-source project, MolmoBot, trained an entire robotic … Read more