The Pulse of Artificial Intelligence
Most companies are spending enormous sums on artificial intelligence and getting surprisingly little back — and a major new global study from KPMG explains exactly why. The findings from KPMG’s first quarterly Global AI Pulse survey are both clarifying and uncomfortable: the gap between what enterprises are investing in AI and what they are actually … Read more
Most companies believe they are ahead on AI. They have invested in automation tools, deployed large language models for internal workflows, and built dashboards tracking productivity gains. Yet there is one critical workflow that the vast majority have quietly left behind — and it sits at the heart of every global business operation. According to … Read more
When a 130-year-old candy company publicly commits to embedding AI into every stage of its operations — from how it buys cocoa to how it ships chocolate bars to retailers — that is not a pilot program. That is a structural shift in how large manufacturers intend to run their businesses for the next decade. … Read more
There is a quiet but significant shift happening on the floors of chemical plants, offshore rigs, and heavy manufacturing facilities — and it has four legs. The partnership between SAP, the enterprise software giant, and ANYbotics, the Swiss maker of autonomous quadruped robots, represents something more important than a hardware upgrade. It signals that physical … Read more
For most of the last decade, banks treated AI governance as a legal department problem — something to manage, not leverage. That thinking is now costing institutions real money. The financial firms pulling ahead in 2025 and 2026 aren’t just the ones with the most sophisticated models. They’re the ones who figured out that compliance … Read more
Most AI stories in banking right now are about speed and scale. Glia’s story is different — it’s about what happens when a financial institution deploys AI that doesn’t make things up, can’t be manipulated by bad actors, and still manages to automate 80% of customer interactions. That combination is rarer than it sounds, and … Read more
The moment a trading algorithm claims 94% accuracy in currency forecasting, you should ask one question: accurate under what conditions? I’ve spent considerable time studying how AI-powered price forecasting tools are being deployed in foreign exchange markets, and the gap between what these systems promise and what they deliver in live conditions is one of … Read more
The clicks are disappearing — and most brands have no idea why. A landmark Pew Research Centre study of nearly 69,000 Google searches found that when users saw an AI-generated summary, they clicked through to a traditional website just 8% of the time. Without that AI summary, click-through rates nearly doubled. One in four users … Read more
When a fast-growing AI infrastructure company quietly hires a CFO who has taken three separate companies public, that is not a routine finance appointment — it is a strategic signal. Kong’s decision to bring Bruce Felt on board as its new chief financial officer tells us something important about where the API and AI connectivity … Read more
JPMorgan Chase has quietly crossed a threshold that most companies are still debating. The bank is now tracking how its 65,000 engineers and technologists use AI tools — and that usage data is being factored into performance reviews. This isn’t a pilot program or an experiment. It’s a structural shift in what it means to … Read more