The failure was not the idea of AI in BI, but the failure to assume that a generic agent could understand the entire enterprise. The Hard Truth: A Single AI Agent Can’t Understand the Business A common misconception I often hear is: “Why can’t a single AI agent understand sales, pricing, distribution, scheduling, inventory, financials,…
Contracts for acquiring AI in the era of rapid adoption See the speakers Organizations and government agencies are acquiring AI at unprecedented speed, often faster than legal, procurement and governance frameworks can adapt. Standard software contracts are pushed beyond their limits, exposing buyers to unclear ownership of outcomes, weak data rights, opaque model behavior, regulatory…
Cloudflare’s decision to integrate AI startup Human Native into its stack marks a turning point: licensed, structured content could become the basis of a more sustainable AI economy. Although the ink is fairly fresh on the acquisition, announced Jan. 15, several media experts and publishers view it as a signal of how Cloudflare plans to…
The agentic AI market is expected to grow nearly 10-fold by 2030. The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to continue in 2026, as more companies move from experimentation to deployment. One big opportunity is the growth of agentic AI, where AI models can respond to a single request from a user and perform…
MADISON, Wis. (Gray) – The Wisconsin Assembly passed a bill Tuesday to regulate the state’s growing artificial intelligence data center industry. The bill moved quickly through the Statehouse, receiving a vote less than two weeks after being introduced. The bill passed 53-44, largely along partisan lines, with Democrats opposing it. “This bill balances the strategic…
Today’s most powerful AI tools – those that can summarize documents, generate artwork, write poetry or predict how incredibly complex proteins fold – all rest on the shoulders of the “transformer”. This neural network architecture, first announced in 2017 at a modest conference center in California, allows machines to process information in a way that…
The California Attorney General on Wednesday announced an investigation into non-consensual sexually explicit material produced using Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by xAI. The investigation into the Elon Musk-owned company comes amid a broader global backlash against deepfake images that spread on X. Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office cited reports that users asked Grok…
A joint essay with Daniel Thilo Schroeder and Jonas R. Kunst, based on a new paper on swarms with 22 authors (including myself) who just published in Science. (A preprinted version is hereand you can see WIRED’s coverage here.) Automated bots spreading misinformation have been a problem since the early days of social media, and…
Local investors in China are excited about a new stock market trend linked to artificial intelligence. As trading volumes in mainland Chinese stocks, dominated by retail investors, reached record levels this month, one of the main themes centered on generative engine optimization, or GEO. The idea is that advertisers will spend more for brands to…
The debate around artificial intelligence in the life sciences is evolving. This year at JPM Healthcare Week, the focus was less on whether AI would transform the biopharma industry – that question has largely been settled – and more on how it would be deployed responsibly, at scale, and within the workflows scientists actually use….