Artificial Intelligence

Overcommitment to the Cloud Means Enterprises Could Miss an AI Edge

The edge AI market will reach $66.47 billion by 2030, yet enterprise strategies remain overwhelmingly cloud-centric—a tunnel vision that overlooks use cases delivering 50% downtime reduction and critical privacy compliance. The path forward is hybrid orchestration: cloud as strategic brain, edge as tactical nervous system.

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‘Imperceptible AI’ Needs a C-Suite Champion, and It’s Not the CIO

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What Everyone Got Wrong About AI in 2025

Whilst industry discourse fixates on what's next, enterprise leaders are grappling with what went wrong. From endless proof-of-concept cycles to the mythology of scale, 2025 revealed critical missteps that turned promising AI initiatives into costly lessons. Five patterns—drawn from practitioners across banking, technology, and research—that defined why so many AI projects stalled, and what actually needs to change.

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From Startup Rounds to Sovereign Budgets: 25+ AI Funding Deals That Reshaped 2025

With single rounds topping $40 billion and valuations approaching $300 billion, 2025's AI funding activity has crossed a threshold: these are no longer venture bets, but national-scale infrastructure investments. Over $100 billion in disclosed capital has concentrated around four clear themes—redefining who controls compute, where AI talent resides, and which geographies will shape governance for the rest of the decade.

Are You Ready for Embedded AI? Four Tests of Enterprise Maturity in the Post-Experimental Phase

As AI graduates from discrete use cases to embedded infrastructure, organisations face a readiness gap across four dimensions. Drawing on enterprise AI deployment patterns, a framework for assessing whether your organisation is ready for the embedding phase—and what to prioritise if you're not.

2025’s Top 16 Acquisitions in AI & Data

Across 33 acquisitions totaling $157 billion, 2025's AI M&A revealed a strategic shift: companies bought infrastructure to power autonomous agents, not models. From Google's $32B Wiz deal to IBM's $27.8B data stack and Salesforce's $8B governance play, 16 key acquisitions reveal who's positioned for 2026—and who's already falling behind.

The Unspoken Prerequisite by AWS: Enterprise AI Must Solve Modernisation First

With enterprises spending 30% of engineering capacity maintaining legacy systems, AWS re:Invent 2025 revealed a two-part solution: vertically integrated AI infrastructure for cost efficiency and AI agents that demolish technical debt at scale. Together, they target the actual blocker to agentic AI deployment—modernisation speed.

6 Revolutionary AI Coding Models Transforming Developer Workflows in 2025

From Anthropic's agentic workflows to Meta's massive-context processing, 2025 saw fierce competition redefine what AI can do for developers. Here are 6 AI models that transformed coding in 2025.

2025 AI & Data Policy Overview: 22 Major Regulations That Shaped the Year

From the EU's AI Act prohibitions taking effect with €35 million penalties to India's data protection rules imposing Rs 250 crore fines, 2025 marked the shift from AI policy aspiration to enforcement reality. This comprehensive overview examines 22 major legislative movements across six continents that fundamentally reshaped global AI and data governance.

Relearning Work: Growing Human Potential in the AI Age

AI fluency is becoming as fundamental as email once was—but technical skills alone won't differentiate talent in the human experience economy. Success depends on building workplaces that are empathetic, adaptive, and designed around people. Beyond ONE's Group Chief People Officer on why the human experience economy demands organisations build for potential over pedigree.

Big Tech’s Enterprise AI Initiatives in 2025: A Guide by Business Need

From Microsoft 365 Copilot's 353% ROI to Google Vertex AI's 99% cost reductions, Big Tech's enterprise AI initiatives are delivering measurable results. This guide organises initiatives across five strategic categories, helping enterprise leaders match technology to business need with proven use cases, ROI data, and partnership insights from Fortune 500 deployments.

Onboarding AI Agents: 5 HR Principles That Apply Well

As AI agents take on more autonomous roles in IT operations, they require the same structured onboarding as human employees. SolarWinds' Kevin Kline explains how applying five time-tested HR principles—from background checks to performance reviews—can help IT leaders onboard their "digital colleagues" effectively and responsibly.

LLM Developers Building for Language Diversity in 2025

From Switzerland's 1,000-language Apertus to India's 350+ AI models, 2025 marked a watershed in multilingual LLM development. Here’s a comprehensive overview of developers building language-diverse AI across six continents.

UX Is the New Moat: Why AI Startups Win on Experience, Not Technology

As AI democratises technical capabilities, the competitive moat for startups is shifting from algorithmic superiority to user experience. An early-stage VC investor explains why community, accessibility, and intuitive design now matter more than the technology itself.

Who Is Held Accountable When AI Agents Fail?

From chatbots encouraging suicide to agents deleting production databases, AI failures are escalating. But blaming human operators misses the point. Here's how to build real accountability into hybrid human-AI systems.

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