A summer 2026 survey of nearly 9,000 executives finds that AI raised annual labor-productivity growth by 0.2 percent over three years. They expect 0.6 percent a year next. Employment effects, they say, cancel out only in the aggregate.
Read ArticleThe 2026 AI Index finds heavy student use and thin school rules. Employers will meet that habit on the first day a graduate opens a work account.
Read ArticleThe EU moved product-embedded high-risk rules to August 2028 and sensitive-use rules to December 2027. The transparency duties that started in August 2026 were not part of that delay.
Read ArticleNIST opened an agent-standards initiative in February 2026 around security, identity, and interoperability. In UK finance, most agents still only recommend. The login they would need is already the hard part.
Read ArticleStanford’s 2026 AI Index says U.S. and Chinese models have traded the lead. It also says the United States holds the data-center count, and that TSMC fabricates almost every leading AI chip.
Read ArticleThe 2026 AI Index puts 2025 U.S. private investment at $285.9 billion, more than twenty-three times the private figure it records for China. It also records an 80 percent drop, in the latest year, in AI researchers and developers moving to the United States.
Read ArticleCNBC’s earnings roundup has Meta pointing at advertising and Alphabet pointing at Google Cloud. Carlsberg’s chief executive says the benefits are not yet at scale.
Read ArticleMIT’s 2026 omnichannel report finds AI in forecasting, warehouses, inventory, and transport. BCG’s survey of 30 logistics players finds 13 percent saying the money has shown up.
Read ArticleUSDA’s National Proving Grounds Network, announced in April 2026, starts by using computer vision to judge weeds in real fields. The public research awards beside it are small and specific.
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