AstraZeneca bets on in-house AI to speed up oncology research
Drug development is producing more data than ever, and large pharmaceutical companies like AstraZeneca are turning to AI to make sense of it. The challenge is no longer whether AI can help, but how tightly it needs to be built into research and clinical work to improve decisions around trials and treatment. That question helps […]
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Retailers like Kroger and Lowe’s test AI agents without handing control to Google
Retailers are starting to confront a problem that sits behind much of the hype around AI shopping: as customers turn to chatbots and automated assistants to decide what to buy, retailers risk losing control over how their products are shown, sold, and bundled. That concern is pushing some large chains to build or support their […]
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2026 to be the year of the agentic AI intern
After several years of experimentation, enterprise AI is moving out of the pilot phase. To date, many organisations limit AI to general-purpose chatbots, often created by small groups of early adopters. According to Nexos.ai, that model will give way to something more operational: fleets of task-specific AI agents embedded directly into business workflows. Even isolated […]
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Bosch’s €2.9 billion AI investment and shifting manufacturing priorities
Manufacturing factories are producing more data than they can easily process, and companies like Bosch are turning to AI to close that gap. Cameras watch production lines, sensors track machines, and software records each step of the process. However, much of that information still does not lead to faster decisions or fewer breakdowns. For large […]
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Optimism in productivity tempered by AI risk: Deloitte
Deloitte’s latest UK CFO Survey presents an improving outlook for large UK businesses, with technology investment – particularly in AI – emerging as a dominant strategy. The survey offers the signal that while macroeconomic and geopolitical risks remain elevated, boards are converging increasingly on digital ability as a primary route to productivity and medium-term growth. […]
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What PubMatic’s AgenticOS signals for enterprise marketing
The launch of PubMatic’s AgenticOS marks a change in how artificial intelligence is being operationalised in digital advertising, moving agentic AI from isolated experiments into a system-level capability embedded in programmatic infrastructure. For marketing leaders managing seven-figure budgets in media environments, the implications are practical not theoretical, implying faster decision cycles and a re-balance of […]
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2025’s AI chip wars: What enterprise leaders learned about supply chain reality
AI chip shortage became the defining constraint for enterprise AI deployments in 2025, forcing CTOs to confront an uncomfortable reality: semiconductor geopolitics and supply chain physics matter more than software roadmaps or vendor commitments. What began as US export controls restricting advanced AI chips to China evolved into a broader infrastructure crisis affecting enterprises globally—not […]
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L’Oréal brings AI into everyday digital advertising production
Producing digital advertising at global scale has become less about one standout campaign and more about volume, speed, and consistency. For consumer brands operating across dozens of markets, the challenge is not creativity alone, but how to keep content flowing without repeating expensive production cycles. That pressure is pushing some large companies to test where […]
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Marketing agencies using AI in workflows serve more clients
Of all the many industries, it’s marketing where AI is no longer an “innovation lab” side project but embedded in briefs, production pipelines, approvals, and media optimisation. A WPP iQ post published in December, based on a webinar with WPP and Stability AI, shows what AI deployment in daily operations looks like. Here, we’re talking […]
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Wall Street’s AI gains are here — banks plan for fewer people
By December 2025, AI adoption on Wall Street had moved past experiments inside large US banks and into everyday operations. Speaking at a Goldman Sachs financial-services conference in New York on 9 December, bank executives described AI—particularly generative AI—as an operational upgrade already lifting productivity across engineering, operations, and customer service. The same discussion also […]
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