Surface Scratching: AI adoption nowhere near full potential
We are still very early in the AI adoption and implementation cycle. Across all sectors the gap between actual use today and potential use is huge.
AI & E-commerce
Ready or Not: 2026 is the year of the AI Agent
When inventory, orders, pricing, and customer context live in multiple systems that don't easily talk to each other, both humans and AI struggle to deliver consistent experiences.
Man vs Machine: Luxury brands bet on the human touch
As AI capabilities become embedded within all operations, from marketing to inventory management and customer experience, brands are increasingly doubling down on what technology cannot replicate: emotional connection.
Smarter Business: AI Takes Decision Making To New Levels
The people and businesses that get the results they want, all do this one thing. Stack good decisions on top of each other. For a very long time.
Legal Split: Agentic AI Rewrites Corporate Code
Corporate legal frameworks are fracturing under pressure from new agentic AI deployments - with Amazon's lawsuit against Perplexity setting the stage for high-stakes battles over autonomous systems.
Instant stores: AI builds e-commerce sites in minutes
AI now spins up complete e-commerce storefronts in under 10 minutes, eliminating weeks of setup work and fundamentally rewriting how businesses go digital.
Gates & OpenAI: $50M African health push
Gates and OpenAI are committing $50M to deploy AI diagnostics across 1,000+ African clinics by 2028, targeting critical care gaps in underserved regions starting with Rwanda.
Retail revolution: AI agents demand your business to adapt in 2026
If customers are using dispassionate AI agents, how does a brand succeed without getting caught in a price race to the bottom. Brands that come up with the best solution to this will dominate, the ones that don't will become obsolete.
Power Pact: Apple × Google = A $1B New Siri
Apple and Google's surprise partnership reshapes the AI landscape - with Gemini now set to be the engine that powers Siri in the future. Long awaited and long overdue, but still very welcome...fingers crossed, Siri may not suck for very much longer.
China's Qwen AI models conquer Hugging Face landscape
Alibaba's Qwen AI models now fuel over 63% of new AI derivatives on Hugging Face — a clear sign of China's accelerating dominance in open-source infrastructure revealed at CES 2026.
Commerce reset: Google & Shopify's AI agent protocol
Google and Shopify just rewrote ecommerce's rulebook with an AI protocol that lets artificial agents handle entire shopping journeys - from discovery to checkout - within any chat interface.
$26B Saved: AI's Autonomous Procurement Breakthrough
Businesses just unlocked $26B in savings through autonomous spend control systems that detect procurement errors and prevent fraud – with PepsiCo slashing reporting time by 30%.