Loading this page…
Series · AI & Technology programme
Beyond the Headlines
Five AI signals every business leader should understand.
Each episode takes one development that made headlines and asks what it actually changes, using evidence rather than announcements. This is a series, not a product.
1
The event, stated plainly, with its source.
2
What it changes for organisations, and for whom.
3
The slower shift underneath the headline, and what we don't know yet.
Models are commodities; data is not
Why the advantage is moving from who has the best model to who has the best-organised information.
Agents change who does the work, not whether it gets done
Task automation reshapes roles more often than it removes them - so far.
Regulation is arriving as procurement rules
The first binding AI rules many firms meet will come from their customers' purchasing policies.
The cost of using AI is falling faster than the cost of adopting it
Running a model has become cheap. Changing how an organisation works around it has not - and that gap explains most of what businesses are experiencing.
The fifth signal in this run
A signal earns an episode when it was widely reported, when there is evidence to test it against, and when its effect on organisations is likely to outlast the news cycle. Product launches alone do not qualify.