IndustryIBM’s earnings miss highlights shift from broad AI spending to tight priority-settingIBM reported a larger-than-expected earnings shortfall that reflected corporate customers reallocating budgets toward other AI-critical vendors while cutting back on IBM’s AI-adjacent products.3 min read
IndustryGen Z uses AI often but remains concerned about its impactA recent Shift survey of 1,448 American adults finds that younger adults (18–24) turn to AI tools more often than traditional search engines, yet express high levels of worry about AI’s dominance, environmental footprint and effects on their digital experience.3 min read
IndustryEnterprises Increasing AI Infrastructure Spend Despite Limited Visibility into Compute EconomicsA VentureBeat Pulse survey of 107 enterprises (100+ employees) in June 2026 finds that organisations are accelerating investment in AI infrastructure faster than they can measure or control its costs.5 min read
IndustryEnterprises Face a 'Context Gap' as Retrieval Leads but Reliability LagsA VentureBeat Pulse survey of 101 enterprises finds that retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is the primary source of business context for agents, yet 57% reported confident but incorrect agent answers traced to missing or inconsistent context in the past six months.4 min read
IndustryEnterprises Consolidate Agent Orchestration on Major Model Platforms, But Most 'Agents' Remain Simple ChatbotsVentureBeat Pulse surveyed 101 enterprises in June 2026 and found rapid consolidation of agent orchestration onto model-provider platforms, led by Anthropic’s Claude (40%).4 min read
IndustryU.S. Initial Unemployment Claims Fall to Lowest Level Since 1969, Muting AI Layoff FearsInitial claims for U.S.2 min read
IndustryAMD unveils Helios AI rack to compete with Nvidia in data-center acceleratorsAMD introduced its Helios rack-scale AI system at the sold-out Advancing AI conference in San Francisco, positioning it against Nvidia’s established rack offerings and naming major customers such as Microsoft, OpenAI, Meta, Oracle and Anthropic.3 min read
IndustryU.S. Energy Department's Genesis program funds AI-driven scientific workflows across labs and industryThe U.S.2 min read
IndustryInvestors Sell Despite Big AI Investments as Alphabet and Tesla Report ResultsAlphabet and Tesla beat revenue forecasts and signalled larger AI-related spending, yet both companies saw their shares decline after reporting earnings.2 min read
IndustryMark Zuckerberg frames Meta's AI push as an optimistic, people-centered futureMark Zuckerberg unveiled an upbeat vision for an AI-driven future, arguing Meta will strengthen its mission to connect people as it adopts new AI tools.2 min read
IndustryMeta’s upbeat AI ad clashes with David Bowie’s apocalyptic “Five Years”Meta released an optimistic advertisement about AI that pairs joyful personal moments with David Bowie’s song “Five Years,” a track about humanity facing imminent extinction.4 min read
IndustryInside Digital Realty’s Ashburn AI test lab: what a data-center looks like up closeDigital Realty opened an innovation lab in Ashburn, Virginia, in September to demonstrate how AI infrastructure is built and cooled.3 min read
