The Next AI Advantage May Be Measured in Watts, Not IQ
OpenAI's first custom inference chip shows why cost, latency, and energy efficiency may shape the next enterprise AI advantage.
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Your Customer’s Next Buying Decision May Happen Inside ChatGPT
ChatGPT Ads are reaching 31 European markets. Learn why businesses must compete on both the AI answer and the advertising surface.
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Your Junior Employees May Already Be Your Best AI Strategists
New workplace data shows early-career employees using enterprise AI more intensively than senior leaders—and how executives can turn hidden expertise into business capability.
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The Firewall Is Moving Inside the AI Agent
Fortinet’s acquisition of Virtue AI signals that businesses must secure not only networks and users, but the decisions AI agents make while they work.
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Your Most Dangerous AI User May Be Your Most Productive Employee
Shadow AI often starts with productive employees trying to work faster. Learn how leaders can create secure AI workflows people actually prefer to use.
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The AI Restructuring Test: Are You Removing Work—or Just People?
Before cutting jobs in the name of AI, leaders should prove which work will disappear, how workflows will change, and which capabilities must grow.
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AI Is Giving Small Businesses a New Kind of Scale
Capabilities once reserved for larger organizations are being compressed into tools small businesses can use to execute faster and operate differently.
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Your Next AI Agent May Need a Flight Recorder
As AI moves from answering questions to taking action, new tools are emerging to show what an agent did, why it did it, and whether it had permission.
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