The most significant advances in artificial intelligence next year won’t come from building larger models but from making AI systems smarter, more collaborative, and more reliable. Breakthroughs in agent interoperability, self-verification, and memory will transform AI from isolated tools into integrated systems that can handle complex, multi-step workflows. Meanwhile, open-source foundation models will break the

The computer revolution has always been driven by the new and the next. The hype-mongers have trained us to assume that the latest iteration of ideas will be the next great leap forward. Some, though, are quietly stepping off the hype train. Whereas the steady stream of new programming languages once attracted all the attention,

In Oliver Sacks’ 1985 book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, the neurologist described the case of patient Jimmie G., who could recall the distant past but was unable to form new memories. Jimmie’s profound anterograde amnesia, outlined in an essay titled The Lost Mariner, meant his world had no continuity; just

For people living in the European Union, the price of their next car, home renovation, and even local produce may soon reflect a climate policy that many have never even heard of. This new regulation, which comes fully into force on New Year’s Day, does not just target heavy industry—it affects everyday goods which now

A software update knocked out Snowflake’s cloud data platform in 10 of its 23 global regions for 13 hours on December 16, leaving customers unable to execute queries or ingest data. Customers saw “SQL execution internal error” messages when trying to query their data warehouses, according to Snowflake’s incident report. The outage also disrupted Snowpipe

Earlier this year, Omdia told us the MacBook Air had become the world’s most popular business laptop. With that in mind, I spoke with Apple Director for Mac Product Marketing Colleen Novielli, about why she thinks this is the case. The move in recent years to Apple Silicon in Macs delivered a major boost to the platform. Not only did

Over the next few years, agentic AI is expected to bring not only rapid technological breakthroughs, but a societal transformation, redefining how we live, work and interact with the world. And this shift is happening quickly. “By 2028, 33% of enterprise software applications will include agentic AI, up from less than 1% in 2024, enabling

Zara is testing how far generative AI can be pushed into everyday retail operations, starting with a part of the business that rarely gets attention in technology discussions: product imagery. Recent reporting shows the retailer using AI to generate new images of real models wearing different outfits, based on existing photoshoots. Models remain involved in

Cognizant, Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, and Wipro have announced plans to deploy more than 200,000 Microsoft Copilot licenses in their enterprises – over 50,000 per company – in what Microsoft is calling a new benchmark for enterprise-scale adoption of generative AI. The companies involved are framing the move as the implementation of a default tool

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