State of AI 2026 Q3 Update: From Capability to Consequence—Power, Trust, and Value Politics moves to the foreground The third quarter brings the politics of AI into sharper relief. The dispute increasingly concerns who sets the pace of development, who controls access, and who bears the consequences when systems fail. Safety, national advantage, and corporate power … [Read more...] about State of AI 2026 Q3 Update: From Capability to Consequence—Power, Trust, and Value
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Serious Insights State of AI 2026 Mid-Year Analysis. AI Unbound: What Changed, What Held, and What Leaders Need to Reconsider
Serious Insights State of AI 2026 Mid-Year AnalysisAI Unbound: What Changed, What Held, and What Leaders Need to Reconsider Executive Summary Our Janaury 2026 report remains directionally correct: the center of gravity has moved away from model novelty and toward infrastructure, deployment,governance, work design, and control. The most important first-half events … [Read more...] about Serious Insights State of AI 2026 Mid-Year Analysis. AI Unbound: What Changed, What Held, and What Leaders Need to Reconsider
Worktech 2026: Scenario Planning, The Future of Work and Intelligent Buildings
Worktech 2026: Scenario Planning, The Future of Work and Intelligent Buildings The following is a transcript of the presentation by Daniel W. Rasmus at Worktech 2026: Seattle, held on July 21, 2026. A couple of you I gave cards to, and I told you they were kind of cool. I told you I would tell you now why they look like they do. Tomorrow morning very early, I am getting … [Read more...] about Worktech 2026: Scenario Planning, The Future of Work and Intelligent Buildings
Apple Neo vs. Windows Laptop Computers: Good Benchmarks Don’t Need a Better Story Than the Data. An analysis of the Signal65 report
Apple Neo vs. Windows Laptop Computers: Good Benchmarks Don’t Need a Better Story Than the Data I'm going to be terse. I'm a research leader in a research meeting. I'm imparting good practice, policy, ethical considerations and editorial advice. Unfortunately, the analysts I'm talking to here don't work for me. If they did, we probably wouldn't have taken this piece of work, … [Read more...] about Apple Neo vs. Windows Laptop Computers: Good Benchmarks Don’t Need a Better Story Than the Data. An analysis of the Signal65 report
State of AI 2026 June Update: Governments Became Gatekeepers as AI Makes a Political Turn
State of AI 2026 June Update Executive Summary June 2026 confirmed that AI is no longer governed solely by model capabilities, corporate ambition, or user adoption. It is now shaped by political review, infrastructure scarcity, frontier-model access controls, global model competition, memory economics, and the movement of AI from apps into operating environments. The … [Read more...] about State of AI 2026 June Update: Governments Became Gatekeepers as AI Makes a Political Turn