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
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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
When the Uncertain Becomes Certain: What ‘Disclosure Day’ Teaches About Scenario Planning
When the Uncertain Becomes Certain: What 'Disclosure Day' Teaches About Scenario Planning Scenario planning should always begin with uncertainty. Will a market grow or contract? Will AI be regulated or allowed to run ahead of institutions? Will climate disruption remain episodic or become a constant operating condition? Will global trade continue to fragment, or will the … [Read more...] about When the Uncertain Becomes Certain: What ‘Disclosure Day’ Teaches About Scenario Planning