Industry faces operational overhaul as margins tighten and regulatory pressure mounts. Regional manager declares 2026 the year of real implementation across agri-food value chain.
Michael Kratsios alleges Chinese entities deploy tens of thousands of proxy accounts to distill U.S. frontier models, threatening chip export policy and bilateral relations.
China's DeepSeek released V4, its most powerful open-source AI model yet, excelling at code generation while Huawei pledged chip support—intensifying Beijing's strategic push against proprietary Western systems.
New synthesis planning system positions large language models as strategic advisors rather than autonomous creators, bridging mechanism discovery and molecule design through plain-language queries.
Google's eighth-generation TPU separates workloads for the first time, while DeepSeek's Huawei-backed V4 model signals Beijing's push for end-to-end AI autonomy amid U.S. export controls.
Enterprise software stocks post worst quarter since 2008 despite rising IT spend, as autonomous AI agents compress pricing for collaboration and task-management platforms.
More than half of UK architecture, engineering and consultancy firms now describe themselves as digitally mature, with AI moving into project forecasting and resource management.
Five-year Azure partnership aims to embed AI across operations, from employee tools to customer-facing services, as financial sector accelerates automation.
