Every December, roadmaps get locked, budgets get approved, and board decks are polished until everything looks precise and under control. Underneath, many CTOs and VPs are still working with partial visibility. They have a feel for their teams, but not a reliable view of how work moves through the system, how AI is really changing delivery, or where time and money actually go.
A new report finds that investment in the worldwide data center market reached $61bn this year, setting a new record atop the wave of the artificial intelligence boom. The analysis by S&P Global, first reported by CNBC, documented what the market intelligence firm called a global construction frenzy that shows no signs of slowing, to build out the massive real estate, hardware, and energy requirements driven by insatiable demand from AI companies.
We are now in the era of AI-first results, in which answers are synthesized and it's not always apparent from where. Language models do work in mysterious ways and that's left businesses, from the most tech-savvy Silicon Valley startups to family enterprises, scratching their heads. How can they stay visible in a reality where it seems impossible to crack the code and position oneself ahead of the pack? SerpApi helps developers see what data AI search tools use and build on top of it.
Focusing on AI literacy and blending human expertise with emerging technologies allows organizations to develop more impactful training initiatives. As this eBook emphasizes, it's not about machines taking over jobs, but equipping employees with the know-how they need to understand how AI tools work, what their limitations are, and how they can be used ethically within the context of their roles. For example, using AI to help create compliance branching scenarios and micro-assessments to reduce workplace risks and put judgment and reasoning skills into practice.
The flap of a butterfly's wings in South America can famously lead to a tornado in the Caribbean. The so-called butterfly effect-or "sensitive dependence on initial conditions," as it is more technically known-is of profound relevance for organizations seeking to deploy AI solutions. As systems become more and more interconnected by AI capabilities that sit across and reach into an increasing number of critical functions, the risk of cascade failures-localized glitches that ripple outward into organization-wide disruptions-grows substantially.
To that end, Kodiak has developed the Kodiak Driver, a virtual driver that combines advanced AI-powered software with modular and vehicle-agnostic hardware to further address customers' needs. Kodiak Driver incorporates technology that allows a human to provide remote assistance to a vehicle in certain low-speed and clearly defined scenarios that benefit from human involvement. Verizon connectivity allows Kodiak's driverless vehicles to communicate with Assisted Autonomy drivers and send mission-critical communication between vehicles and command centres, with low latency over long distances in remote environments.
With the rapid advances in cloud and artificial intelligence, the strategic role of technology in business is fundamentally shifting from being merely a business enabler to becoming the core transformation agent for growth-and, increasingly, survival. Yet as organizations adopt or expand their enterprise cloud platforms to stay competitive and solve new business problems, they face critical challenges: how to understand the scope of the financial, skills, and labor investments they need;
Nothing has captured the imagination of investors quite like humanoid robots, though, as they've poured untold billions into the sector amid hype that bots shaped like humans stand to impact almost every part of society - particularly by replacing jobs everywhere from domestic labor to the factory floor.
"We spend an enormous, enormous amount of time really assessing the entrepreneur and how resilient they will be able to be in a moment where things are just rapidly changing," Achadjian said.
The Well‑Architected Framework, long used by architects to benchmark cloud workloads against pillars such as operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability, now incorporates AI-specific guidance across these pillars. The expanded lenses reflect AWS's recognition of the increasing complexity and societal impact of AI workloads, particularly those powered by generative models.
"Going to a client and purely proposing an army of consultants doesn't really work anymore," Gert De Geyter, a former AI lead at Deloitte US, told Business Insider. Instead of the "pure traditional consultant," firms are now looking for a blend of "generalists and technical experts," said De Geyter, who left the firm in July to join AI startup Teragonia.
Bill.com (NYSE:BILL) provides cloud-based financial automation for SMBs, processing approximately $89 billion in quarterly payment volume. The company recently launched BILL AI Agents to enable touchless B2B transactions and serves nearly 500,000 businesses through partnerships with NetSuite, Paychex, and major accounting software providers. Intuit (NASDAQ:INTU) dominates small business software through QuickBooks, TurboTax, and Credit Karma. With $19.43 billion in trailing twelve-month revenue, Intuit operates at massive scale and maintains a 21.2% profit margin.
In the last weeks of 2025, as I write this prediction, my social media feeds are awash with a new set of pronouncements about the death of photographic truth. As a historian of photography, I'm familiar with obituaries of this sort, which tend to circulate in popular media at moments when new photographic or image-editing technologies arrive on the scene that force us to reevaluate photography's capacity to represent reality accurately.
A research team based in China used the Claude 2.0 large language model (LLM), created by Anthropic, an AI company in San Francisco, California, to generate peer-review reports and other types of documentation for 20 published cancer-biology papers from the journal eLife. The journal's publisher makes papers freely available online as 'reviewed preprints', and publishes them alongside their referee reports and the original unedited manuscripts. The authors fed the original versions into Claude and prompted it to generate referee reports.
Critical workloads from the security company are migrating to Google's cloud service, and customers will have access to broad protection for their AI deployments. The combination should provide end-to-end security, "from code to cloud" as Palo Alto Networks describes it. Customers can protect their AI workloads and data on Google Cloud with both Prisma AIRS and built-in security options from the hyperscalers.
From data entry to document management, the software applies AI to every layer of your case to save countless billable hours. Now, with its new DraftAI feature, Filevine transforms your creation of legal documents, too. A user can use natural language instructions to draft, edit or modify any kind of document without leaving the security of the Filevine system, said John Rizner, Product Manager at Filevine. During a recent demonstration, Rizner showed us how.
Update December 19: Following controversy over future AI features, Mozilla promises that Firefox will allow all new features to be disabled with a single button. Fierce criticism arose after Mozilla's brand-new CEO Anthony Enzor-DeMeo explained his vision for the future of the Firefox browser. Jake Archibald, Web Developer Relations Lead at Mozilla, confirms that this "kill switch" was already circulating internally under that name.
Since launching Shorts, we've been listening closely to your feedback on how to improve the viewing experience. We've heard that you often use 'Dislike' and 'Not interested' interchangeably on Shorts, or aren't sure what the differences are. To address this, and to better match with how people typically interact with short-form video feeds today, we're experimenting with options where 'Dislike' and 'Not Interested' are merged into one 'thumbs down' icon behind the three dot menu.
The safeguards in place to ensure that artificial intelligence (AI) models behave appropriately and as intended appear to be improving, or so claims the UK government's AI Security Institute (AISI), which is today launching an in-depth report drawing on two years of AI research and experimentation in the field of cyber security and other scientific disciplines.
Recently news outlets reported that layoff announcements have reached pandemic levels, which is highly concerning, but certainly not unforeseen. At the beginning of 2025, the World Economic Forum reported that 41% of organizations were planning to trim their workforces in the face of rapidly advancing AI. In the second half of the year, six in 10 business leaders were planning headcount reductions.
IT service was built to bring structure to chaos. But for many organizations today, it's become a source of it. The ticket queues keep growing. Processes feel rigid. And employees often feel frustrated by systems that seem stuck a decade behind. The numbers reflect this pain, with 40% of organizations either replacing or re-implementing their IT service tools in 2025. This is a clear sign that the model is cracking and needs to be reimagined.
Anthropic has distinguished itself from competitors by staying laser-focused on its enterprise customers with offerings catered to make working professionals' lives easier. The Skills feature, launched in October, aimed to do just that, and now it has received an upgrade, making it easier for organizations to take advantage. With the Skills feature, users can provide Claude with a set of instructions, including resources like brand guidelines, so that the chatbot can reference them when performing specialized tasks autonomously.
