AI is set to reshape roughly 44% of banking work by 2030, according to consulting firm ThoughtLinks - and Wall Street's biggest firms are racing to get there first. JPMorgan Chase, the largest US bank by assets, is spending $18 billion a year on technology, with AI a central focus. CEO Jamie Dimon is a "tremendous" user of the bank's generative AI tools, which have now been rolled out to more than 200,000 employees.
For the past several months, many of the most pressing questions I have been hearing from clients have come from GEO: What is it, should I be worried about it, how can I make sure my law firm is actually visible in all these AI answers? Here's what your law firm needs to know to stay relevant as the search landscape evolves.
AI-powered enhancement has a tendency to hallucinate facial details leading to an enhanced image that may be visually clear, but that may also be devoid of reality with respect to biometric identification,
Law firms dramatically accelerated their technology investments in 2025, with spending on tech and knowledge management tools growing 9.7% and 10.5% respectively - the fastest real growth likely ever experienced in the legal industry, according to the newly released 2026 Report on the State of the US Legal Market from Thomson Reuters and Georgetown Law's Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession.
On Thursday, the company announced a new "AI Inbox" tab, currently in a beta testing phase, that reads every message in a user's Gmail and suggests a list of to-dos and key topics, based on what it summarizes. In Google's example of what this AI Inbox could look like in Gmail, the new tab takes context from a user's messages and suggests they reschedule their dentist appointment, reply to a request from their child's sports coach, and pay an upcoming fee before the deadline.
Artificial intelligence is increasingly praised for making us sharper, faster, and more productive. From drafting text to solving complex reasoning problems, tools like ChatGPT promise cognitive augmentation at scale. Yet a growing body of psychological research suggests that something subtler, and potentially more consequential, is happening alongside these gains. AI may be improving what we do while quietly distorting how well we understand our own competence.
For the past decade, the archetypal founder was creeping up from someone in their 20s to someone a bit older. The average age of a "unicorn" founder-an entrepreneur who builds a startup valued at more than $1 billion-had steadily climbed to 33 by 2024, as investors gravitated toward seasoned veterans to navigate a complex market. However, a new report by global venture capital firm Antler, looking closely at the unicorn phenomenon, suggests the artificial intelligence (AI) boom is quickly reversing this trend, empowering a new generation of twenty-somethings to build massive companies at unprecedented speeds.
Snowflake and Google Cloud are deepening their collaboration by integrating the Google Gemini 3 model into Snowflake Cortex AI. Companies can now develop generative AI applications without moving data between platforms. The integration of Gemini 3 into Snowflake Cortex AI marks a significant step forward in both parties' AI strategy. Developers will have access to Google's large language model within Snowflake's secure data environment. This enables building, deploying, and scaling AI agents and generative AI applications without copying or moving data.
By many accounts, those most impacted by the attacks - Venezuelans living and working in Venezuela - are resolutely opposed to the strikes, with thousands mobilizing in numerous Venezuelan cities in protest. (The death toll from the US strikes currently stands at 80 soldiers and civilians, a figure whichwill likely go up as the dust settles.) Though the attacks are still too recent to get accurate polling data of the country's sentiments, a November survey found that 86 percent of Venezuelans preferred for Maduro to remain head of state to resolve the country's economic woes.
There is no question that 2026 is already set up to be something of a continuance of 2025, at least in the sense of moving deeper into the world of AI, automation, and robotics. As companies deploy AI at scale and industrial robots continue to replace human labor slowly, chip manufacturers can't keep up with demand, and the hype isn't really hype anymore, as it's infrastructure being built in real time.
Robots will be performing enough "main street" tasks that the average urban dweller will encounter at least one per week in the ordinary course of their day: Autonomous robotics development for dozens of high-leverage use cases, taking place largely behind the scenes for years now, finally hits a sophistication inflection point allowing for scaled deployments across a number of sectors and applications. People will begin seeing these products performing regular tasks in retail, restaurants, universities, hospitals, office buildings, construction sites, and elsewhere.
As early adopters have discovered, Copilot delivers real transformation only when it becomes an integral part of critical workflows. Enterprises are beginning to treat generative AI not as an isolated productivity tool, but as the connective layer linking business applications, data, and human judgment. Nowhere is this shift clearer than in organizations using Microsoft 365 Copilot as part of a broader architecture that spans CRMs, low-code platforms, and specialized AI systems.
I've written about all of these before at greater length, but this is a short post because it's not about the technology or making a broader point, it's about me. These are rules for engaging with me, personally, on this topic. Others are welcome to adopt these rules if they so wish but I am not encouraging anyone to do so. Thus, I've made this post as short as I can so everyone interested in engaging can read the whole thing.
If money were no object, I'd want a 100-inch LG Wallpaper TV in my family room immediately. It looks shockingly thin in person - almost as if it's some sort of sci-fi prop - and it delivers the rich colors and dark levels we expect from OLED. Cable management is also a cinch, since it requires just a single power cable. The A/V inputs are handled by LG's One Connect box, which you can position wirelessly up to 10 meters away from the TV.
But some of the summaries, which appear at the top of search results, served up inaccurate health information and put people at risk of harm. In one case that experts described as really dangerous, Google wrongly advised people with pancreatic cancer to avoid high-fat foods. Experts said this was the exact opposite of what should be recommended, and may increase the risk of patients dying from the disease.
When it comes to creating AI tools, Boston Consulting Group is "all in," Scott Wilder, a Dallas-based partner at the firm, told Business Insider. About 15 months ago, the firm launched an internal research and development lab - one of several ways in which it is developing new AI-based technology to facilitate its work. "Every company has to become a tech company," he said. "BCG is no exception."
The discourse surrounding generative AI in the creative arts is frequently characterised by a sense of historical rupture, a seismic shift unlike any that has come before. Critics often frame the emergence of Large Language Models and diffusion-based image generators as an unprecedented existential threat to the 'soul' of human expression, a black swan event that may signal the end of human creative sovereignty.
AI is not destroying professional careers - it's just helping every professional and field evolve for the next generation. AI, especially recent generative AI innovations, has started helping everyone boost their day-to-day working productivity with human-like intelligent automation. Programmers had good old days - they used to have a geeky working style with interesting planning, experimenting, designing, development, testing, and collaboration activities.
"The truth of the matter is that there's an unreleased title themed around AI, and for that specific title, a programmer mentioned they're deliberately having AI handle the programming as well," said Hino. "They used that as an example to suggest that an era like that might be coming, and that's what got blown out of proportion." "On the flip side, if they really were creating 80%-90% percent of the code with AI and successfully making games that way, it'd be incredibly impressive,"
Led by ChatGPT, the No. 1 app in the App Store this year, more than a billion people are using one of a handful of generative A.I. platforms every week. Use of these products at work is on a sharp upswing, Gallup has found. But a series of Pew surveys reveals that Americans collectively are more worried than excited, joining most of our fellow global citizens.
