Insights News
October 18, 2026

What we can learn from industrial, blue collar AI

Data to Decisions
Industrial companies, the ones that actually make stuff and keep the economy moving, are worth watching for how they will leverage AI. The industrial AI approach is decidedly pract...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 15, 2026

Meta launches Muse Spark Open, may appeal to enterprises

Data to Decisions
Meta launched Muse Spark Open, which it describes as the quot;most capable US open-weight model to date.quot; Although Meta has been ramping its frontier model efforts, the open mo...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 14, 2026

How aviation maintenance looks at AI systems

Data to Decisions
Aviation companies are looking toward AI to create the capacity needed for growth and manage through a generational change in talent and the institutional knowledge retiring. ...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 13, 2026

Palihapitiya on AI valuations, energy, auditors

Data to Decisions
Chamath Palihapitiya, CEO of Social Captial | 8090, said AI valuations are unsustainable, enterprises need to start talking to their auditors pronto about AI agents and every compa...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 13, 2026

How IFS’ industrial customers are approaching AI use cases

Data to Decisions
IFS customers are looking to AI use cases that solve practical issues to save money, put intelligence in the hands of front-line workers and analyze maintenance issues in the field...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 12, 2026

UKG outlines headless platform strategy

Future of Work
UKG said it will go headless in a move that will bring its UKG Workforce Operating Platform to AI interfaces from Anthropic, Google Gemini, OpenAI and others....
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 12, 2026

Microsoft to launch Maia 300 inference chip in 2027

Tech Optimization
Microsoft said it will launch its Azure Maia 300 in 2027 in multi-gigawatt data centers. When it scales, Microsoft's Azure Maia family of chips will be the go-to inference processo...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 12, 2026

Nvidia contributes rack, tray designs to OCP

Tech Optimization
Nvidia contributed architecture designs to the Open Compute Project sand announced that Meta will adopt Nvidia Spectrum-6 networking. Nvidia also announced collaborations with Goog...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 11, 2026

Data ontology: A kinder, gentler form of lock-in

Data to Decisions
Enterprise vendor CEOs are increasingly talking about ontology and leaders need to pay attention because it may just be a gentler form of lock-in. ...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 8, 2026

Levi's loose jean pivot helped by real-time data

Data to Decisions
Levi Strauss Co. guessed wrong on the popularity of loose fit jeans in the US and saw sales drop off in its direct-to-consumer business. In addition, Levi's marketing and back-to-...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 6, 2026

Mistral makes its open model case with Mistral Large 4

Data to Decisions
Mistral, the EU's flagship model provider, is making its case for open weight model leadership and AI sovereignty with the launch of Mistral Large 4, or quot;Le chonk.quot;...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 4, 2026

The great enterprise AI rewrite is starting

Data to Decisions
Enterprises are starting to rewrite themselves to become AI native. The efforts are just starting, but you can see the signs as a wide range of industries and companies start to re...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
October 2, 2026

McDonald’s strategy bets on AI, digital capabilities

Data to Decisions
McDonald's laid out its three year roadmap with a plan called McDonald's Next that includes a heavy dose of AI, an $8.5 billion investment in improvements and 250 basis points of r...
Larry Dignan