Technology

As more consumers turn to conversational AI platforms for product recommendations, research summaries, and decision guidance, marketing analysts say the criteria for market visibility are shifting. Instead of appearing on search results pages, brands are now competing to be mentioned directly in answers generated by systems such as ChatGPT, Claude, Google’s AI Overviews, and Perplexity. […]

How SMEs can turn compliance requirements into growth opportunities.

inDrive founder and CEO Arsen Tomsky says autonomous vehicles will be shaped less by wealthy cities than by fast-growing, price-sensitive megacities in the global south

Entrepreneurs risk losing deep thinking in an AI-driven distraction economy

London’s Palantir decision exposed Europe’s growing dependence on American AI infrastructure.

SXSW London bets on East London’s creative and cultural collisions.

The art and collectibles industry has long depended on relationships, intuition, and personal expertise. Collectors often rely on years of trust with galleries, advisors, auction specialists, and luxury professionals to navigate purchases that are deeply personal and frequently emotional. At the same time, the process behind those interactions has remained fragmented across emails, PDFs, spreadsheets, […]

Founded in Varaždin, Croatia, in 2005, UTILITER is a SaaS company building software for tourism, retail, and hospitality. Its product suite covers property management, cashless payments, and AI-driven analytics. Last year, the company ranked 41st on the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 list for Central Europe, recording 682% revenue growth between 2021 and 2024. We spoke […]

For years, businesses largely operated within the boundaries of local markets, serving communities within a defined geography and building relationships close to home. International expansion existed for a select group of organisations with the scale and resources to establish a broader footprint. Today’s environment presents a different picture. Teams collaborate across continents, meetings begin with […]

Giuliano Gonzalez did not set out to build an AI reputation firm. He spent years in public relations and brand strategy before ChatGPT existed, placing clients on top-tier media outlets and observing how Google’s algorithm rewarded brands that earned authority across the right sources on the internet. Then, in early 2025, he noticed a shift […]

How the contrasting styles of two entrepreneurs saw them team up as partners, taking them from startup risk to leading the UK arm of one of Europe’s top AI-driven consultancies Some business partnerships are engineered. Others form under pressure and hold because neither side ever gives the other a reason to doubt them. Steve Crowley […]

Why today’s cheap AI could become tomorrow’s biggest start-up risk

Entrepreneurs risk shallow thinking as AI and digital distractions intensify overload.

AI transforms workplaces by enhancing collaboration, creativity, leadership, and human connection.

An AI ethicist is encouraging a broader conversation about how poverty is understood — and what questions the field may still need to ask. Ask Shekhar Natarajan to define poverty, and he does not begin where audiences expect him to. He does not begin with the streetlight in South Central India, the one he studied […]

The practice of paying separately for CRM, ticketing, sentiment tools, and coaching platforms may be starting to shift. A new generation of intelligence-first architectures is beginning to consolidate parts of the stack and potentially reshape how companies approach what it means to know their customer. For two decades, enterprise customer support has often relied on […]

Five years ago, most enterprise revenue teams accepted complexity as a reasonable cost of capability, building their commercial infrastructure from a collection of best-in-class point solutions that each solved a specific problem and created a new one at every boundary between them. Quoting handled in one system, billing managed in another, and contract execution living […]

AI tool automates lead generation and personalised outreach for growth

Crisis response organizations are often defined by the environments in which they are built. For Crownox, a global security and emergency logistics firm, that foundation was shaped in regions where unpredictability was part of daily operations. Over time, this experience evolved into a model that now supports multinational companies, financial institutions, and large-scale operations navigating […]

Steve Reinharz has been thinking about artificial intelligence since before it was widely discussed outside academic circles. Reinharz grew up in Toronto, and in his final year of high school in the 1980s, wrote an essay on AI — an obscure subject at the time that most students would have avoided. He turned it into […]

AI adoption surges, forcing businesses to balance innovation with risk

Baden Bower's international consumer survey evaluates major publications on trust, influence, and credibility.

Dan MacDonald, founder and CEO of BIS Safety Software, observes how technology reshapes safety and compliance in high‑risk industries. He believes artificial intelligence has reached a point where long‑imagined possibilities are now usable within everyday operations, especially in sectors such as mining and construction. Within this changing environment, BIS Safety Software positions its platform as […]

Today, AI is ubiquitous across nearly every sector, yet a misguided focus on AI capability over practical applications may be stalling its adoption in healthcare. While the technology itself is advancing, Freddy del Barrio, founder of Companion AI, argues that a lingering implementation failure exists, stemming from a persistent misalignment with real-world clinical workflows and […]

The labor union SAG-AFTRA has recently signed an agreement allowing advertisers to buy the rights to actors’ voices to produce AI-generated digital replicas with consent. This development in the unavoidable yet often troubled relationship between the arts and their commercial patrons begs the question: can AI effectively replace the human voice? Jacco Fransen, a renowned […]

Over the past several years, as technology has continued to evolve at an alarming rate, AI models have become increasingly adept at parsing data in response to user prompts. However, modern “thinking models” rely heavily on long chains of thought. That approach improves accuracy, but it also explodes token usage, increases latency, and drives up […]