Category: AI
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Cybersecurity is now the number one risk to growth for CEOs
The KPMG 2026 Global CEO Outlook surveyed 1,400 CEOs. 31% named cyber and data security as the greatest risk to growth over the next three years. At the same time, 79% say AI remains a top investment priority, up from 71% last year. And when it comes to implementing AI, cybersecurity is the second-biggest challenge,…
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Microsoft AI has finished pre-training MAI-Base-2
… its own frontier foundation model: a mixture-of-experts with 2.8 trillion parameters (80 billion active), trained on 16k GB200 GPUs over 38 days. Two details stand out for me. Microsoft says the model is built on organic data with no distillation from other models, with strong provenance over its training tokens. And it plans to…
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Meta has released Muse Spark Open
… which it calls the most capable US open-weight model to date. Open-weight means the trained model itself is downloadable: you can run it on your own infrastructure, fine-tune it and keep your data in-house, instead of only calling someone else’s API. The numbers are serious: 816B parameters (42B active), a 1M-token context window, built…
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The Rise of ‘Quiet Tech’: Even Realities Defines New Standard for 2026
Progress is often measured by what we add: more features, more sensors, more data. But after decades in this industry, I have come to realize that true engineering maturity is often found in what we have the courage to remove. We are currently witnessing a fascinating pivot in the wearable market. Even Realities recently published…
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Global Tech Report 2026: The Shift from AI Hype to ROI Discipline
Technology has a way of humbling our favorite narratives. The louder the promise, the more the real test tends to arrive later: in operations, in trust, and in whether people can actually use what we built. KPMG’s Global Tech Report 2026 points to a notable shift: organizations are moving beyond scattered AI experiments and demanding…
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KPMG to Automate Routine Audit Testing with AI Orchestration Agents
Progress has a quiet way of arriving dressed as efficiency. Only later do we realize it was also a change in what we trust, who we trust, and how much of judgment we are willing to delegate ? KPMG’s announcement that it will begin automating routine audit testing with AI orchestration agents is more than…
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Launch of ‘Prep Notes’ AI Tool
Technology rarely changes us all at once. More often, it changes the quiet assumptions we bring into a room. And that is where the real transformation begins. Even Realities recently announced “Prep Notes” for its Conversate AI agent on G2 glasses, letting users upload documents before a meeting and receive real-time HUD summaries, suggested answers,…
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KPMG Managed Services Survey 2026 Highlights Agentic AI Shift
Technology has a way of revealing what organisations truly believe. Not what they say in strategy decks, but what they are willing to trust with real work, real risk, and real accountability. KPMG’s Managed Services Outlook Survey 2026 suggests that more than 90% of global executives now see managed services as essential to delivering agentic…
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The more it SNOWS… The more it GOES-tiddely-pom
I’ve been exploring the cutting edge of wearable technologies since the very beginning of my active development journey in IT, and over the years I’ve started to recognize a pattern that repeats itself more often than we like to admit. Innovation almost always begins as something open, experimental, and full of possibilities… and gradually evolves…
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OpenAI Releases GPT-4 Turbo with Enhanced Speed and Cost Efficiency
OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo is more than just faster and cheaper – it signals a shift toward democratizing advanced AI at scale. For engineering leaders, this means balancing accessibility with responsibility, ensuring we build ethical frameworks alongside innovation. As speed and efficiency increase, so do complexity and risk. We must pause to ask: Are we fostering…