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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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The EU AI Act Officially Enters Into Force
We often mistake the speed of development for the velocity of progress. In our industry, we have long worshipped at the altar of “move fast and break things,” assuming that the wreckage left behind was simply the necessary cost of innovation. But true progress is rarely measured by how quickly we build; it is measured…
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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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Artemis II Mission Successfully Completes Historic Lunar Flyby and Splashdown
Progress is often celebrated as speed, but its deeper meaning is usually revealed by distance. The farther we go, the more clearly we see what still holds us together. NASA’s Artemis II mission has now completed a historic lunar flyby and splashdown, returning four astronauts safely after becoming the first humans to travel beyond low…
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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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