The AI rivalry between the U.S. and China has a new front: the physical world of robotics. China announced this week its X?Square Robot open-sourced Wall?OSS, its foundational model for embodied intelligence, making it available to developers on GitHub and Hugging Face. Just as Linux going open source upended the software world and pioneered the […]
Robots and autonomous machines and industrial systems, oh my! AI agents are reshaping the digital workplace, automating analysis, decisions, and workflows. But if software agents are the brains of the enterprise, humanoid robots are about to become its hands and feet. “The next big thing is Physical AI, AI with a body,” Nvidia’s Jensen Huang […]
Trogni’s vision for Zinnia is industry standardization and full-stack, in the literal sense: “I strongly believe you cannot fix data and technology from the middle down. You have to start at the origination point…Our goal is to ensure that every family in North America has the financial longevity to match their wellness and health longevity.” […]
As Klarna IPOs today, the fintech sector is closely watching for indicators of health in the market. How will the murkiness surrounding BNPL’s future be received by a broader network of public investors? And how will the company stack up against competitors like Affirm and Block (Afterpay)? As we’ve reported, BNPL lacks a central data […]
Hiring, acquisitions, retirement planning, and more depend on a financial system underpinned by dependable government data; with those systems under fire, can the private sector backstop with certainty? The fidelity of U.S. economic data and forecasting is in question after the President fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer for publishing allegedly “rigged” jobs […]
Tariff fears have abated momentarily as the courts have partially rejected Trump’s trade war strategy, earnings reports have been smoking hot, and AI is continuing to drive markets into a tizzy — setting up what is likely to be a warmer-than-expected reception for next week’s five IPOs on deck. Among the outings are two highly […]
Employment has always acted as a proxy for where society is headed. In 1900, 40% of the labor force lay in agriculture; today it’s under 2%. In 1970, about a quarter of Americans were employed in manufacturing; now it’s less than 8%. These numbers tell a story: when agriculture dominated, hands were needed in the […]
Agentic AI can detonate billion-dollar outcomes just as fast as it can drive them. AI is no longer just automating tasks; it’s making decisions and taking actions like an insider. Agentic systems scan digital environments, reason through tradeoffs, and take initiatives on behalf of businesses, whether involving negotiations with clients or pushing deals across the […]
It’s a rough welcome back to school for markets as a global bond rout is now weighing on stocks. Behind the sinking feelings are budget woes in the US and several EU countries, combined with expensive government debt and outsize deficits. Add to that a blow to President Trump’s trade push as a federal appeals […]
The AI revolution in banking isn’t coming, it’s here. But if you talk to the AI companies actually selling into financial institutions, you will discover that widespread adoption is moving slower than the headlines suggest. Not because the technology doesn’t work, and certainly not because banks don’t need it. The roadblocks are more nuanced, more […]