Prop trading firms weigh building custom technology versus licensing ready-made infrastructure in 2026. The proprietary trading industry has gone from a niche segment to a multibillion-dollar industry in a few years. With that growth comes a question every new operator…
Students booing mentions of AI shows that some of the most intense skepticism and fear about the technology is coming from those who use it the most, because of its anticipated effect on society and their personal lives.
Welcome to a "profound moment for humanity," according to Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, who closed out Google I/O's keynote presentation on Tuesday, saying:
Google's cutting-edge research and products will help unlock AGI's incredible potential for the benefit of the entire world. When we look back at this time, I think we will realize that we were standing in the foothills of the singularity.
It will be a profound moment for humanity. This technology will be a force multiplier for human ingenuity and usher in a new golden age of scientific discovery and progress, improving the lives of everyone, everywhere. We look forward to bu …
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Although visitors to an event like TechEx North America will always want to see the cutting edge front and centre stage, the nuance and detail brought to the show by the speakers and exhibitors mean that it’s sometimes the smaller considerations that need to play big – at least, in the minds of enterprise decision-makers. […]
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The world's richest man Elon Musk lost his blockbuster lawsuit against artificial intelligence giant OpenAI on Monday, with a federal jury finding that the tycoon had waited too long to bring his case forward. The trial saw some of the most powerful figures in Silicon Valley go head-to-head with their competing ambitions for the rapidly changing technology.
The race to production-ready agentic AI is on — but for most enterprises, the finish line keeps moving. Models get built, pilots get run, and then teams hit a wall: the infrastructure, security, governance, and operational requirements for running AI agents at enterprise scale are far more complex than any single tool or vendor anticipated....
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The trend shows no sign of slowing. McKinsey’s latest The State of AI report suggests that 88% of organizations now use AI in at least one business function. As adoption expands, so too will experimentation and tool creation — much of it occurring outside traditional IT processes and often beyond formal oversight.
For IT leaders, the implications are significant. They are no longer managing a closed, centrally controlled environment, but one where technology can emerge anywhere, spread rapidly, and influence core business processes in ways that are difficult to predict or contain.
“Shadow usage is dramatically outpacing production,” said Chris Drumgoole, president of global infrastructure services at IT service provider DXC Technology. In many organizations, unofficial AI usage already exceeds sanctioned deployments by several multiples. Worse, he said, IT teams often have very little visibility into where and how these tools are being used.
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