Tyler Thompson
Flexera’s 2026 IT Priorities Report surveyed 834 IT leaders across the U.S., UK, Germany and Australia, and the year-on-year shift is unambiguous. This is no longer a story about whether organisations will adopt AI. It’s a story about whether they can prove it’s working, govern what it costs, and keep the rest of the estate … Read more
Short answer: Agentic AI fails in insurance for the same reason nearly every insurance transformation fails: the data foundation was never built to support autonomous decision-making. Only 22% of insurers plan to have an agentic AI solution in production by year-end 2026, and just 7% have successfully scaled any AI initiative across their organisation. The … Read more
Short answer: DevOps manages code. MLOps manages code, data and a model that degrades the moment it meets real-world data. Most UK enterprises apply DevOps thinking to AI projects, which is why only 16% of UK businesses have moved past pilot into genuine AI use, and why Gartner puts the failure rate for enterprise UK … Read more
The gap between AI programmes that pay off and AI programmes that don’t isn’t the model. According to new Gartner research, organisations that report successful AI initiatives invest up to four times more, as a percentage of revenue, in foundational areas such as data quality, governance, AI-ready people and change management, compared with organisations reporting … Read more
Most enterprise AI programmes are not failing on capability. They’re failing on cost visibility. According to McKinsey’s Enterprise AI FinOps survey, 93% of organisations report exceeding their AI budget, and 46% are over by 10 to 30%. This isn’t a rounding error in a technology line item. It’s a structural blind spot, and it gets … Read more
Most enterprises have already put AI agents into production. Far fewer have given those agents the identity controls a human employee would be required to have. New research from JumpCloud puts a number on that gap: 72% of organisations now run AI agents in production, yet 92% report some limit on how far they can … Read more
On 16 July 2026, Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model that Artificial Analysis ranked fourth in the world on its Intelligence Index, ahead of Claude Opus 4.8 and within three points of Claude Fable 5. Full weights follow on 27 July, making it the largest freely downloadable AI model ever … Read more
Quick answer: This week’s four most significant AI stories that didn’t get boardroom attention: Mayo Clinic has quietly deployed more than 150 AI models into live clinical workflows, India minted its second AI unicorn in a month, retail data shows a “0% fully integrated” readiness gap on conversational AI despite 88% of retailers experimenting with … Read more
AI News You Probably Missed: The Limits of the Monolithic Mindset Operating Model Realities Eclipse Humanoid Autonomy The headline news captured immediate global attention: humanoid robots have successfully removed organs from living animals for the first time. In a preclinical trial from the journal Nature, surgeons used teleoperated humanoid robots to perform gallbladder removals on … Read more
