Meta’s stock slide has become a referendum on a very specific bet: that AI “agents” — personalised, semi-autonomous software companions that can take actions on a user’s behalf — will translate into measurable value fast enough to justify the cost…
Dili is betting that the next phase of the AI boom won’t be defined by model capability alone, but by whether organizations can prove—internally and externally—that their AI systems are safe, compliant, and operationally trustworthy. On July 30, the company…
Markets have a way of doing two things at once: they chase the future with enthusiasm, and they punish it when reality refuses to arrive on schedule. That tension is at the heart of today’s live Ask an Expert Q&A,…
AI agents are often described as if they’re either fully autonomous—capable of acting independently in the world—or not autonomous at all. The reality in 2026 is more nuanced, and it’s showing up in two places that don’t usually get discussed…
Amazon has reportedly uncovered cases where newly deployed AI tools contributed to “runaway spending” on internal technology projects—an issue that, according to staff accounts, was not only about budgets being exceeded, but also about how long it took for the…
Meta’s share price has taken a sharp hit as investors weigh the promise of AI “agents” against the reality of rising costs and a revenue outlook that, at least for now, is not keeping pace with the ambition. The company’s…
Apple’s Siri has long lived in the awkward space between “useful enough” and “why can’t you just understand me?” For years, the assistant’s reputation was shaped by its strengths—hands-free convenience, tight integration with Apple services—and its limitations: rigid command patterns,…
In the Bay Area, where church attendance can be as much about schedules and traffic as it is about faith, Justin Lester has been trying to solve a problem that many pastors quietly recognize: people don’t always need spiritual guidance…
Innolight’s Hong Kong debut arrived with the kind of symbolism that investors rarely get to ignore: a Shandong-based supplier of data-centre equipment stepping into one of the world’s most international capital markets while its customer base spans both sides of…
At 1pm (BST) today, Lex head John Foley and tech comment editor Elaine Moore will take questions in a live Ask an Expert Q&A on a question that has become impossible to avoid: has the market lost its mind over…
Innolight’s Hong Kong debut has quickly turned into a referendum on how investors are pricing the next phase of the AI build-out—and, just as importantly, how they are thinking about the geopolitical risk that comes with it. Shares in the…
The Financial Times has launched a new monthly series designed to do something that most AI coverage struggles to balance: keep the conversation grounded in what is actually being built, while still asking the bigger questions about what those systems…