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APPLIED AI
Financial services has spent 20 to 25 years treating modernisation as a project with an end date. Opening the Oracle Financial Services Summit in London, Dr. Leda Glyptis argued that the industry's weaker record is...
APPLIED AI
At the Economist Enterprise Physical AI and Robotics Summit in London, aerospace and manufacturing leaders dismantled the silicon-valley narrative of the general-purpose humanoid robot. While venture capital pours billions into bipedal forms, industrial reality proves that form must strictly follow function.
APPLIED AI
Physical AI cannot scale on 700W data-centre GPUs. At the Economist Enterprise Physical AI and Robotics Summit, Mythic AI Chairman and CEO Taner Ozcelik demonstrated how in-memory compute and chiplet modularity collapse the Von Neumann memory wall to deliver biological-grade efficiency at the physical edge.
APPLIED AI
Robotics development has historically been gated behind six-figure hardware and brittle, hand-crafted kinematics. At the Economist Enterprise Physical AI and Robotics Summit, Hugging Face LeRobot lead Pepijn Kooijmans demonstrated how open-source foundation models and $200 hardware are breaking the industry wide open.
APPLIED AI
Deploying autonomous physical machines alongside human workforces introduces acute psychological and legal hazards that pure software never encountered. At the Economist Enterprise Physical AI and Robotics Summit, leaders from Kier Group and the British Standards Institution (BSI) established the governance blueprint for physical AI.
APPLIED AI
Foundations of Machine Learning, second edition, defines learning as using experience to make accurate predictions, and then builds a whole curriculum around the quantities that decide whether it works: data,...
APPLIED AI
A collection of results from an internal OpenAI model spans mathematics and theoretical computer science, and its sharpest result is exact: the asymptotic strength of the Cohn-Elkies linear program is now known,...
APPLIED AI
A detector for alignment failures that answers many typed questions in one call, with calibrated probabilities, ranks failures well and costs 63× less than LLM-judge scorers. But those probabilities don't transfer...
APPLIED AI
MIT's ad hoc committee on AI doesn't treat generative AI as a tooling problem to be patched with a policy. Its report treats it as a pressure test on what an MIT education is for, and argues that uncertainty can't be...
INFRA & CRYPTOGRAPHY
Cloudflare has relied on 16 partner public CAs for years without ever issuing a publicly trusted certificate itself. It now intends to become one, and the interesting part is the design: classic certificates and...
INFRA & CRYPTOGRAPHY
The first two operating nuclear clocks arrived together, from teams that didn't coordinate, and neither beats the best atomic clock. The independence of the two results is the more important fact, because it suggests...
POLICY & RESILIENCE
Supervisors have spent two years reading exit plans that assume an exit nobody has priced, budgeted or rehearsed. In January the most durable excuse for that stops being available.
POLICY & RESILIENCE
Financial entities learned to answer the NIS2 question with one sentence about DORA. That sentence is correct, and it is about to be applied to a regulation it was never written for.
APPLIED AI
Relief on the high-risk file arrived nine days ago. The risk now is that banks read one deferral and stand down a programme that still has an obligation biting today.
PAYMENTS & MONEY
For a decade banks have owned the login. eIDAS 2 turns identity into something the customer carries and the bank is obliged to accept on request.
PAYMENTS & MONEY
Under PSD2 a bank could comply alone: build the endpoint, publish the spec, done. FiDA has no unilateral path. Compliance runs through a scheme, and the scheme is being designed right now.
APPLIED AI
Fifteen years of model risk doctrine was rewritten in April, and the one paragraph that will matter most to a 2026 risk committee is the one that says which models the guidance does not cover.
INFRA & CRYPTOGRAPHY
Most banks have costed the test. Fewer have costed the supply chain it now depends on: an accredited tester market on a synchronised three-year clock, and threat intelligence that must come from outside every single time.
INFRA & CRYPTOGRAPHY
Every post-quantum roadmap assumes an inventory that does not exist. The asset register knows the server, the owner and the criticality; it does not know the algorithm, the key length, the library or the expiry.
PAYMENTS & MONEY
Payee verification stopped being a competitive feature the day it became a legal obligation. What remains is an operations problem: a five-second budget, an ambiguous middle answer, and corporate files that must be taken apart before they can be checked.
APPLIED AI
Immutable is not the same as trusted. As instant settlement and probabilistic AI reshape banking, the uncertified ledger becomes the weak link, and a certifiable blockchain becomes the audit spine.
APPLIED AI
Payments are now the core of bank technology strategy. This is the operating model, risk frontier and revenue playbook G-SIBs need to lead the agentic, real-time cycle.
POLICY & RESILIENCE
Compile-time WCAG gates, SHA-384 SRI, CSP injection and a local-first LLM pipeline set this Rust engine apart, but incremental builds, native minification and AVIF are still aspirational. Here is the honest gap analysis and the road to 1.0.
PAYMENTS & MONEY
The industry finally has a global language for payments. It still does not have a global map for corporates to act on it. ISO 20022 and Swift's CBPR+ harmonised what a payment must say, not how a corporate uses it — the missing interface and behaviour layers, and how banks can build a global corporate standard on the rails they already have.
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