2026-07-28

Microsoft is launching its first cybersecurity AI model at half the cost of rivals

MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, paired with GPT-5.4 inside Microsoft's MDASH harness, outperforms models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI on a key benchmark [...]

2026-07-28

Johnson & Johnson is paying $5.5 billion to settle its baby powder cancer lawsuits

The deal covers about 76,000 ovarian cancer claims and requires acceptance by at least 95% of claimants to take effect [...]

2026-07-28

Boeing posted a bigger-than-expected loss as Air Force One costs weighed on results

The planemaker took a $280 million charge on the VC-25B program, pushing its adjusted loss to 76 cents a share against a 30-cent estimate [...]

2026-07-28

GSK is slashing costs by $2.5 billion to fast-track its drug pipeline

The British drugmaker beat second-quarter profit expectations and now expects to start 20 or more phase III trials in 2026 [...]

2026-07-28

AI transformation is the CEO’s job

AI readiness isn’t about picking the right tools—it’s about the CEO leading the hard work of reshaping culture, pace, and people to build a more capable organization. [...]

2026-07-28

AI has one unsolved problem

From the boardroom to the C-suite, AI governance should be on the front burner. [...]

2026-07-28

Snowflake launches Cortex AI Gateway to control AI agents and prevent runaway enterprise costs

Snowflake announced Cortex AI Gateway on Tuesday, a centralized control layer designed to govern how AI agents — including those built by competitors like Anthropic's Claude Code and Cursor — access enterprise data, tools, and models. Alongside the gateway, the company unveiled a first wave of security integrations with 1Password, Aembit, Linx Security, SailPoint, and Saviynt, an unusual [...]

2026-07-28

Most enterprise AI spend still hasn’t left the lab

New research puts a hard number on something a lot of IT leaders already suspected. Most AI pilots never make it into production, and the spend behind them isn’t disappearing, it’s just sitting in limbo. Jon Bitz, chief relationship officer and co-founder at KloudStax, says that limbo isn’t the failure it looks like from the outside. The […]<br /> This story continues at The Next W [...]

2026-07-28

AI is turning B2B outreach into a tragedy of the commons

AI did not make buyers easier to reach. It made everyone cheaper to interrupt. A modern AI sales agent can research a company, identify a plausible buying signal, compose a personalised email, schedule follow-ups, evaluate the response, and hand a qualified opportunity to a human salesperson. Major CRM vendors now market agents that research leads, […]<br /> This story continues at The Nex [...]