In 2025, AI and EVs gave the US an insatiable hunger for power

You may be surprised to learn electricity only accounts for 21 percent of the world’s energy consumption. Fossil fuels and the rest all play their part to make the world go around, but their role is [...]

GitHub leads the enterprise, Claude leads the pack—Cursor’s speed can’t close

In the race to deploy generative AI for coding, the fastest tools are not winning enterprise deals. A new VentureBeat analysis, combining a comprehensive survey of 86 engineering teams with our own ha [...]

Perplexity takes its ‘Computer’ AI agent into the enterprise, taking aim at Microsoft and Salesforce

Perplexity, the AI-powered search company valued at $20 billion, announced on Wednesday at its inaugural Ask 2026 developer conference that its multi-model AI agent, Computer, is now available to ente [...]

Enterprise AI agents are only as reliable as the messiest documents behind them

Enterprise AI has largely been built around context engineering. Teams connect enterprise systems, generate chunks and embeddings, build retrieval pipelines, and assemble the context needed by individ [...]

From Silicon Valley to Nairobi: What the Global South’s AI leapfrogging teaches tech leaders

When I write about the cognitive migration now underway, brought about by the rapid advance of gen AI, I do so from the perspective of someone who has spent four decades in the technology industry. My [...]

Most enterprises can't stop stage-three AI agent threats, VentureBeat survey finds

A rogue AI agent at Meta passed every identity check and still exposed sensitive data to unauthorized employees in March. Two weeks later, Mercor, a $10 billion AI startup, confirmed a supply-chain br [...]

98% of market researchers use AI daily, but 4 in 10 say it makes errors — revealing a major trust problem

Market researchers have embraced artificial intelligence at a staggering pace, with 98% of professionals now incorporating AI tools into their work and 72% using them daily or more frequently, accordi [...]

From lab to market: Rose Rock Bridge fast-tracks energy innovation in Tulsa

Presented by Tulsa Innovation LabsAs the global energy system evolves, companies are racing to adopt technologies that can deliver real-world solutions, especially in hard-to-abate industries. Oklahom [...]

The Agentic Reckoning: Enterprise AI organizations have a runtime problem, not a model problem — and most are building the wrong solution

In Q1 2026, VentureBeat's Pulse Research surfaced the “Governance Mirage”: the gap between the governance org charts enterprises had drawn and the control layers they had actually built. Fort [...]