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Multilingual AI has a longitude problem. For centuries, sailors could fix their latitude from the stars, but not their longitude, until a Yorkshire clockmaker built a timepiece precise enough to survive the ocean. Marzieh Fadaee, Head of Cohere Labs, has described her own research in almost identical terms: she is "exploring the longitude problem of AI" (X), the puzzle of giving language models a genuine sense of place when nearly everything about how they are built, measured and rewarded still points due English.

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In April 2026, Uber's engineering leadership discovered that a five-thousand-person team had burned through the company's entire annual AI budget in four months. Per-engineer token costs were running $500 to $2,000 a month, usage had doubled in eight weeks, and the company's COO admitted the surge in spend wasn't translating into proportionally better products (Forbes,Reuters). Uber was not an outlier. The FinOps Foundation's 2026 State of FinOps report found that 73% of enterprises exceeded their original AI cost projections this year, even as the price of a single token kept falling (TechCrunch).

That paradox, cheaper tokens and bigger bills, is exactly the terrain Meryem Arik has spent the last several years mapping. Meryem is Co-founder and CEO of Doubleword, a London-based inference platform that helps enterprises self-host open source and custom AI models (Doubleword), and she was recently interviewed by our Chief Editor, Fawn Hudgens, to talk through what she calls the "hot open weight summer": a moment when cost pressure and a jolt of geopolitical risk are forcing enterprise leaders to rethink how they buy intelligence, not just which model they buy.

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On 30 July 2026, the European Commission opened a call to build up to seven AI Gigafactories, pairing €10 billion in public funding with an ambition to mobilise at least €20 billion in private investment. It is Brussels’ largest infrastructure push yet—and a reminder of how far Europe still has to go to secure the compute, cloud capacity and strategic options that advanced AI requires. European Commission | Reuters

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In 2026, agentic AI has quietly moved from the interface to the core of the enterprise. What started as “smart assistants” on top of products is becoming infrastructure that reads, routes and acts across workflows. This blog looks at what that shift really means: how agents behave when they’re operational, what tends to go wrong, and how senior leaders can introduce them without negatively impacting their organisations.

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The next AI governance problem is not theoretical – it is already inside the business. Employees are using copilots, SaaS agents and browser-based AI tools to get real work done, often before IT, security or leadership have decided what good use actually looks like. 

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We spoke to Jack Wang, Investor at Keen Venture Partners  ahead of his presentation (19th November 2020) at Inspired AI, the series of 10 cutting-edge and CPD Accredited business, science, tech and networking online events gathering the global AI community and hosted by world-leading AI experts #withoutborders running from September to November 2020.

 

So Jack, if you could solve any global problem in the world with AI, what would it be?

Fake news!, social media platforms are having a difficult enough time to battle text based fake news which have long term and significant impacts on the world we live in. Image when we have fake audio and visual (deep fake videos) news in mainstream social media. Facebook have a difficult job ahead of them…

 

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Werner Vogels, VP & CTO at Amazon will take to the stage for the opening headline session on day two at World Summit AI 2019 (Thursday 10th October) and ahead of their appearance we asked Werner a few questions about Amazon’s approach to machine learning, AI use for enterprise and which industry is being revolutionised by AI adoption. Read on for the full Q&A.

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The growth of conversational AI technologies is undeniable. By 2020, over 80 percent of businesses are expected to have adopted chatbots or some level of conversational automation. Meanwhile, the consumer appetite for multi-platform, always-on conversational channels is high; 53 percent of customers are more likely to shop with businesses that they can message.  

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