From BARC’s 2026 Data Sovereignty survey of 320 organizations worldwide: how sovereignty has moved from a compliance requirement to a strategic condition for running data- and AI-driven processes at acceptable risk.

Today's guest is Martin Duffy, Head of GenAI at PWC Ireland. Founded in 1866, PwC Ireland is one of the country's leading professional services firms, providing audit, tax, consulting, deals and technology services. By combining deep industry expertise with a global network, PwC helps organisations drive transformation, solve complex business challenges and create sustainable value in an...

Thinking Machines Lab has unveiled Inkling, its first general-purpose open-weights foundation model. It is a multimodal MoE model with 975B parameters, 41B active parameters, and a 1M-token context window. Rather than chasing benchmark supremacy, Inkling is designed as a customizable foundation for multimodal reasoning, agentic AI, coding, tool use, audio and vision tasks, and...

Every morning, airline dispatchers, grid operators, and farmers around the world make decisions based on the same thing: a weather forecast. While these forecasts are something that most people glance at for two seconds, weather predictions influence major strategic decisions in many industries, with real money, livelihoods, and even actual lives at stake. Farmers use…

OpenAI has built an LLM super-hacker called GPT-Red that it uses as a sparring partner to help its other models boost their defenses against cyberattacks. Last week the company released the latest version of its flagship LLM, GPT-5.6. OpenAI says that training it against GPT-Red made the model its most robust release yet. GPT-Red automates…

If you’ve spent any time on GitHub Trending this month, you’ve probably noticed a pattern: it isn’t research papers turning into repositories anymore, it’s agents. Coding agents, pentesting agents, trading agents, and the infrastructure that ties them all together. We tracked star growth, momentum, and real-world impact to identify the ten repositories that mattered most […] The post...

Most conversations about agentic AI focus on how autonomous these systems can become. Financial services leaders are asking a different question: Where should autonomy stop? For banks and insurers, the challenge is not simply deploying AI agents. It is determining how those systems, governance requirements and human expertise can work [...] The post Human in the lead: Redefining the...

AI is reshaping how work gets done across industries. In marketing, the real challenge is turning a multitude of ideas into a final campaign. A typical campaign often starts with a strategy meeting, followed by sessions with data teams and creative reviews. Stakeholders weigh in at different stages, sometimes with [...] The post AI is rewiring marketing workflows appeared first on SAS...

Learn how SAS 9 customers can modernize to SAS Viya incrementally, leveraging AI assistance, agentic AI, open-source collaboration, and scalable cloud deployment while preserving existing SAS investments and governance. The post From SAS 9 to SAS Viya: Modernize analytics without starting over appeared first on SAS Blogs.

Is the roof over your head about to cave in? Did you just change jobs, get married or start planning for retirement? In situations like these, most people think about their insurance. Life changes are a great time to evaluate insurance coverage (for customers and insurance companies alike), but waiting [...] The post Top 5 insurance mistakes – and how to avoid them appeared first on SAS...