For large banks, the barrier to AI at scale is rarely the model. It's decades of fragmented systems, inherited through mergers, acquisitions, and new products, where each team trusts its own data and no single view of context exists. Agentic AI doesn't fix that fragmentation; it amplifies it across every user and every prompt.
In this episode, Nathaniel Bell, Data Management...
Today's guest is Hanz Shawel, VP ServiceNow Delivery at Bank of America. Founded in 1904, Bank of America is one of the world’s leading financial institutions. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, it provides banking, investment, wealth management and risk management services to individuals, businesses, corporations and institutions. The company combines an extensive global presence...
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.
I have worked with planning, reporting, and analytics software for more than 20 years. I started as a controller, moved into software implementation, and now advise companies on software selection. One lesson has remained constant: the quality of the eventual solution depends heavily on the quality of the decision process. Selection mistakes often surface only […]
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.
Data products only deliver value when specifications translate into reliable, usable products. This is the challenge Entropy Data aims to address. The vendor combines data contracts, semantics, a data product marketplace, and access processes. The individual components are not new. What is new is how Entropy Data combines them and makes the resulting context available […]
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.
What would an AI agent do when a required file is missing or an API refuses access? The expected response is to explain the limitation… essentially, coming out with it. OpenAI’s latest disclosures shed light in another direction. Models sometimes take another route: hiding failures, using credentials without permission, or publishing files to finish the […]
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RSI or Recursive Self-improvement has been the talk of the town lately. The term came into surface when it was emphasized as the next step in the LLM evolution cycle by pioneers of the field like Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Elon musk. But also, via a research paper outlining the method titled: The Last AI Built by Humans. These two alone should help you realize […]
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On Wednesday, MIT Technology Review hosted a live Roundtables event for subscribers that asked the question everyone’s asking right now: Could AI really kill us all? But attendees had so many more questions than we had time to answer in the 30 minute session. So we asked our senior AI editor Will Douglas Heaven and…