Opinion

We still treat account recovery like a minor inconvenience. A login fails, users click “reset password,” and move on. But in 2026, the problem isn’t about restoring access—it’s about identity.

After two years of dazzling AI pilots, 2026 is the year businesses face a crucial reality check. It’s now very clear that enterprise-wide applications like agentic AI are in a different league from the quick vines of the burgeoning number of bottom-up one-dimensional AI point solutions. The realization is there: Businesses are already questioning whether…

Threat intelligence has moved far beyond feed ingestion and indicator matching. In a modern security operations center, it helps teams interpret alerts in context, improve detection engineering, guide threat hunting, and sharpen incident response. As cyber threats grow more complex, integrating threat intelligence into daily SOC workflows can help…

There is a looming pin that may burst the AI hype bubble in the business world. The issue isn't that the AI models aren't capable. It’s the massive gulf between a prototype built in three days and a secure, robust production system. To survive the transition from experimental pilots to everyday industrial and business use, Shawn McAllister, Chief AI…

As AI infrastructure expands, the sustainability debate is moving beyond giant training runs and into a harder question of deployment. Small language models may not replace frontier systems, but they could help companies run more AI on existing devices, reduce reliance on compute-heavy cloud inference, and make applied AI more practical across…

The latest controversy around defense AI is less about science fiction-style autonomy and more about process. Data quality, workflow design, and meaningful human review are becoming the real fault lines in military AI governance.

Agentic AI is reshaping how organizations think, operate, and serve. The challenge is sustained execution at scale.

Business continuity planning in the AI era needs a wider lens. It should identify where AI is operationally critical, reduce concentration risk across cloud and data environments, test for integrity failures as well as outages, assume faster attack and decision cycles, and bring leadership, legal, operations, and communications into the same response…

Ultimately, the success of agentic AI depends on access to high-quality, real-time data. Mining organisations that get it right stand to gain stronger margins, improved fuel efficiency, and safer operations. 

Real-world asset tokenization creates an unexpected tailwind for crypto infrastructure. As billions in bonds, real estate, and institutional funds migrate onto blockchain rails, the underlying settlement networks gain legitimacy and liquidity depth. Digital assets become integrated into traditional finance workflows rather than sitting in isolated silos.