Monday, September 21, 2026
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The president posted on Truth Social that he wanted to appoint an "AI czar" to lead a new "AI force." He made the announcement amid growing calls from across the political spectrum and even within the industry to pump the brakes on AI development. He posted that his administratio
The president has doubled down on data centers and AI. His base is running in the opposite direction.
Artificial intelligence could change the way advertisements are bought and sold by enabling automated communication between systems, reducing manual coordination across the fragmented advertising ecosystem, according to a report by ADvendio, an advertising technology company.
In nearly 30 per cent of companies, productivity fell after teams began using agentic artificial intelligence tools, revealing operational hurdles amid the rapid enterprise adoption of autonomous coding systems, according to McKinsey’s Technology Trends Outlook 2026.
AI adoption rates among major developed economies range from 15–20 per cent, with France, the US, the Netherlands, and the UK at the top end of the range, according to a report by Goldman Sachs Research.