Trends, policy and industry news from a business perspective
AI Industry Insights88% of companies now use AI regularly in at least one function, yet only about a third have begun scaling it; 39% report an EBIT impact, mostly under 5%. Put the key figures from late 2025 side by side and the picture behind the everyone-is-using-AI feeling gets much sharper.
AI Industry InsightsSora 2 shipped, Veo 3 brought native audio, and China's Kling and Jimeng keep iterating — the demos keep getting better. What a business should ask is different: which uses are genuinely practical today, and which are still demo material? A capability audit, a use-case list and the compliance lines.
AI Industry InsightsIn early 2025, Operator and Manus ignited talk of the year of the agent. By November 2025, McKinsey's survey told a cooler story: 62% of companies are experimenting with agents, yet scaled use tops 10% in no single function. A look at what sits between the hype and the numbers.
AI Industry InsightsThe first page of ten blue links is disappearing: Google's AI Overviews passed 1.5 billion monthly users, and Baidu says most of its results are now AI-generated. Two timelines, three consequences for customer acquisition, and what to do about them.
AI Industry InsightsGoing on-premise with the strongest model sounds like the safe choice, yet most enterprise tasks run fine on small models. Starting from what the open-source ecosystem shipped in 2025, this piece lays out when on-premise deployment is worth it — and when it is waste.
AI Industry InsightsIn May 2024 Chinese model prices entered the 'li era'; by January 2025, o1-class reasoning listed at ¥16 per million output tokens. Should businesses simply open the taps? Where the cuts come from, which scenarios genuinely benefit, and why the unit price is only one corner of the bill.
AI Industry Insights2025 was widely called the year of the AI agent. Looking back from early 2026: a dated timeline of the industry's turn from answering questions to completing tasks — Computer Use, Mariner, Operator, Manus, ChatGPT's agent mode — how to read the benchmarks calmly, and the posture businesses should take now.
AI Industry InsightsDeepSeek-R1 arrived on January 20, 2025 — open weights, MIT license, o1-class reasoning at ¥16 per million output tokens. Nine months on, a calm accounting: the price anchor reset, three layers of impact on enterprise AI budgets, and what stubbornly refused to get cheaper.
AI Industry InsightsChina's State Council issued the 'AI Plus' initiative in August 2025 — a sweeping, high-level document. Translated for smaller businesses: which parts actually touch you, why the 2027/2030/2035 adoption targets matter, and three practical moves that do not require reading all of it.
AI Industry InsightsSince September 1, 2025, China's labeling measures require AI-generated text, images, audio and video to identify themselves. What the rules cover, what explicit and implicit labels mean in plain words, and the two places your content workflow needs to change — plus a self-check list.
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