Author: Henry Kanapi

A business and technology insights firm believes that AI agents are set to become a dominant force in enterprise sales over the next several years. In a new press release, Gartner forecasts a steep rise in automated sellers as organizations expand their use of AI across sales operations. But the firm notes that AI agent adoption alone will not guarantee meaningful gains for sales teams. Gartner sees many organizations struggling to translate automation into measurable productivity improvements. “By 2028, AI agents will outnumber human sellers by tenfold, but less than 40% of sellers will report that AI agents have improved…

A new MIT study finds that Chinese users are downloading open models at a pace that now surpasses the US, marking a shift in who is doing the hands-on work of building with AI. The data comes from Hugging Face, the online hub where developers store, share and remix tens of thousands of AI models. The platform functions as a public library and workshop for the global AI community, and its download metrics offer a window into real activity rather than corporate announcements. The MIT study, which analyzed 851,000 models and 2.2 billion downloads, shows Chinese developers running ahead of…

A tech-focused research firm says Wall Street may be overlooking one Mag 7 name that’s already generating billions of dollars from its AI efforts. In a new CNBC interview, Rosenblatt Securities senior research analyst Barton Crockett says the market has rushed to crown Google (GOOGL) as the dominant force in large language models. This week, GOOGL has surged to a new all-time high of $328, pushing the company to a near $4 trillion valuation following the launch of Gemini 3. According to Crockett, the market appears to have priced in that Google is now the king of AI, while assuming…

A leading voice in artificial intelligence says the most widely repeated AI bubble narratives are missing the part of the ecosystem that could actually trigger a market shock. In a new post on DeepLearning.AI, Andrew Ng, the co-founder of Google Brain and Coursera, outlines the three layers that make up the AI market. He says each layer has its own fundamentals, capital needs and risk profile, and most conversations about a potential AI bubble fail to distinguish among them. According to Ng, the first layer is the application tier, where the potential is much greater than most realize. Ng says he…

A chief investment officer at Bridgewater says the AI boom is still in its early innings, but the market has now crossed into a risky territory. In a new interview with Norges Bank Investment Management CEO Nicolai Tangen, Bridgewater’s Greg Jensen says the AI boom is unlike anything the world has seen, driven by companies and founders who believe they are racing toward world-changing breakthroughs rather than traditional profit cycles. He says investors misread the early signals, failing to grasp how committed major players were to building out AI infrastructure regardless of economic conditions. “I think there will be a…

A veteran investor says the market still misunderstands the scale of AI demand, noting that the need for computing power and intelligence systems will never hit a ceiling. In a new interview on the Forward Guidance YouTube channel, Jordi Visser, founder and chief strategist at Visser Labs, says that people don’t fully grasp the reality that demand for AI is infinite. According to Visser, AI will solve every problem that we have now and any problem that we can think of in the future. “The amount of need for AI is infinite. It will never end. It is like saying,…

Cathie Wood is urging young workers struggling with a difficult job market to turn toward artificial intelligence rather than waiting for traditional employment to come back. In a new interview with ARK President and Chief Operating Officer Tom Staudt, Wood says the rising unemployment rate among young workers and fresh graduates has set the stage for a generational opportunity. According to the ARK Invest CEO, young people can leverage AI to set up their own business. “Parents whose children are graduating from college, that unemployment rate has been going up. Lots and lots of concern about that. What I usually…

Alibaba is making its first major push into AI wearables, unveiling a device that slots directly into one of the fastest-growing hardware categories of the year. The company introduces its Quark AI Glasses in China, marking its entry into a market that has more than doubled in global shipments during the first half of 2025, reports the South China Morning Post. The launch includes two models: the flagship S1 and the lightweight G1, both powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon AR1 processor and Alibaba’s in-house Quark AI assistant. Prices for the S1 start at 3,799 yuan, or about $537, with a dual-chip…

An elderly woman lost tens of thousands of dollars after a scammer used AI deepfake videos and a fabricated online banking portal to convince her that a long-distance romance was real. In a BBC report, former university lecturer Nikki McLeod says the entire ordeal began when she turned to Facebook chat rooms during a period of loneliness and started speaking to someone using the name Alla. The avatar showed a woman in cold-weather gear, and the profile claimed she worked on an oil rig and loved sailing. The conversations quickly took on the shape of a relationship. But Alla asked…

Hedgeye is taking Google (GOOGL) off its highest-conviction list after a powerful run that it says arrived far earlier than anticipated. In a new post on X, Andrew Freedman, the firm’s head of communications and software research, says the major drivers they outlined coming into the year have already materialized. He names five bullish catalysts that fueled GOOGL’s run to a new all-time high of $328.83 earlier this week. “I removed Google from our ‘Top Picks’ list yesterday, as the catalysts we flagged coming into 2025 have largely played out — and faster than expected. Search stabilization, policy tailwinds, Cloud acceleration,…