1. Gartner의 2026년 'Hype Cycle for Agentic AI'로 보는 시장 성숙도 분석기대 정점 도달과 실행 격차의 노출: 조사 대상 기업의 17퍼센트만이 에이전트를 도입했으나 60퍼센트 이상이 2년 내 도입을 계획하는 등 기술 성숙도 대비 공격적인 시장 기대감 형성 상태.거버넌스 및 보안 인프라의 동시 부상: 자율 시스템의 책임성 확보를 위한 에이전틱 거버넌스, 보안, FinOps 솔루션이 초기 채택 단계부터 필수 구성 요소로 자...

The focus is shifting from excitement about AI agents to understanding how agentic AI technologies are maturing.Hype Cycle for Agentic AI helps leaders make sense of one of the fastest-moving areas in AI. As interest in AI agents accelerates, organizations face growing confusion about what agentic AI can realistically deliver today — and how to distinguish emerging capabilities from early hype...

One breath a day: Climatic launches an inhaled supplement for lung care. A startup backed by USD 10 million wants to make lung health a daily habit. Its first product, L Max, launches in spring 2026.Wellness culture has built entire industries around sleep, gut health, hydration and exercise recovery. The lungs, despite powering every one of those systems through oxygenation, have largely been...

With half of US organizations in our survey now implementing gen AI, the focus is turning to integration, ROI, and agentic AI to realize value across healthcare domains.Over the past two years, healthcare leaders have shifted from questioning whether and where gen AI is relevant to focusing on how it can be used responsibly and at scale. Our latest survey of US healthcare leaders highlights sev...

After acquiring xAI, the rocket company says close work in coding partnership could lead to combination.In a post on X Tuesday, SpaceX announced that the companies were working closely together on coding and AI, and that it had an option to purchase Cursor later this year. If there isn’t a purchase SpaceX could pay $10 billion for work in the partnership. “The combination of Cursor’s leading...

Few venture firms have bet more aggressively on AI than Sequoia Capital, and it isn’t slowing down.Sequoia Capital has raised about $7 billion for a new fund, the first fresh fundraising under its new leadership.The $7 billion will be dedicated to the firm's expansion strategy, which backs its latest stage investing in the US and Europe.The new fundraising signals a focus on AI giants and will...

Gap’s brand strategy is leading on culture but trailing on the fundamentals that endure beyond marketing moments, according to the latest analysis by BoF Insights.Gap is on a roll. Over the past year, the brand has delivered a string of successful campaigns, from a viral ad with K-pop group Katseye to a spring campaign starring Parker Posey and collaborations with labels such as Sandy Liang, C...

PepsiCo just pulled off something rare in the food industry: It got consumers to come back.For the past few years, food companies raised prices so aggressively that shoppers revolted, trading down to store brands and buying less. Now the industry is running the playbook in reverse, cutting prices and investing more in marketing and innovation.The strategy makes sense in theory. In practice, it...

For more than 140 years, the bicycle chain has barely changed. Inspired Cycle Engineering (ICE), a UK-based recumbent trike maker founded in 1999, thinks it's finally time. ICE has launched PERS Chainless, a fully electric drivetrain that eliminates the chain, the gear shifter, and essentially every component that can stretch, snap, or get caked in grease. It's a world first for the industry, t...