1. (PDF) McKinsey 보고서 - 럭셔리 리테일의 규칙을 재편하는 에이전틱 커머스AI 매개 플랫폼의 주도권 확보: 소비자 의도가 최초 발현되는 범용 AI 어시스턴트가 럭셔리 커머스의 새로운 관문으로 부상하며, 전통적인 브랜드 소유 온·오프라인 채널의 고객 접점 독점력 약화.위임의 경계와 통제권 유지: 럭셔리 소비자의 대다수는 제품 탐색 및 결제 단계에서 AI 활용을 선호하나, 프라이버시 리스크 및 신뢰 문제로 인해 사후 관리 등 고관여 영역에서는 인간 어드바이저의 개입을 요구하는 선별적 자동화 양상 뚜렷.브랜드 헤리티지의 데이터화: McKinsey의 4단계 프레임워크에 따라...

With luxury consumers rapidly embracing AI, the strategic question for merchants is no longer whether agents will mediate the journey, but who controls how brands are perceived.For decades, the strategic playbook for luxury brands has centered entirely around physical and digital destinations. The flagship boutique served as the sacred front door where desire was meticulously manufactured, while e-commerce platforms operationally extended that footprint downstream without altering who held the keys to brand identity. However, a groundbreakin...

Is AI Good At Stock-Market Timing? A New Study Casts Doubt.Research finds that while large-language models may work well initially, they don’t outperform the market over long periods and in changing conditionsLarge-language models may be immune to human emotions like fear and greed, but they still struggle to beat the market over longer periods.Researchers recently backtested a range of LLM-based trading strategies over 20 years and found that they mostly failed to outperform simple buy-and-hold investing. The reason sounds surprisingly hum...

These top brands all ditched their names from their logos, but we instantly know who they are.Textless logos are often the sign of a brand that has supreme confidence. Many brands will use both a symbol and a wordmark in a lockup, but ditching the type to use a symbol alone is sometimes only possible when a brand's become firmly established.For a textless logo to work, consumers need to recognise and respond to the design components that make up the brand identity. That usually takes time. Brands such as Nike, Apple and Mastercard all used t...

Goldman Sachs advised on 233 deals worth $1.2T in 1H 2026, roughly 50% more volume than second-placed J.P. Morgan at $819B across 217 deals.Morgan Stanley sits third at $673B across 190 deals and Bank of America fourth at $482B across 149 deals.Rothschild & Co (175) and Jefferies (155) worked on more deals than every bank outside the top three, at average sizes under $1.4B.Wells Fargo is the outlier on average deal size at $7.7B across just 37 mandates.[wallstreetprep]

X Square Robot’s open embodied AI stack unifies data, world models, and action.Unlike artificial intelligence powered by large language models, robotics still lacks a clear “recipe” for achieving general-purpose capability. While LLMs demonstrated that pretraining on massive datasets can produce broad intelligence, robotics has remained fragmented—built from separate systems for perception, planning, and control that rarely combine into adaptable, transferable behavior. The central challenge in embodied AI is finding a unified approach t...

JPMorgan Chase & Co. has been testing whether an AI model can allocate money itself, with early results showing the best-performing system topped a traditional 60/40 portfolio by 0.7 percentage point a year with lower volatility.As investors increasingly turn to artificial intelligence for help with everything from stock picking to risk management, JPMorgan Chase & Co. has been testing whether a model can do something more ambitious: allocate money itself.The early results are encouraging. Researchers at the bank built an array of AI...

Tougher vetting in Singapore, Malaysia and Japan reflects Washington’s push to close export-control loopholes.Nvidia has more than halved the number of Asian customers authorised to buy its AI chips after creating a new “white list” of companies that have passed tougher compliance checks aimed at preventing the products from reaching China.The $5.1tn chipmaker has over the past few months intensified due diligence in Singapore, Malaysia and Japan, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.The renewed vetting excluded more tha...

Central Saint Martins graduates Domenico di Paolo and Kieran Feechan have created a novel listening device in the form of Imago, which turns a critical eye on the use of AI in music.Looking a bit like a crystalline record player, Imago presents listeners with a circular touchscreen lit up with three glowing dots that they can slide around with their fingers to modify a composition.Feechan and di Paolo think of Imago as a cross between a "deep listening device" and a synthesiser. It lets listeners explore a unique soundscape carefully curated...