Tag Archives: Artificial intelligence

20Dec/25

AI Agent Trends 2026

Dec. 20, 2025 /Mpelembe Media/ — The Google Cloud 2026 report describes a major transition from basic automated assistants to agentic AI, which can plan and execute complex tasks with human oversight. This shift moves technology from simple instruction-based computing to intent-based systems that understand and achieve specific goals. Key trends highlight how these agents will soon be integrated into every employee’s workflow, acting as specialized digital team members that handle repetitive duties. Beyond individual productivity, the report explores how integrated agent networks will manage entire business processes, such as customer service, security, and supply chain logistics. Human roles are expected to evolve into strategic orchestration, where people focus on high-level decision-making while AI agents manage the underlying data. Ultimately, the document serves as a strategic guide for business leaders to prepare for a future where AI is a fundamental, always-on collaborator. Continue reading

18Dec/25

AI’s Future in Filmmaking: Creativity and Ethics

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming global filmmaking by redefining creative roles, accelerating technological adoption, and introducing complex ethical challenges, as debated by industry leaders at the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia (SSFF & ASIA) international conference. The conference explored how artificial intelligence is changing cinema, noting a significant increase in AI-related film submissions to the festival between 2024 and 2025. Key discussions centred on viewing AI as a creative partner rather than just a technical tool, addressing concerns about ethics and copyright, and sharing an overall optimistic outlook that AI will expand human creativity in filmmaking.  Continue reading

03Dec/25

Google is relying on its own chips for its AI system Gemini. Here’s why that’s a seismic change for the industry

Alaa Mohasseb, University of Portsmouth

For many years, the US company Nvidia shaped the foundations of modern artificial intelligence. Its graphics processing units (GPUs) are a specialised type of computer chip originally designed to handle the processing demands of graphics and animation. But they’re also great for the repetitive calculations required by AI systems.

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03Dec/25

Agentic Marketing: Reshaping the CMO Operating Model

Dec. 03, 2025 /Mpelembe Media/ — This report from Boston Consulting Group (BCG) addresses the critical need for marketing leaders to rapidly adopt Agentic AI, characterizing the shift as a necessary race for competitive advantage. Unlike previous automation tools, these autonomous systems promise to fundamentally reconfigure the entire marketing workflow, enabling them to make decisions and learn across cycles. The primary benefit highlighted is the potential to triple marketing ROI, speed, and volume through extensive automation, spanning everything from generating market insights to personalizing customer actions at scale. To successfully implement this transformation, the marketer’s role must evolve from a specialist to an orchestrator in chief of intelligent agents, backed by robust data architecture and governance. BCG advises CMOs to abandon slow pilots in favor of a focused 9- to 12-month roadmap to achieve enterprise-level integration and define the next era of growth. Continue reading

02Dec/25

Fraud’s New Frontier: AI, Deepfakes, and Global Networks

Dec. 02, 2025 /Mpelembe Media/ — The Sumsub Fraud Report 2025-2026 focuses on the “Sophistication Shift,” which describes the fundamental change in identity fraud from high-volume, basic attempts to fewer, more targeted, and financially damaging AI-enabled operations. This shift is driven primarily by the industrialisation of deception via generative AI, leading to an explosion in deepfakes and highly realistic synthetic identities across all major digital ecosystems. The analysis provides comprehensive regional breakdowns for Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Africa, and North America, demonstrating that even in markets where overall fraud rates are stabilising, the remaining attacks are significantly more complex and harder to detect. Continue reading

02Dec/25

Dynamic Agent Orchestration: The Puppeteer Paradigm

Dec. 02, 2025 /Mpelembe Media/ — The academic paper introduces a novel framework for coordinating complex problem-solving in Large Language Model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems. To address the inherent inefficiencies of traditional static agent structures, the authors propose a “puppeteer-style” paradigm where a central orchestrator dynamically selects and sequences agents based on the evolving task state. This centralised orchestrator policy is continuously optimised using reinforcement learning (RL), leveraging a tailored reward function that explicitly balances solution quality with computational efficiency. Empirical results across various closed- and open-domain scenarios demonstrate that this adaptive approach achieves superior performance compared to existing methods while concurrently reducing token consumption. Finally, analysis of the evolving collaboration patterns confirms that the RL-driven policy leads to the emergence of highly compact and cyclic reasoning structures. Continue reading

01Dec/25

World Finance: AI, Geopolitics, and Financial Award Winners

World News Media announced the release of the World Finance Winter 2025–26 edition. The central focus of the new magazine issue is the state of global financial markets, particularly examining the instability caused by rapid technological change and shifting geopolitical dynamics. A prominent feature focuses on the unparalleled impact of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on the artificial intelligence sector, addressing concerns around ethics and investment bubbles. Further comprehensive reports analyse topics such as the record surge in gold prices, the new EU agency established to combat money laundering (AMLA), and the lengthy path of economic recovery for Greece. The text concludes by listing the multiple categories of World Finance awards presented in this edition, celebrating achievement across digital banking, investment management, and sustainable finance. Continue reading

29Nov/25

Black Lotus Ventures: The AI-Powered Viral Engine

Black Lotus Ventures, an Atlanta-based AI studio, outlines the successful use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for content automation and marketing execution. The firm detailed a case study where they transformed an obscure exercise device into a viral product, generating $3.5 million in revenue and over 100 million views in just eight months. This success was achieved through a strategic “Hybrid-AI” framework built upon four central pillars, which included using machine learning for market research and deploying AI avatars to scale user-generated content. A key result highlighted was a single AI-designed video that quickly generated $800,000 in revenue in a 30-day period. Founded by a former Meta product manager, the company suggests this methodology represents a new wave of marketing where AI solutions are used to amplify human ingenuity at scale, offering proven commercial viability across market segments. Continue reading

25Nov/25

The value of thought. How human-AI collaboration is measured economically

This touches on how large language models (LLMs) operate! tokenization is the fundamental process in natural language processing (NLP) of breaking down raw text into smaller units called tokens, such as words, subwords, or characters. This is a crucial first step that transforms unstructured text into a structured format that machine learning models can process.

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25Nov/25

Critical Thinking: There is a thin line between genius and insanity

Nov. 25, 2025 /Mpelembe Media/ — This phrase, “There is a thin line between  genius and insanity,” is a compelling and long-standing stereotype that suggests a close connection between exceptional creativity and mental illness.

While it’s a popular idea, modern research indicates that it’s an oversimplification. There isn’t a single “thin line,” but rather a complex, non-linear relationship where certain traits and genetic factors are sometimes shared between highly creative individuals and those with specific mood disorders. Continue reading