AI & High-Tech Research
Research on AI and emerging technology for the leaders who have to decide.
Practical analysis of AI strategy, governance, security, data and operations. Written to help you adopt what works, govern what matters and avoid expensive mistakes.
Six research areas
Every topic page explains the issue, why it matters, what good practice looks like, common pitfalls and the questions leaders should ask.
AI Strategy & Adoption
Choosing where AI creates value, funding it and preparing your people.
Generative & Agentic AI
Foundation models, copilots, agents and the knowledge systems that ground them.
AI Governance, Risk & Compliance
Regulations, frameworks, risk assessment, vendor AI risk and assurance.
AI Infrastructure & Operations
Compute, MLOps and LLMOps, evaluation, monitoring and cost.
Where leaders are focused now
AI Regulations
Where the EU AI Act and US state AI laws stand, including the 2026 changes to deadlines.
Deepfakes & AI-Enabled Fraud
Why a convincing voice or video should never be enough to move money.
Certifications
Build credible AI governance skills
AI certifications now exist for governance, audit, security, risk, project and engineering roles. Our guides explain what each one covers, who it is for and how to prepare.
Which AI Cert for Which Role
IAPP, ISACA, ISO/IEC 42001, PMI and cloud vendor credentials compared.
Research Reports
Reports, ebooks and guides connected to this topic.
Latest insights
Free articles on AI strategy, governance, security, data and operations.
Agent Fleet Infrastructure: How to Buy Density Without Losing Isolation
Running a thousand AI agents is not the same infrastructure problem as running a thousand long-lived application services. Agents may wake to use a tool, wait for a model response, [...]
Agentic Autofix ROI: How to Measure Fix Quality, Review Work, and Regressions
Agentic security remediation should be judged by verified risk reduction per unit of engineering effort—not by the number of pull requests an AI agent opens. A proposed fix only creates [...]
Buying AI Security Agents: A Third-Party Risk and Control Framework
Buying an AI security agent is not the same as buying another monitoring tool. A conventional product may collect telemetry, detect a threat, and recommend a response. An agent may [...]
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