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A Rhode Island Factory and the Uncomfortable Mirror It Holds Up to Boston
October 21, 2026SMEs

A Rhode Island Factory and the Uncomfortable Mirror It Holds Up to Boston

In Providence's Valley neighborhood, a former textile plant of 113,000 square feet today houses artists who manufacture materials from oyster shells, ceramic murals for neighborhood parks, and welding training programs. The building, known as 50 Sims, has 38 active tenants and plans to add between 24 and 30 more. Less than two hours to the north, Boston spent a decade building one of the largest concentrations of laboratory space in the world, with vacancy rising from 2.5% in 2021 to 28% in 2026.

Diego SalazarDiego Salazar8 min
Atos and EDF Bet on the Digital Core of Future Nuclear Plants
October 20, 2026Business Transformation

Atos and EDF Bet on the Digital Core of Future Nuclear Plants

There is a moment in the life of any large organization when the ambition to scale collides with an uncomfortable question: who truly owns the knowledge that makes the system work? EDF has spent decades operating reactors in France with a density of technical expertise that few institutions can match. The problem is that this knowledge lives, to a large extent, inside people, paper-based procedures and fragmented systems that were never designed to travel.

Valeria CruzValeria Cruz9 min
Fourteen universities, one circuit, and the question of who designs the next layer of computing
October 6, 2026Exponential Technologies

Fourteen universities, one circuit, and the question of who designs the next layer of computing

There is an image circulating in the official communications of NSF IMOD that is worth holding in mind for a moment before moving on to the numbers: a doctoral student teaching four younger researchers how to fabricate light-emitting diodes inside a chemical fume hood. It is not the center's director. It is not a tenured professor. It is Hannah Contreras, a student, transmitting cross-disciplinary knowledge in an intensive week-long course designed so that chemists can talk to electrical engineers and quantum physicists can talk to mechanical engineers. That image condenses something that press releases rarely articulate honestly: the architecture of who knows what, within what structure, determines what a research network can or cannot see.

Isabel RíosIsabel Ríos9 min
AI Agents in Your Text Messages and Why That Reshuffles Power Over Your Attention
October 5, 2026Artificial Intelligence

AI Agents in Your Text Messages and Why That Reshuffles Power Over Your Attention

There is a precise moment when a technology stops being a new tool and becomes a distinct market condition. It is not marked by media coverage or the volume of investment rounds, though both can signal it. It is marked when the logic of adoption changes: when the user no longer needs to learn anything new to start using it.

Gabriel PazGabriel Paz9 min
Why Volkswagen Turned Its Daughter's Pressure Into a Business Thesis
October 3, 2026Sustainability

Why Volkswagen Turned Its Daughter's Pressure Into a Business Thesis

There is a scene that Dirk Voeste, Volkswagen's chief sustainability officer, repeats in interviews because it still weighs on him. Before accepting his current role, he consulted the decision with his family. His adult daughter did not encourage him with enthusiasm or congratulate him on the opportunity. She told him, plainly: 'You have to clean up the mess your generation left behind.'

Elena CostaElena Costa9 min
Setting Prices Without Knowing Real Costs Is Not Strategy: It Is a Gamble
October 2, 2026Strategy

Setting Prices Without Knowing Real Costs Is Not Strategy: It Is a Gamble

According to the Federal Reserve System's employer firms survey for 2024, fewer than half of employer firms in the United States operated at a profit that year. The figure hovers between 46% and 47% depending on the edition of the report, but the range does not change the conclusion: more than half of businesses with employees did not finish the year in the black. The data does not speak to a sectoral crisis or an isolated macroeconomic event, but to a structural problem in how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) understand, calculate and defend their margins.

Ignacio SilvaIgnacio Silva7 min
AMD Acquires Fei-Fei Li's Startup for $8.2 Billion and Reshapes Its Bet on Physics and Artificial Intelligence
September 29, 2026Startups

AMD Acquires Fei-Fei Li's Startup for $8.2 Billion and Reshapes Its Bet on Physics and Artificial Intelligence

On September 28, 2026, AMD announced the acquisition of World Labs in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $8.2 billion. The stated goal: to move decisively into the branch of artificial intelligence that does not process text but instead models the physical world. The deal was signed by AMD chief executive Lisa Su and Fei-Fei Li, co-founder and chief executive of World Labs.

Sofía ValenzuelaSofía Valenzuela9 min
Ontario bets $49 million on its small businesses as tariffs reshape cross-border trade
September 28, 2026SMEs

Ontario bets $49 million on its small businesses as tariffs reshape cross-border trade

On September 24, 2026, Nina Tangri, Ontario's Associate Minister of Small Business, made an announcement in Windsor that went relatively unnoticed in the major national media. The provincial government committed to investing $49 million over three years to strengthen its network of small business advisory centres, now rebranded as the Ontario Small Business Advisory Centres (OSBAC). The city chosen for the announcement was not Toronto.

Clara MontesClara Montes9 min
India's largest bank bets on digital without letting go of what made it great
September 27, 2026Business Transformation

India's largest bank bets on digital without letting go of what made it great

On 27 September 2026, Challa Sreenivasulu Setty, Chairman of the State Bank of India, stepped up to the podium at SBI's 13th Banking and Economics Conclave and condensed the strategy of India's largest bank into nine words: digital first, customer first, nation always. The declaration spread quickly. But before any analyst could turn it into either praise or an easy target, it is worth doing what is rarely done with corporate mantras: examining what structure of decision-making lies behind it, if any.

Ricardo MendietaRicardo Mendieta8 min
Kawan Renergy grew 32% and earned 73% less: what that reveals about the model
September 26, 2026Finance

Kawan Renergy grew 32% and earned 73% less: what that reveals about the model

There is an arithmetic that does not lie. When a company increases its revenues by nearly a third while simultaneously watching its profits fall by almost three quarters, the problem does not lie in the market or in the geopolitical situation. It lies in the structure of the business itself. Kawan Renergy Berhad published its third-quarter results for financial year 2026 with revenues of RM46.49 million, a rise of 32.6%, but with a net profit of RM2.04 million compared to RM7.49 million a year ago.

Francisco TorresFrancisco Torres8 min
Malaysia negotiates its technological leap with 21 Chinese companies
September 24, 2026Exponential Technologies

Malaysia negotiates its technological leap with 21 Chinese companies

On 23 September 2026, in Shanghai, Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim sat down with 21 Chinese industry leaders to discuss semiconductors, artificial intelligence, robotics, electric vehicles, battery materials, advanced optics, biotechnology and specialised manufacturing. The meeting produced no consolidated figures or signed contracts. It produced something harder to evaluate: a map of where Malaysia wants to move and with whom it is prepared to move.

Martín SolerMartín Soler8 min
The most powerful model is not the one that wins in business
September 23, 2026Artificial Intelligence

The most powerful model is not the one that wins in business

There is a number that the president of Alibaba.com chose to open his argument, and it is an uncomfortable number: 61.7%. That is the percentage of real-world commercial tasks successfully completed by the best artificial intelligence agent they tested. Across 107 real e-commerce operations, the most capable system available failed in four out of ten.

Andrés MolinaAndrés Molina9 min
ScrollEd bets the problem was never the scroll, but its content
September 22, 2026Business Models

ScrollEd bets the problem was never the scroll, but its content

There is a paradox that the education industry has spent years ignoring: while young people spend hours navigating vertical feeds with a level of concentration any classroom would envy, learning systems keep sending them PDFs and textbooks that no one opens. ScrollEd, a startup founded in 2026 and headquartered in Palo Alto, proposes that the gap between education and attention is not a discipline problem. It is an interface problem.

Diego SalazarDiego Salazar8 min
Udaipur Turned Its Landfill into an Energy Factory, and the Model Reveals Something Deeper
September 21, 2026Sustainability

Udaipur Turned Its Landfill into an Energy Factory, and the Model Reveals Something Deeper

In February 2021, a city in Rajasthan transformed an abandoned dump into a biomethanization plant capable of processing 20 tonnes of organic waste per day. The result was not merely compressed gas for kitchens and vehicles. It was proof that dependence on a broken waste-management system can be broken — but only if someone first builds the architecture to replace it.

Valeria CruzValeria Cruz8 min
Adidas Eliminated Seven Decision-Making Layers and That Is How It Recovered Its Ability to Compete
September 19, 2026Leadership & Management

Adidas Eliminated Seven Decision-Making Layers and That Is How It Recovered Its Ability to Compete

When Bjørn Gulden took over the leadership of Adidas in January 2023, the company was carrying $1.2 billion in unsold Yeezy sneaker inventory, a retreating Chinese market, and brands like Hoka and On gaining ground in the segment where Adidas had built its technical reputation over decades. What Gulden found inside, however, was not merely a balance-sheet problem. It was an organizational architecture that was systematically producing immobility.

Isabel RíosIsabel Ríos8 min
Creator marketing is no longer an experiment: it is a $43.9 billion budget line with grown-up demands
September 18, 2026Marketing & Sales

Creator marketing is no longer an experiment: it is a $43.9 billion budget line with grown-up demands

For years, creator marketing lived in a comfortable zone: experimental budgets, soft metrics, promises of authenticity that no one measured rigorously. That period is over. The Interactive Advertising Bureau projects that creator-linked advertising spend in the United States will reach $43.9 billion in 2026, a growth of 18.3% compared to the previous year.

Camila RojasCamila Rojas7 min
CADDi Reaches $1.2 Billion Valuation by Solving the Problem Nobody Had Properly Digitized
September 17, 2026Startups

CADDi Reaches $1.2 Billion Valuation by Solving the Problem Nobody Had Properly Digitized

There is a problem that any manufacturing operations director recognizes instantly: their company buys the same part, from different suppliers, at different prices, without knowing it had already purchased it before. CADDi, a Tokyo- and Chicago-based startup, identified that breaking point eight years ago and built software to attack it. This week it closed a Series D round of $114 million that values the company at $1.2 billion.

Tomás RiveraTomás Rivera9 min
The four-day week works, and the data leave little room for doubt
September 16, 2026SMEs

The four-day week works, and the data leave little room for doubt

A study published in Nature Human Behaviour in 2025, which followed 2,896 employees across 141 organisations distributed among Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States, found statistically significant improvements in burnout, job satisfaction, mental health and physical health after six months of a four-day working week. It was not an opinion poll or an internal company survey. It was a longitudinal study with pre- and post-intervention data, peer-reviewed and published in one of the most rigorous scientific journals in the world.

Clara MontesClara Montes9 min
Oracle Spends $2.8 Billion to Reinvent Itself: This Is What the Real Cost of the AI Transition Looks Like
September 15, 2026Business Transformation

Oracle Spends $2.8 Billion to Reinvent Itself: This Is What the Real Cost of the AI Transition Looks Like

Larry Ellison cancelled in September 2026 a plan to sell up to 50 million Oracle shares, equivalent to roughly $7.5 billion at that Friday's closing price. No official explanation was given. What did appear in a regulatory filing submitted that same week was another figure: Oracle expanded its fiscal 2026 restructuring plan by an additional $700 million, bringing the total expected cost of the programme to approximately $2.8 billion.

Gabriel PazGabriel Paz8 min
Why Ellison Withdrew Oracle's $7.5 Billion Share-Sale Plan
September 14, 2026Finance

Why Ellison Withdrew Oracle's $7.5 Billion Share-Sale Plan

Larry Ellison, co-founder and executive chairman of Oracle Corporation, adopted on June 22, 2026, a trading plan to sell up to 50 million ordinary shares of the company. At Friday September 12's closing price, that block was worth approximately $7.5 billion. The following Saturday, Oracle reported that the plan had been cancelled, that no shares had been sold under that instrument, and that Ellison has no other active plan to dispose of his stake.

Mateo VargasMateo Vargas8 min
When AI Acts Without Permission, the Problem Is Not the Model
September 13, 2026Innovation & Disruption

When AI Acts Without Permission, the Problem Is Not the Model

For years, the conversation about artificial intelligence risks revolved around the same axis: the model hallucinates, invents figures, cites sources that do not exist, confuses facts. It was a real problem, costly in some cases, embarrassing in others. But it was, at its core, a problem of output quality. That era is ending, not because hallucinations have disappeared, but because the context in which AI operates has changed in nature.

Ignacio SilvaIgnacio Silva9 min
Maven Robotics raised $100 million without having a single physical robot
September 12, 2026Exponential Technologies

Maven Robotics raised $100 million without having a single physical robot

There is a scene that captures what Maven Robotics is building better than any investor presentation. It was 2024, the company had been in existence for a matter of weeks, and, in the words of its own CEO, Hamza Derbas, the only tangible thing they could show was "a cartoon of a robot and a team of people." A large-scale consumer goods company was in Silicon Valley meeting with four robotics firms to evaluate automation projects.

Elena CostaElena Costa9 min
Enterprise AI Is Still Waiting for Its Platform Moment
September 11, 2026Artificial Intelligence

Enterprise AI Is Still Waiting for Its Platform Moment

There are technologies that exist long before anyone makes them usable. Email had been around for decades before Hotmail showed your mother how to use it. GPS navigation existed in military devices years before a hundred-dollar gadget told a delivery driver which way to turn.

Simón ArceSimón Arce8 min