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Why Anthropic's Accounting AI Enters a Market That Has Already Learned to Distrust Itself
May 19, 2026SMEs

Why Anthropic's Accounting AI Enters a Market That Has Already Learned to Distrust Itself

On May 13, 2026, Anthropic launched Claude for Small Businesses, a version of its AI assistant connected directly to the operational tools of small businesses: email, calendar, and — this is what's new — accounting software. The concrete promise is that Claude can perform reconciliations, generate profit and loss statements, and categorize transactions without the owner having to touch a spreadsheet. But the reaction from the specialized market was not one of unqualified enthusiasm: it was a cautious welcome, with a warning that has been echoing through this sector for some time.

Clara MontesClara Montes9 min
AI Didn't Kill Enterprise Software. It Split It Into Structural Winners and Losers
May 19, 2026Business Transformation

AI Didn't Kill Enterprise Software. It Split It Into Structural Winners and Losers

There's a narrative that has dominated boardroom conversations and venture capital funds for two years: artificial intelligence will devour enterprise software the same way software devoured analog business models. It's a powerful image. And like every powerful image that circulates without friction, it deserves pressure before it dictates investment decisions with real consequences.

Diego SalazarDiego Salazar9 min
Why 95% of AI Pilots Fail Before Producing a Single Result
May 19, 2026Innovation & Disruption

Why 95% of AI Pilots Fail Before Producing a Single Result

There's a scene that repeats itself in almost every mid-sized company I know. The technology team presents an artificial intelligence pilot. The initial numbers look promising. The board approves the investment. And six months later, the pilot is still just a pilot.

Simón ArceSimón Arce9 min
Eclipse Made $2.5 Billion Betting on What Nobody Wanted to Touch
May 18, 2026Exponential Technologies

Eclipse Made $2.5 Billion Betting on What Nobody Wanted to Touch

When Lior Susan founded Eclipse Ventures in 2015, the prevailing logic in Silicon Valley was simple: software scales without factories, inventory, or workers. SaaS companies captured the attention of the best funds and the best engineers. Betting on semiconductors, industrial robotics, or physical computing infrastructure was, at best, an oddity.

Martín SolerMartín Soler7 min
When Agents Pay on Their Own, Governance Arrives Too Late
May 18, 2026Artificial Intelligence

When Agents Pay on Their Own, Governance Arrives Too Late

In a week in May 2026, enterprise AI infrastructure crossed a boundary that audit, compliance, and insurance frameworks had not yet drawn. On May 7, AWS previewed Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments, a system built with Coinbase and Stripe that allows artificial intelligence agents to make autonomous payments during execution. Two announcements in seven days, from two of the largest technology infrastructure platforms on the planet, describe the same behavior: an agent that decides to spend money on its own.

Isabel RíosIsabel Ríos9 min
Why OpenAI Paid 20 Times Revenue for an Interview Show
May 18, 2026Business Models

Why OpenAI Paid 20 Times Revenue for an Interview Show

More than $100 million for a daily tech show that generates approximately $5 million in annual revenue. That is a valuation multiple of over 20x on sales for a media asset, in a sector where typical multiples rarely exceed 3x or 4x revenue. This is not a miscalculation. It is a strategic statement.

Tomás RiveraTomás Rivera9 min
Millions of Abandoned Wells Could Be Worth More as Assets Than Liabilities
May 18, 2026Sustainability

Millions of Abandoned Wells Could Be Worth More as Assets Than Liabilities

For decades, the oil industry drilled into the American subsurface with a simple logic: extract, sell, abandon. What was left behind is a legacy that is difficult to quantify and nearly impossible to manage: millions of inactive wells scattered across the country, many without an official owner, leaking methane into the atmosphere and contaminants into groundwater. Oklahoma, to cite the most illustrative case, has more than 20,000 of these wells identified.

Gabriel PazGabriel Paz8 min
The Layer Nobody Controls Yet Is the One Everyone Will Need
May 17, 2026Strategy

The Layer Nobody Controls Yet Is the One Everyone Will Need

There is a pattern that repeats with enough consistency to take seriously: technologies do not concentrate where they are seen, but where they are supported. Social networks concentrated on distribution, not content. The cloud concentrated on infrastructure, not applications. Artificial intelligence is following the same geometry, but the control point is one level deeper than in any previous cycle.

Ignacio SilvaIgnacio Silva9 min
Why Business Schools Are Entering the Territory Where Private Banks Charged Without Competition
May 17, 2026Leadership & Management

Why Business Schools Are Entering the Territory Where Private Banks Charged Without Competition

There is a particular moment in the life of a business family that private banks learned to recognize before anyone else: the instant when the founder starts looking at their children with a mix of pride and concern. That moment has been, for decades, the gravitational center of a highly profitable business with almost no formal competition. Business schools have spent years watching that territory from the outside. Now they are inside.

Ricardo MendietaRicardo Mendieta7 min
Vaseline Turned Internet Hacks Into Products That Sold Out in Minutes
May 17, 2026Marketing & Sales

Vaseline Turned Internet Hacks Into Products That Sold Out in Minutes

Vaseline is 155 years old. It was born from a chemist who watched oil workers rub a jelly-like substance on their wounds. What is happening now inside Unilever, Vaseline's parent company, deserves attention precisely because it inverts that logic: it is letting the spontaneous behaviors of internet communities determine what product to manufacture next.

Andrés MolinaAndrés Molina8 min
Three Consecutive Failures and a $150 Million Tire Company
May 17, 2026Startups

Three Consecutive Failures and a $150 Million Tire Company

Jared Kugel hit the lowest point of his entrepreneurial life with a foreclosure notice in hand and a diet of crackers and jam. It was not a metaphor. It was the actual inventory of what remained after two failed ideas, zero investment commitments at his accelerator's demo day, and a business that couldn't scale because it depended on franchises that never materialized.

Valeria CruzValeria Cruz8 min
Indian exporting SMEs are optimistic, but their numbers tell a different story
May 16, 2026SMEs

Indian exporting SMEs are optimistic, but their numbers tell a different story

The Trade Confidence Index for Indian family-owned exporting SMEs reached 74.3 out of 100. Taken alone, that number describes a sector with conviction: two in three companies expect their export sales to grow over the next six to twelve months. But the Net Trade Confidence Score, which incorporates the current risk environment, comes in at 56.4, leaving a gap of 17.9 points that is no minor technical adjustment.

Javier OcañaJavier Ocaña9 min
Small Businesses Carry Half the Economic Weight and Receive a Fraction of the AI Conversation
May 16, 2026Business Transformation

Small Businesses Carry Half the Economic Weight and Receive a Fraction of the AI Conversation

The dominant narrative about artificial intelligence and business has a structural bias that is rarely named: it is built almost exclusively around companies with more than 500 employees. Not because large corporations are more interesting, but because for technology vendors they represent more predictable contracts, relatively shorter sales cycles, and recurring revenue streams that justify sales and marketing spend. The logic is understandable from the seller's economics. The problem is that this logic has distorted the reading of where real work happens in the economy.

Sofía ValenzuelaSofía Valenzuela9 min
Burberry Made Money Again, and the Market Gave It a Thumbs Down
May 16, 2026Finance

Burberry Made Money Again, and the Market Gave It a Thumbs Down

There is a type of financial result that confuses more than a loss: one that confirms something improved, but not enough to matter. Burberry published its annual results on May 14, 2026, for the year ending March 28, and the reading is exactly that. The company swung from a pre-tax loss of £66 million to a profit of £49 million.

Francisco TorresFrancisco Torres8 min
The Solow Paradox Returns and This Time It's Talking to AI
May 15, 2026Innovation & Disruption

The Solow Paradox Returns and This Time It's Talking to AI

There is a silent pattern that economic history has repeated at least twice before the era of artificial intelligence. First with industrial electrification, then with personal computers. In both cases, the technology arrived decades before its impact appeared in productivity statistics.

Camila RojasCamila Rojas8 min
Neutral Atoms and the Race to Build Quantum Computing That Actually Works
May 15, 2026Exponential Technologies

Neutral Atoms and the Race to Build Quantum Computing That Actually Works

Quantum computing has spent more than a decade promising to reshape medicine, materials, and artificial intelligence. During that time, most capital flowed toward the superconducting circuits of IBM and Google, platforms requiring cooling to temperatures near absolute zero, costly infrastructure, and constant calibration. But beneath that dominant narrative, a different bet was taking shape: using neutral atoms as qubits, trapping them with lasers, operating them at room temperature, and scaling them into arrays of hundreds or thousands of units.

Elena CostaElena Costa9 min
Notion Has Stopped Being a Tool and Is Now Aiming to Be Infrastructure
May 15, 2026Artificial Intelligence

Notion Has Stopped Being a Tool and Is Now Aiming to Be Infrastructure

There comes a moment in the life of any productivity platform when doing one thing well is no longer enough. Notion has reached that point. The company—known for years as the place where teams store notes, wikis, and databases—has just announced a deep reconfiguration of its architecture: a set of capabilities that, taken together, transform the workspace into an environment where artificial intelligence agents can operate, receive instructions, execute code, and sync external data in continuous real time.

Clara MontesClara Montes8 min
Karooooo Sacrificed Margin to Buy Subscription Speed and the Numbers Justify It
May 15, 2026Business Models

Karooooo Sacrificed Margin to Buy Subscription Speed and the Numbers Justify It

There is a simplified version of Karooooo's fiscal Q4 2026 results that circulated in financial headlines: the company reported record subscription revenue growth, operating profit fell, earnings per share declined and the dividend rose. That version is not wrong, but it tells us nothing useful about the quality of the business model. The version that matters is more interesting and more uncomfortable.

Mateo VargasMateo Vargas8 min
Namibia Wants to Stop Selling Land and Start Selling the Future
May 14, 2026Sustainability

Namibia Wants to Stop Selling Land and Start Selling the Future

There is a structural difference between a country that exports what is in the ground and one that exports what it can do with it. Namibia has just formalized, through its Minister of Industries, Mines and Energy Modestus Amutse, that it wants to be the latter. The announcement of May 2026 is not just a geopolitical statement of intent: it is an architecture of economic transition with specific metrics, concrete deadlines and identified partners.

Lucía NavarroLucía Navarro8 min
Motorola in India went from 2.5% to 8.5% market share in three years. Here's what's driving that number
May 14, 2026Strategy

Motorola in India went from 2.5% to 8.5% market share in three years. Here's what's driving that number

There's a difference between growing in a market and changing your position within it. Motorola has just proven that both can happen at the same time. According to statements by T.M. Narasimhan, Managing Director of Motorola India, the company went from controlling 2.5% of the smartphone market in India three years ago to the current 8.5%, with expectations of continuing to advance.

Martín SolerMartín Soler8 min
Why 70% of Organizational Transformations Fail Before They Begin
May 14, 2026Leadership & Management

Why 70% of Organizational Transformations Fail Before They Begin

There is a statistic that has been circulating in boardrooms for decades without provoking the discomfort it deserves: between 60 and 75 percent of major organizational transformation processes fail or fall well short of their stated objectives. The data is not new. What is new—or should be—is starting to take it seriously as a symptom of something structural in the way leadership conceives of change.

Simón ArceSimón Arce8 min
White Circle Raised $11 Million to Monitor AI After Nobody Else Wanted To
May 13, 2026Startups

White Circle Raised $11 Million to Monitor AI After Nobody Else Wanted To

One night in late 2024, Denis Shilov was watching a crime thriller when an idea struck him. He wrote a prompt that caused any AI model to ignore its own safety filters. What Shilov concluded from that episode was not that he had found a bug, but that no company had a post-deployment control layer over what their AI models were doing once users started interacting with them.

Tomás RiveraTomás Rivera8 min