Harvard Business Review Logo Bernhard Lang/Getty Images Hierarchy does more than route information; it also verifies: deciding what information means, what deserves the firm’s attention, which outputs can be trusted, and which are worth Somewhere in your company today, an expert rejected a perfectly plausible answer. A controller caught a revenue figure that counted deferred

Researchers built a closed-loop AI scientist that generated biological hypotheses, designed experiments, directed laboratory automation, analyzed results and used new evidence to refine later questions. Working with brewer’s yeast, the system generated 1,933 candidate hypotheses and experimentally uncovered previously underexplored interactions, including aminoadipate partially protecting cells from formic acid stress. The laboratory was not completely

Atmospheric Soaring Technologies (Atmosoar) is a leading climate change startup utilizing big data to improve predictions. Specifically, when working with aerial technologies like drones, climate change is making it more difficult to predict when is a good time to operate. This summer, I led the evaluation and integration of AI into regional weather prediction, selecting

Search agents powered by large language models (LLMs) are transforming how enterprises retrieve information. Rather than requiring users to craft the perfect query, a search agent autonomously decides what to search for, which retrieval strategy to use, and when to stop searching. It does this across multiple rounds of interaction, refining its approach based on

Ruth Brown, Senior Principal Analyst, Omdia October 1, 2026 5 Min Read (Source: Siarhei Yurchanka/Alamy Stock Photo) Every mobile generation begins with a familiar cycle—what to keep, what to remove and what to improve. The 4G and 5G standards took the whiteboarding approach, including engineering designs from scratch with grand visions, fewer constraints and greater

Western University has named six faculty members as recipients of the 2026 Western Research Excellence Awards, recognizing research leadership in artificial intelligence, cardiovascular disease, music education, accessibility, nuclear waste management and gender-based violence prevention. Since 2023, the annual Western Research Excellence Awards have honoured outstanding researchers whose work has significant impact within and beyond academia

Navigate the structural revolution transforming how organizations form, scale, and compete The risk isn't AI replacing people - it's AI-enabled companies replacing entire organizations. No One Works Here reframes the organization itself, showing how AI functions as active nodes inside every enterprise. MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Paul Cheek positions AI as a structural revolution mechanizing

uniopen is a digital communication and membership platform launched by Taiwan’s Uni-President Enterprises Group, connecting customers to ecommerce, membership benefits, and other retail experiences across web, tablet, and mobile channels. Across those channels, uniopen applies a moderation policy that classifies each interaction along two axes. The first is what behavior occurred (nine categories), and the