by Ekrem Duman | Jul 20, 2026 | AI Strategy & Operations
⚡ TL;DRTwo of the most quoted voices in tech and finance — Palantir’s Alex Karp and economist Nouriel Roubini — gave sharply different reads on AI’s endgame in July 2026: Karp is betting on personal windfall from the AI boom, while Roubini argues society...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 18, 2026 | AI Strategy & Operations
Agentic AI Investment vs. Failure Risk (2026)19%Significant investment42%Conservative investment40%+Projects canceled by 2027Source: Gartner, 2026 Enterprise agentic AI investment levels compared with Gartner’s 2027 project-cancellation forecast. ⚡ TL;DRGartner...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 15, 2026 | AI Strategy & Operations, Technology
⚡ TL;DRAgentic AI moved from pilot to infrastructure in 2026: Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and PayPal now run competing agent-payment rails, and Gartner expects 40% of enterprise applications to embed task-specific agents by year-end. The catch is governance — most...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 5, 2026 | AI Strategy & Operations, Technology
⚡ TL;DRAI itself is not a competitive advantage — everyone can buy the same tools. Durable advantage comes from how well you apply AI: your proprietary data, your integrated and refined workflows, and your skilled people. The tool is a commodity; the application is...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 5, 2026 | AI Strategy & Operations, Technology
⚡ TL;DRGenerative AI creates new content — text, images, code, summaries — from a prompt, and it has become the most widely used form of business AI. It excels at first drafts, summarization, reformatting, translation, and brainstorming, where a human edits the...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 5, 2026 | AI Strategy & Operations, Technology
⚡ TL;DRAI ethics in business is about using AI in ways that are fair, transparent, privacy-respecting, accountable, and under human control. It is not abstract philosophy — it is practical risk management, because unethical AI use creates legal, reputational, and...
