Overview
- The four-day Web Summit Rio 2026 this week showed AI is now a business tool across industries, with more than 40,000 attendees and heavy participation from Nvidia, OpenAI, IBM and Google.
- Google announced a live deployment of its TacticAI coaching tool with Palmeiras after tests that began in December 2025, illustrating how clubs and firms are moving from pilots to production use.
- IBM reported that eight out of ten Mexican companies using AI do not know which AI capabilities run where, with only 13% keeping an inventory and 3% using orchestration platforms, raising operational and security risks.
- Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei urged laws giving governments the power to block or reverse high‑risk models after independent safety reviews, while major labs are hiring ethicists to study machine consciousness.
- Corporate training often fails to link learning to measurable business goals, with experts citing up to 95% of pilot training spend producing no traceable results and warning that workers who master AI tools will gain outsized advantage.