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AI Infra Summit 2026 – Can Optics Break the AI Power Wall by 2028?
September 22, 2026

AI Infra Summit 2026 – Can Optics Break the AI Power Wall by 2028?

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares insights from AI Infra Summit 2026, where power-capped data centers pushed vendors toward optics, near-memory silicon, and physical AI ahead of a 2028...
What Most Still Seem To Miss About Apple’s Historic iPhone Duo Launch
September 11, 2026

What Most Still Seem To Miss About Apple’s Historic iPhone Duo Launch

Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at Futurum, breaks down Apple's newly confirmed iPhone Duo pricing and specs, the delayed base iPhone 18, and what CEO John Ternus debut keynote signals about...
Will Embedded AI Strengthen Adobe’s Creative Software Position
September 10, 2026

Will Embedded AI Strengthen Adobe’s Creative Software Position?

Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at Futurum, shares insights on Adobe’s push to embed multi-model generation and AI assistance across professional video workflows....
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra: Benchmarks, Cyber Risks, and Market Impact
September 4, 2026

OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra: Benchmarks, Cyber Risks, and Market Impact

Nick Patience, VP and Practice Lead, AI Platforms at Futurum, shares his insights on GPT-6 Astra and what its cyber threshold and monitorability trade-offs mean for Anthropic and Google....
Google's Vertical AI Bet Governance Matters More Than Models
August 26, 2026

Google’s Vertical AI Bet: Governance Matters More Than Models

Nick Patience, VP & Practice Lead for AI Platforms at Futurum, examines Google Cloud's new vertical AI platforms for legal and financial services, and asks whether governed connectors can finally...
AI Implementation Is the New Account Control Point
August 20, 2026

AI Implementation Is the New Account Control Point

Mitch Ashley, VP & Practice Lead at Futurum, shares insights on how AI implementation is the new account control point. Read more on how hyperscalers are reorganizing to capture distributed...
Marvell Attaches Across Google's TPU Stack With a Warrant Vesting Toward $120B
August 20, 2026

Marvell Attaches Across Google’s TPU Stack With a Warrant Vesting Toward $120B

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on Marvell's Google warrant, what the deal does to Marvell's XPU outlook, and why the TPU stack now has contracted sockets...
August 19, 2026

Data Intelligence Platforms – Futurum Signal

The Data Intelligence Platform market is undergoing its most consequential shift since the move to cloud data warehousing, as enterprise AI matures from read-only copilots into read-write autonomous agents that...
Runaway Token Costs Are Killing the Frontier AI Monolith
August 18, 2026

Runaway Token Costs Are Killing the Frontier AI Monolith

Futurum analyst Brad Shimmin breaks down the economic breaking point of cloud APIs and why enterprise AI is shifting to highly quantized, sovereign open-weights models....
Terrestrial Data Centers Are Getting Expensive Enough to Make Space Cheap
August 17, 2026

Terrestrial Data Centers Are Getting Expensive Enough to Make Space Cheap

Futurum’s Brendan Burke on why a third of the $3 trillion AI data center buildout goes off-grid by 2030, and what launch, satellite hardware, and solar density must do before...
The End of Token Maxing Why Pragmatic AI Engineering is Replacing Frontier Models
August 10, 2026

The End of Token Maxing: Why Pragmatic AI Engineering is Replacing Frontier Models

Futurum analysts Brad Shimmin and Guy Currier discuss how Tokenomics and AI FinOps are forcing enterprises to abandon massive frontier models in favor of smaller, domain-specific AI endpoints governed by...
Atlassian Fuses the Agent Work Surface, Workflow, and Control Plane Into Jira
July 29, 2026

Atlassian Fuses the Agent Work Surface, Workflow, and Control Plane Into Jira

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on how Atlassian fused the agent work surface, workflow, and control plane into Jira, with Teamwork Graph as the...

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Benjamin Brown, VP Custom Research, Futurum Research

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VP, Custom Research · The Futurum Group

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