Reading Time: 4 minutesGenerative AI’s experimental phase is concluding, making way for truly autonomous systems in 2026 that act rather than merely summarise. 2026 will lose the focus on model parameters and be about agency, energy efficiency, and the ability to navigate complex industrial environments. The next twelve months represent a departure from chatbots toward autonomous systems executing […]
What Else Could Container Queries… Query?
Reading Time: 4 minutesI’ll admit, when container queries first shipped back in 2022, I didn’t really pay attention. I mean, why container size queries when we already have media queries? Why container style queries when custom properties inherit anyway (they don’t work with standard properties… yet)? Their use cases seemed like edge cases to me, enabling us to […]
BBVA embeds AI into banking workflows using ChatGPT Enterprise
Reading Time: 3 minutesBBVA is embedding AI into core banking workflows using ChatGPT Enterprise to overhaul risk and service in the sector. For the banking industry, the challenge of generative AI is rarely about adoption; it is about value extraction. BBVA has addressed this by integrating OpenAI’s platform directly into its operational backbone, a decision that will see […]
Microsoft’s Copilot usage analysis exposes the 2am philosophy question trend
Reading Time: 4 minutesF. Scott Fitzgerald observed that “in a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning.” Microsoft’s latest Copilot usage analysis suggests this nocturnal tendency toward existential contemplation persists in the AI age – with religion and philosophy conversations rising through the rankings during early morning hours. The Microsoft AI […]
Kindness across continents: How RingCentral teams gave back this season
Reading Time: 4 minutesRingCentral employees around the world rolled up their sleeves and turned compassion into action. Our teams found meaningful ways to give back in their local communities, from rural classrooms in China to animal shelters in Bulgaria, from women’s shelters in the United States to organizations supporting the visually impaired in India. Each initiative reflected the […]
Microsoft ‘Promptions’ fix AI prompts failing to deliver
Reading Time: 3 minutesMicrosoft believes it has a fix for AI prompts being given, the response missing the mark, and the cycle repeating. This inefficiency is a drain on resources. The “trial-and-error loop can feel unpredictable and discouraging,” turning what should be a productivity booster into a time sink. Knowledge workers often spend more time managing the interaction […]
Creating Scroll-Based Animations in Full view()
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe CSS animation-timeline property accepts a view() function which, in turn, returns a timeline of how much of an element is visible in the part of a scroll container that’s viewable (formally known as a scrollport). In other words, rather than letting an animation run a linear progression based on how much time has elapsed, […]
Perplexity: AI agents are taking over complex enterprise tasks
Reading Time: 5 minutesNew adoption data from Perplexity reveals how AI agents are driving workflow efficiency gains by taking over complex enterprise tasks. For the past year, the technology sector has operated under the assumption that the next evolution of generative AI would advance beyond conversation into action. While Large Language Models (LLMs) serve as a reasoning engine, […]
Inside the playbook of companies winning with AI
Reading Time: 3 minutesMany companies are still working out how to use AI in a steady and practical way, but a small group is already pulling ahead. New research from NTT DATA outlines a playbook that shows how these “AI leaders” set themselves apart through strong plans, firm decisions, and a disciplined approach to building and using AI […]
Accenture and Anthropic partner to boost enterprise AI integration
Reading Time: 4 minutesAccenture and Anthropic are setting out to boost enterprise AI integration with a newly-expanded partnership. While 2024 was defined by corporate curiosity regarding Large Language Models (LLMs), the current mandate for business leaders is operationalising these tools to achieve a return on investment. The new Accenture Anthropic Business Group combines Anthropic’s model capabilities with Accenture’s […]
AI virtual agents: The future of financial services internal operations
Reading Time: 4 minutesAs financial services organizations evolve in an era of digital transformation, they face pressing challenges in creating efficient, scalable, and seamless internal operations. Whether it’s managing IT tickets, addressing HR requests, or simplifying benefits inquiries, employees often encounter delays when seeking support, and internal teams struggle to keep pace with increasing demands. Enter AI virtual […]
CSS Wrapped 2025
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Chrome Dev Team recaps the new CSS features that shipped in Google Chrome this past year in one amazingly designed webpage. They cover new functionality for creating more customizable components, next-gen interactions, and optimizing ergonomics. We’ve been tracking many of these features as well: The Interest Invoker API and Invoker Commands enable us to […]
Fit width text in 1 line of CSS
Reading Time: 2 minutesFrom Adam, prototyped in Chrome Canary 145: h1 { text-grow: per-line scale; } Danny discussed this a while back when looking at different approaches for fitting text to a container, spelling out the syntax (text-shrink included) that you can find in Roma Komarov’s explainer: text-grow: <fit-target> <fit-method>? <length>?; text-shrink: <fit-target> <fit-method>? <length>?; <fit-target> per-line: For text-grow, […]
2026 RingCentral predictions: The year AI truly clicks
Reading Time: 7 minutes2025 marked the year when organizations began to adopt AI broadly. 2026 will be the year they confront a new reality that using AI and benefiting from it are not the same thing. In partnership with Opinium Research, we recently surveyed 2,000 IT, HR, and CX decision-makers (manager level and above) from the US and […]
OpenAI targets AI skills gap with new certification standards
Reading Time: 3 minutesAdoption of generative AI has outpaced workforce capability, prompting OpenAI to target the skills gap with new certification standards. While it’s safe to say OpenAI’s tools have reached mass adoption, organisations struggle to convert this usage into reliable output. To address this, OpenAI has announced ‘AI Foundations,’ a structured initiative designed to standardise how employees […]