Hotels, tour operators, and travel agencies rush to launch proprietary online tools and loyalty schemes to fend off future competition from AI travel agents (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)
Political campaign managers and consultants are using AI to analyze voter data, create campaign materials, and more; survey: 87% of campaigners use AI daily (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times)
AI is forcing consulting firms to shift from hourly billing to fixed-fee or outcome-based pricing, a transition proving slow and difficult for the industry (Mark Maurer/Wall Street Journal)
Kuo: the memory supply-demand gap will widen through 2027, with an estimated 15%-20% of 2026 consumer electronics capacity shifting to data centers in 2027 (Ming-Chi Kuo)
Australia-based Firmus partners with Nvidia to build its first data center in Batam, Indonesia; the 360 MW Nvidia DSX AI factory campus is developed with DayOne (Bloomberg)
An analysis of US payroll data across 730+ occupations: employment among workers ages 22 to 25 in highly AI-exposed jobs is now shrinking by 3.8% per year (Nick Lichtenberg/Fortune)
Brazil, which has struggled to standardize soccer talent scouting, is embracing AI-powered scouting apps that assess players by analyzing video clips and more (New York Times)