全文阅读时长约14分钟 在当今的商业环境中，AI 热潮汹涌澎湃，但企业若想让 AI 投入转化为实实在在的收益，须精准锚定落地价值，建立可靠的数据统计规则，并围绕实际业务成果严格管控项目进度。 速读要点 众多 AI 项目虽在技术上验收合格，却难以收获商业收益。企业常将技术落地与业务落地混为一谈，忽视成本损耗、品牌负面影响及合规隐患。 AI 创收主要涵盖四类落地方向：拓展新业务以增收、优化内部运营来降...
全文阅读时长约14分钟 在当今的商业环境中，AI 热潮汹涌澎湃，但企业若想让 AI 投入转化为实实在在的收益，须精准锚定落地价值，建立可靠的数据统计规则，并围绕实际业务成果严格管控项目进度。 速读要点 众多 AI 项目虽在技术上验收合格，却难以收获商业收益。企业常将技术落地与业务落地混为一谈，忽视成本损耗、品牌负面影响及合规隐患。 AI 创收主要涵盖四类落地方向：拓展新业务以增收、优化内部运营来降本、改善客户互动，以及优化员工日常工作。选定单一主线进行落地，更易核算真实回报。 将 AI 当作常规项目投资进行管理，提前敲定优先级、考核口径与退出条件的企业，其整体落地效果普遍优于大范围盲目试错的同行。 2021 年，麦当劳在汽车穿梭餐厅上线 AI 语音点餐系统，初衷是借助自动化减少人工成本、加快出餐速度，平稳应对用餐高峰。 历经三年，在上百家门店落地测试后，该系统点餐识别准确率达到 85%，技术层面看似达标。然而，剩余 15% 的识别失误却在实际运营中引发了一系列问题。社交平台上频繁爆出，AI 错给单人订单叠加大量单品、混淆相邻车道语音，甚至出现冰淇淋搭配培根这类不合理推荐。 这些频繁的故障不仅拉高了客诉率，打乱了门店运营节奏，使得智能化节省的成本被额外损耗抵消，还让麦当劳遭遇集体诉讼，被质疑在未征得许可的前提下收集用户语音信息。最终，2024 年 7 月该项目正式宣告终止。 这一案例深刻折射出行业的普遍现状：许多 AI 产品虽符合设计标准，却无法实现商业价值的落地。自 2022 年底生成式 AI 普及后，不少企业开启全业务线智能化布局，但落地数据却不尽如人意。根据麦肯锡 2025 年发布的《2025 State of AI report》显示，仅 6% 的企业借助 AI 实现了息税前利润上涨 5% 以上；普华永道 2026 年全球 CEO 调研数据表明，只有 12% 的企业同步达成成本下降与营收增长。 项目落地的成效，与算法精细度、数据体量并非必然相关，关键在于企业能否提前清晰地梳理收益来源、落地方式与核算方式。 从实际操作来看，多数项目失利的根源在于企业缺乏落地价值管控。 许多企业对 AI 项目的投入审核标准，远宽松于固定资产投入。AI 通常被纳入创新试错范畴，收益测算由技术部门主导，项目评估仅参考技术参数，管理层也很少主动叫停创新项目。最终导致不少项目仓促上马，缺...
(RTTNews) - The UK market's benchmark index FTSE 100 gained modest ground in positive territory Friday morning despite lingering concerns about Middle East tensions, and reports saying Hezbollah has rejected a new ceasefire agreement with Israel.
(RTTNews) - The UK market's benchmark index FTSE 100 gained modest ground in positive territory Friday morning despite lingering concerns about Middle East tensions, and reports saying Hezbollah has rejected a new ceasefire agreement with Israel.
Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Kurt Wagner reports on Meta Platforms’ AI ambitions. Tech Across the Globe Amazon’s rough road in India: More than a decade after entering India, the e-commerce giant’s business has faced more challenges than expected. It occupies an awkward middle position in the market ...
Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Kurt Wagner reports on Meta Platforms’ AI ambitions. Tech Across the Globe Amazon’s rough road in India: More than a decade after entering India, the e-commerce giant’s business has faced more challenges than expected. It occupies an awkward middle position in the market . New AI entry: Airbnb co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Brian Chesky is starting a new artificial intelligence lab. It’s a crowded field . Whistleblower claims: IBM and AT&T’s computer systems were repeatedly breached by foreign hackers, according to a lawsuit from a former IBM cybersecurity official. The suit was recently unsealed and offers a rare account of alleged security failures . Revalued Ramp, a startup that offers AI software to help businesses handle their bookkeeping, raised $750 million in a funding round that valued the company at $44 billion. The New York-based company has grown significantly in the past year — and its valuation has reflected that expansion by nearly tripling across multiple fundraising rounds. Vision of a bot future Meta Platforms has some of the world’s largest consumer products. It has four apps with well over 1 billion users. If all goes well, artificial inteligence agents may be next on the list. On Thursday, I interviewed Alexandr Wang , Meta’s chief AI officer, at the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco about a range of topics, including the company’s upcoming AI models and his views on China as an AI threat. One of the more revealing parts of the conversation centered on AI agents, and it was clear that Meta sees a lot of potential in creating the bot sidekicks that will ultimately help businesses and regular consumers run their lives. Meta this week announced it would start selling access to a business agent for the first time to handle tasks like customer inquiries — a welcome sign to investors who have been waiting for...
The CEO of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., C.C. Wei, issued a warning over manufacturing capacity constraints and signaled openness to future price hikes. During the Thursday pre-market trading session, the stock fell 2.08%. Wei’s comments were made during TSMC’s annual...
The CEO of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., C.C. Wei, issued a warning over manufacturing capacity constraints and signaled openness to future price hikes. During the Thursday pre-market trading session, the stock fell 2.08%. Wei’s comments were made during TSMC’s annual...
Dragon Claws/iStock via Getty Images My last article on GeoPark ( GPRK ) detailed my worries about the venture into Argentina. At the time of that article, Exxon Mobil ( XOM ) had exited from Argentina. The likely reason for that exit is that the political atmosphere in Argentina tends to swing violently to the extreme left and right. This makes it difficult to plan any kind of long-term action. R...
Dragon Claws/iStock via Getty Images My last article on GeoPark ( GPRK ) detailed my worries about the venture into Argentina. At the time of that article, Exxon Mobil ( XOM ) had exited from Argentina. The likely reason for that exit is that the political atmosphere in Argentina tends to swing violently to the extreme left and right. This makes it difficult to plan any kind of long-term action. Right now, the country has "got the welcome mat out" and is very much encouraging oil and gas development. If the past is any guide, at some point in the future that will change dramatically. But for the time being, the higher oil and gas prices are providing cover for the industry to develop the country's reserves while earning a decent return. That should provide a profitable period for GeoPark. That likely means that this idea can be upgraded to a buy with the idea that the investment will need some monitoring to avoid a political swing to the other extreme (along with the financial consequences that go with it). Possible Dividend Suspension The company is going to use that dividend to invest in the new Argentina venture. GeoPark Shareholder Returns Summary (GeoPark Corporate Presentation March 2026) What has changed is the growing realization that commodity prices are likely to remain higher for longer. That may well enable the dividend to continue. But at least there was notice of a possible suspension. If it does happen, then no one should be surprised. What needs to be determined is the pace of ongoing capital spending in the face of higher commodity prices. Many smaller companies are raising their activity levels to accommodate the much friendlier industry atmosphere. The key idea is that even if the dividend is suspended, that money is being invested to expand the business while keeping borrowing requirements down. When that dividend does return, it is very likely that the goal will be to grow the dividend beyond current levels should the growth prove to be successf...
Head coach looks forward to leading Sweden at World Cup after reflecting on failures with Chelsea and West Ham If management has taught Graham Potter anything it is that there is no point in trying to run away from failure. “You’ve got to face the bad stuff,” the 51-year-old says as he thinks about how he recovered from bruising spells at Chelsea and West Ham. “The more you face it, the more chanc...
Head coach looks forward to leading Sweden at World Cup after reflecting on failures with Chelsea and West Ham If management has taught Graham Potter anything it is that there is no point in trying to run away from failure. “You’ve got to face the bad stuff,” the 51-year-old says as he thinks about how he recovered from bruising spells at Chelsea and West Ham. “The more you face it, the more chance your life is better. Then you get these beautiful moments.” Potter is in reflective, occasionally punchy mood during a long conversation about a rollercoaster few years and the brutal life of a football manager. He points out there have also been some successes – he has, after all, lifted Sweden out of the doldrums and led them into the World Cup – but knows people tend to focus on the lows. Potter lasted seven months at Chelsea after leaving the stability of Brighton in September 2022. Then, after a long spell out, he was tempted back when West Ham came calling at the start of last year. Continue reading...
Haunting the Black Air by Anthony Joseph; Selected Poems by Leontia Flynn; Sparrow on the Rooftop by Rachel Long; You Must Live: New Poetry from Palestine, edited by Jorie Graham; Melete by Jennifer Lee Tsai; Somebody Should Have Pressed Record by Galia Admoni Haunting the Black Air by Anthony Joseph (Bloomsbury, £12.9 9) Joseph’s follow-up to the TS Eliot prize-winning Sonnets for Albert sees his...
Haunting the Black Air by Anthony Joseph; Selected Poems by Leontia Flynn; Sparrow on the Rooftop by Rachel Long; You Must Live: New Poetry from Palestine, edited by Jorie Graham; Melete by Jennifer Lee Tsai; Somebody Should Have Pressed Record by Galia Admoni Haunting the Black Air by Anthony Joseph (Bloomsbury, £12.9 9) Joseph’s follow-up to the TS Eliot prize-winning Sonnets for Albert sees his poetic approach become more radical. He pays homage to avant garde writers such as Will Alexander and Nathaniel Mackey, while exploring “Nostalgia, mostly grief, / a haunting sound – / the frequency of some / magnetic feeling.” That makes for challenging syntax on first reading the poems. Persist, and Joseph’s unabashed lyricism shines through, finding beauty on dancefloors, city streets and in Trinidadian landscapes: “the way music fills the room, how we embrace until / we become flare bright, light as the white refraction / of the sun upon the summit of hills.” Selected Poems by Leontia Flynn (Carcanet, £14.99) She was a Next Generation poet and Forward prize winner; it’s a shock to remember that Flynn has been publishing for more than 20 years, so fresh do her poems remain. This assembly is a glorious reintroduction to her mordant wit, imaginative image-making and unerring ability to puncture pretension. Letter to Friends from 2011 is a brilliant, Auden-esque dissection of the early 21st century, worth a library of political analyses: “daily threats brought to our Way of Life / by man-made imminent apocalypse / though neither really outweighs private grief”. There are pleasures on every page. Continue reading...
Detainees say they’re given ‘rotten’ water and denied meals for not signing papers in English that they don’t understand Detainees at Florida’s notorious “ Alligator Alcatraz ” immigration jail said guards were denying them food and fresh water on Thursday until they signed documents presented to them in English that they did not understand. In an audio recording of a telephone call to an immigrat...
Detainees say they’re given ‘rotten’ water and denied meals for not signing papers in English that they don’t understand Detainees at Florida’s notorious “ Alligator Alcatraz ” immigration jail said guards were denying them food and fresh water on Thursday until they signed documents presented to them in English that they did not understand. In an audio recording of a telephone call to an immigration advocacy group heard by the Guardian, more than half a dozen detainees alleged that the water given to them over the last three days was “rotten” and containing mosquito larvae, in an apparent attempt to pressure them to sign. Continue reading...
(Bloomberg Markets) -- The stock market keeps setting records. Bitcoin has minted millionaires. Gold has peaked at new levels. Yet one of the most popular trades is to sit in cash or, more precisely, money-market funds. These plain‑vanilla vehicles, which invest in short‑term debt, have become the default parking spot for everyone from retail savers to corporate treasurers.Most Read from Bloomberg...
(Bloomberg Markets) -- The stock market keeps setting records. Bitcoin has minted millionaires. Gold has peaked at new levels. Yet one of the most popular trades is to sit in cash or, more precisely, money-market funds. These plain‑vanilla vehicles, which invest in short‑term debt, have become the default parking spot for everyone from retail savers to corporate treasurers.Most Read from BloombergSpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&PSaylor’s Bitcoin Machine Is Misfiring on Every
A Hong Kong tour guide accused of threatening visitors into making shopping purchases has been struck off for damaging the sector’s reputation and breaching professional conduct, in the second disciplinary action of its kind in less than two months. The Travel Industry Authority said on Friday it revoked Siu Man-chung’s tour guide licence after investigating complaints that Siu made “inappropriate...
A Hong Kong tour guide accused of threatening visitors into making shopping purchases has been struck off for damaging the sector’s reputation and breaching professional conduct, in the second disciplinary action of its kind in less than two months. The Travel Industry Authority said on Friday it revoked Siu Man-chung’s tour guide licence after investigating complaints that Siu made “inappropriate remarks” to pressure inbound mainland Chinese visitors into shopping during tours conducted between...
The hooded supervillain is a scientist, a sorcerer, a monarch and a mummy’s boy – Robert Downey Jr’s Doom should be all these things and more, radiating history, magic and the biggest ego The problem with building the next stage of your superhero franchise around Doctor Doom is that nobody really knows if he is Marvel’s Darth Vader, or just the guy from those terrible 20th Century Fox films. We wo...
The hooded supervillain is a scientist, a sorcerer, a monarch and a mummy’s boy – Robert Downey Jr’s Doom should be all these things and more, radiating history, magic and the biggest ego The problem with building the next stage of your superhero franchise around Doctor Doom is that nobody really knows if he is Marvel’s Darth Vader, or just the guy from those terrible 20th Century Fox films. We wouldn’t even be getting Doom in the forthcoming Avengers: Doomsday if Marvel’s original post-Thanos masterplan had not collapsed when Jonathan Majors, who played Kang, was dropped from the franchise . And we don’t really know if the subsequent casting of Robert Downey Jr (previously Marvel’s Iron Man) in the role is some kind of ingenious masterstroke that will all make sense when we finally see the finished film, or just an expensive nostalgia panic button. The stakes are so high here that the geekosphere is delving into every possible clue, no matter how fleeting, as to which version of Doom we might be getting in the film. Will this be a flamboyant, comics-accurate take on the Latverian dictator? Or will Marvel dip into the multiverse of convenience and deliver an iteration that is little more than Tony Stark in eastern Europe? Continue reading...
In this article AVGO UBER META Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT This report is from this week's The Tech Download newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. This week has been dominated by the hype around the highly anticipated IPOs of SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI. When Elon Musk 's SpaceX priced its IPO at $135 a share, giving the company a record $1.77 trillion valuati...
In this article AVGO UBER META Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT This report is from this week's The Tech Download newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. This week has been dominated by the hype around the highly anticipated IPOs of SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI. When Elon Musk 's SpaceX priced its IPO at $135 a share, giving the company a record $1.77 trillion valuation, investors were left with one overriding question: Was it justified? The same question now hangs over Anthropic and OpenAI. Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei speaks on an artificial intelligence panel during Inbound 2025 Powered by HubSpot at Moscone Center on in San Francisco, Sept. 4, 2025. Chance Yeh | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Will Anthropic's valuation stand up in the cold light of the public markets? First blood to Anthropic. In the mad race to be the premier AI lab in the world, the company took a big step this week towards pipping bitter rival OpenAI to a public market listing. Anthropic is likely looking to take advantage of the huge momentum it's seen in recent months. It hit a $965 billion valuation and reported a $47 billion revenue run rate towards the end of May. The company's confidential filing of its IPO prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday capped off a remarkable few months for Anthropic, following a very public spat with the U.S. Department of Defense in February. The listing, alongside OpenAI's eventual move towards an IPO, will test appetite for pure-play frontier AI companies — a class of businesses that have up until now avoided the cold light of the public markets. Gross margin "Anthropic filing a confidential S-1 starts the clock on what will be the most scrutinized public offering in tech history," Harrison Rolfes, analyst at PitchBook, said. But, he added that the number that determines everything won't be the $965 billion valuation or the $47 billion revenue run rate — but gross margin....