AcadeResearch Markets Report Executive Summary On 25 October, Elon Musk replied "Pretty much" to a post by Chamath Palihapitiya calling neoclouds "disorganized and poorly capitalized," and added four claims of his own: debt markets have "almost entirely shut off" to companies without substantial non-AI revenue; SpaceX closed $40 billion of…

AcadeResearch Trade and Technology Report Executive Summary On 16 October 2026, China's Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Science and Technology published Announcement No. 48, a draft revision of the Catalogue of Technologies Prohibited and Restricted from Export. It proposes adding 40 technologies in three fields: 23 in artificial intelligence,…

AcadeResearch Economic Report Executive Summary Since February, all three frontier model labs have stood up dedicated legal offerings. Anthropic launched Claude for Legal in February and expanded it in May with more than 20 connectors and 12 practice-area plugins. OpenAI hired Ironclad co-founder Jason Boehmig in June to run a…

In 2017, one of the world's largest beverage companies released a celebrity-led advertisement that collapsed within 24 hours. Two years later, a brand selling adult incontinence products — a category most marketers would consider unmarketable — launched a platform that won industry awards, expanded globally, and is still scaling into…

The majority of consumer sharing happens in private channels — closed Facebook groups, DMs, group chats — where web analytics records it as "direct" traffic or misses it entirely. For brands that sell through retail partners, that blind spot can swallow the single most persuasive touchpoint in the customer journey….

The European Union delayed the hardest parts of its AI Act by up to 16 months while U.S. states continued to enact new AI statutes at a pace unmatched by any other regulator in the world. An economic look at what any company operating in both markets now has to…

AcadeResearch Economic Report Executive Summary Researchers gave roughly a thousand Turkish high-school students access to GPT-4 during mathematics practice, then took it away and tested them. During practice, the students with the assistant scored 48 percent higher than those without it. On the unaided exam that followed, the same students…

AcadeResearch Economic Report Executive Summary The cost of an unhappy workforce is usually described with one enormous number — Gallup currently puts global disengagement above $10 trillion a year. This report audits that figure, sets out what the peer-reviewed evidence actually supports, and identifies where the real cost hides. Two US…

AcadeResearch Policy Report Executive Summary On August 12, 2026, the President signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum, Expanding Capabilities to Combat Transnational Cyber-Enabled Crime, authorising vetted American companies to conduct Cyber Surveillance Operations and Cyber Effects Operations against foreign cyber-enabled transnational criminal organisations, under federal direction and oversight (The White…