Is AI the new electricity?

Artificial intelligence is already used to recommend films, filter email and drive cars. Will it one day be as ubiquitous as electricity, and how can business leaders prepare?

Jürgen Schmidhuber on the robot future​: ‘They will pay as much attention to us as we do to ants’

The German computer scientist says artificial intelligence will surpass humans’ in 2050, enabling robots to have fun, fall in love – and colonise the galaxy

Man v machine: can computers cook, write and paint better than us?

Artificial intelligence can now win a game, recognise your face, even appeal against your parking ticket. But can it do the stuff even humans find tricky?

Vincent van Bot: the robots turning their hand to art

Twenty-six robots designed by students across the US will compete in an art contest that offers a glimpse into the creative potentials of artificial intelligence

L’Oréal & NVIDIA: How AI Supercomputers are Revolutionizing Luxury Skincare

L’Oréal and NVIDIA are using AI to build formulas that actually work — faster, smarter, and with zero guesswork. Imagine a laboratory where no beaker is ever tipped, no compound ever burns, and no researcher endures a single failed test batch — because the entire experiment has already been run, a thousand times over, in … Read more

The Scent of the Rare: Ultra-Niche Perfumery’s New Direction in 2026

The Market They Can’t Ignore. An edited intelligence report for the discerning collector What was once the quiet domain of obsessives and connoisseurs has become one of the most commercially dynamic corners of the luxury world. The niche perfume segment is expected to reach $4.85 billion in 2026, growing at a 9.1% compound annual rate … Read more