Sep 7,2026
TASC AI News: The Gulf Is Buying AI It Can Actually Keep
This fortnight the rulebook for AI agents started getting written. The UAE published a design guide for AI-run public services, and one line in it is worth pinning to the wall: human leads, AI enables. In open source, the two big standards for getting agents to talk to each other moved under the...
Aug 25,2026
TASC AI News: The World Now Spends More Running AI Than Building It
Two numbers this fortnight tell the same story. For the first time, the world will spend more on running AI than on training it — $23.3 billion against $19 billion. And in a Gartner poll of 743 audit professionals, 93% of audit leaders use AI but only 38% have a strategy for it. AI has quietly...
Aug 10,2026
TASC AI News: AI Agent Skills Demand Is Up 280% & Here Is How to Start
This issue is about a simple gap: the AI is arriving faster than the people to run it. The newest hiring data shows demand for AI-agent skills up more than 280% in a year, yet McKinsey finds only 39% of companies can point to any bottom-line impact from AI. In the Gulf the machine is being switched...