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AI, security and engineering teams — what the 2026 research actually says.
We read the long reports — Stanford, McKinsey, Deloitte, WEF, State of AI — and write down what matters for founders and CTOs. Every number comes with its source.
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Latest · AI & automationAgents Are Scaling Faster Than the Guardrails: Deloitte’s State of AI in the Enterprise 2026Deloitte surveyed 3,235 business and IT leaders in 24 countries. Three in four plan to deploy agentic AI within two years; one in five has mature governance for it. What the survey says about agents, sovereignty and the redesign of work.Arseni Mazolevski · 22 October 2026 · 3 min readRead the article →AI & automation
- AI Adoption by Country in 2026: The UAE at 70%, the US at 21stMicrosoft's Global AI Diffusion data for Q1 2026 ranks economies by the share of working-age people using generative AI. Where adoption is highest, where it is growing fastest — and what the coding data says about how software is now built.Arseni Mazolevski · 22 October 2026 · 3 min read
- AI Funding in Q1 2026: $226 Billion, and 94% of It in Mega-RoundsOne quarter of private AI funding matched all of 2025. CB Insights data shows where the money went, how concentrated it became, which AI markets are hiring fastest — and what the numbers mean for founders raising outside the frontier labs.Arseni Mazolevski · 22 October 2026 · 3 min read
- Stanford AI Index 2026: The Numbers That Matter for Product and Engineering LeadersThe ninth AI Index runs to more than 400 pages. Here are the findings most relevant to founders, CTOs and investors — capability, adoption, investment, risk and the labour market — with the context each number needs.Arseni Mazolevski · 22 October 2026 · 4 min read
- AI in Europe 2026: Record Funding, a Scale-Up Gap and a Sovereignty QuestionEuropean AI start-ups raised a record $21.8 billion in 2025. Dealroom and Prosus show where Europe leads — adoption, applied AI, frontier talent — and where it falls behind: growth capital, models and compute.Arseni Mazolevski · 22 October 2026 · 4 min read
- Your People Already Use AI. Your Company Doesn’t.Personal AI use is widespread; company-level AI is not. What Accenture, Microsoft and the LexisNexis AI in IP report show about turning individual prompts into processes a company owns.Arseni Mazolevski · 13 October 2026 · 3 min read
- 95% Have an AI Strategy. 8% Can Show the Money.Why most AI pilots never reach production, what the 2026 surveys from KPMG, Deloitte, BCG and PwC actually measured, and the five checks that separate a demo from a running system.Arseni Mazolevski · 7 October 2026 · 4 min read
Security & legacy
- AI for Cyber Defence in 2026: What 77% Adoption Actually Looks LikeThe World Economic Forum and KPMG reviewed real deployments of AI in security operations. Where AI already delivers, where it does not yet, and how organisations decide how much autonomy to give a security agent.Arseni Mazolevski · 22 October 2026 · 4 min read
- AI-Generated Code and Security: What the 2025–2026 Data ShowsAI assistants now write a large share of new code. Studies from Veracode, Stack Overflow, Microsoft and the State of AI Report show what that means for security, review capacity and the teams that maintain the result.Arseni Mazolevski · 22 October 2026 · 4 min read
- 12 Minutes vs. 7 Days: The New Math of PatchingWhat the State of AI Report 2026 shows about AI-assisted exploits, why legacy systems are hit hardest, what changes under Poland's amended KSC and the EU Cyber Resilience Act, and a 90-day plan to shorten patch time.Gleb Zamyslovsky · 20 October 2026 · 3 min read
Teams & hiring
- Hiring in 2026: 70 Days to Fill a Role, 11.6% Never FilledMcKinsey's HR Monitor 2026 and Mercer's Global Talent Trends 2026 describe an employer-driven labour market where specialist technology roles still go unfilled. What the data says about speed, pay, retention and AI in recruiting.Arseni Mazolevski · 22 October 2026 · 4 min read
- More Code, Fewer Juniors: The Software Engineering Labour Market in 2026AI coding tools pushed code output up sharply. Developer employment overall reached a record — while hiring of the youngest developers fell. What Microsoft, Stanford, McKinsey, Deloitte and Mercer data says about engineering teams in 2027–2028.Arseni Mazolevski · 22 October 2026 · 4 min read