Launching new technology is hard enough when the market is ready for it. When it isn’t — when you’re selling something buyers haven’t asked for yet, in a category that doesn’t quite exist yet, on a timeline that keeps shifting — the internal leadership challenge becomes just as difficult as the external one. Every company […]
Computex 2026 Just Showed Us Where Wireless IoT Is Actually Heading
For years, the IoT conversation has centered on one question: can we get this device connected? Computex 2026, which wrapped up June 5 in Taipei, made clear that question has been answered. The new one is harder and more interesting: can connected devices think, decide, and act on their own — without draining power or […]
OpenAI’s $122 Billion Round, And What It Means for Everyone Else
On March 31, 2026, OpenAI closed the largest private funding round in history — $122 billion at an $852 billion valuation. Amazon led with $50 billion. Nvidia and SoftBank each put in $30 billion. Microsoft participated too. The headline is staggering, but the more important question for startup founders and BD leaders isn’t how OpenAI […]
The AI Accountability Reckoning: Why “We’re Piloting It” No Longer Cuts It
A podcast published April 6 by Telecom Reseller, featuring Expereo CIO Jean-Philippe Avelange, said what many enterprise leaders have been dancing around: “Now it’s much more about accountability,” he said. “We need to see metrics moving.” Short sentence. Big shift. 2024 was the year everyone got curious about AI. 2025 was the year everyone deployed […]
The Batteryless IoT Moment Has Finally Arrived
The numbers are hard to ignore. According to EU-funded research, nearly 78 million IoT batteries are discarded globally every single day. That’s not a rounding error. That’s a structural failure baked into how the industry has built connected devices for the past decade, and it’s one that Sam Miri and the team at Atmosic Technologies […]