AI Trends and insights for The Agentic Enterprise
The most important trends, tools, and analyses, by the experts at ai.nl.
What 60,000 AI agents teach us about returns
Over eighteen months, Prosus had its employees build tens of thousands of AI agents. A very small fraction delivers the vast majority of the value. What do these top performers do differently?
25 September 2026
Jev: the AI model that returns decisions instead of text
With Jev, TypeSafe introduces a model that does not generate text, but makes typed, probabilistic decisions. This unlocks new possibilities and speeds for automated agentic workflows, though independent broad benchmarks are still lacking.
22 September 2026
Grok Bot vs Meta Muse: which personal AI assistant works for entrepreneurs?
Grok Bot, Meta Muse, OpenClaw and Hermes Agent compared for entrepreneurs: what they do, what they cost and what actually works in Europe today.
14 September 2026
Research shows: AI is growing, but support is declining
In 2019, 81 percent of employee reviews mentioning AI were positive. In 2026 that figure is down to just 43 percent. This is a development we need to take seriously.
4 September 2026
The irony of human oversight of AI agents
We rely on human oversight to keep AI agents safe. But precisely that oversight can erode the skills needed to supervise well.
2 September 2026
What a few Cybertrucks taught me about statistics, AI, and logical thinking
A casual count of Tesla Cybertrucks on a road trip sparked a deeper reflection on statistical thinking, cultural shifts, and why AI makes critical analysis more essential than ever.
25 August 2026
Stop Overthinking Scenarios and Start Measuring Them
Red Bull Racing runs eight billion simulations per race, while most businesses settle for three. Discover why data simulation beats traditional forecasting.
24 August 2026
What the Billboards in Silicon Valley Tell Us About AI
Billboards are not science, but they are one of the most expensive datasets in Silicon Valley. What the messages along the road reveal about the next shift in AI.
21 August 2026
Bowling Alone 2.0: will AI agents isolate us further, or give connection back?
On Robert Putnam, the mechanism behind evaporating social capital, and the question of who will still be able to bowl together.
14 August 2026
Under the bonnet of AI: where the real questions begin
Generative AI makes answers effortless. That is exactly why asking follow-up questions matters more than ever: which assumptions, which uncertainty, which question did we never ask?
12 August 2026
What the 90-hour week at OpenAI does and does not say about your organisation
AI was meant to shorten the working week. At OpenAI and Anthropic the opposite is happening. What AFAS did differently, and what your organisation can learn from it.
11 August 2026
AI agent hacks a gym: who is liable when AI breaks in on its own?
The first autonomous AI cyber incident involving a consumer raises questions the Dutch Cybersecurity Act does not answer. What organisations need to arrange now.
11 August 2026
AI may make organisations more united than ever
Success with AI depends less on individual AI experts and more on an organisation's ability to learn and take responsibility together.
9 August 2026
The Shirt That Confuses AI Facial Recognition
Discover why a rainbow camouflage shirt tricks AI surveillance systems and why this clever digital disguise only works temporarily.
7 August 2026
Not the tool, but the skill: why every company should start documenting how it works
Tools come and go. Skills, documented ways of working that an AI Agent can execute right away, stay yours. Here is how to start today.
5 August 2026
Agentic Commerce: Soon It Is Not the Consumer Buying, but Their AI Agent
Companies are investing heavily in AI visibility and product feeds. But tomorrow's agent mainly looks at what happened after the purchase. Your customer service becomes your record.
27 July 2026
OpenAI Model Hacked Hugging Face: AI Security Wake-Up Call
An OpenAI model escaped a closed test environment and attacked Hugging Face. Not a malicious AI, but a goal-driven model without guardrails. What this means for AI security and the agentic enterprise.
22 July 2026
Generative AI Is Reshaping the Content of Work
A new paper by Wang et al. (2026) analyzes 9.37 million American job postings. The main takeaway: AI is reorganizing jobs rather than replacing them, task by task, role by role.
5 July 2026
Agentic Commerce: How Dutch Brands Can Achieve Visibility and Drive Sales in the AI Ecosystem
ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Mode increasingly decide which brand consumers buy. A look at the Agentic Commerce Protocol, GEO/AEO best practices, what is happening in China and the US, and what European brands should do now.
3 July 2026
The prompt era is over. Welcome to loop engineering
Loop engineering is replacing prompt engineering. What it is, why it suddenly emerged in June 2026, and the four patterns that cover 95% of real workflows.
29 June 2026
The Race for the Brain: Neuralink, China, and the Question of Where Europe Stands
In March 2026, China became the first country in the world to approve a commercial brain implant, a milestone Neuralink has yet to achieve. At the same time, the market for brain interfaces raised hundreds of millions in the first months of 2026 alone. A tour of the players in the US and China, and the uncomfortable question of what Europe is actually doing.
29 June 2026
Recursive Self-Improvement: how far along is Anthropic in 2026?
New 2026 data from Anthropic shows how AI is accelerating its own development, even though full Recursive Self-Improvement is not here yet.
10 June 2026
Stop Playing Digital Twister: The Rise of the AI OS
We play digital Twister moving between SaaS tools all day. The solution is not more AI tools, but one central AI OS. Here is why the app stack will collapse.
7 June 2026
