May 2026

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    Agentic AI in life sciences

    From a Capgemini Research Institute survey of biopharma R&D leaders: 86% expect AI to reshape R&D but 63% lack the data maturity; 76% anticipate new ways of working but fewer than half feel ready; 71% are defining enterprise AI strategies, 8% are implementing them.

    ~84%share of 270 pharma and MedTech processes Capgemini rates as 'agentifiable'

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    AI and trade: Europe adoption

    Micro inputs: productivity gains on AI-exposed tasks of 14% to 55% from experimental studies (Brynjolfsson, Li and Raymond 2025; Gambacorta et al. 2024).

    2.5 percent to 4.1 percentestimated fall in the EU's share of global income after ten years if it lags trading partners on AI adoption

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    AI in the government sector 2026

    Singapore planned about S$3.3bn of government ICT spending in FY2023, with more than 30.0% (about S$1.0bn) for applications on the Government Commercial Cloud.

    ~30,000cases per month handled by Singapore GovTech's OneService chatbot, which predicts case category and routes to agencies

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    False and misleading information: evidence summary and map

    Across 56 months of European Digital Media Observatory briefs (June 2021 to January 2026), no category fell below 71% monthly prevalence; health appeared in 100% of months, the Ukraine conflict in 92.9%, immigration 89.3%, climate 83.9%.

    228review-level studies (2020-2026) mapped by the team

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    Reflections and New Directions for Human-Centered LLMs

    A physical-activity coaching case (GPTCoach and the Bloom app): expert coding found over 93% of the coach's conversational strategies were consistent with motivational interviewing or neutral, though gaps against skilled human coaches remained.

    5xincrease in app usage time with the LLM coach versus a no-LLM control, while physical activity stayed comparable (N=54, four weeks)

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    The AI infrastructure triad in regional governance

    Global data center electricity use was about 415 TWh in 2024 and is projected to more than double by 2030 (IEA); U.S. data centers use over 4% of national electricity.

    10,068public comments on the 2025 U.S. AI Action Plan used to map stakeholder worldviews

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    The state of artificial intelligence in public audit

    67% have a formal AI strategy, 80% have internal AI guidelines, 87% offer AI training to general staff, 87% have at least one AI tool integrated into a workflow.

    87%consulted audit institutions with at least one AI tool in production

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    Trust Imperative 5.0

    Countries covered: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Singapore, the UK and the US.

    71crossover points where different teams in one agency asked for the same or similar assurance information