# #035: AI news for business - week 5 Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-bytes-7106785/035-ai-news-for-business-week-5 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-bytes-7106785/035-ai-news-for-business-week-5.md Podcast: [Future Bytes](https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-bytes-7106785) Published: 2026-01-29T09:33:45+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/future-bytes/episodes/697b2979d095fd135b7ea68c Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6710bd164114798e63e10fe5/e/697b2979d095fd135b7ea68c/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/future-bytes-7106785/episodes/035-ai-news-for-business-week-5 Duration seconds: 505 ## Resource AI moved from promise to proof. At Davos, leaders stopped counting pilots and started demanding impact. Budgets are holding. Returns are not. In this episode, Magnus Oxenwaldt breaks down what that shift means for AI roadmaps in 2026. β€œFor leaders driving AI transformation, the gap between AI spend and measurable impact defines 2026.” Davos signalled a shift, and other key take-aways: AI budgets are stable. Measurable impact is not. The gap is now the core challenge. Centralised AI centres of excellence deliver significantly higher returns than ad hoc deployments. The AI tooling market is fragmenting. Best-of-breed matters more than vendor loyalty. Vendor incentives are changing. Governance models need to keep up. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/future-bytes-7106785/episodes/035-ai-news-for-business-week-5/transcription-requests` β€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-bytes-7106785/035-ai-news-for-business-week-5.md` β€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.