Reference: Redefining the Back Office with AI, published by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services and sponsored by TP (Teleperformance). The report was prepared by the editorial research team of Harvard Business Review Analytic Services, which produces independent executive research reports based on surveys, interviews, and analysis of business trends. Individual article authors are not identified because the publication is issued as an institutional research report.

Deloitte’s 2024 Global Human Capital Trends, formally titled Thriving Beyond Boundaries: Human Performance in a Boundaryless World, is a global workforce and organizational research report published by Deloitte Insights on February 6, 2024. Deloitte is an international professional-services network whose member firms provide consulting, audit, tax, risk, technology, and workforce-advisory services; its Deloitte Insights division publishes research intended primarily for business executives and organizational leaders.

One of the most important questions surrounding artificial intelligence is whether it will eliminate jobs or fundamentally reshape the nature of work. A significant contribution to this debate is “The EPOCH of AI: Human-Machine Complementarities at Work,” by Isabella Loaiza and Roberto Rigobon of the MIT Sloan School of Management. The paper is available free through the SSRN research repository and MIT Sloan at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5028371.

The McKinsey Global Survey on AI: The State of AI 2025 was published by the McKinsey Global Institute and McKinsey & Company, one of the world’s leading global management consulting firms. The report was compiled by McKinsey researchers and consultants who specialize in artificial intelligence, digital transformation, and business strategy. The principal authors include Michael Chui, Roger Roberts, Alex Singla, Alexander Sukharevsky, Lareina Yee, and colleagues from McKinsey’s AI practice.

Artificial intelligence has often been portrayed as a technology for reducing costs and replacing jobs. Deloitte’s report, “Uncover Hidden Value Through Back-Office AI” (also published under the title “Beyond the Spotlight”), presents a very different perspective. Produced by Deloitte Consulting LLP as part of its Deloitte Insights research program, the report examines how AI is fundamentally transforming enterprise back-office operations into strategic business assets.

As part of the SpartansFirst initiative to support innovation and entrepreneurship, Dennis Hayes, our Chairman and CEO has developed an executive summary overview of six significant industry and academic reports which are all related to the ways that artificial intelligence is impacting the workforce, business practices, and digital transformation. The remarkable result is the consistency of the result from the research and what it means for the competitiveness of U.S.

A growing body of neuroscience research is challenging one of the most fundamental assumptions underlying modern artificial intelligence: that sophisticated reasoning must be tightly coupled to language. One of the most significant contributions to this debate is the paper “Evidence from Formal Logical Reasoning Reveals That the Language of Thought Is Not Natural Language,” by Hope Kean, Alexander Fung, Paris Jaggers, Jason Chen, Joshua S. Rule, Yael Benn, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Steven T. Piantadosi, Rosemary A. Varley, and Evelina Fedorenko.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced a significant expansion of its Covered List, adding foreign-produced connected power inverters and advanced robotic devices to the list of equipment considered to pose an unacceptable risk to U.S. national security. The announcement was published by the Federal Communications Commission and is available at: FCC Adds Foreign-Produced Power Inverters and Robots to the Covered List⁠.

The two principal documents examined in this report are “Pricing Scarcity: Easing the Short-Term Surge in Data Center Energy Demand,” written by Domenico Ferraro, Ph.D., Associate Professor at Arizona State University, and published by the Goldwater Institute on May 14, 2026, together with its accompanying Goldwater Institute article, “Data Centers Aren’t Breaking the Grid—Bad Pricing Is.” The official policy paper is available at https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/policy-report/pricing-scarcity/, and the accom

NVIDIA has introduced what may be one of the most important new categories of artificial intelligence since the emergence of large language models: the World Foundation Model (WFM). Rather than creating an AI system whose primary purpose is to understand and generate language, NVIDIA’s new Cosmos 3 platform is designed to understand, predict, simulate, and reason about the physical world. This represents a major expansion of AI from digital information processing into physical intelligence for robots, autonomous vehicles, industrial systems, and intelligent machines.