Public training data is becoming scarce and expensive, forcing large language model providers to compete for proprietary data and thereby exacerbating market concentration.
Autonomous AI agents are rendering classical SaaS licensing models increasingly obsolete, threatening approximately one-fifth of the enterprise software market by 2030 and forcing established vendors toward outcome-based business models.
The Digital Product Passport requires not just IT integration but a permanently operated compliance infrastructure where the choice between in-house development and service provider platforms fundamentally determines cost burden over years.
A US Supreme Court decision declaring independent supervisory authorities unconstitutional jeopardizes the legal basis of the EU-US data transfer agreement.
Only one-third of IT asset management teams can reliably account for costs and benefits of AI projects, while over 50 percent report AI spending without measurable added value.
The Supreme Court’s decision on FTC independence undermines the legal basis for EU-US data flows, as European regulations rely on FTC independence 259 times.
