Rufus Curnow

Agentic AI is moving from pilot to production, with 100% of large enterprises planning to expand adoption in 2026, yet operational readiness remains the bottleneck. This issue covers enterprise agent deployment, governance flashpoints, GPT-5.3-Codex, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Claude Opus 4.6, SpaceX’s $1.25 trillion xAI acquisition, China’s latest model surge, and the growing public debate over AI and work.

This edition of the Dixon AI Newsletter covers the most important AI developments from mid-December to late January, including Apple’s partnership with Google, OpenAI’s move into advertising, rising geopolitical pressure on AI chips, and what Davos revealed about the shift from AI hype to real economic impact.

In our work with more than two hundred organisations across sectors and regions, the same set of questions comes up again and again. How do we get a return on investment from AI?  How do we introduce AI into the business without creating unnecessary risk?  How do we train our people so that AI actually improves how work gets done? These questions surface consistently in boardrooms, leadership teams and transformation programmes. They are sensible questions, but they point to a deeper issue....