SDAV Insights Series 7 insights since 9 July 2026
One concept explained: economic, business and technology fundamentals — educational and timeless.
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Most companies treat currency risk as a single line item. It splits into three exposures, and the one that never appears in the ledger is settled in the operating model rather than in the treasury.
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Security incidents involving unapproved AI tools more than doubled to 43% in IBM’s 2026 breach study — while in Switzerland the constraint is rarely access to tools.
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Retrieval-augmented generation makes a model search a company’s own documents before answering, which moves the accuracy problem out of the model and into the document base — where it can be measured, and where Swiss and European disclosure duties already apply.
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Eight of the ten technologies in the World Economic Forum’s 2026 report act on physical systems — and Switzerland wrote one of them into law on 1 January 2026.
The EU has deferred its high-risk AI deadlines by more than a year — but not the transparency obligations that reach far more companies.
Gartner expects organisations to abandon 60% of the AI projects that are not supported by AI-ready data; the productivity evidence for data discipline is fifteen years older than the current technology cycle.
Generative AI raised issues resolved per hour by 15% on a support desk of 5,172 agents, and the gain went almost entirely to the least experienced staff.
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