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Founded by Cantekin Ertekin, ITGT Consultancy works at the intersection of corporate strategy, technology governance and digital transformation, helping organisations translate strategic priorities into operational capabilities across complex business environments.

Anthropic’s rapid revenue growth has strengthened expectations for one of the technology industry’s most closely watched public listings. Yet the economics behind its expansion raise a more consequential question for investors: how much is sustainable growth worth in an industry where computing costs, capital requirements and competition continue to rise?

The United States is preparing for an unprecedented expansion of artificial intelligence infrastructure, but project delays, rising financing costs and growing local resistance are testing the economics behind the boom. As investors demand clearer returns, the next phase of AI investment may depend as much on financial discipline as technological ambition.

The 140th Canton Fair brings international buyers and manufacturers together in Guangzhou from 15 October to 4 November, highlighting China's manufacturing capabilities, evolving export economy and role in global supply chains.

VANTAGE52 is an Official Support Partner of Global Marketing Summit 2026, taking place in Istanbul on 14–15 October and bringing international marketing leaders together to examine the evolving relationship between artificial intelligence, human experience and brand growth.

Amazon is reportedly negotiating a potential $7 billion acquisition of Decart, an artificial intelligence startup developing software for AI computing, real-time video generation and simulated environments. The discussions highlight the growing strategic importance of AI infrastructure as technology companies seek greater control over the systems powering their next generation of products.

Global Marketing Summit 2026 will bring together more than 150 speakers, leading marketing professionals and business executives in Istanbul on 14–15 October. The sixth edition will feature over 100 sessions exploring artificial intelligence, human experience, brand strategy and the future of marketing.

Global venture funding reached $159 billion in the third quarter of 2026. But behind the headline number lies a changing investment landscape, where artificial intelligence commands the majority of capital and a small group of companies captures an extraordinary share of funding.

The platform identifies what visitors understand about a business, what's missing from its website and which improvements to prioritize, generating personalized results for each brand.

egaranti, the Türkiye-based warranty technology company, has raised $1.1 million in pre-Series A funding to accelerate its expansion in Uzbekistan, enter Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, and develop a new consumer-facing warranty application in Türkiye.

The next phase of the AI race will depend on more than chips, capital and electricity. As data centres expand into densely populated regions, technology companies must also persuade communities that the infrastructure powering the digital economy belongs where they want to build it.

Y Combinator’s latest startups suggest that the next phase of the AI boom is moving beyond chatbots and copilots toward autonomous agents, AI infrastructure, security and systems designed to make AI capable of operating in the real world.

As artificial intelligence becomes cheaper to deploy, demand for computing power continues to rise, putting data centers, electricity infrastructure and capital at the center of the next phase of the AI economy.

After takeover talks with Nubank collapsed, Britain’s Monzo is turning to private equity investors. The shift highlights the growing tension between the ambitions of digital banks and the valuations investors are willing to pay.

AMD’s acquisition of San Francisco AI startup World Labs is taking the chip race into a new territory, combining compute, spatial intelligence and physical AI as the industry moves beyond models that only understand language.

Search ’n Stuff returns to Antalya from October 1 to 4, bringing SEO, AI search, PPC, analytics and digital marketing professionals from across Europe, the UK, the US and Türkiye together for a four-day retreat at Balmy Foresta. VANTAGE52 joins the event as a media partner.

OpenAI is pushing ChatGPT beyond the chatbot era. With its new always-on Dots agents, shared workspaces and AI-powered productivity tools, the company is moving toward a model in which artificial intelligence does not simply answer questions, but continues working after the user walks away.

Samsung is committing $1 billion to Helix Digital Infrastructure, a U.S.-based AI infrastructure company established by KKR, as the technology industry moves into a new phase of investment focused on data centers, power, connectivity and computing capacity.

Global Marketing Summit 2026 will bring 150+ speakers and 100+ sessions to Istanbul on 14–15 October, exploring AI, human experience, brands, creativity and the future of marketing.

EspressoLab, one of Turkey’s fastest-growing coffee chains, is entering a new ownership era. Abu Dhabi-based MAIR Group has signed an agreement to acquire 70% of the company behind the brand, bringing a Turkish-origin coffee business with more than 400 stores across 21 countries into a new international growth phase.

European football has crossed a new financial threshold, with men’s clubs spending more than €10 billion during the 2026 summer transfer window. The record reflects not simply a more expensive transfer market, but a football economy increasingly shaped by capital, player development and the financial strength of England’s clubs.

The White House meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping has placed artificial intelligence at the center of the U.S.-China relationship, while the presence of Silicon Valley’s most powerful technology executives has underscored how deeply AI has become tied to global economics, national security and geopolitical power.

Donald Trump used the United Nations General Assembly to introduce a new name for artificial intelligence. Behind the language is a much larger debate over what superintelligence actually means, who should regulate advanced AI and how the United States intends to compete for technological leadership.

AWS Cloud and AI Day Türkiye brought technology leaders, developers, businesses and cloud professionals together at Zorlu PSM in Istanbul, highlighting the growing role of artificial intelligence, cloud infrastructure and agentic AI in the next phase of digital transformation.

Meta is pushing AI agents into the consumer market while startups such as Instinct and Factory are attracting multibillion-dollar valuations, turning autonomous software into one of the technology industry’s most closely watched new markets.

Emulate, founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, is reportedly in talks to raise up to $700 million just weeks after its creation, putting a new spotlight on the growing market for AI systems that can model the physical world.

Kylian Mbappé joins Swiss sportswear brand On as the company enters football and prepares to launch its first football boots in 2027, challenging established brands such as Nike, Adidas and Puma.

KKR is investing €528 million in a new European real estate joint venture with Realty Income, gaining a 49% stake in a 54-property portfolio spanning four major markets.

Novo Nordisk is backing Orbis Medicines in a deal worth up to $1.4 billion, betting that AI-enabled drug discovery can help turn traditionally injectable treatments into oral medicines.

Paramount’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery has moved into a critical phase as the companies negotiate with U.S. states challenging the deal, putting some of Hollywood’s most valuable entertainment assets at the centre of a $110 billion corporate battle.

A newly revealed 2002 agreement has brought fresh scrutiny to LVMH’s long-running effort to build a stake in Hermès, while an heir to the luxury family says his 6% holding, now worth around $10 billion, disappeared from his control.

Legend Holdings is seeking a buyer for its 90% stake in Banque Internationale à Luxembourg, putting a nearly decade-old Chinese investment in European banking back on the market as consolidation gathers pace across the sector.

Google’s Gemini accessed three companies during a cybersecurity test, highlighting how autonomous AI agents are creating a new class of security risks as they gain greater access to the internet and computer systems.

Anthropic is weighing a new AI model to respond to OpenAI’s growing enterprise momentum, creating a strategic tension between accelerating product development, maintaining safety standards and preparing for a potential public listing.

Anthropic says Claude now leads more than a quarter of the company’s artificial intelligence research and development work, offering a new measure of how quickly AI is becoming part of the process of building the next generation of AI systems.

Singapore’s exports surged at their fastest pace in more than two decades in August, driven by an extraordinary rise in electronics demand linked to the global AI buildout.

The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate to 3.75%–4.00% as persistent inflation keeps monetary policy under pressure.

OpenAI is exploring a new funding round that could value the company at up to $1.5 trillion, putting AI's extraordinary capital demands under a sharper spotlight.

A public phone call between Donald Trump and Jensen Huang has brought a deeper question into focus: as America accelerates AI development, who will control the infrastructure, access and economic direction of the technology?

The U.S. debate over AI regulation is intensifying as Washington, state governments and technology companies compete to shape the rules of the AI economy.

The commercial impact of Spider-Man: Brand New Day shows how blockbuster entertainment can transform cultural attention into a powerful platform for brands, retailers and technology companies.

Inditex is turning to the U.S. for its next phase of growth, using online demand and store performance to make more selective decisions about where and how to expand.

Artificial intelligence is reshaping venture capital, pushing investors toward deep technology, energy, robotics, defence, advanced manufacturing and other capital-intensive areas.

Google’s latest deal with Mechanize shows how leading technology companies are increasingly competing for the people and expertise behind emerging AI startups.

Global entrepreneurs and investors are exploring new opportunities in the U.S. They seek new paths for expansion, investment and growth.

Nvidia is reportedly considering a $10 billion investment in Anthropic as the AI company moves closer to a potential IPO.

Reflect Studio is building a business around merchandise, culture and community, working with names such as Galatasaray, the Turkish Volleyball Federation, MUBI, Socrates, Duman and mor ve ötesi.

Etsy is moving beyond the traditional marketplace model as AI-powered discovery, personalization and global commerce reshape how independent businesses reach consumers.

Bryant Park has evolved into one of New York’s most notable commercial ecosystems, bringing together shops, restaurants and global brand partnerships.

U.S. inflation remains above the Federal Reserve’s target as energy prices rise and the labor market shows resilience, forcing investors to reconsider the path of interest rates and the cost of capital across global markets.

Its largest European bet, and a 22-year nuclear contract to keep the servers running.

More than 100 investors and $100 billion of assets arrive to look at what the ecosystem built.

Capital is moving from software that scales cheaply to machines, chips and power that do not.

An airport built to move passengers is being rebuilt to move capital, technology and companies.

A foldable at twice the price of a Pro, and the first product judgement of the Ternus era.

A 17-year shirt deal ends and an Istanbul carrier takes football's most visible position.

Brussels is rethinking whether size is a problem to police or a capability to build.

Brain capital is entering the productivity conversation as AI changes what people are for.

The 10-year is nearing a level that reprices mortgages, deals and every distant future earning.

A $60 billion commercial arrangement, custom inference silicon and 1.6-terabit optical connectivity.

Four bootstrapped years, more than 40 apps and 600 million users before the first outside cheque.

WHP Global and G-III take the brand from LVMH, with Jacobs himself staying as creative director.

GPT-6 Astra moves AI from answering questions to doing the work, which is an organisational problem.

Machine intelligence passing the human total, with robots and electricity setting the pace.

Growth makes its financial demands long before it returns them, so finance is treated as management.

Branding treated as a commercial question rather than a visual one, diagnosed before identity work.

Fire, crashes, atmospheres and mechanical systems, engineered for film and television sets.

Founded in Istanbul by Ilkim Ozturk, the womenswear label is building a digital-first identity around muslin, lace and Mediterranean ease. Its bet is that a consistent aesthetic outlasts the trend cycle.

Founded in 2007 after an encounter with a single Ikebana vase, the New York company has built a curated platform that carries independent glass artists from Bryant Park and Industry City to collectors worldwide.