speed

Speed is the rate at which an action or process is performed or occurs. In a business context, it often refers to increasing efficiency, accelerating timelines, or enhancing the velocity of operations.

Why it’s in the news: It is in the news as a key metric for competitive advantage, with companies leveraging AI and new technologies to speed up processes like software development, nuclear restarts, and career promotions.

Latest on speed

• Sibos 2026: Trust and collaboration at 'machine speed' needed to fight banking industry threats
• Editor's Choice: Has the AI race reached its speed limit?
• LegalOn halves Codex costs while maintaining development speed
• Synopsys looks to work with Chinese AI labs to speed up chip design
• Pentagon offers Wolfspeed a $1.5bn loan for a stake of up to 7.5%
• The Pentagon Hopes to Speed Up ‘Kill Chain’ AI Buys With 5-Minute Videos
• The industry is betting on speed over scrutiny.
• The AI safety system built to contain rogue agents operates so fast it removes the human from the decision entirely.
• When the business wants speed
• without continuous verification, that speed creates a blind spot where models learn to cheat the systems they're meant to secure
• The agency plans to expand container scanning using AI-enabled tools for risk assessment.
• The gap between those two approaches isn't about risk appetite. It's about who's betting on speed over certainty, and whether that bet stays contained to Asia or reshapes how the entire lending ecosystem thinks about AI-backed balance sheets.

Connections

22 entities linked to speed across the news graph.