For the past two decades, enterprise information governance has focused on protecting data through classification, encryption, backups, and internal containment. That remains essential, but in the AI era, competitive advantage increasingly comes not from data itself, but from how effectively companies turn it into operational improvement.

Rising raw material costs and tightening supply of high-end components for AI applications have triggered an unusual round of price increases across the aluminium capacitor industry, with major suppliers in Japan, China and Taiwan moving to protect margins.