Paper Models Enterprise AI Adoption as a Real-Options Timing Problem

A new arXiv paper frames the decision of when firms should adopt artificial intelligence as a timing problem rather than a simple cost-benefit calculation. The author argues that because the technology frontier keeps improving, implementation is partly irreversible, and firms build capabilities only by deploying systems, companies face a trade-off between adopting early and waiting for better options. The work applies a real-options model to this setting.

loveholidays adopts OpenAI Codex to widen internal software development

Travel company loveholidays is using OpenAI's Codex coding tool to let employees outside of engineering build software, according to a customer story published by OpenAI. The company says the tool has helped teams move from idea to working product more quickly and reduced the barrier to participating in development work.

WHY IT MATTERS ↘The case shows coding agents being sold less as engineer productivity tools than as a way to push software creation into non-engineering roles, which shifts build-vs-buy decisions and stretches review, security, and governance burden onto teams without traditional dev practices. If this pattern holds, the competitive question becomes which vendors can convert broad internal authorship into maintainable systems rather than a backlog of unowned code.