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Feb 10, 2026: The Game That Changed How Businesses Trusted Data


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Human intuition wasn’t wrong, it just wasn’t enough anymore.

On February 10, 1996, IBM’s Deep Blue won a single game against world chess champion Garry Kasparov, revealing that computational scale could outperform expert judgment in narrow, complex domains. Inside businesses, the moment reframed how leaders thought about decision-making, analytics, and risk, showing that machines could surface answers humans could not reliably calculate on their own. It marked an early signal that data-driven systems would increasingly challenge experience-based judgment as complexity grew.

From bsnsHistory, the daily podcast about the moments when business quietly reshaped the world.

Written and hosted by Ron Trucks. Research and editing by Rodney Russ. Sound design by Angela Cahoy. Music by Cody Martin and Soundstripe.

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