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For many enterprises, the first real test of AI is not customer-facing products or flashy automation demos. It is the quiet machinery that runs the organisation itself. Human resources, with its mix of routine workflows, compliance needs, and large volumes of structured data, is emerging as one of the earliest areas where companies are pushing […]
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Alibaba has entered the race to build AI that powers robots, not just chatbots. The Chinese tech giant this week unveiled RynnBrain, an open-source model designed to help robots perceive their environment and execute physical tasks. The move signals China’s accelerating push into physical AI as ageing populations and labour shortages drive demand for machines
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AI deployment in financial services has crossed a critical threshold, with only 2% of institutions globally reporting no AI use whatsoever—a dramatic indicator that the technology has moved decisively from boardroom discussion to operational reality. New research from Finastra surveying 1,509 senior leaders across 11 markets reveals that Singapore financial institutions are leading this transition,
Barclays recorded a 12 % jump in annual profit for 2025, reporting £9.1 billion in earnings before tax, up from £8.1 billion a year earlier. The bank also raised its performance targets out through 2028, aiming for a return on tangible equity (RoTE) of more than 14 %, up from a previous goal of above
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Agentic AI offers insurance leaders a path to scalable efficiency as the sector confronts a tough digital transformation. Insurers hold deep data reserves and employ a workforce skilled in analytic decision-making. Despite these advantages, the industry has largely failed to advance beyond pilot programmes. Research suggests only seven percent of insurers have scaled these initiatives
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The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) has selected Red Hat to architect a unified AI and hybrid cloud backbone across its entire estate. Announced today, the agreement is designed to break down data silos and accelerate the deployment of AI models from the data centre to the tactical edge. For CIOs, it’s part of a
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Agentic AI in healthcare is graduating from answering prompts to autonomously executing complex marketing tasks—and life sciences companies are betting their commercial strategies on it. According to a recent report cited by Capgemini Invent, AI agents could generate up to US$450 billion in economic value through revenue uplift and cost savings globally by 2028, with 69% of
Because Western AI labs won’t—or can’t—anymore. As OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google face mounting pressure to restrict their most powerful models, Chinese developers have filled the open-source void with AI explicitly built for what operators need: powerful models that run on commodity hardware. A new security study reveals just how thoroughly Chinese AI has captured this space. Research published by SentinelOne
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The way large companies use artificial intelligence is changing. For years, AI in business meant experimenting with tools that could answer questions or help with small tasks. Now, some big enterprises are moving beyond tools and into AI agents that can actually do work across systems and workflows, not just answer prompts. This week, OpenAI
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The second day of the co-located AI & Big Data Expo and Digital Transformation Week in London showed a market in a clear transition. Early excitement over generative models is fading. Enterprise leaders now face the friction of fitting these tools into current stacks. Day two sessions focused less on large language models and more
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