Reading Time: 3 minutesFirms in the asset management industry are turning increasingly to generative and agentic AI to streamline operations, improve decision-making, and uncover new sources of alpha (the measure of an investment strategy’s ability to outperform the market after accounting for risk). The trend is continuing with the latest partnership between Franklin Templeton and Wand AI, marking […]
AI web search risks: Mitigating business data accuracy threats
Reading Time: 4 minutesOver half of us now use AI to search the web, yet the stubbornly low data accuracy of common tools creates new business risks. While generative AI (GenAI) offers undeniable efficiency gains, a new investigation highlights a disparity between user trust and technical accuracy that poses specific risks to corporate compliance, legal standing, and financial […]
Bain & Company issues AI Guide for CEOs, opens Singapore hub
Reading Time: 3 minutesA new Bain & Company report says many organisations in Southeast Asia are still stuck in early product testing because they treat AI as a set of tools rather than a change in how the business works. In The Southeast Asia CEO’s Guide to AI Transformation, the authors say leaders should first look at how […]
SC25 showcases the next phase of Dell and NVIDIA’s AI partnership
Reading Time: 4 minutesAt SC25, Dell Technologies and NVIDIA introduced new updates to their joint AI platform, aiming to make it easier for organisations to run a wider range of AI workloads, from older models to newer agent-style systems. As more companies scale their AI plans, many run into the same issues. They need to manage a growing […]
Local AI models: How to keep control of the bidstream without losing your data
Reading Time: 4 minutesAuthor: Olga Zharuk, CPO, Teqblaze When it comes to applying AI in programmatic, two things matter most: performance and data security. I’ve seen too many internal security audits flag third-party AI services as exposure points. Granting third-party AI agents access to proprietary bidstream data introduces unnecessary exposure that many organisations are no longer willing to […]
How Levi Strauss is using AI for its DTC-first business model
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn its pursuit of a direct-to-consumer (DTC) first business model, Levi Strauss is weaving AI and cloud platforms into its core operations. The nearly 175-year-old apparel company is leveraging Microsoft technologies to modernise its consumer experiences and improve internal productivity. Levi Strauss’ approach provides a case study for other enterprises in using a unified technology […]
Quantitative finance experts believe graduates ill-equipped for AI future
Reading Time: 2 minutesNew insight from the CQF Institute, a worldwide network for quantitative finance professionals (quants), reveals that fewer than one in ten specialists believe new graduates possess the AI and machine learning skills necessary to succeed in the industry. This highlights a growing issue in quantitative finance: a lack of human understanding and fluency in the […]
The “Most Hated” CSS Feature: asin(), acos(), atan() and atan2()
Reading Time: 9 minutesThis is a series! It all started a couple of articles ago, when we found out that, according to the State of CSS 2025 survey, trigonometric functions were the “Most Hated” CSS feature. I’ve been trying to change that perspective, so I showcased several uses for trigonometric functions in CSS: one for sin() and cos() and another on tan(). However, that’s only half of what […]
Alibaba rolls out revamped Qwen chatbot as model pricing drops
Reading Time: 3 minutesAlibaba is updating its artificial intelligence chatbot Qwen as it pushes to catch up with tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The revised app replaces the older Tongyi version and became available on both major app stores on Friday, last week. In its app-store descriptions, Alibaba calls Qwen the “most powerful official AI assistant for its models” […]
Quiet UI Came and Went, Quiet as a Mouse
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA few weeks ago, Quiet UI made the rounds when it was released as an open source user interface library, built with JavaScript web components. I had the opportunity to check out the documentation and it seemed like a solid library. I’m always super excited to see more options for web components out in the […]
Anthropic details cyber espionage campaign orchestrated by AI
Reading Time: 3 minutesSecurity leaders face a new class of autonomous threat as Anthropic details the first cyber espionage campaign orchestrated by AI. In a report released this week, the company’s Threat Intelligence team outlined its disruption of a sophisticated operation by a Chinese state-sponsored group – an assessment made with high confidence – dubbed GTG-1002 and detected […]
Visa builds AI commerce infrastructure for the Asia Pacific’s 2026 Pilot
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen Visa unveiled its Intelligent Commerce platform for Asia Pacific on November 12, it wasn’t just launching another payment feature—it was building AI commerce infrastructure to solve a crisis most merchants haven’t noticed yet: their websites are being flooded by AI agents, and there’s no reliable way to tell which ones are legitimate shoppers and which are malicious bots. […]
The Range Syntax Has Come to Container Style Queries and if()
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe range syntax isn’t a new thing. We‘re already able to use it with media queries to query viewport dimensions and resolutions, as well as container size queries to query container dimensions. Being able to use it with container style queries — which we can do starting with Chrome 142 — means that we can […]
IBM: Data silos are holding back enterprise AI
Reading Time: 4 minutesAccording to IBM, the primary barrier holding back enterprise AI isn’t the technology itself but the persistent issue of data silos. Ed Lovely, VP and Chief Data Officer at IBM, describes data silos as the “Achilles’ heel” of modern data strategy. Lovely made the comments following the release of a new study from the IBM […]
New data centre projects mark Anthropic’s biggest US expansion yet
Reading Time: 4 minutesNew US data centre projects in Texas and New York will receive $50 billion in new funding, part of a plan to grow US computing capacity for advanced AI work. The facilities, built with Fluidstack, are designed for Anthropic’s systems and will focus on power and efficiency needs that come with training and running large […]