Reading Time: 4 minutesPrimary healthcare systems across parts of Africa are under growing strain, caught between rising demand, chronic staff shortages, and shrinking international aid budgets. In that context, AI is being tested in healthcare less as a breakthrough technology and more as a way to keep basic services running. According to reporting by Reuters, the Gates Foundation […]
I Learned The First Rule of ARIA the Hard Way
Reading Time: 5 minutesSome time ago, I shipped a component that felt accessible by every measure I could test. Keyboard navigation worked. ARIA roles were correctly applied. Automated audits passed without a single complaint. And yet, a screen reader user couldn’t figure out how to trigger it. When I tested it myself with keyboard-only navigation and NVDA, I […]
AI Changemakers: Visionaries transforming industries with AI
Reading Time: 3 minutesFrom healthcare to sports, and from finance to customer service, a quiet revolution is underway. One that is about helping people and businesses achieve more by elevating human potential through AI. Welcome to RingCentral’s AI Changemakers, celebrating the individuals harnessing agentic AI to transform how we work, serve, and connect. What makes an AI Changemaker? […]
Balancing AI cost efficiency with data sovereignty
Reading Time: 3 minutesAI cost efficiency and data sovereignty are at odds, forcing a rethink of enterprise risk frameworks for global organisations. For over a year, the generative AI narrative focused on a race for capability, often measuring success by parameter counts and flawed benchmark scores. Boardroom conversations, however, are undergoing a necessary correction. While the allure of […]
The quiet work behind Citi’s 4,000-person internal AI rollout
Reading Time: 4 minutesFor many large companies, artificial intelligence still lives in side projects. Small teams test tools, run pilots, and present results that struggle to spread beyond a few departments. Citi has taken a different path, where instead of keeping AI limited to specialists, the bank has spent the past two years pushing the technology into daily […]
What is the future of AI voice agents: Key trends and business applications
Reading Time: 8 minutesIn the early years of modern AI, text-based chatbots dominated the discussion. Organizations were quick to deploy chat interfaces, virtual assistants, and messaging bots as their main AI strategy. But while the world focused on typing, a quieter revolution was taking shape: voice AI agents have emerged as a powerful force in the customer experience […]
SAP and Fresenius to build sovereign AI backbone for healthcare
Reading Time: 2 minutesSAP and Fresenius are building a sovereign AI platform for healthcare that brings secure data processing to clinical settings. For data leaders in the medical sector, deploying AI requires strict governance that public cloud solutions often lack. This collaboration addresses that gap by creating a “controlled environment” where AI models can operate without compromising data […]
Scaling AI value beyond pilot phase purgatory
Reading Time: 3 minutesScaling AI value from isolated pilots to enterprise-wide adoption remains a primary hurdle for many organisations. While experimentation with generative models has become ubiquitous, industrialising these tools (i.e. wrapping them in necessary governance, security, and integration layers) often stalls. Addressing the gap between investment and operational return, IBM has introduced a new service model designed […]
Credit unions, fintech and the AI inflection of financial services
Reading Time: 4 minutesArtificial intelligence has shifted rapidly from a peripheral innovation to a structural component of modern financial services. In banking, payments, and wealth management, to name but three sub-sectors, AI is now embedded in budgeting tools, fraud detection systems, KYC, AML, and customer engagement platforms. Credit unions sit in this broader fintech transformation, facing similar technological […]
JPMorgan Chase treats AI spending as core infrastructure
Reading Time: 3 minutesInside large banks, artificial intelligence has moved into a category once reserved for payment systems, data centres, and core risk controls. At JPMorgan Chase, AI is framed as infrastructure the bank believes it cannot afford to neglect. That position came through clearly in recent comments from CEO Jamie Dimon, who defended the bank’s rising technology […]
OpenCog Hyperon and AGI: Beyond large language models
Reading Time: 4 minutesFor the majority of web users, generative AI is AI. Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT and Claude are the de facto gateway to artificial intelligence and the infinite possibilities it has to offer. After mastering our syntax and remixing our memes, LLMs have captured the public imagination. They’re easy to use and fun. And […]
HTTP Archive 2025 Web Almanac
Reading Time: 2 minutesI love me some good web research reports. I’m a sucker for them. HTTP Archive’s Web Almanac is one report I look forward to every year, and I know I’m not alone there. It’s one of those highly-anticipated publications on the state of the web, chock-full of well-documented findings about millions of live websites — […]
“I Heart CSS” DailyDev Squad
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you’re reading this, chances are you already have some sort of way that you’re following when we publish new content, whether that’s RSS, Bluesky, Mastodon, or what have you. But I know a lot of folks like to use DailyDev as well and, if that’s you, we have a couple of ways you can […]
Retailers bring conversational AI and analytics closer to the user
Reading Time: 4 minutesAfter years of experimentation with artificial intelligence, retailers are striving to embed consumer insight directly into everyday commercial decisions. First Insight, a US-based analytics company specialising in predictive consumer feedback, argues that the next phase of retail AI should be epitomised by dialogue, not dashboards. Following a three-month beta programme, First Insight has made its […]
Banks operationalise as Plumery AI launches standardised integration
Reading Time: 4 minutesA new technology from digital banking platform Plumery AI aims to address a dilemma for financial institutions: how to move beyond proofs of concept and embed artificial intelligence into everyday banking operations without compromising governance, security, or regulatory compliance. Plumery’s “AI Fabric” has been positioned by the company as a standardised framework for connecting generative […]