Reading Time: 4 minutesMany organisations are trying to update their infrastructure to improve efficiency and manage rising costs. But the path is rarely simple. Hybrid setups, legacy systems, and new demands from AI in the enterprise often create trade-offs for IT teams. Recent moves by Microsoft and several storage and data-platform vendors highlight how enterprises are trying to […]
Lightweight LLM powers Japanese enterprise AI deployments
Reading Time: 4 minutesEnterprise AI deployment faces a fundamental tension: organisations need sophisticated language models but baulk at the infrastructure costs and energy consumption of frontier systems. NTT’s recent launch of tsuzumi 2, a lightweight large language model (LLM) running on a single GPU, demonstrates how businesses are resolving this constraint – with early deployments showing performance matching […]
Customer voice earns RingEX the 2026 Buyer’s Choice Award
Reading Time: 2 minutesRingCentral is proud to announce that RingEX has, again, been awarded the TrustRadius 2026 Buyer’s Choice Award. This award is special because it comes directly from our users. It’s a testament to the trust our customers place in us every single day. The TrustRadius Awards are unique because they are based 100% on verified reviews […]
What Europe’s AI education experiments can teach a business
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe’re all chasing talent. It’s become as crucial to success as building amazing products, and a lot of businesses are feeling the squeeze. The problem is that demand for people with AI skills is skyrocketing, but the supply isn’t keeping up. The OECD points this out – lots of us need AI expertise, but very […]
Gartner Data & Analytics Summit unveils expanded AI agenda for 2026
Reading Time: 2 minutesBy 2027, half of all business decisions will be augmented or automated by AI agents for decision intelligence. This seismic shift is changing how organisations operate, and AI leaders are under pressure to adapt, innovate, and guide their teams through complexity. Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2026 is designed to help these leaders meet their […]
Ring AIdea: Sparking innovation across EMEA
Reading Time: 3 minutesRing AIdea was a regional internal hackathon that united teams from our EMEA development hubs. The goal was simple: inspire and empower employees to experiment with AI, bring bold ideas to life, and collaborate across borders — while having fun along the way of course. Thanks to the collaboration and support from our leadership teams […]
Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Anthropic forge AI compute alliance
Reading Time: 3 minutesMicrosoft, Anthropic, and NVIDIA are setting a bar for cloud infrastructure investment and AI model availability with a new compute alliance. This agreement signals a divergence from single-model dependency toward a diversified, hardware-optimised ecosystem, altering the governance landscape for senior technology leaders. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the relationship is a reciprocal integration where the […]
Franklin Templeton & Wand AI bring agentic AI to asset management
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 […]