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Blue Yonder rolls out agentic AI across supply chains

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Blue Yonder expands agentic AI and mobile apps across supply chains, embedding role-based agents from planning to customer service.
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Mastercard unveils AI 'Virtual C-Suite' for small firms

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Mastercard launches its Virtual C-Suite AI agents, starting with a Virtual CFO, to give small firms automated executive-style insights.
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The supply chains seeing real AI returns have one thing in common

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Supply chains gaining real AI returns share one trait: live, shared trade data that turns fragmented logistics into real‑time decisions.
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AI is key to smarter shelves in the UK retail stores

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AI‑driven planograms, AR tools and image recognition are reshaping UK store shelves, cutting costly stock gaps and boosting loyalty.
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AI at Goddiva, a woman's perspective

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At Goddiva, women across design to leadership are steering AI to sharpen creativity, deepen customer insight and reshape fashion eCommerce.
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The role of technology in rebalancing performance and wellbeing

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Smarter workplace tech is helping firms curb burnout by tracking workloads, boosting financial clarity and opening fairer paths to progression.
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CIOs warn AI adoption is racing ahead of governance

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CIOs warn AI is being rolled out faster than governance can keep up, with many fearing security gaps and lacking oversight of tools in use.
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UK CIOs race to adopt AI but governance lags behind

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UK CIOs accelerate AI rollouts despite misaligned strategies, skills shortages and widening governance gaps, new research reveals.
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If women do not build it, it will be built without us

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A 24-year-old founder argues women must build the AI shaping power, or watch systems encode the blind spots that once shut them out.
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LiveRamp unveils AI agents for data-driven marketing

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LiveRamp launches partner-built AI agents in its platform, automating audience planning, cross-media measurement and privacy-safe optimisation.
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The future of marketing is built on open data infrastructure

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Marketing's future belongs to teams that master open, unified data infrastructure instead of guessing through disconnected systems.
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CIOs warn AI adoption is outpacing governance skills

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CIOs say AI adoption is racing ahead of governance, with skills gaps, risk fears and sustainability concerns stalling efforts to scale.
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RedCloud hits 100,000 users as it rolls out agentic AI

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RedCloud passes 100,000 users and deploys agentic AI across its trade platform after enabling over USD $6.91 billion in FMCG transactions.
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SITA unveils API to give airports earlier delay alerts

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SITA launches an API to warn airports earlier of likely inbound delays, aiming to cut disruption, costs and missed passenger connections.
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Infovista unveils VistaOne to unify network & CX data

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Infovista launches VistaOne platform to fuse network and customer experience data, using agentic AI to speed decisions and cut operating costs.
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IDeaS unveils new metric to target hotel promo spend

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IDeaS adds daily 'Potential to Influence' score to Spotlight, helping hotels target promo spend where demand can still be shifted.
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RUCKUS rolls out Wi‑Fi 7 network at LAFC's BMO Stadium

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RUCKUS deploys Wi‑Fi 7 and AI-managed networking at LAFC's 22,000-seat BMO Stadium, targeting high-density, matchday connectivity.
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AI & hyperscale to more than double data centre spend

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AI and hyperscale build-outs will propel data centre networking spend from USD $55.64 billion in 2025 to USD $139.08 billion by 2031.
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Nory opens New York base to power AI for US eateries

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Irish-founded Nory opens a New York HQ to spearhead a US rollout of its AI platform aimed at cutting costs for pressured restaurants.
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ECI buys Drypowder to boost ERP payments & AR tools

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ECI acquires Drypowder to embed AI-driven AR and digital payments into its ERP platforms for construction and building materials users.