SCALE AI stories

One in three firms say clients now think AI can do expert work in-house, raising pricing pressure for agencies and consultancies.

Akamai debuts NVIDIA-powered AI Grid to run low-latency inference across 4,400 edge sites, extending its distributed Inference Cloud.

OpenNebula links its cloud orchestration with Nvidia Spectrum-X Ethernet to power multi-tenant AI Factory infrastructure at scale.

Snowflake unveils AI coding and semantic tools and inks a multi-year OpenAI partnership worth USD $200m to power its Cortex AI platform.

Tetrate has unveiled Agent Router Enterprise, a platform to certify AI agents as production ready with shared standards, guardrails and metrics.

Finance leaders hail AI as core to strategy, yet fewer than half have scaled it beyond pilots amid legacy, skills and leadership hurdles.

UK firms allocate 49% of resilience budgets to AI and technology, outspending supply chain and talent upskilling amid rising regulatory pressures.

Banks are doubling AI budgets to 17% of IT spend by 2028, but only 20% have robust real-time data governance, reveals Tech Mahindra's global survey.

AI Appreciation Day highlights the need for responsible, strategic AI use across industries, focusing on governance, infrastructure, and purposeful adoption.

HCLTech partners with OpenAI to integrate generative AI into its platforms, aiding enterprises in sectors like finance and healthcare to adopt AI at scale securely.

Paris-based Bonx secures USD $8.6m seed funding to expand its AI-powered ERP platform for mid-sized factories across Europe, focusing on Italy and Spain.

UK finance staff widely use AI tools but worry about inadequate training, data security, and lack of regulatory oversight in their organisations.

Backbase appoints Adrian McPhee as CTO to spearhead its AI-powered banking platform, accelerating global digital transformation in the financial sector.

Genesys launches Cloud AI Studio with AI Guides, enabling firms to build scalable, ethical virtual agents for complex customer interactions without coding.

Salesforce launches Agentforce 3 to help enterprises scale AI adoption with enhanced control, interoperability, and real-time hybrid workforce insights.

AvePoint updates its Confidence Platform with new command centres to enhance cloud resilience, cost optimisation, and AI governance for enterprises globally.

StorONE launches ONEai, an on-premises AI solution enabling large language model training and analysis within enterprise storage, cutting costs and cloud reliance.

EnterpriseDB launches Postgres AI to help European businesses deploy and control AI with data sovereignty across cloud and on-premise environments.

Hitachi Vantara named Leader and Fast Mover in GigaOm Radar 2025 for AI-optimised storage, highlighting its Hitachi iQ platform's robust AI and ML performance.

A global survey reveals that businesses are rapidly adopting AI but struggle with training and infrastructure, hindering growth despite high optimism and planned investments.