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The Financial Supervisory Service is considering allowing financial firms with strong AI security controls to bypass long-standing network-separation rules, while keeping responsibility for breaches firmly with the institutions themselves. South Korea’s financial regulator is preparing to loosen one of the sector’s most entrenched cyber rules, saying it wants banks and…
Specialist services provider AGS One says Build Concierge has helped it automate more than 50 workflows, uncover £21,000 in missed revenue and scale without increasing back-office headcount. A specialist cleaning and support-services provider is turning to artificial intelligence to keep pace with rapid expansion, using automation to trim administration, tighten…
Mahindra Group’s supply chain services arm is expanding into AI, analytics and product engineering as it targets faster growth, more Fortune 1000 customers and a billion-dollar valuation. Bristlecone, the Mahindra Group’s supply chain services arm, has posted 24% year-on-year topline growth as it pushes towards what its leadership hopes will…
PwC Bahamas says organisations are struggling to keep pace with AI-enabled attacks, exposing a widening gap between investment in new tools and confidence in using them safely. The rapid spread of artificial intelligence is making cyber security markedly more difficult to manage, according to PwC Bahamas, which says companies must…
As AI coding assistants move towards deploying and repairing live systems, engineers are urged to treat them as tightly controlled service identities, with temporary credentials, human approval and limited blast radius. Allowing an artificial intelligence agent to make changes to production infrastructure can be safe, but only if the machine…
Boehringer Ingelheim raises factory productivity by up to 30% without building new plants
By News RoomA connected factory platform has improved equipment effectiveness, lifted operator productivity and helped Boehringer Ingelheim meet rising demand while avoiding new-site emissions and capital costs. Boehringer Ingelheim’s effort to create a more connected factory floor has delivered gains that extend well beyond efficiency. According to EY’s case study, the pharmaceutical…
Distributors are using AI to translate emails, PDFs, messages and handwritten orders into structured drafts, while leaving staff to resolve the exceptions that require commercial judgement. Wholesale distributors have spent years automating warehouses, transport and stock control, yet one stubborn bottleneck often remains at the front end of the business:…
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Distributors are using AI to translate emails, PDFs, messages and handwritten orders into structured drafts, while leaving staff to resolve the exceptions that require commercial judgement. Wholesale distributors have spent years automating warehouses, transport and stock control, yet one stubborn bottleneck often remains at the front end of the business:…
Microsoft is preparing to roll out context-aware phishing detection in Teams, initially targeting first-time chats with external contacts and warning users about suspicious behaviour. Microsoft is set to begin rolling out AI-driven phishing detection in Teams in early November, with the company framing the move as part of a broader…
A new Korean financial-sector framework will test whether autonomous AI agents can be stopped from misusing tools, permissions and credentials as regulators shift their focus from what models say to what they do. In South Korea, AI-agent security is rapidly moving from a theoretical concern to a formal compliance issue,…
The companies say their edge-based system will let process and heavy industries run agentic AI alongside live production data, addressing concerns over sovereignty, security and cost. Schneider Electric has joined with NVIDIA and Hewlett Packard Enterprise to unveil what the companies describe as Industrial AI Agents at the Edge, a…
Uber has kept its AI spending steady as weekly agent requests surged, highlighting how model routing, caching and tighter workload controls can prevent usage-based costs from spiralling. Corporate finance teams are quickly learning that artificial intelligence does not behave like conventional software. The familiar logic of fixed licences and predictable…
AI is moving beyond research and fraud detection into autonomous financial workflows, as tokenised assets and pressure for explainable decision-making reshape the industry. Artificial intelligence has moved from being a back-office novelty to one of the most consequential forces in modern finance, reshaping how banks analyse data, manage risk and…
Separating master data, metadata and transactions, then versioning calculation rules, helped one operation reduce settlement disputes by 40% and improve receivables accuracy to 99.5%. In many advertising and e-commerce operations, the most time-consuming monthly argument is not about what happened in the business, but about which figure should count as…
Microsoft links ConnectWise compromise to Storm-0940 as AI scales cloud identity attacks
By News RoomMicrosoft says an AI-assisted campaign using stolen application credentials reached more than 2,250 Microsoft 365 tenants, while investigators warn that exposure, persistence and confirmed data theft must not be conflated. Microsoft has linked a compromise involving ConnectWise to Storm-0940, a China-aligned threat actor, and said the campaign was accelerated by…
Websites were taken offline across Europe after AI-assisted research uncovered PHP vulnerabilities that could let attackers seize remote servers, exposing the accelerating race between disclosure and exploitation. Government and security teams across Europe moved quickly to take websites offline on Wednesday after two serious flaws were identified in PHP, the…
French robotics company Wandercraft says Renault will deploy hundreds of Calvin-40 robots across factories in France and Spain, as it races to turn humanoid machines from pilot projects into production tools. French robotics company Wandercraft is stepping up its bid to become a major name in humanoid automation, after saying…
As consolidation reshapes fleet software, buyers must determine whether AI is embedded in live data and operational workflows or simply added as another layer. Fleet managers shopping for artificial intelligence should look past the marketing gloss and ask a simpler question: does the system actually understand the operation it is…
Attackers are hiding instructions inside emails to manipulate AI-generated summaries, potentially steering staff towards fraudulent payments, data leaks and other harmful actions. Email fraud is entering a new phase in which attackers are no longer trying only to fool the person at the keyboard. According to Barracuda Research, a phishing…
