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…

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…

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…

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:…

A 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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

Microsoft 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…