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Broader product ranges, mixed-case orders and persistent labour shortages are pushing beverage distributors to use warehouse software to improve accuracy, safety and throughput. Beverage warehouse operators are under mounting pressure from a familiar mix of problems: more stock-keeping units, more mixed orders, tighter delivery expectations and a labour market that…
AI agents could take on repetitive investigations, shifting security teams towards incident ownership, SOC engineering and exposure management , while keeping human oversight essential. Artificial intelligence is beginning to reshape the security operations centre in ways that go well beyond faster alert handling. A sponsored summary of Gartner’s 2026 research…
From 1 November 2026, new and renewed Power Platform and Dynamics 365 licences will lose seeded AI Builder credits, pushing organisations towards Copilot Credits and a fresh look at costs. A recent guide to intelligent document processing may read like a buyer’s checklist, but for Microsoft administrators it highlights a…
Employee names, roles and photographs shared online can help criminals craft convincing impersonation attempts, with generative AI making personalised scams easier to produce at scale. Companies that publish staff names, job titles, photographs and internal details online may be handing criminals a ready-made toolkit, according to Anastasia Patrusheva of the…
Scaling AI takes more than a successful model: businesses must align data, workflows and oversight, then track whether deployment improves speed, accuracy and costs. Moving artificial intelligence from a successful proof of concept into day-to-day business use is often where the real difficulty begins. In an interview with Analytics Insight,…
A PYMNTS Intelligence survey found 59% of firms using at least three AI fraud tools said they stopped 90% or more of attempted fraud before losses, compared with 32% of businesses using no AI. Companies that use several artificial intelligence fraud tools appear far more likely to stop attempted theft…
The newly available AI Defense tool is designed to reveal unauthorised AI use and help security teams control sensitive data shared with AI tools. Sophos has made its AI Defense product generally available, pitching it as a way for security teams to identify unapproved AI tools and monitor whether staff…
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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:…
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…
