Real-world use cases

Real-world use cases

What real organisations are doing with artificial intelligence, industry by industry. Every case cites its source; the read on why it matters is my own.

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Banking and finance
Banking and finance
Agents 25 AGO 2026

Google Cloud launches AI platform for financial professionals

Google Cloud has unveiled a purpose-built agentic AI offering engineered for financial professionals, with Deutsche Bank signed up as an early adopte…

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Government and public sector
Artificial intelligence 25 AGO 2026

Texas names new internal CIO to lead AI efforts for state’s tech agency

Amy Kelley will serve Texas in a new role, the internal CIO, and lead AI efforts for the state's Department of Information Resources.

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Telecommunications
Artificial intelligence 25 AGO 2026

With Nvidia on board, SpaceX orbital data centers to hit 'significant scale' in 2028

Using a design powered by Nvidia chips, SpaceX's deployment of orbital AI data centers will start in Q4 2027 and reach 'significant scale' in 2028, p…

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Banking and finance
Banking and finance
Agents 25 AGO 2026

Scalable Capital opens platform to AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT

Munich-based bank Scalable Capital has opened its platform to AI assistants, giving customers the option to let the likes of ChatGPT, Claude and Grok…

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Banking and finance
Banking and finance
Agents 25 AGO 2026

Itoflow raises $2.5m for investment research AI agents

Startup Itoflow has raised $2.5 million in pre-seed funding for its AI platform helping professional investment teams scale research and portfolio ma…

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Banking and finance
Banking and finance
Artificial intelligence 25 AGO 2026

Revolut launches dedicated AI research lab built on its own foundation model

Revolut has launched a dedicated AI research division built around its foundation model, Pragma, with the aim of developing a single, unified system …

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Retail and consumer
Artificial intelligence 24 AGO 2026

AI Marketing Strategies: From experimentation to execution with Samsung, Bayer, David’s Bridal and Dolce&Gabbana Beauty

On Sept. 24 in New York City, Digiday, Glossy and Modern Retail will host the second iteration of AI Marketing Strategies, bringing together brand le…

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Banking and finance
Banking and finance
Artificial intelligence 24 AGO 2026

AI-native financial services startup Neno raises €6.6 million

Dutch fintech Neno has raised €6.6 million in seed funding to bring its AI-native accounting and tax offering for SMEs to the wider European market.

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Telecommunications
Agents 24 AGO 2026

SpaceXAI to use Nvidia 'Vera' chips for agentic AI apps and 'Starmind' AI satellites

Nvidia said SpaceXAI will use its 'Vera' CPUs to help it speed up a new generation of agentic AI applications and for its planned orbital AI data cen…

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Telecommunications
Artificial intelligence 24 AGO 2026

AI tech specialist Quintessent pulls in $40M 'A' round

Quintessent, a maker of low-cost AI datacenter optical interconnect products, has raised $40 million via an oversubscribed Series A round. #pressrele…

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Logistics and supply chain
Artificial intelligence 24 AGO 2026

Descartes acquires Tai Software for $100m

Descartes Acquires Tai Aug 24, 2026 Expands Transportation Management Capabilities and Global Logistics Network with AI-Enabled Freight Brokerage Pla…

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Manufacturing
Artificial intelligence 24 AGO 2026

How XPUs Meet a World-Class AI Factory

To generate intelligence at scale, AI factories run continuously, and their economics are defined by delivered output: tokens per second, tokens per …

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Manufacturing
Agents 24 AGO 2026

With Groq 3 LPX in Full Production, NVIDIA Extends Vera Rubin Inference for Agents

The next era of AI inference won’t be defined by a single breakthrough chip, network or system. It’ll be defined by how every layer of the AI factory…

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Telecommunications
Artificial intelligence 24 AGO 2026

Verizon taps into Google Cloud to bring AI to the enterprise

Verizon will use Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise platform to unify enterprise data and scale AI to business service customers. #pressrelease

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Telecommunications
Artificial intelligence 24 AGO 2026

Asia-Pac set for $280B data center buildout – report

Government measures in the Asia-Pacific to limit energy and water consumption have stymied a US-style backlash against AI data center investment.

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Banking and finance
Banking and finance
Artificial intelligence 24 AGO 2026

ADIB appoints first chief AI officer

Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank(ADIB) has named Pedro Uria-Recio as its inaugural chief AI officer.

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Retail and consumer
Agents 24 AGO 2026

AI agent sprawl pressures CIOs to recalibrate governance

Every Friday, Bret Greenstein, CAIO at consulting firm West Monroe, holds a company-wide meeting to share what’s happened in AI over the past week. H…

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Energy and utilities
Artificial intelligence 24 AGO 2026

People + Vertical AI: The new operating model for energy and utilities

People + Vertical AI is redefining how utilities scale human expertise, intelligence and impact.

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Retail and consumer
Artificial intelligence 23 AGO 2026

Hershey is using AI to strategize for s’mores season

The Hershey Company has started using new AI tools to maximize sales performance of s'mores ingredients in stores — including its own chocolates, as …

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Government and public sector
Artificial intelligence 21 AGO 2026

Delaware paired students with agencies in 3-day AI hackathon

Delaware's state government led its first hackathon pitting university and high school students against real problems faced by the state.

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Healthcare
Agents 21 AGO 2026

Accelerating aircraft IFEC diagnostics with agentic AI on AWS

Panasonic Avionics worked with AWS and the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center to build an agentic AI system on Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, and…

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Telecommunications
Artificial intelligence 21 AGO 2026

AI networks face a triple threat: Capacity, permits and supply chains

Policy experts from Lumen, AT&T and other groups highlight rising capacity requirements, permitting issues and supply chain constraints as AI traffic…

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Education
Artificial intelligence 20 AGO 2026

Build a no-code ML workflow with Snowflake, Amazon SageMaker Canvas and Amazon Quick – Part 2: Data preparation and model building with Amazon SageMaker Canvas

In Part 2 of this no-code ML series, you connect Amazon SageMaker Canvas to Snowflake, prepare and join transaction data with Data Wrangler visual tr…

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Education
Education
Artificial intelligence 18 AGO 2026

Assignments, Invoices, and the AI Fix

On This Week with EdSurge, searching to see where artificial intelligence quietly adds up.

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Energy and utilities
Artificial intelligence 17 AGO 2026

Securing the Infrastructure of Intelligence

AI factories are the defining infrastructure of the AI era — where compute transforms energy and data into intelligence that powers every business, i…

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Education
Artificial intelligence 14 AGO 2026

Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indosat and NVIDIA Open Indonesia’s First University AI Center to Develop Local AI Talent

Indonesia is taking charge of its AI future. This week, the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs (Komdigi), Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (Indos…

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Agriculture and food
Artificial intelligence 13 AGO 2026

AgriFood Signals: Ranch tech startup Ranchbot nets $15m, Target hires chief AI officer, plant cell culture megadeal

Plus: Vertical farmer GoodLeaf Farms achieves profitability. The post AgriFood Signals: Ranch tech startup Ranchbot nets $15m, Target hires chief AI …

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Education
Education
Artificial intelligence 12 AGO 2026

On AI Policy, Students Have Plenty to Say

At a gathering in Boston, ‘student senators’ proposed a first-of-its-kind national AI policy for K-12 classrooms.

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Manufacturing
Artificial intelligence 11 AGO 2026

NVIDIA AI Factory Compute Is Becoming an Investable Asset Class

We announced partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to establish independent financing platforms designed…

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Education
Education
Artificial intelligence 11 AGO 2026

The K-12 Silo Won’t Survive AI — But Our Relationships Might

I left my school to ask tech executives how to prepare students for the future.

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