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21/08 — 28/08/2026 24 entries

Real-world use cases

Banking and finance 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 adopter.

Government and public sector 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.

Telecommunications 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, predicts Elon Musk.

Banking and finance 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 carry out trades on their beh…

Banking and finance 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 management.

Banking and finance 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 capable of understanding the t…

Retail and consumer 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 leaders, agency executives, anal…

Banking and finance 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.

Telecommunications 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 centers.#pressrelease

Telecommunications 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. #pressrelease

Logistics and supply chain 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 Platform WATERLOO, Ontario, and A…

Manufacturing 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 watt, cost per token, utilizat…

Technology radar

Artificial Intelligence 28 AGO 2026

Quantization and Pruning Methods to Make Your LLM Leaner

This article walks through what each technique actually does, why skipping them costs real money and real latency, and then gets hands-on with five specific methods people are run…

Cloud and Architecture 28 AGO 2026

AKS Looks to Make Node Disruption More Predictable with New NAP Guidance

Microsoft is placing greater emphasis on controlling disruption in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Node Auto-Provisioning (NAP), publishing new guidance to help platform teams bala…

Banking and Fintech 28 AGO 2026

Visa and Mastercard complete transactions in Syria after US lifts state terrorism label

Visa and Mastercard have completed their first international card transactions in Syria after the US removed it from the state sponsors of terrorism list.

Artificial Intelligence 28 AGO 2026

Meta tests consumer-based AI agent for everyday online tasks

Meta is testing an AI agent that can set up appointments, post on social media, fill out forms, and buy things on the user’s behalf.

IT Strategy and Governance 28 AGO 2026

Shadow agents make the old shadow IT problem worse

Companies are running into a new version of an old problem. Take, for example, a marketing executive turns on an agent from Marketo but doesn’t tell their IT team. That shadow age…

Data and Analytics 28 AGO 2026

Tableau certification guide: How to boost your data analytics skills

Data visualization platform Tableau is one of the most widely used tools in the rapidly growing business intelligence (BI) space, and individuals with skills in Tableau are in hig…

Cloud and Architecture 28 AGO 2026

Why enterprise AI projects keep failing

Over the past three years, as an independent cloud and AI consultant, advisor, and industry influencer, I have worked with numerous companies seeking my expertise. I have helped e…

Projects, PMO and Risk 28 AGO 2026

Article: Post-Quantum Cryptography in Spring Boot: Four Patterns You Can Ship This Sprint

There are four patterns that bring PQC into a Spring Boot fleet: encrypting payloads between services, locking down database fields, signing documents that need to hold up for dec…

Artificial Intelligence 28 AGO 2026

When you keep AI Lean, you keep AI correct

Ryan chats with Leo de Moura, Senior Principal Applied Scientist at AWS and the creator of the Lean language, about proving correctness in AI agents with the Lean language, how au…

IT Strategy and Governance 28 AGO 2026

The logic layer: the missing piece in modern AI tech stacks

There’s a scenario that plays out every day across the enterprise. A salesperson is about to close a major deal. They want to know what their commission will be. They type the que…

IT Strategy and Governance 28 AGO 2026

Where enterprise intelligence really comes from

Every new frontier model release seems to spur a fresh round of doomsday articles. Just Google “the end of white-collar jobs,” and you’ll be bombarded with discourse on the end of…

Artificial Intelligence 28 AGO 2026

Google AI Releases Gemini 3.5 Transcribe: A Speech-to-Text Model Reporting 2.6% Average WER Across 85+ Languages

Google has released Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model that ships as two separate endpoints rather than one. The streaming endpoint delivers sub-second transcription bu…

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