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06/10 — 13/10/2026 24 entries

Real-world use cases

Banking and finance 21 OCT 2026

AI in payments: Short-term gains, long-term transformation

In five years’ time, will AI make payments more efficient, or will it fundamentally change how money moves around the world?

Banking and finance 14 OCT 2026

How AI agents help FIs tackle regulatory change

How can FIs effectively integrate agents to create a more connected response to regulatory change?

Banking and finance 12 OCT 2026

Veryfi launches AI-powered fraud prevention tools

Veryfi, the leader in AI-powered document intelligence, recently announced the general availability of its Fraud Detection & Prevention Suite, a configurable, API-first platform t…

Telecommunications 12 OCT 2026

Eurobites: Telia wields jobs axe again

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Inwit shareholders consider buyout; Colt invests to get ready for AI surge; Nokia offers PON flexibility.

Banking and finance 12 OCT 2026

Carta secures fund admin licence in Luxembourg

Carta, the connected platform and AI-native ecosystem for private capital, today announced it has received authorisation as a fully licensed Specialised Professional of the Financ…

Manufacturing 12 OCT 2026

When agentic AI moves from the cloud to the factory floor

The factory floor is becoming the AI frontier—and the cloud may be too slow to keep up.

Manufacturing 12 OCT 2026

Tackling AI security challenges in manufacturing

Discover how to make your infrastructure more resilient.

Retail and consumer 12 OCT 2026

The next era of retail tech — with AI at the core

Retail is changing fast. Discover how AI and mobility are redefining the store of tomorrow.

Telecommunications 12 OCT 2026

Nokia to start dealing out GPUs in high-stakes AI-RAN gamble

Multiple operators are giving Nokia's GPU RAN a test drive this quarter, but experts remain divided over the benefits.

Banking and finance 12 OCT 2026

FIS launches agentic AI suite for the office of the CFO

Banking technology vendor FIS has built an agentic AI suite designed to help CFOs manage collections, liquidity, risk and cash flow.

Government and public sector 09 OCT 2026

Georgia launches chatbot to help residents navigate state services

Georgia’s latest digital government initiative aims to reduce call center demand and help residents more easily find official information.

Logistics and supply chain 09 OCT 2026

AI-driven cargo bump sparks Transpacific air freight service

Nippon Express and Japan Airlines' weekly circuit connects Los Angeles with key hubs in Asia for AI and semiconductor cargo.

Technology radar

Banking and Fintech 12 OCT 2026

Bahrain central bank to treble tech budget

The Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) plans to increase its investment in technology by threefold over the next three years as part of a plan to develop Bahrain to the region's primar…

Artificial Intelligence 12 OCT 2026

10 Hugging Face Models Worth Knowing in 2026

Explore 10 Hugging Face models used across text, vision, audio, and retrieval in 2026.

Cybersecurity 12 OCT 2026

Microsoft: Windows 11 23H2 reaches end of support in 30 days

Microsoft has reminded customers that systems running Windows 11 23H2 Enterprise, Education, and IoT Enterprise editions will stop receiving security updates next month. [...]

Data and Analytics 12 OCT 2026

I Built a Trap for AI Image Judges. They Walked Into a Different One.

Three vision AI models ignored the pretty image, yet GPT-4o invented answers and Claude kept answering B. The post I Built a Trap for AI Image Judges. They Walked Into a Different…

Artificial Intelligence 12 OCT 2026

Presentation: You Can't Trust Your AI Bill. And Neither Can I

Erik Peterson discusses why AI spend is eclipsing cloud bills, triggering a major software engineering cost crisis. He explains tokenmaxxing, unit economics, forced developer prom…

Artificial Intelligence 12 OCT 2026

Podcast: What Does It Really Mean To Program With AI: A Conversation with Joy Ebertz

In this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke to Joy Ebertz about how the use of artificial intelligence is changing the way architects and developers do their jobs. Focusing on the long…

Data and Analytics 12 OCT 2026

Article: When Should You Use Liquid Clustering? Benchmarking Lakehouse Layout Strategies

Physical data layout is one of the most consequential decisions in lakehouse engineering. The author compares Liquid Clustering, ZOrdering, and partitioning across four workload t…

IT Strategy and Governance 12 OCT 2026

What the C-suite needs to know about AI governance

Executives are learning tough lessons about security, oversight and accountability as AI adoption surges.

Banking and Fintech 12 OCT 2026

Pepkor's $1.3bn fintech deal comes under shareholder scrutiny

South African retailer Pepkor is facing complaints from directors and investors over a deal to merge its fintech arm with a rival company.

IT Strategy and Governance 12 OCT 2026

12 standout CIO skills every company wants

Are you looking to become or move forward as a CIO? Then you’ll need to polish your business and leadership skills across a range of domains or risk career stagnation.

Artificial Intelligence 12 OCT 2026

The great AI pricing reset is coming. Are you ready?

Per-token pricing has become the default commercial language of generative AI, and practically every budget conversation now happens in those terms (tokens consumed, tokens genera…

Supply Chain and Logistics 12 OCT 2026

5 steps to a resilient supply chain

Strong supply chains aren't lucky. They're built for resilience. Here's how you can be too.

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