How leading CPG brands are transforming operations to survive market pressures

Presented by SAP The consumer packaged goods industry is experiencing a fundamental shift that's forcing even the most established brands to rethink how they operate. It's what some folks ca [...]

Hybrid cloud security must be rebuilt for an AI war it was never designed to fight

Hybrid cloud security was built before the current era of automated, machine-based cyberattacks that take just milliseconds to execute and minutes to deliver devastating impacts to infrastructure. The [...]

Enterprise-grade AI image generation in 2 seconds is here: Krea 2 Raw and Turbo available as open weights under custom license

While many enterprises have already begun integrating AI-generated images, visuals, graphics and videos into their production workflows — there is also a growing pool of data and subjective commenta [...]

AI joins the 8-hour work day as GLM ships 5.1 open source LLM, beating Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.4 on SWE-Bench Pro

Is China picking back up the open source AI baton? Z.ai, also known as Zhupai AI, a Chinese AI startup best known for its powerful, open source GLM family of models, has unveiled GLM-5.1 today under a [...]

Next boss says 'dramatic' fall in entry-level roles could cause job market chaos — Lord Wolfson says fall highlights 'the crisis is in youth unemployment at the moment'

Next CEO criticizes government policies for making it costlier to employ entry-level workers, while retail stores employ more automation. [...]

Standard Bots raises $200 million to build robotic arms in the US and claims it will handle 10% of industrial deployments by year-end

Standard Bots has raised $200 million at a $1 billion valuation to expand US manufacturing of AI-powered robotic arms. The round was led by General Catalyst and RoboStrategy, a robotics-focused fund, [...]

ACT! CRM review

ACT! CRM stands out with its long-standing reputation and adaptability to various business needs and industries. It provides a robust set of features including contact management, sales automation, an [...]

AWS launches Kiro powers with Stripe, Figma, and Datadog integrations for AI-assisted coding

Amazon Web Services on Wednesday introduced Kiro powers, a system that allows software developers to give their AI coding assistants instant, specialized expertise in specific tools and workflows — [...]

Dow Chemical joins the layoff bandwagon, cutting 4,500 jobs

Company says the move will save $2 billion or more as it leans more heavily on AI and automation to get things done. [...]