FranConnect, a leading provider of AI-powered sales, operations, and marketing solutions for franchise and multi-location businesses, has announced a major leadership expansion aimed at accelerating innovation and scaling global growth. Read More
Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) has received planning approval from Hillingdon Council to expand its Hayes Digital Park campus in West London — a £2.5 billion investment that marks one of the UK’s most ambitious data infrastructure projects to date. Read More
Tata Communications today announced a strategic partnership with NiCE, uniting two heavyweights in global communications and customer experience technology to reshape how enterprises manage customer interactions. Read More
Advantech (2395.TW) is doubling down on edge AI innovation through a new collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and Edge Impulse, a Qualcomm company. The goal: to accelerate the deployment of next-generation edge AI solutions powered by the Qualcomm Dragonwing™ IQ-9075 processor. Read More
Cognizant is going all-in on Anthropic’s Claude, the family of large language models that’s been quietly challenging OpenAI’s dominance in enterprise AI. The company announced that it’s embedding Claude — along with Anthropic’s agentic tooling — across its engineering platforms and client services to help businesses move from AI pilots to large-scale deployments. Read More
At its annual Inspire EMEA conference in London, NetDocuments unveiled a heavyweight addition to its growing interoperability ecosystem: Thomson Reuters. The collaboration connects Thomson Reuters CoCounsel Legal directly to NetDocuments through the company’s new ndConnect framework — a move that could redefine how law firms balance AI innovation with data governance. Read More
A startup building its own language model uses a large language model (LLM) to power its support platform. Cloud GPUs consume the budget, and optimization cycles drag on with limited returns. Tech giants are facing similar challenges when scaling or retraining large language models (LLMs). One approach to this problem is the use of evolutionary... Read More
Espresso AI, a new optimization platform founded by ex-Googlers, has launched a large language model (LLM)-driven solution designed to transform Databricks into what it calls an “agentic lakehouse.” The company claims its technology can reduce data warehouse costs by up to 50% while boosting utilization and performance—all without manual tuning. Read More
In a year defined by geopolitical volatility, talent shortages, and macroeconomic uncertainty, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) didn’t just survive—they evolved. According to a new study by the Upwork Research Institute, SMBs turned crisis into catalyst by leaning into AI, flexible workforces, and relentless experimentation. Read More