DeepL’s Borderless Business Report Reveals 83% of Enterprises Are Still Behind on Language AI
DeepL’s 2026 Borderless Business report finds that 83% of enterprises have not adopted modern language AI, with 35% still translating manually and another 33% relying on legacy automation plus human review. Only 17% have deployed large‑language‑model or agentic AI for multilingual tasks, even as content volumes have risen 50% since 2023 and 68% of firms use outdated workflows. The study highlights global expansion, sales and marketing, and customer support as the top drivers of language‑AI investment, and notes that 71% of leaders plan to prioritize AI‑enabled workflow transformation in 2026. DeepL, serving over 200,000 customers, positions its AI Agent—certified ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, with BYOK encryption—as a secure, autonomous solution for the untapped market.
Hershey Applies AI Across Its Supply Chain Operations
Hershey announced at its Investor Day that it will embed artificial intelligence across its supply chain, from sourcing analytics to plant automation and fulfillment. The company aims to create a faster, smarter, more resilient supply chain powered by AI‑enabled decision...
SAP and ANYbotics Drive Industrial Adoption of Physical AI
SAP is partnering with Swiss robot maker ANYbotics to embed four‑legged autonomous inspectors directly into its ERP platform. The robots act as mobile data‑gathering nodes, using edge AI to analyze thermal, acoustic and visual feeds and instantly push fault alerts...
Glia Wins Excellence Award for Safer AI in Banking
Glia, the AI‑powered customer‑service platform for banks, won the 2026 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Award in the Banking and Financial Services category. The company’s solution automates up to 80 % of routine interactions while embedding safeguards against hallucinations and prompt‑injection attacks. Industry...
How AEO vs GEO Reshapes AI-Driven Brand Discovery in 2026
Recent studies reveal AI‑generated search overviews are eroding traditional click‑through rates, with organic CTR dropping 61% and paid CTR 68% when answers appear in AI summaries. The distinction between Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO) – targeting featured snippets – and Generative...
Assessing AI Powered Price Forecasting Tools in Currency Markets
Artificial intelligence is reshaping foreign‑exchange trading by offering sophisticated price‑forecasting models, yet the gap between back‑tested performance and live market results raises doubts about claimed accuracy. The article explains that AI tools use advanced architectures—RNNs, CNNs, transformers—and ingest diverse data,...
Kong Names Bruce Felt as Chief Financial Officer
Kong, a developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, announced Bruce Felt as its new chief financial officer. Felt brings extensive finance leadership, having guided FullTime Software, SuccessFactors and Domo through IPOs and global expansions. He also serves on the...
RPA Matters, but AI Changes How Automation Works
RPA remains a proven method for automating repetitive, rule‑driven tasks such as data entry and invoice processing. However, the rise of generative AI and large language models is pushing vendors toward “intelligent automation” that can handle unstructured inputs and adapt...
Ocorian: Family Offices Turn to AI for Financial Data Insights
New Ocorian research shows 86% of family offices, managing $119.37 billion, are deploying AI to enhance daily operations and data analysis. Executives cite faster fraud detection, streamlined reporting, and regulatory compliance as key benefits, with most leveraging Azure or Google Cloud....
Automating Complex Finance Workflows with Multimodal AI
Finance leaders are turning to multimodal AI frameworks to automate complex document workflows. By pairing vision‑enabled parsing tools like LlamaParse with large language models, extraction accuracy improves 13‑15% over raw OCR. Gemini 3.1 Pro, combined with Gemini 3 Flash for...
Mastercard Keeps Tabs on Fraud with New Foundation Model
Mastercard has unveiled a large tabular model (LTM) trained on billions of anonymized card‑transaction records to strengthen fraud detection. Unlike large language models, the LTM analyzes multi‑dimensional tabular data, identifying behavioral anomalies without relying on personal identifiers. Early tests show...
For Effective AI, Insurance Needs to Get Its Data House in Order
A new Autorek report reveals that insurance firms are hamstrung by slow settlement cycles, fragmented data estates and costly manual error correction. Surveyed managers say 14% of operational budgets go to fixing manual errors and nearly half of firms take...
Trustpilot Partners with AI Companies as Traditional Search Declines
Trustpilot is forging partnerships with major eCommerce platforms to feed AI shopping agents with its review data. CEO Adrian Blair said AI‑driven search generated a 1,490% surge in click‑throughs and positions the company to hit a 30% operating margin by...
US Treasury Publishes AI Risk Guidebook for Financial Institutions
The U.S. Treasury has released a Financial Services AI Risk Management Framework (FS AI RMF) guidebook, created with input from over 100 financial institutions and regulators. The guidebook adapts the NIST AI Risk Management Framework with 230 sector‑specific control objectives organized into...
NTT DATA and NVIDIA Bring Enterprise AI Factories to Production Scale
NTT DATA announced an enterprise AI factory platform built on NVIDIA’s GPU‑accelerated stack, combining AI Enterprise software, NeMo and NIM microservices into a production‑ready solution. The offering spans the entire AI lifecycle—from model training to governed deployment—in both cloud and...
OpenAI’s Frontier Puts AI Agents in a Fight SaaS Can’t Afford to Lose
OpenAI launched Frontier, an overlay platform that creates a semantic layer for AI agents across an enterprise’s data warehouses, CRM, ticketing and internal apps. Early adopters such as Uber, State Farm, Intuit and Thermo Fisher report dramatic efficiency gains, with...
Ai2: Building Physical AI with Virtual Simulation Data
Ai2 unveiled MolmoBot, a suite of robotic manipulation models trained exclusively on synthetic data generated in the MolmoSpaces simulation environment. The open‑source stack includes 1.8 million procedurally created trajectories, delivering a 79.2% success rate on real‑world pick‑and‑place tasks—more than double the...
New Partnership to Offer Smart Robots for Dangerous Environments
ADLINK Technology and Under Control Robotics have entered a strategic alliance to develop general‑purpose, bipedal robots for hazardous industrial environments. The collaboration merges ADLINK’s DLAP edge AI platform, built on NVIDIA Jetson Thor, with Noble Machines’ autonomy and whole‑body control software,...
Manulife Moves AI Agents Into Core Financial Workflows
Manulife is rolling out a runtime platform for agentic AI that can execute tasks across its internal systems, moving AI from isolated pilots to core financial workflows. The insurer expects the initiative to generate more than $1 billion in value by...
Mastercard Brings Agentic Payments to Life in Singapore with DBS and UOB
Mastercard completed its first live, authenticated agentic payment in Singapore, partnering with DBS and UOB. An AI‑driven agent used Mastercard Agent Pay to book a hoppa ride to Changi Airport, leveraging tokenised credentials and Payment Passkey consent. The transaction moves...
UK Sovereign AI Fund to Build up Domestic Computing Infrastructure
The UK government has launched a sovereign AI fund with a £500 million budget, chaired by Balderton Capital partner James Wise, to build domestic computing infrastructure and keep AI intellectual property within the country. The initiative will develop supercomputing resources such...
The Firm that Never Forgets: Rowspace Launches with $50M to Make AI for Private Equity Actually Work
Rowspace, a San Francisco startup founded by MIT alumni Michael Manapat and Yibo Ling, announced a $50 million seed and Series A round led by Sequoia and Emergence Capital. The company’s AI platform stitches together a firm’s structured and unstructured private‑equity data—deal...
The Integration of AI in Modern Forex Automation
Artificial intelligence is reshaping foreign‑exchange trading, with the global AI market projected to reach $2.48 trillion by 2034 and AI‑driven forex platforms expected to grow to $631.9 million by 2035. Modern AI forex automation software can ingest massive data streams and execute...
AI Adoption in Financial Services Has Hit a Point of No Return
AI adoption in financial services is now near‑universal, with only 2% of institutions reporting no AI use. The Finastra State of the Nation 2026 survey of 1,509 senior executives shows 60% improved AI capabilities and 43% rank AI as their...
MWC 2026: SK Telecom Lays Out Plan to Rebuild Its Core Around AI
At MWC 2026, SK Telecom unveiled its “AI Native” strategy, aiming to rebuild its core operations around artificial intelligence. The plan includes redesigning billing, sales and network management systems, deploying AI-driven autonomous network operations, and implementing a Zero Trust security...
Poor Implementation of AI May Be Behind Workforce Reduction
Datatonic warns that many enterprises are seeing productivity loss and workforce reductions because AI is deployed in isolation from human workflows. The consultancy advocates a human‑in‑the‑loop (HiTL) approach, where AI accelerates decisions while humans provide judgment, governance, and final approval....
Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank Test Agentic AI for Trade Surveillance
Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank are piloting agentic artificial intelligence for trade surveillance, moving beyond static rule‑based alerts to systems that reason over real‑time trading patterns. Deutsche Bank is collaborating with Google Cloud to build AI agents that flag complex...
How Disconnected Clouds Improve AI Data Governance
Microsoft has launched Azure Local, a fully disconnected private cloud that unifies Azure, Microsoft 365, and Foundry services for regulated enterprises. The offering supports offline governance, policy enforcement, and AI inferencing on on‑prem hardware, ensuring data never leaves customer‑controlled boundaries....
How Amul Is Using AI Dairy Farming to Put 36 Million Farmers First
Amul has launched an AI‑driven dairy platform, Sarlaben, to serve 3.6 million women milk producers in Gujarat. The system pulls from over two billion milk transactions, veterinary records and satellite imagery, delivering personalised, Gujarati‑language advice via a mobile app and voice calls....
Coca-Cola Turns to AI Marketing as Price-Led Growth Slows
Coca‑Cola is pivoting from price‑driven growth to AI‑enabled persuasion, testing generative AI across its marketing pipeline. The company is using AI to draft scripts, create images, and tailor campaign messaging in near real‑time as inflation eases. This shift positions AI...
How AI Upgrades Enterprise Treasury Management
Enterprises are shifting treasury management from error‑prone spreadsheets to AI‑driven automated pipelines. Infosys’ Ashish Kumar and IBS FinTech CEO CM Grover highlight that real‑time data integration with ERP, trading platforms, and banks is essential for AI to add value....
DBS Pilots System that Lets AI Agents Make Payments for Customers
DBS Bank, in partnership with Visa, has launched a pilot that enables AI agents to complete payments on behalf of customers using tokenised card credentials. The trial, dubbed Visa Intelligent Commerce, has already processed real‑world transactions such as food and...
SS&C Blue Prism: On the Journey From RPA to Agentic Automation
SS&C Blue Prism is guiding customers from traditional robotic process automation (RPA) toward agentic AI automation. The firm highlights the limitations of rule‑based RPA for handling unstructured, context‑driven data and showcases its emerging platform that embeds large‑language‑model agents into workflows....
URBN Tests Agentic AI to Automate Retail Reporting
Urban Outfitters (URBN) is piloting agentic AI to generate weekly store‑level performance reports, replacing the manual assembly of more than 20 spreadsheets per Sunday. The AI agents ingest sales, inventory and other metrics, then deliver concise summaries to merchandising teams....
AI Forecasting Model Targets Healthcare Resource Efficiency
University of Hertfordshire researchers, in partnership with regional NHS bodies, have built an AI forecasting model that uses five years of historical data to predict healthcare demand. The system integrates admissions, bed capacity, workforce availability, and demographic factors to generate...
What Murder Mystery 2 Reveals About Emergent Behaviour in Online Games
Murder Mystery 2 (MM2) on Roblox functions as a low‑cost laboratory for studying emergent behaviour in online games. Randomised roles force players to infer hidden intentions, mirroring AI tasks such as anomaly detection and predictive modelling. Social signalling and the...
What AI Can (and Can’t) Tell Us About XRP in ETF-Driven Markets
The crypto market has slowed, with ETF‑driven capital flows now shaping price dynamics more than headline‑driven sentiment. Binance Research reports over $2 billion net inflows into altcoin ETFs, led by XRP and Solana, while Bitcoin and Ethereum spot ETFs have been...
Cryptocurrency Markets a Testbed for AI Forecasting Models
Cryptocurrency markets are being leveraged as a high‑speed testbed for AI forecasting models, thanks to their continuous trading and transparent on‑chain data. Developers are deploying LSTM‑based neural networks enhanced with attention mechanisms and NLP sentiment analysis to capture both price...
AI Expo 2026 Day 2: Moving Experimental Pilots to AI Production
Day two of the AI & Big Data Expo in London marked a clear shift from generative hype to production‑grade AI, with sessions centered on data lineage, observability and compliance. Speakers from Northern Trust, Just Eat and Kingfisher warned that...
How Cisco Builds Smart Systems for the AI Era
Cisco is embedding artificial intelligence across its internal operations and product line, creating a unified AI fabric that tightly couples high‑performance compute with networking. The company has launched AI‑optimized Nexus Hyperfabric switches in partnership with NVIDIA and introduced the Secure...
Ronnie Sheth, CEO, SENEN Group: Why Now Is the Time for Enterprise AI to ‘Get Practical’
Ronnie Sheth, CEO of SENEN Group, warns that enterprises are rushing into AI without first securing data quality, a mistake that Gartner estimates costs firms an average $12.9 million per year. SENEN, which enjoys a 99.99% client repeat rate, focuses on...
Klarna Backs Google UCP to Power AI Agent Payments
Klarna announced its support for Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) and the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), positioning the fintech firm among the first payment providers to adopt an open standard for AI‑driven shopping. UCP aims to replace fragmented, platform‑specific integrations...
How SAP Is Modernising HMRC’s Tax Infrastructure with AI
HMRC has awarded SAP a contract to replace its legacy Enterprise Tax Management Platform with a cloud‑native solution built on SAP Business Technology Platform and RISE with SAP. The migration moves £800 billion of annual tax revenue processing to a UK...
PepsiCo Is Using AI to Rethink How Factories Are Designed and Updated
PepsiCo is piloting AI‑driven digital twins to redesign factory layouts and production lines before any physical changes are made. The technology lets engineers test thousands of scenarios virtually, cutting validation cycles from weeks to days and lowering the risk of...
Insurers Betting Big on AI: Accenture
Accenture’s Pulse of Change survey finds 90% of senior insurance executives will increase AI spending in 2026, with 85% viewing AI primarily as a revenue engine. While 34% of insurers are already deploying AI agents across multiple functions, data‑quality issues...
Franny Hsiao, Salesforce: Scaling Enterprise AI
Salesforce’s EMEA AI Architect leader Franny Hsiao warns that most enterprise AI pilots fail because they are built on isolated, “pristine island” data environments lacking production‑grade infrastructure and governance. She advocates embedding end‑to‑end observability, guardrails, and human‑in‑the‑loop controls from the...
Masumi Network: How AI-Blockchain Fusion Adds Trust to Burgeoning Agent Economy
Masumi Network, a collaboration between NMKR and Serviceplan Group, launched as a framework‑agnostic platform that lets autonomous AI agents collaborate, monetize services, and exchange value with verifiable trust. Built on the Cardano blockchain, the network equips each agent with a...
Inside Standard Chartered’s Approach to Running AI Under Privacy Rules
Standard Chartered has placed data‑privacy teams at the forefront of its AI strategy, making privacy requirements the starting point for model design, approval, and monitoring. The bank must navigate divergent data‑sovereignty laws, often deploying AI locally or using anonymised data...
Anthropic Selected to Build Government AI Assistant Pilot
Anthropic has been chosen by the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology to develop an agentic AI assistant pilot for government services, starting with employment support. The system will use Claude to guide users through multi‑step processes, retaining context...
Expereo: Enterprise Connectivity Amid AI Surge with ‘Visibility at the Speed of Life’
Expereo’s chief digital officer Julian Skeels warns that AI workloads turn networking into a system‑of‑record, requiring deterministic, observable, and resilient connectivity. Enterprises are tangled in hybrid clouds and multiple providers, leading to “connectivity everywhere but visibility nowhere.” The company’s expereoOne...