A while back, I was reviewing results from a new machine learning (ML) model that looked perfect on paper. Every metric glowed green – accuracy was up, predictions were faster, errors were down. But once the model powered real user experiences, something felt off… The results were impressive, but the experience didn’t feel better. The page was smarter but…
Barclays recorded a 12 % jump in annual profit for 2025, reporting £9.1 billion in earnings before tax, up from £8.1 billion a year earlier. The bank also raised its performance targets out through 2028, aiming for a return on tangible equity (RoTE) of more than 14 %, up from a previous goal of above…
Agentic AI offers insurance leaders a path to scalable efficiency as the sector confronts a tough digital transformation. Insurers hold deep data reserves and employ a workforce skilled in analytic decision-making. Despite these advantages, the industry has largely failed to advance beyond pilot programmes. Research suggests only seven percent of insurers have scaled these initiatives…
The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) has selected Red Hat to architect a unified AI and hybrid cloud backbone across its entire estate. Announced today, the agreement is designed to break down data silos and accelerate the deployment of AI models from the data centre to the tactical edge. For CIOs, it’s part of a…
Major Chinese technology companies Alibaba, Tencent, and Huawei are pursuing agentic AI (systems that can execute multi-step tasks autonomously and interact with software, data, and services without human instruction), and orienting the technology toward discrete industries and workflows. Alibaba’s open-source strategy for agentic AI Alibaba’s strategy centres on its Qwen AI model family, a set…
Agentic AI in healthcare is graduating from answering prompts to autonomously executing complex marketing tasks – and life sciences companies are betting their commercial strategies on it. According to a recent report cited by Capgemini Invent, AI agents could generate up to $450 billion in economic value through revenue uplift and cost savings globally by…
For a long time, cryptocurrency prices moved quickly. A headline would hit, sentiment would spike, and charts would react almost immediately. That pattern no longer holds. Today’s market is slow, heavier than before, and shaped by forces that do not always announce themselves clearly. Capital allocation, ETF mechanics, and macro positioning now influence price behaviour…
Because Western AI labs won’t—or can’t—anymore. As OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google face mounting pressure to restrict their most powerful models, Chinese developers have filled the open-source void with AI explicitly built for what operators need: powerful models that run on commodity hardware. A new security study reveals just how thoroughly Chinese AI has captured this space. Research published by SentinelOne…
World’s first AI-powered super agent autonomously creates and verifies designs from specifications and high-level descriptions Cadence (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced a transformative step forward in redefining how semiconductors are designed with the launch of the ChipStack AI Super Agent—an agentic AI solution for front-end silicon design and verification. The Cadence® ChipStack AI Super Agent is the world’s…
HiLabs, a leading provider of AI-powered solutions that clean and standardize complex healthcare data, today announced that Chris Gengo has joined the company as Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer. In this role, Gengo will lead innovation efforts, expanding HiLabs capabilities to address health plans’ most persistent data and operational challenges. Gengo brings more than two decades…