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The long and the short of IT - the week in digibytes
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (626+ words) Co-opetition" has long been one of the more annoying enterprise tech buzzwords, but in the AI era it"s being taken to near ludicrous lengths." Tucked away in a US regulatory filing this week comes the revelation that Anthropic is…...
Something for the weekend - did AI kill off HR's empathy along with the "lower-value human capital"?
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (937+ words) If we are to accept that the jobs bloodletting that is currently in full swing is an inevitable accompaniment of an AI hype cycle that shows no sign of calming down, attention might usefully turn at C-Suite level as to…...
ICON 2026 - Blue Yonder's Chris Burchett on the AI reality in supply chain - and why customers need an honest conversation
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (377+ words) The model factory announcement'I covered earlier this week, outlined how Blue Yonder is working with NVIDIA to create smaller, domain-trained models that focus specifically on supply chain intelligence.' It becomes a whack-a-mole situation if they keep racing to meet demand…...
Accounting, assurance, and agentic - Sage Group CEO Stephen Hare sets out his stall to meet Finance customer needs
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (524+ words) At the halfway point of its fiscal year, for the six months to the end of March, Sage reported 10% year-on-year growth in statutory revenue to "1. 36 billion and a 15% rise in statutory operating profit to "293 million. That might be a customer…...
Confluent Current London 2026 - confidence in the new streaming age
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (399+ words) Data streaming technology Apache Kafka was conceived to decouple data from systems. But as our community research shows, many firms are struggling with this. As Clowes observes: We've been trying to enable people to decouple their data from their system…...
Delivering on fulfilment speeds and AI experience - a Walmart status report from CEO John Furner
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (499+ words) We are probably as excited about the potential of our business today than at any point in time in the last few years. That's the upbeat assessment from Walmart CEO John Furner as the firm turned in a quarterly profit…...
Digital re-greening - how green tech charity Justdiggit is using AI and mobile apps to connect with local communities
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (1397+ words) Justdiggit is on a mission to cool down our overheating'planet. To achieve this grand aim, it's focusing on a specific geography and task - re-greening African landscapes.' With the intention of tackling two huge, interlinked challenges " cooling down the planet and…...
"You can't run your business with an LLM" - Intuit axes 17% of its workforce, but don't blame AI, insists CEO Sasan Goodarzi
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (314+ words) Intuit plans to eliminate roughly 3, 000 jobs, roughly 17% of its total workforce of 18, 200 staffers, in what the mainstream media has attributed to AI. But CEO Sasan Goodarzi insists that blaming AI is a mis-characterization, arguing: We are reducing our full-time workforce…...
ICON 2026 - Conagra's Blue Yonder transformation delivers 'near-dark-room' production planning. And agents are next.
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (735+ words) Conagra won the'ICONic Customer Award'at Blue Yonder's ICON 2026 conference in San Diego this week, recognized for reimagining supply chain planning as a modern, automated, high-trust ecosystem. With that in mind, we spoke with RL Rosqueta, VP Planning and Digital Capabilities…...
Confluent Current London 2026 - AI requires a data re-think
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (735+ words) A slew of product announcements highlighted that Confluent is bigger and stronger as part of IBM, and that CIOs are having to rethink data operations in order to deliver AI-driven business strategies. CEO and Founder Jay Kreps took to the…...