New Marriott Bonvoy research concerning travel trends for the year 2026 across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). This extensive report, based on a survey of over 22,000 travellers, identifies several key developments, including the growing significance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in holiday planning, with half of all travellers now using it for research. Continue reading
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AI in Payments: Risks, Readiness, and Future Outlook
This HCLTech report discusses the payments industry’s rapid adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI), highlighting that while nearly all organizations use AI, a large percentage of executives are concerned about risks, fraud ineffectiveness, and a lack of proper guardrails and infrastructure. Continue reading
Carbon3.ai Launches Sustainable Sovereign AI Platform in UK
The launch of Carbon3.ai is billed as the UK’s first truly sovereign and sustainable AI platform. This new initiative plans to deploy a nationwide AI Mesh with over 100,000 GPUs, powered by its own renewable energy generation and supported by significant planned investment exceeding £1 billion. The platform aims to offer UK enterprises and government a secure, low-latency, high-performance AI compute alternative with a smaller carbon footprint and lower cost than competitors. Continue reading
Global InnerSource Summit 2025: IBM, SAP, Mitsubishi Unite
Major technology firms, including IBM, SAP, and Mitsubishi Electric, are uniting to host this tenth annual summit across venues in New York City, Berlin, and Yokohama on November 13, 2025. The summit, marking a decade since the foundation’s inception, will focus on how InnerSource practices—applying open-source principles internally—enable large organisations to harness AI, accelerate innovation, and improve software development efficiency. Continue reading
AI-powered e-commerce, stablecoins and local APMs: emerging trends headline EBANX’s Payments Summit in Mexico
How could AI agents search, compare, and pay for things? What makes stablecoins a game-changer for cross-border digital commerce? Why are local Alternative Payment Methods (APMs) crucial for any business wanting to enter and scale in emerging markets? Continue reading
Oracle Deploys OpenAI GPT-5 Across Database and Cloud Applications Portfolio
Austin, Texas—Aug 18, 2025 –Oracle has deployed OpenAI GPT-5 across its database portfolio and suite of SaaS applications, including Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, Oracle NetSuite, and Oracle Industry Applications, such as Oracle Health. By uniting trusted business data with frontier AI, Oracle is enabling customers to natively leverage sophisticated coding and reasoning capabilities in their business-critical workflows.
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Restaurant AI: Investments Up, Adoption Slows
The provided text primarily consists of an excerpt from a Deloitte press release detailing their report, “How AI is Revolutionizing Restaurants.” This report, based on a survey of global restaurant executives, examines the current state and future plans for Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption within the restaurant industry. The document highlights that while most restaurants intend to increase their AI investments, actual readiness for widespread implementation remains low, with challenges such as identifying appropriate use cases and managing risks being prominent. Despite these hurdles, AI is already impacting customer experience and inventory management, with future waves expected to focus on customer loyalty, employee experience, and food preparation. Continue reading
Siemens Powers Semiconductor and PCB Design with AI
The provided text announces that Siemens Digital Industries Software has significantly enhanced its Electronic Design Automation (EDA) portfolio by integrating generative and agentic Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities. This advancement aims to boost productivity, accelerate innovation, and reduce time-to-market for semiconductor and PCB designs. Siemens’ new EDA AI system offers secure, customisable workflows, leveraging technologies from NVIDIA, and is being implemented across key Siemens EDA products like Aprisa AI, Calibre Vision AI, and Solido. The company highlights how this AI integration will revolutionise design processes, enabling faster and more efficient development of complex electronic systems. Continue reading
Generative AI’s Impact on Software Development: A DORA Perspective
May 20, 2025 /Mpelembe Media/ — This report from DORA explores the impact of generative AI on software development, analyzing both the challenges and opportunities it presents. It examines how AI affects individual developers’ productivity and well-being, finding both benefits and unexpected trade-offs. The document also addresses the organizational perspective, considering how AI influences processes like code quality and delivery speed, while acknowledging a potentially negative short-term impact on delivery performance. Finally, it proposes practical strategies for fostering developer trust, promoting responsible AI adoption, and measuring success within organizations.
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Celestine Achi: Pioneering AI PR in Africa
This source, presented as a press release, focuses on Celestine Achi, described as a pioneer in AI communications in Africa. It highlights his work in reshaping Public Relations (PR) strategy through various educational tools and frameworks. The text details his initiatives, including a book titled “AI-Powered PR”, an interactive game, and the AI-PR Maturity Model™, all designed to equip professionals with the skills needed for an AI-driven media landscape. The article also introduces the TABS-D™ framework, a practical methodology for implementing AI in PR, and references a goal to train 100,000 African communicators in AI literacy by 2030. Ultimately, the source portrays Achi as a key figure driving African leadership in the application of AI within the communications sector. Continue reading
