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International Women's Day: Startup entrepreneur reveal what real equity looks like in business
Artificial Intelligence

International Women's Day: Startup entrepreneur reveal what real equity looks like in business

On International Women's Day, Pip Stocks urges leaders to fix skewed startup funding and AI-era careers, not just celebrate progress.

By AZK Media • 3 min read • Mon, 2nd Mar 2026
Dominic Price joins Be Luminous to drive people led change
Digital Transformation

Dominic Price joins Be Luminous to drive people led change

Atlassian's former work futurist Dominic Price joins Be Luminous as partner to steer people-led transformation amid tech-driven change.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Mon, 2nd Mar 2026

Global Stories

Automation stories

Quanton rebrands as AI partner to take pilots to scale
Digital Transformation

Quanton rebrands as AI partner to take pilots to scale

Quanton ditches pure automation tag to relaunch as an AI transformation partner, promising to help ANZ firms push pilots into production.

By Catherine Knowles • 5 min read • Mon, 2nd Mar 2026
Structure matters: How growth can outpace your foundation
Digital Transformation

Structure matters: How growth can outpace your foundation

As AI accelerates change, leaders are warned that rapid growth without robust human and operational structures is fragile and unsustainable.

By Marlina Wati • 3 min read • Mon, 2nd Mar 2026
2degrees & Ericsson deploy private 5G at Lyttelton port
Unified Communications

2degrees & Ericsson deploy private 5G at Lyttelton port

2degrees and Ericsson have activated a private 5G network at Lyttelton Port, boosting safety, reliability and support for remote operations.

By Mark Tarre • 3 min read • Mon, 2nd Mar 2026
Language model benchmarks widely 'contaminated', study finds
Risk & Compliance

Language model benchmarks widely 'contaminated', study finds

A new NE2NE study finds over half of common AI benchmarks are “contaminated”, casting doubt on headline model rankings and marketing claims.

By Catherine Knowles • 4 min read • Sat, 28th Feb 2026
Sales survey reveals quota chaos despite rising AI use
Digital Transformation

Sales survey reveals quota chaos despite rising AI use

Sales teams enter new years blind as quotas arrive late, targets shift faster and AI fails to fix mounting planning and commission chaos.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Sat, 28th Feb 2026
Siemens unveils agentic AI toolkit for chip verification
Semiconductors

Siemens unveils agentic AI toolkit for chip verification

Siemens launches Questa One Agentic Toolkit, bringing governed agentic AI workflows to automate and accelerate complex chip verification.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Sat, 28th Feb 2026
Linnworks report links retail growth to ops maturity
Software-as-a-Service

Linnworks report links retail growth to ops maturity

Linnworks report finds mid-market retail growth closely tied to operational maturity, automation, AI use and stronger multichannel logistics.

By Kaleah Salmon • 3 min read • Fri, 27th Feb 2026
Elite adds AI tools to 3E to streamline work-to-cash
Unified Communications

Elite adds AI tools to 3E to streamline work-to-cash

Elite upgrades its 3E cloud platform with AI, real-time data and compliance tools to speed law firms' work-to-cash and cut revenue leakage.

By Kaleah Salmon • 4 min read • Fri, 27th Feb 2026
AI early adopters gain edge as readiness gap widens
Data Analytics

AI early adopters gain edge as readiness gap widens

AI early adopters gain strategic advantage as global survey finds widening readiness gap and sharper focus on fast-evolving AI risks.

By Shannon Williams • 4 min read • Fri, 27th Feb 2026
Confluent links AI agents & boosts anomaly detection
DevOps

Confluent links AI agents & boosts anomaly detection

Confluent upgrades its AI toolkit to link agents over live data streams and add multivariate anomaly detection for faster issue spotting.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Fri, 27th Feb 2026
Tackling the top 5 sanctions screening challenges in APAC
DevOps

Tackling the top 5 sanctions screening challenges in APAC

APAC banks face data gaps, false alerts and opaque ownership as they race to modernise sanctions screening amid fragmented rules.

By Bobby Joseph • 6 min read • Fri, 27th Feb 2026

Stories from Other Regions

Automation stories

SiMa.ai & STIGA bring 'Physical AI' to robotic mowers
Robotics

SiMa.ai & STIGA bring 'Physical AI' to robotic mowers

SiMa.ai will embed its low-power 'Physical AI' platform into STIGA robotic mowers to boost on-device intelligence and extend battery life.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Fri, 27th Feb 2026
Cezanne HR launches expenses tool to cut claim time
Data Analytics

Cezanne HR launches expenses tool to cut claim time

Cezanne HR unveils automated expenses tool, promising to cut processing time by up to three hours per claim and tighten control of spend.

By Kaleah Salmon • 3 min read • Fri, 27th Feb 2026
Singapore firms favour specialist skills & contractors
Customer Relationship Management

Singapore firms favour specialist skills & contractors

Singapore employers tighten permanent headcount, channelling spend into scarce AI, cyber and data skills while ramping up contract hiring.

By Mark Tarre • 5 min read • Fri, 27th Feb 2026
AI-first firms in Southeast Asia face rising cyber risk
Firewalls

AI-first firms in Southeast Asia face rising cyber risk

AI-first firms in Southeast Asia suffer longer, costlier cyber incidents as rising AI use widens attack surfaces and fuels scraping costs.

By Catherine Knowles • 4 min read • Fri, 27th Feb 2026