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14/10 — 21/10/2026 24 entries

Real-world use cases

Banking and finance 21 OCT 2026

AI in payments: Short-term gains, long-term transformation

In five years’ time, will AI make payments more efficient, or will it fundamentally change how money moves around the world?

Banking and finance 21 OCT 2026

Bank bosses under pressure to implement AI ahead of time

The vast majority of bank bosses in the UK and Ireland feel they are being pressured to implement AI technology more quickly than they feel is comfortable.

Telecommunications 21 OCT 2026

Wi-Fi 8, Edge AI and the Introduction of Security and Management services

Retail and consumer 21 OCT 2026

Target’s holiday push stresses affordability, exclusives and an AI assistant

Target is betting on daily deals and a digital assistant to woo budget-conscious shoppers this holiday season.

Banking and finance 20 OCT 2026

Starling build agentic fincrime investigator that takes 17 seconds

Starling has deployed an agentic "financial crime investigator" that the UK digital bank says can carry out an end-to-end investigation within 17 seconds.

Education 20 OCT 2026

How AI Is Breaking the Way We Reward High-Achieving Students

When AI can create polished products in seconds, we must redefine high achievement and reward students for genuine intellectual curiosity, not ...

Agriculture and food 20 OCT 2026

Reservoir Farms expands to Pacific Northwest to accelerate physical AI

Ag robotics specialist Reservoir is opening a new site in Washington State as its on-farm community for physical AI expands to tree fruit and blueberries. The post Reservoir Farms…

Telecommunications 20 OCT 2026

Lumen takes network resilience beyond the backup plan with AI and built-in diversity

AI-powered tools help prevent disruptions, speed recovery and keep customers informed, while new Dual Path service delivers two separate physical network routes between locations.…

Telecommunications 20 OCT 2026

Singtel and Ericsson partner to scale 5G innovation and build AI-native networks in Singapore

Extending the collaboration announced in March 2026, the new agreement establishes a longer-term roadmap that will focus on scaling 5G Advanced and AI-powered network capabilities…

Banking and finance 20 OCT 2026

Sustainable Finance Live: How can we power regenerative finance?

At Sustainable Finance Live 2026, the afternoon sessions discussed strategies to place social purpose over profit, improve access to inclusive banking, and use open data and AI to…

Banking and finance 20 OCT 2026

LHV Bank uses AI agents for customer email support

LHV Bank has gone live with agentic AI for customer email support in the UK, powered by Gradient Labs. The launch follows a proof of concept announced earlier this year and means …

Banking and finance 20 OCT 2026

Visa pilots AI agent payments between buyer and supplier platforms

Visa has joined forces with Bill and Billtrust to launch the first live pilot to enable trusted AI agents to initiate and complete approved buyer invoice payments end-to-end throu…

Technology radar

Low-Code and No-Code 22 OCT 2026

How a recruiting agency uses Claude and Zapier MCP to find the candidates who aren't looking

Curtis Key has been building automation for about 20 years, first with basic code and scripts, then in Salesforce at a real estate brokerage that grew from 8 to 105 agents.

Cloud and Architecture 21 OCT 2026

Google Cloud expands model choice and flexibility, bringing OpenAI models to customers

Google Cloud has always been defined by choice, enterprise-grade governance, and market-leading price-performance. Key to the foundation of openness and choice is giving customers…

Banking and Fintech 21 OCT 2026

Bank bosses under pressure to implement AI ahead of time

The vast majority of bank bosses in the UK and Ireland feel they are being pressured to implement AI technology more quickly than they feel is comfortable.

Data and Analytics 21 OCT 2026

Databricks AI Runtime and NVIDIA make it easier to customize open models with enterprise data

GPUs power today's most advanced AI workloads, from cutting-edge language models...

Cloud and Architecture 21 OCT 2026

Google Cloud and NVIDIA expand co-engineering collaboration to scale infrastructure for the agentic era

As enterprises transition to continuous, multi-step agentic workflows, traditional infrastructure is hitting its limits. But raw performance is only part of the equation.

Cybersecurity 21 OCT 2026

Hardware-backed security at global scale: Confidential G4 with NVIDIA Blackwell is GA

Bringing autonomous agents into production means processing sensitive data and valuable intellectual property in real time. Protecting proprietary model weights, user prompts, and…

Artificial Intelligence 21 OCT 2026

Nvidia wants AI factories built in real factories

Nvidia wants new AI capacity to show up at the data center fully built. At its GTC Berlin conference on The post Nvidia wants AI factories built in real factories appeared first o…

Artificial Intelligence 21 OCT 2026

Nvidia bets open models can give enterprise AI agents the context they’re missing

Every enterprise company is currently trying to figure out how to have its AI tools work with its data. Meanwhile, The post Nvidia bets open models can give enterprise AI agents t…

Artificial Intelligence 21 OCT 2026

Article Series: Agentic AI Architecture

In this article series, we try to establish agentic AI architecture as a new type of software architecture that will likely dominate the industry for years to come. The articles, …

Artificial Intelligence 21 OCT 2026

Article Series: Agentic AI Architecture

In this article series, we try to establish agentic AI architecture as a new type of software architecture that will likely dominate the industry for years to come. The articles, …

Artificial Intelligence 21 OCT 2026

AI Runtime is Generally Available

Today, we’re excited to announce the General Availability of AI Runtime (AIR), bringing...

Banking and Fintech 21 OCT 2026

India's largest bank hit by cyberattack

State Bank of India (SBI), the country's largest lending institution by assets, has launched an internal investigation after an alleged cyberattack exposed user's personal informa…

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