Topic: cost reduction
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Corelight's AWS Flow Monitoring Ends Cloud Blind Spots
Corelight's new Flow Monitoring solution for AWS provides unified network visibility across cloud and hybrid infrastructures, reducing SIEM and storage costs by up to 90% compared to traditional methods. The solution converts high-volume AWS flow data into enriched, security-focused intelligence,...
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Blue Yonder Supercharges Transportation with AI
Blue Yonder is enhancing its Transportation Management solution with advanced AI to create a resilient, proactive system that transforms transportation into a strategic asset. Key innovations include deep integration with the Blue Yonder Network for real-time visibility, a Logistics Emissions Cal...
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AI to Fuel 40% Surge in Global Trade by 2040, WTO Reports
AI could boost global trade by up to 40% by 2040 by enhancing productivity, reducing costs, and opening new markets through tools like predictive analytics and automated logistics. Digital trade platforms powered by AI are lowering barriers for businesses, especially SMEs, by streamlining cross-b...
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Amazon Ads Launches AI Tool for Professional-Quality Ads
Amazon Ads has introduced an AI-powered tool in Creative Studio that enables advertisers to create professional-quality ads in hours instead of weeks, making high-end ad production accessible and cost-free. The tool uses Amazon's retail insights and shopper data to generate ideas, storyboards, vi...
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Google's New Implicit Caching Cuts AI Model Costs
Google's Gemini API update introduces implicit caching, reducing costs by up to 75% for repetitive queries on Gemini 2.5 Pro and 2.5 Flash models, addressing AI tool expense concerns. The feature automatically caches responses without manual setup...
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DACLab Cuts CO2 Removal Energy Use Below Competitors
Despite global pledges to reduce carbon emissions, they reached a record high last year, increasing the urgency for effective carbon removal technologies like direct air capture (DAC). DACLab has developed a system that uses only 1,500 kWh per metric ton of CO₂ captured, improving on the industry...
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ADNOC L&S Launches GCC's First AI-Powered Smart Port for Petroleum Operations
ADNOC Logistics and Services has launched the GCC's first AI-powered smart port solution to optimize petroleum operations, streamline logistics, and enhance sustainability through automation and real-time data management. The system reduces vessel turnaround time by up to 90%, improves jetty util...
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Mondelez to Use AI for TV Ads in 2024
Mondelez International is adopting AI to create television commercials, aiming to significantly reduce marketing production costs and marking a major shift in corporate content creation. The company has invested over $40 million in a generative AI video platform, which is expected to halve produc...
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Hitachi & Red Hat Partner to Modernize Hybrid Cloud
Hitachi Vantara and Red Hat have partnered to create a hybrid cloud solution combining OpenShift Virtualisation with VSP One, simplifying migration and reducing costs and vendor lock-in. The integrated platform allows simultaneous management of virtual machines and containers, cutting hardware an...
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Apromore Launches AI Copilot for Performance Insights
Apromore has launched a generative AI assistant, Copilot for Performance Insights, enabling users to ask natural language questions about operations to quickly identify inefficiencies and make data-driven decisions. The tool provides reproducible, statistically-backed answers to compare performan...
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Clarifai's New AI Engine Boosts Speed, Cuts Costs
Clarifai has launched a reasoning engine that doubles AI processing speeds and cuts operational costs by up to 40%, offering a hardware-agnostic solution for businesses. The engine uses advanced optimizations like CUDA kernel enhancements and speculative decoding to boost performance on existing ...
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Shahbandr AI: The First All-in-One Arabic AI for eCommerce
Shahbandr AI introduces a free, all-in-one generative tool suite for Middle Eastern and North African e-commerce merchants, enabling creation of images, videos, audio, and marketing copy in Arabic from a single dashboard. The platform simplifies content creation by offering pre-configured models ...
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Fourth Power's Thermal Batteries Could Undercut Natural Gas Plants
Fourth Power is developing a thermal battery using superheated liquid tin and argon to store and release energy efficiently, aiming to make renewable energy more cost-effective than natural gas. The technology can supply power for about eight hours, twice the duration of most lithium-ion batterie...
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Harmonic Launches Central Management for Next-Gen Hybrid Streaming
Harmonic has introduced a new central management system to unify video workflow management across cloud and on-premises infrastructures, aiming to streamline operations and reduce costs. The system features automated rules-based operations for optimizing storage and data transfer, along with robu...
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EA's AI Game Development Plan Backfires Spectacularly
The video game industry is rapidly adopting generative AI to increase productivity and cut costs, with 87% of developers using it, despite financial pressures and layoffs. At Electronic Arts, mandated AI tools are causing operational issues by producing defective outputs that require extra human ...
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Celonis & Cavalis Launch App to Optimize Manufacturing Portfolios
Celonis and Cavalis have launched a Product Portfolio Optimisation app that provides real-time, data-driven insights to help manufacturers streamline operations and boost revenue. The app integrates data from multiple sources to create a digital twin of the product lifecycle, featuring Bill of Ma...
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2025 Tech Layoffs: The Complete List
The technology sector has seen over 22,000 job cuts in 2025, driven by companies prioritizing AI integration and operational efficiency, with February alone accounting for more than 16,000 layoffs. Major tech firms like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon conducted significant workforce reductions, oft...
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Ubisoft Restructuring Puts 60 RedLynx Jobs at Risk
Ubisoft is restructuring its Finnish studio RedLynx, putting up to 60 production and administrative jobs at risk to streamline operations and reduce costs. RedLynx will shift from multiplatform development to specializing in mobile gaming, starting with two unannounced projects, following the can...
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Cancer Council Queensland Boosts IT with Macquarie Telecom
Cancer Council Queensland has partnered with Macquarie Telecom to enhance its IT infrastructure, enabling the charity to focus more resources on cancer research, prevention, and patient care. The partnership includes a secure SD-WAN and SASE framework, along with cybersecurity upgrades like SOC a...
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Marketers Boost ROI with Expanded GenAI Adoption
Generative AI adoption in marketing has surged to 85%, up from 75% a year ago, with 80% of marketers already seeing a return on investment. The technology is delivering significant benefits, including improved personalization (94%), greater efficiency in handling data (91%), and meaningful time a...
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Google's Veo 3: Create Vertical AI Videos Instantly
Google's Veo 3 AI video generator now supports 1080p resolution and vertical 9:16 format, optimized for mobile and social media platforms. Both Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast models are stable for scaled production, with significantly reduced pricing to encourage adoption. The enhancements enable developer...
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Veeam Appliance: Enhanced Data Protection Solutions
Veeam Software has introduced a fully pre-built and pre-hardened software appliance that eliminates manual setup, OS patching, and Windows licensing, offering a secure, ready-to-use data protection platform. The hardware-agnostic appliance can be deployed across physical, virtual, or cloud enviro...
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Amazon DocumentDB Serverless Boosts AI Agents & Lowers Costs
The database landscape has shifted to flexible, consumption-based models like serverless databases, which dynamically adjust resources to real-time demand, reducing wasted spending. AWS's Amazon DocumentDB Serverless offers elastic scaling for MongoDB-compatible databases, ideal for unpredictable...
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Inside GM's Lab: The Race to Build Better EV Batteries
GM is conducting rigorous battery testing under extreme conditions, simulating years of real-world usage in months to ensure durability and performance for electric vehicles. Despite market challenges and regulatory changes impacting EV adoption, GM is advancing lithium manganese rich (LMR) batte...
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NiCE Customers Lead CX AI Adoption, Transforming Experiences
Businesses are using CX AI technology to significantly reduce customer wait times, improve service quality, and enhance employee effectiveness in interactions. Companies like PayPal, Fairstone, and FedPoint have implemented AI solutions to automate processes, boost customer engagement, and achiev...
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DeepMind CEO: AI Slashes Drug Discovery Time, Revolutionizing Medicine
AI is set to dramatically shorten drug development timelines, potentially reducing the process from over a decade to just months by accelerating the identification and testing of new treatments. AI-driven predictive modeling minimizes failures in drug development by forecasting molecular interact...
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Elemnta's New Tool Cuts Adviser Admin Work by 90%
Elemnta's Adviser Workbench platform automates routine administrative tasks, potentially saving financial advisers up to 90% of the time currently spent on these duties, allowing them to focus more on client service and business growth. The platform addresses a severe capacity crisis in the finan...
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Tesla's New Model Y: The Affordable EV Is Here
Tesla's new affordable electric vehicle is a budget-friendly Model Y variant, not the previously announced $25,000 Model 2, focusing on cost reductions and a stripped-down design. The vehicle features significant visual changes like missing front and rear light bars and interior downgrades, inclu...
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Amazon Develops New AI Tools to Boost Ad Inventory
Amazon has launched new AI tools, including a chatbot, to help sellers generate promotional content and ads more efficiently by using prompts and brand details. These AI-generated ads can appear across Amazon's ecosystem, including Prime Video and Twitch, reducing time and cost while expanding ca...
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IBC2025: Why Supply Chain Fixes Can't Save Legacy Media
The broadcast industry is at a critical inflection point, facing economic pressures and a struggle for relevance against dominant streaming platforms and big tech companies. Legacy media must adopt cloud-native, agile production and AI-driven operational efficiencies to reduce costs and meet mode...
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SentinelOne Acquires Observo AI to Boost SIEM and Security Ops
SentinelOne is acquiring Observo AI to enhance its AI SIEM and data offerings, aiming to create a more open, intelligent, and autonomous security operations framework. The acquisition addresses challenges of high data volumes and costs by integrating Observo's AI-native, real-time telemetry pipel...
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Philips Hue Launches New Budget-Friendly Smart Bulbs
Philips Hue has launched new budget-friendly smart bulbs, called Hue Essential, to make smart lighting more accessible without high costs. These Essential bulbs offer basic smart functionality at a lower price but have limitations like reduced dimming and fewer color options compared to premium m...
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AI Is Ending Per-Seat SaaS: What's Next?
The traditional per-seat software licensing model is becoming obsolete as AI agents drive a shift toward consumption-based and outcome-oriented pricing, moving the industry into a post-SaaS era where value is measured by results rather than user counts. AI-driven automation is expected to reduce ...
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Slate Auto's Electric Truck Repair Strategy Revealed
Slate Auto's budget-friendly electric truck, priced under $30,000, features a radically simplified design with only 600 parts and omits features like a painted exterior and built-in infotainment system. The company has partnered with RepairPal to provide owners access to over 4,000 service center...
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Tesla Debuts More Affordable Model 3 and Model Y
Tesla has launched more affordable Standard versions of its Model 3 and Model Y, starting at $36,990 and $39,990 respectively, with reduced features to lower the entry price into its ecosystem. These Standard models offer up to 321 miles of range but exclude key features like the full Autopilot s...
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Kytec Rebrands for the AI Era
Kytec has rebranded to focus on providing AI-driven managed services for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), emphasizing agility, innovation, and collaborative partnerships. The company offers tailored managed services to help SMBs reduce costs, mitigate risks, and optimize operations by in...
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Coco Robotics launches AI lab led by UCLA professor
Coco Robotics has launched a new AI research facility to utilize five years of data from its delivery robots, aiming to advance full autonomy and reduce costs. The lab is led by Professor Bolei Zhou, whose expertise in computer vision and robotics aligns with Coco's goals, and he is expected to a...
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EdVentures Backs LRNOVA to Expand AI Learning Content in MENA
EdVentures has invested in LRNOVA to accelerate the adoption of AI-powered educational content across the MENA region, focusing on converting traditional resources into digital formats. LRNOVA's platform features culturally responsive avatars, multilingual support with an emphasis on Arabic, and ...
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Secure Your Data Offline with Acronis Cyber Protect Local
Acronis Cyber Protect Local is an all-in-one on-premises platform that integrates data backup, cybersecurity, and endpoint management for IT and OT environments, ensuring data sovereignty and reducing complexity. It supports legacy systems and modern hypervisors, offering broad compatibility, AI-...
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Palantir, Lumen Ink $200M AI Services Deal
Palantir and Lumen Technologies have formed a multi-year strategic partnership valued at over $200 million to deploy Palantir's AI software, integrating it into Lumen's core operations. The collaboration combines Lumen's edge computing and network resources with Palantir's platforms to support Lu...
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EDOTCO Bangladesh Unveils First Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Telecom Tower
EDOTCO Bangladesh has launched the country's first fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) telecom tower in Gopalganj, introducing a sustainable alternative to conventional steel towers with superior strength and environmental benefits. The FRP tower, developed with HS Engineering and Technology Ltd, feat...
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Create Connected Data Ecosystems for AI at Scale
Modern integration platforms transform fragmented IT systems into streamlined data pipelines, enabling scalable artificial intelligence by creating connected data ecosystems. These platforms address the critical need for seamless, real-time data connectivity to support AI models, which require cl...
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Master CISA's Zero Trust with Modern Microsegmentation
CISA now identifies microsegmentation as a foundational element of Zero Trust architecture, shifting it from an advanced tactic to an essential security practice for all organizations. Despite 96% of IT leaders valuing microsegmentation for threat containment and compliance, only about 5% have ad...
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Generative AI's Hollywood Takeover
Generative AI is transforming Hollywood by democratizing filmmaking through tools that replace traditional creative skills, though it faces ethical concerns about copyright and job displacement. Despite technical limitations in producing polished content, major studios are partnering with tech fi...
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AI-Powered Blackdot Videris Automates OSINT & Risk Detection
Blackdot Solutions has launched Videris Automate, an AI-powered platform that automates investigations and screening to help companies identify threats, uncover hidden relationships, and make faster decisions. The platform accelerates workflows by automating manual tasks, enabling efficient analy...
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Meta's New Reels, Threads & AI Tools for Brand Growth
Meta has introduced new advertising tools including expanded Reels placements, enhanced Threads capabilities, and AI-driven targeting to help brands connect during cultural moments. Reels trending ads are now widely available, showing a 20% increase in unaided brand awareness, while Threads has r...
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Tesla Slashes Ad Spending on X to Near Zero
Tesla has significantly cut its advertising spending on X, with a projected annual budget of only $60,000 for 2025 compared to $400,000 in 2024. The company shifted from relying on organic buzz to experimenting with paid ads in 2023 but has now reduced its investment on X while maintaining ads on...
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Scientists Develop a "Bone-Healing Gun" to Treat Complex Fractures
Scientists have developed a handheld "bone-healing gun" that allows surgeons to 3D print personalized bone implants directly at the injury site during surgery, offering a faster and more customized solution for complex fractures. The device is a modified hot glue gun that extrudes a special filam...
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Krafton Shifts to AI-First Game Development
Krafton is adopting an "AI First" strategy, using agentic AI to automate tasks and restructuring its management and operations around this technology. The company is investing over 100 billion Korean won (about $70 million) in a GPU cluster to automate workflows, boost R&D, and enhance AI feature...
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GM's Hands-Free Driving System Arrives in 2028
General Motors plans to launch a fully automated driving system by 2028, starting with the Cadillac Escalade IQ, allowing drivers to take their eyes off the road and hands off the wheel. The system builds on GM's Super Cruise technology and integrates expertise from Cruise, utilizing lidar, radar...
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