Topic: cost reduction
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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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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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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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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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MessageXchange Reappointed as NSW Government's E-Invoicing Partner
The New South Wales Government has renewed its partnership with MessageXchange, confirming it as the dedicated e-invoicing provider after a review by NSW Treasury, continuing a collaboration that began in 2020. Peppol e-invoicing enables secure, direct invoice transfers between software systems, ...
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Realm.Security Secures $15 Million in Series A Funding
Realm.Security secured $15 million in Series A funding, led by Jump Capital, bringing its total funding to $20 million to accelerate product development and market expansion. The company launched an AI-powered Security Data Pipeline Platform (SDPP) that consolidates and analyzes security data in ...
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Unlock Operational Resilience with AI Automation
Organizations increasingly rely on AI and machine learning for operational resilience, enabling faster responses and recovery from disruptions to protect infrastructure and personnel. AI-driven platforms automate the entire incident lifecycle, from detection to resolution, reducing costs and time...
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Tame Unstructured Data with Policy-Driven Management
Unstructured data, which constitutes most digital information, is difficult to manage due to its volume, spread across systems, and complex formats, hindering business value extraction. Organizations must shift from manual, reactive data management to a proactive, policy-based model, using automa...
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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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Dragos Platform 3.0: Fastest Path to OT Cybersecurity
The Dragos Platform 3.0 introduces new capabilities to help industrial defenders by consolidating alerts into a prioritized view and streamlining workflows for faster value realization. It features an Insights Hub for centralized risk-weighted summaries and AI-enhanced vulnerability management to...
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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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Master AI with Operational Excellence
The main challenge in AI transformation is integrating technology into daily workflows, not the technology itself, due to misalignment between strategy and operational capabilities. Rushed AI deployments often skip foundational steps, leading to underutilized tools because business processes aren...
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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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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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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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SmartBear & Adactin Partner to Boost AI Testing in APAC
SmartBear has partnered with Adactin to expand the distribution of its software testing tools across the Asia-Pacific region. The alliance aims to meet growing demand for quality assurance tools driven by digital transformation and AI-enhanced development workflows. This collaboration will delive...
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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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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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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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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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5 Prompt Engineering Tips for Better Vibe Coding
Vibe coding uses natural language descriptions to generate functional code with AI, making software development more accessible to non-experts but requiring clear communication for success. Effective prompt engineering involves using concise, specific instructions and breaking complex projects in...
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Google Ads Now Offers One-Click Google Analytics Linking
Google Ads now proactively recommends linking unlinked Google Analytics accounts directly from the Campaigns page, enabling a one-click setup to simplify integration. This feature appears automatically for eligible accounts in the Recommendations section, allowing advertisers to apply the connect...
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Track Ad ROI: LinkedIn API Connects Campaigns to Revenue
LinkedIn's new Company Intelligence API directly connects ad campaign metrics to sales pipeline growth and revenue, helping B2B marketers prove ROI and optimize spending. The API addresses the challenge of complex B2B customer journeys by tracking company-level engagement and providing concrete d...
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Dragos Platform 3.0: Streamlining Industrial Cybersecurity & Risk Alerts
Dragos Platform 3.0 introduces features like the Insights Hub to help industrial security teams respond faster and more precisely to escalating cyber threats in OT environments. The platform uses AI-enhanced vulnerability processes and the "Now, Next, Never" methodology to accelerate accurate, OT...
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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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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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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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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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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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DeepSeek Engineers Reveal the Science Behind China's Viral AI Model
DeepSeek-R1 is an open-source AI model developed by a Hangzhou startup, notable for its advanced reasoning skills and competitive standing against industry leaders. The model was trained using a reward-based framework that incentivized problem-solving, enabling more human-like logical processing ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Apple Watch SE 3 Rumored Upgrades: What to Expect Tomorrow
The Apple Watch SE 3 is anticipated to launch with significant performance upgrades, including a new chip architecture matching premium models for smoother operation and efficiency. It may feature a cheaper price point, potentially under $200, and a redesigned fully plastic body for cost savings ...
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The Future of Banking: Agentic AI's Transformative Role
The adoption of new technologies, especially agentic AI, is critical for financial institutions to remain competitive and reshape the future of work in banking. A majority of banking executives are already using agentic AI, with significant benefits reported in areas like fraud detection, securit...
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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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OpenAI Plans AI Chip Launch in 2026
OpenAI is developing its own AI chips, set to launch in 2026, to reduce reliance on external suppliers and improve cost efficiency for its AI systems. The company has partnered with Broadcom to design these chips, with a major $10 billion order aligning with OpenAI's needs, indicating a significa...
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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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Microsoft Releases Bill Gates' 1978 6502 BASIC as Open Source
Microsoft has released the full source code for its 1978 Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1 under an open-source MIT license, making it available for use, modification, and distribution. This foundational software, originally developed by Bill Gates and Rick Weiland, powered iconic early person...
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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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Tencent's R-Zero: Self-Training LLMs Without Data Labeling
Researchers have introduced R-Zero, a reinforcement learning framework that enables large language models to autonomously improve their reasoning by generating their own training data through interaction between a Challenger and Solver model. The method eliminates the need for human-labeled data,...
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Vibe Coding: The Next Frontier for Enterprise Software
Vibe coding enables software development through natural language prompts, poised to significantly impact large enterprises by enhancing efficiency, innovation, and accessibility. It democratizes software creation by allowing non-technical staff to build applications, reducing reliance on scarce ...
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