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Rising storms, labour shortages and cargo fires are increasing costs and disruption for Asian shipping firms, QBE warns.
Bookings surged 21% in the first quarter, prompting Cognizant to raise its adjusted operating margin outlook and back annual revenue guidance.
Longer outages at developer tools now threaten release schedules and productivity, with GitProtect estimating more than USD $740,000 in losses.
A Sydney base and local team are meant to help Anthropic win more Australian and New Zealand customers as AI adoption gathers pace.
The rollout pushes Oracle deeper into AI-driven automation, as the new tools aim to cut manual hand-offs across finance, HR, supply chain and CX.
The new Gartner category highlights demand for unified office software as employers seek to cut friction across hybrid work, visitor and desk management.
The funding gives the warehouse robotics firm more firepower to expand overseas as logistics operators seek tighter control of stock and space.
The legal AI company now counts more than 100,000 lawyers as users after the fresh round lifted its valuation to USD $11 billion.
Ecommpay's staff auction raises over EUR €7,200 for Street Child, setting a company bidding record to support children's education.
MIT and Mecalux have launched GENESIS, an AI-powered simulator to cut logistics costs by optimising multi-warehouse inventory planning.
Retailers are using category management to cut waste, avoid empty shelves and respond faster to cost-of-living pressures and supply shocks.
Brands and studios could cut visual effects time and costs by up to 30% as The Next Valley blends AI tools with human-led production.
More than half of public sector IT staff say artificial intelligence has added work, as fragmented systems and policy gaps complicate adoption.
Hotel teams could cut hours of admin as Radisson starts using hivr.ai’s software to automate rooming lists across Europe.
Students at NMITE now have a clearer route to Chartered Engineer status after the institution secured IET accreditation for its engineering degrees.
It aims to help landlords and local authorities apply housing rules consistently as regulatory scrutiny over decision-making intensifies.
Almost half of surveyed employers are weighing shorter hours or fewer staff as higher fuel bills squeeze margins and weaken demand across NSW.
Smaller employers are under mounting compliance pressure as the combined platform aims to cut filings, renewals and fines across states.
With margins under pressure across hospitality, the data platform has added Jane O'Riordan to guide strategy as it targets UK and overseas growth.
Sydney's MiAI Law raises AUD $2 million to launch an AI legal research tool that exposes its reasoning step by step for lawyers.