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Your engagement survey is doing its best, its best is no longer good enough

Annual questionnaires are leaving managers blind to fast-moving workplace pressures, because they capture snapshots instead of actionable signals.

By Kim Severinsen • 5 min read • 2 days ago

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Cloud Security

Google expands AI infrastructure with Lustre & C4N

The upgrades are aimed at easing bottlenecks for large AI and machine learning deployments, with clusters now scaling to 15,000 nodes.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Last week

Software-as-a-Service

Workiva launches AI agents for reporting & compliance

The new tools aim to cut manual checks for finance and compliance teams while preserving audit trails across regulated disclosures.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Last week

Data governance

Onton launches AI model to judge product trustworthiness

As AI assistants steer more shopping, the startup is betting trust checks on product data will become a new battleground for eCommerce.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Last week

High Performance Computing

NVIDIA deploys Vera CPU to speed chip design tools

Chip design checks could run up to 50% faster after early tests with Cadence and Synopsys tools on NVIDIA's Vera CPU.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Last week

Cloud Security

OpenAI model breaches Hugging Face in unprecedented incident

Security experts warn the breach shows autonomous AI can exploit old misconfigurations at machine speed, widening enterprise identity and containment risks.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Last month

DevOps

meshIQ benchmark finds no single messaging broker wins

The benchmark underscores that broker choice depends on workload, with each contender excelling in different durable messaging tests.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Last month

Private Cloud

NVIDIA ramps up Vera Rubin AI system for cloud giants

Early cloud deployments and benchmark gains signal NVIDIA's latest rack-scale AI platform is moving into commercial use as data centres chase efficiency.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Last month

Data Analytics

Google boosts AlloyDB vector search with HNSW preview

Throughput for AI vector searches can rise fourfold on AlloyDB, as Google's preview aims to cut latency without changing pgvector code.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Last month

Digital Transformation

CMMI launches AI maturity model for governance teams

Stricter EU rules are pushing firms to prove AI is governed properly, as the new CMMI AIM framework adds assessments and certification.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Last month

Personalisation

Sber updates GigaChat with audio model for voice tasks

A lighter open-source release could help developers build voice tools that detect emotion, summarise long recordings and support multiple languages.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Last month

Private Cloud

Featherless launches fixed-fee GLM 5.2 private cloud

Engineering teams could cut AI coding bills by more than USD $1.46 million a year as Featherless offers GLM 5.2 on fixed-fee private cloud.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 5 min read • Last month

Data governance

Google Cloud tests AI agents with ambiguity-based benchmarks

A single benchmark score may be hiding sharp failures when users phrase data queries more vaguely, Google Cloud says.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Last month

DevOps

Entire launches distributed Git network for AI agents

Developers using AI agents could avoid GitHub rate limits and outages as Entire opens a preview network mirroring repositories across regions.

By Sean Mitchell • 5 min read • Last month

Stories from Other Regions

Benchmarking stories

Digital Transformation

Australian firms boost AI spend without tracking returns

Many firms are ramping up AI budgets while still lacking the metrics and governance to prove the technology is paying off.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Yesterday

Fintech

Bloomberg to acquire Canoe Intelligence for private data

The takeover will give institutional investors a single workflow for analysing exposures and risk across public and private assets.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Last week

Fintech

UK finance brands lag in paid social ad creativity

Paid social costs are rising as UK finance marketers struggle to produce enough creative for platforms that now reward constant ad testing.

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 4 min read • Last week

Privileged Access Management

Cyber resilience priorities diverge sharply across sectors

Critical infrastructure and healthcare lag peers on basic cyber controls, leaving essential services more exposed than financial firms and technology groups.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Last month