Tesco signs three-year AI deal centred on customer experience
For large retailers, the challenge with AI is no longer whether it can be useful, but how it fits into everyday work. A new three-year AI partnership by Tesco points to how one of the UK’s biggest supermarket groups is trying to answer that question. The agreement with French startup Mistral AI is less about […]
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50,000 Copilot licences for Indian service companies
Cognizant, Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, and Wipro have announced plans to deploy more than 200,000 Microsoft Copilot licenses in their enterprises – over 50,000 per company – in what Microsoft is calling a new benchmark for enterprise-scale adoption of generative AI. The companies involved are framing the move as the implementation of a default tool […]
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Zara’s use of AI shows how retail workflows are quietly changing
Zara is testing how far generative AI can be pushed into everyday retail operations, starting with a part of the business that rarely gets attention in technology discussions: product imagery. Recent reporting shows the retailer using AI to generate new images of real models wearing different outfits, based on existing photoshoots. Models remain involved in […]
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Wall Street’s AI gains are here — banks plan for fewer people
By December 2025, AI adoption on Wall Street had moved past experiments inside large US banks and into everyday operations. Speaking at a Goldman Sachs financial-services conference in New York on 9 December, bank executives described AI—particularly generative AI—as an operational upgrade already lifting productivity across engineering, operations, and customer service. The same discussion also […]
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Ensuring effective AI in insurance operations
Artificial intelligence has been part of the insurance sector for years – the Finance function in many businesses is often the first to automate. But what’s remarkable in the instance of AI is how directly the technology is woven into day-to-day operational work. Not sitting in the background as a niche modelling capability, AI is […]
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Roblox brings AI into the Studio to speed up game creation
Roblox is often seen as a games platform, but its day-to-day reality looks closer to a production studio. Small teams release new experiences on a rolling basis and then monetise them at scale. That pace creates two persistent problems: time lost to repeatable production work, and friction when moving outputs between tools. Roblox’s 2025 updates […]
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Mining business learnings for AI deployment
Mining conglomerate BHP describes AI as the way it’s turning operational data into better day-to-day decisions. A blog post from the company highlights the analysis of data from sensors and monitoring systems to spot patterns and flag issues for plant machinery, giving choices to decision-makers that can improve efficiency and safety – plus reduce environmental […]
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BNP Paribas introduces AI tool for investment banking
BNP Paribas is testing how far AI can be pushed into the day-to-day mechanics of investment banking. According to Financial News, the bank has rolled out an internal tool called IB Portal, designed to help bankers assemble client pitches more quickly and with less repetition. Pitch preparation sits at the centre of investment banking work. […]
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