Productivity stories - Page 8

Rocketlane secures USD $60m Series C to accelerate global rollout of Nitro, its AI-driven professional services execution platform.

Lightspeed has unveiled an AI tool in its retail platform that scans supplier documents into draft purchase orders to cut errors and admin time.

Origin secures USD $30 million to scale its AI-driven platform simplifying fragmented global employee benefits for large multinationals.

OFX appoints former PayPal Australia marketer Liz Lord as chief marketing officer to spearhead its shift beyond cross-border payments.

SUSE expands Rancher Prime with AI agents and deeper virtualisation, unifying VM and container management to streamline modern workloads.

Major UK and US professional services firms are shelving AI projects as skill shortages bite, exposing a gap between tech spend and staff readiness.

In-house legal teams see themselves driving strategy, but a new report shows most C-suite leaders barely recognise their contribution.

First Connect rolls out AI Appetite Finder to help independent agents match complex commercial risks to receptive carriers in real time.

Nasdaq links Calypso and Trade Surveillance to Talos to streamline tokenised collateral, uniting risk and compliance across on- and off-chain assets.

Cloudinary unveils AI-driven image moderation to enforce brand visual guidelines at scale, auto-flagging off-brand logos, colours and quality.

Dext rolls out AI Assist in the US and Canada, promising to learn each firm's bookkeeping rules while keeping humans in full control.

UK legal professionals emerge as global AI leaders, with 62% regular users and strong training seen as key to boosting profitability.

Managing 600+ SonicWall firewalls, Sourcepass turns routine upgrades into a strategic weapon for security, efficiency and client trust.

Energy and chemicals groups target 80% autonomous operations by 2030 as AI-led automation accelerates amid costs, labour gaps and demand.

Coralogix and Skyflow partner to tokenise sensitive log data, balancing observability, privacy and AI-ready telemetry for global firms.

OpenAI selects Brex to run global spend and finance operations, as automation tools vie to serve the fast-growing AI sector's complex needs.

IBM will triple US entry-level hiring in 2026, redesigning junior roles around AI oversight and human judgement despite automation pressures.

WorkFusion's AI agent Tara has been named AML Solution of the Year by FinTech Breakthrough for streamlining sanctions screening workloads.

Firms are freezing hiring on the promise of AI gains, despite scant proof of returns and patchy training in how to use the technology.

NIIT MTS secures a sixteenth straight spot on Training Industry's Top 20 custom content developers list for 2026, citing AI-led design.