NTT DATA Expands AI Factory Footprint Globally to Help Clients Scale AI from Pilots to Production

NTT DATA Expands AI Factory Footprint Globally to Help Clients Scale AI from Pilots to Production

NTT DATA, a global leader in AI, digital business and technology services, today announced the global expansion of NTT DATA AI Factories, which provide hands-on environments where organizations can determine how priority AI use cases can be deployed, secured, governed and operated at scale. The environments help business and technology leaders evaluate AI workloads against…

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Stop AI experimentation: Pilots are avoiding the real work

Stop AI experimentation: Pilots are avoiding the real work

Lungile Mginqi, digital transformation strategist. Artificial intelligence (AI) adoption is already widespread. AI transformation is not. The difference is whether leadership is prepared to redesign real work, take people through the change and build the capability to operate AI safely at scale. Enterprise AI experimentation has become a form of avoidance. AI excitement has done…

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Revolut pilots biometric facial recognition payments

Revolut pilots biometric facial recognition payments

Financial technology platform Revolut has launched a trial program in the United Kingdom for “Pay with Smile,” an in-store biometric payment system that enables consumers to complete transactions using facial recognition. Positioned as the UK’s first merchant-facing facial payment platform, the service waives processing fees for participating retailers and is initially undergoing live testing across…

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NTT DATA Expands AI Factory Footprint Globally to Help Clients Scale AI from Pilots to Production

NTT DATA Expands Collaboration with Google Cloud to Accelerate Enterprise AI from Pilots to Production

NTT DATA, a global leader in AI, digital business and technology services today announced an expanded collaboration with Google Cloud to help enterprises move from AI experimentation to scaled deployment of agentic AI solutions built with Gemini Enterprise. The collaboration is focused on enabling AI-powered reinvention, helping enterprises redesign processes, operating models and customer experiences…

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Eskom to rationalise AI pilots as costs rise

Eskom to rationalise AI pilots as costs rise

Eskom CTIO Len de Villiers State-owned power producer Eskom is looking to cut the number of AI pilots across the organisation in a bid to avoid wasteful expenditure, according to its CTIO, Len de Villiers. Speaking at the industrial digital and intelligent transformation forum hosted by Huawei at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain on…

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Former “elite” Air Force pilot who allegedly trained Chinese military pilots arrested, DOJ says

Former “elite” Air Force pilot who allegedly trained Chinese military pilots arrested, DOJ says

The Justice Department announced the arrest Wednesday of a former Air Force fighter pilot who allegedly trained Chinese military personnel without authorization. Gerald Brown, 65, was arrested in Indiana after recently returning to the United States from China, where he’d been since December 2023, a Justice Department statement said. He is accused of having “conspired…

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