Finance stories
The integration aims to curb prompt injection, data leakage and unauthorised actions as firms shift AI from pilots to critical systems.
Businesses can now delegate more complex finance, HR and supply chain work to governed AI, as Oracle expands its agentic software suite to 75 applications.
Finance teams can now reconcile millions of invoices in BigQuery without code, as Alteryx keeps PDFs in Google Cloud Storage and flags duplicates.
Travel leaders in Paris will test whether AI tools can work across rival regional systems as Europe's adoption gap widens.
Finance teams can now flag repeated expense anomalies across whole populations of claims, rather than relying on samples or one-by-one checks.
Fragmented systems could blunt AI gains in Australian resources, leaving maintenance, finance and supply chains harder to coordinate safely.
The contract will replace Staffordshire County Council's legacy back-office systems, aiming to cut manual work and improve oversight for 875,000 residents.
Global quantum computing revenue is set to top USD $1 billion by 2027 as governments and companies keep funding early-stage research.
Heavy industry sites can free up cash by tackling slow, obsolete spares that inflate inventory and distort balance sheets.
Organisations are now prioritising AI over replacing old systems, with Kyndryl finding 98% of respondents have delayed modernisation and suffered setbacks.
As spending rises, employers are being urged to redesign tasks around AI agents or risk automating the wrong work without measurable gains.
Rising AI use is exposing a training gap in Singapore's finance sector, prompting a new exam to test when professionals should trust or verify output.
More than half of Australian organisations still manage supply chain risk reactively, leaving them exposed to cyber incidents, BSI found.
Most young UK accountancy trainees expect AI to accelerate promotion, while 93% worry about data security and 77% fear over-reliance.
Healthcare was the only sector to contract, as four of five major US industries kept spending commitments broadly steady in Coupa's latest index.
Overlooked internal candidates can trigger a costly retention problem, with replacing a senior executive estimated to cost nearly £77,000.
A looming 17,900-person shortfall in Australian accounting is pushing firms to use AI as a recruiting draw for graduates.
Rising scrutiny of Australian accounts is exposing patchy data controls, after ASIC issued a record AUD $350 million in civil penalties.
Enterprises can now pool GPUs across two data centres 83 kilometres apart, easing power and planning constraints on new AI campuses.
The deal widens finance teams' defences as payment fraud shifts from invoices to supplier bank details, leaving approved bills vulnerable.
