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‘DIY’ agent platforms are big tech’s latest gambit to drive AI adoption
In recent months there’s been a big push on agentic AI in the tech industry, in particular with regard to ‘do-it-yourself (DIY)’ platforms that give businesses the tools to design their own agents. Just this week, Oracle launched its ‘AI Agent Studio’ that embeds agentic tooling within the Oracle Fusion Platform, allowing customers to both create and manage agents or…
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Stock Price Downturn for Tech’s ‘Magnificent 7’
The tech sector faced a significant setback on Monday, March 10, 2025, as the so-called “Magnificent 7” – Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Tesla, NVIDIA, Meta, and Amazon – contributed to a sweeping stock market decline. Stock prices overview: A Monday washout for tech According to an article from Yahoo Finance, shares of NVIDIA, Tesla, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Apple, and Microsoft all…
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Tech’s gender gap is already seeping into AI sector, report finds
Women are taking up AI skills at a far lower rate than men according to research from Coursera, raising the risk of existing gender disparities being replicated in the burgeoning field. While enrollments in generative AI courses on Coursera surged by 227% over the past year, women enrolled in these courses at half the rate of men and made up…
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Turning the tide: the need for a digital detox in the wake of tech’s digital hangover
To weather the storm of surging technological innovation, impulsive decision-making without any clear direction has led to mounting rates of technical debt and failed digital transformation projects. According to McKinsey & Co, 70% of digital transformation efforts fall short of their desired targets, demonstrating a widespread inability among organizations to keep up with their own overambition when turning to the…
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Carbon emissions could rise 10-fold over the next decade due to AI – big tech’s solution is to use more AI
Carbon emissions are skyrocketing due to rising generative AI demands, but a new report from Accenture found business leaders believe the technology will ultimately do more good than harm. By modeling the expected incremental use of AI hardware in data centers, Accenture predicted AI-related emissions will rise more than 10-fold by 2030. This is an output change of 68 to…
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Eric Schmidt’s car crash Stanford interview showed big tech’s true colors on remote work
Eric Schmidt certainly ruffled a few feathers last week after a controversial interview at Stanford University – and it’s not hard to see why. Speaking to students, the former Google chief exec essentially suggested successful startups not worry about stealing IP and embarked on a diatribe about why remote work was the reason behind Google’s supposed poor performance in the…
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