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For years, finance organizations have industrialized operations through Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) standardization and workflow tools leveraging automation, analytics, and chatbots. This improved efficiency in repeatable processes. However, a large portion of finance work remained untouched, particularly work shaped by exceptions, handoffs, approvals, policy interpretation, and follow-through.   Generative AI (gen AI) improved search, drafting, and insight generation. It made finance teams faster. However, it did not fundamentally change how finance work gets executed.  That is why the current wave of interest in agentic Artificial Intelligence (AI) matters. The ambition is no longer limited to helping finance teams think faster. It is increasingly about helping them act faster.  As enterprises move from experimentation to deployment, the conversation is shifting from broad promise to practical questions: where can agentic AI create…

A new kind of political threat may be emerging, and it is far less visible than protests or traditional voter manipulation. Researchers warn that highly realistic AI-controlled personas could soon play a major role in shaping public opinion and influencing democratic systems. A recent policy forum paper published in Science describes how large groups of AI-generated personas can convincingly imitate human behavior online. These systems can enter digital communities, participate in discussions, and influence viewpoints at extraordinary speed. Unlike earlier bot networks, these AI agents can coordinate instantly, respond to feedback, and maintain consistent narratives across thousands of accounts. How…

Smart Data Collective has talked a lot about the benefits of big data and AI in marketing over the years. It is clear that brand identity services are now relying on data analytics and data mining to guide how brands present themselves to audiences. There are many ways these tools reveal patterns in customer behavior that were once hidden.How Data Analytics Strengthens Brand Identity ServicesYou can see how companies are shifting their focus from guesswork to measurable insights when building brand images. Another thing that stands out is how analytics allows agencies to refine messaging based on real-time feedback. Keep…

Picture this: A security manager sits down with a whiteboard and a mandate from leadership to finally get serious about OT security across the organization. The plan starts to take shape — dozens of security appliances spanning multiple plant sites, SPAN ports configured on every critical network segment, and a monitoring architecture that would deliver the kind of deep visibility the team has never had before. The executives are thrilled: improved maturity scores all around! It sounds perfect, it’s ambitious, it’s thorough, and it feels like real progress. But then the budget and task spreadsheet starts telling a different story:…

If you hold cryptocurrency, there’s a very simple golden rule that you should always follow. Never hand over your seed phrase.Garrett Dutton, better known as G. Love – the front man of blues-hip-hop outfit G. Love & Special Sauce – has learnt that lesson the hard way.In what must have been a painful admission earlier this month, G. Love described how while setting up a new computer, he downloaded what he believed was the legitimate Ledger Live app from Apple’s official App Store.The bogus app tricked the singer into entering his seed phrase – the master key to his cryptocurrency…

Advocacy group Don’t Waste Buildings is calling on the UK government to overhaul its tax system to incentivise the reuse of empty buildings, warning that Britain is missing out on billions of pounds of potential economic growth. The group launched its report, “The Reuse Dividend: Unlocking Economic Growth from Britain’s Existing Buildings”, at a reception in the Palace of Westminster on 14 April, hosted by Labour MP Rachel Blake. The report analyses financial incentives used across eight developed economies — including France, Germany, the US and Ireland — and finds “a proven blueprint that Britain has failed to adopt”. Central…

Published on: April 17, 2026A while back, I posted on X about how folks manage the context windows for their AI agents. In response to that post, the person who built FlowDeck reached out and asked if I’d give it a try. My workflow was mostly fine as-is (build with Cursor, tell it to check builds with xcodebuild, and go to Xcode to actually build and run) but a simple CLI that would provide better output to my agent (less context pollution) and a nice way to interact with my apps from the CLI sounded interesting enough to give it…

A multi-part series exploring the displacement of human labor in warehouses and distribution centers. Part One: The Negative Pressure of Increasing Operating Costs on Profit Margins in Distribution: A Guide to Retail, CPG (consumer packaged goods), and Food Distribution Industries Distribution businesses—companies that move products from suppliers to retailers or end buyers—consistently operate on thin profit margins. Whether in general retail distribution, CPG (consumer packaged goods), or food distribution, the economics are similar: high volume, modest markups, and significant operating costs. This article synthesizes benchmarks across these sectors, breaks down the key drivers behind margin compression, and highlights real-world examples…

What you need to knowSamsung was reportedly spotted rolling out One UI 8.5 Beta 10 to enrolled Galaxy S25 devices.The patch, nearly 1GB in size, brings in Call Screening, Creative Studio, and several fixes.An earlier rumor in April said Samsung might rollout two betas in April, and it seems that we might actually see the light (a stable launch) soon.It might be unbelievable for enrolled testers, as the tenth One UI 8.5 beta for Galaxy users.It’s been a long road, as SamMobile reports that Samsung is rolling out One UI 8.5 Beta 10 to all enrolled Galaxy S25 devices in…

For more than two centuries, scientists tried and failed to grow dolomite in the lab under conditions thought to match how it forms in nature. A recent study has finally changed that. Researchers from the University of Michigan and Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan succeeded by developing a new theory based on detailed atomic simulations. Their work solves a long-standing geological puzzle known as the “Dolomite Problem.” Dolomite is a widespread mineral found in iconic locations such as the Dolomite mountains in Italy, Niagara Falls and Utah’s Hoodoos. It is abundant in rocks older than 100 million years, yet it…