November 2025

New insight from the CQF Institute, a worldwide network for quantitative finance professionals (quants), reveals that fewer than one in ten specialists believe new graduates possess the AI and machine learning skills necessary to succeed in the industry. This highlights a growing issue in quantitative finance: a lack of human understanding and fluency in the […]

In its pursuit of a direct-to-consumer (DTC) first business model, Levi Strauss is weaving AI and cloud platforms into its core operations. The nearly 175-year-old apparel company is leveraging Microsoft technologies to modernise its consumer experiences and improve internal productivity. Levi Straus’ approach provides a case study for other enterprises in using a unified technology

When Visa unveiled its Intelligent Commerce platform for Asia Pacific on November 12, it wasn’t just launching another payment feature—it was building AI commerce infrastructure to solve a crisis most merchants haven’t noticed yet: their websites are being flooded by AI agents, and there’s no reliable way to tell which ones are legitimate shoppers and which are malicious bots. 

Security leaders face a new class of autonomous threat as Anthropic details the first cyber espionage campaign orchestrated by AI. In a report released this week, the company’s Threat Intelligence team outlined its disruption of a sophisticated operation by a Chinese state-sponsored group – an assessment made with high confidence – dubbed GTG-1002 and detected

According to IBM, the primary barrier holding back enterprise AI isn’t the technology itself but the persistent issue of data silos. Ed Lovely, VP and Chief Data Officer at IBM, describes data silos as the “Achilles’ heel” of modern data strategy. Lovely made the comments following the release of a new study from the IBM

New US data centre projects in Texas and New York will receive $50 billion in new funding, part of a plan to grow US computing capacity for advanced AI work. The facilities, built with Fluidstack, are designed for Anthropic’s systems and will focus on power and efficiency needs that come with training and running large

Baidu’s latest ERNIE model, a super-efficient multimodal AI, is beating GPT and Gemini on key benchmarks and targets enterprise data often ignored by text-focused models. For many businesses, valuable insights are locked in engineering schematics, factory-floor video feeds, medical scans, and logistics dashboards. Baidu’s new model, ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking, is designed to fill this gap. What’s interesting

Google has rolled out Private AI Compute, a new cloud-based processing system designed to bring the privacy of on-device AI to the cloud. The platform aims to give users faster, more capable AI experiences without compromising data security. It combines Google’s most advanced Gemini models with strict privacy safeguards, reflecting the company’s ongoing effort to

According to Wiz, the race among AI companies is causing many to overlook basic security hygiene practices. 65 percent of the 50 leading AI firms the cybersecurity firm analysed had leaked verified secrets on GitHub. The exposures include API keys, tokens, and sensitive credentials, often buried in code repositories that standard security tools do not

A Chinese AI startup, Moonshot, has disrupted expectations in artificial intelligence development after its Kimi K2 Thinking model surpassed OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 across multiple performance benchmarks, sparking renewed debate about whether America’s AI dominance is being challenged by cost-efficient Chinese innovation. Beijing-based Moonshot AI, valued at US$3.3 billion and backed by