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The adoption race is over. The ROI race just started. In a June 2025 survey of 183 CFOs, Gartner reported that 84% of finance organisations had deployed AI or planned to, but only 7% reported a high impact. Most AI spend results in increased productivity, efficiency and time back, rather than hard ROI. Gartner surveyed […]

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Companies are discovering AI agents connected to email, customer data, and code without IT oversight. Finding them is only the beginning. For most of the past decade, the list of software a company ran was, at least in theory, one that somebody in IT could find. Today, however, AI is making that increasingly difficult. A […]

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Space and Time was the first Web3 company to receive funding from Microsoft’s M12 venture arm, backing that helped put the project on the map early. Since then, the company has launched its purpose-built SXT Chain and expanded its Proof of SQL technology across DeFi, institutional finance and AI. In this interview, co-founder and CTO […]

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Cross-border payroll moves more than 200 billion dollars a year, and until recently, nobody was building shared infrastructure for it. As one recent report on the infrastructure gap in cross-border payroll pointed out, financial markets have exchanges, trade has clearing houses, and cross-border payroll has neither. The plumbing a treasury team would have recognized in […]

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A camera overlooking a loading dock might record twelve hours of trucks arriving, workers moving through the site, and boxes leaving the building. Most days, nobody has a reason to watch any of it. The footage only becomes useful when a package goes missing, an accident happens or somebody needs to work backwards from an […]

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Pickup trucks have a useful life that can span decades, but the digital interfaces of such trucks can hardly be as graceful. Infotainment systems specific to vehicles are becoming a software solution between outdated hardware and new demands. A pickup truck manufactured in 2007 and one manufactured in 2026 may have a similar badge, yet […]

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Every time a typical enterprise AI agent spins up to answer an internal question, it wakes up with severe amnesia. To make the AI useful, companies are forced into a costly, repetitive cycle: scraping thousands of documents, Slack threads, and CRM entries, and force-feeding them into the prompt window for context. It is a brute-force […]

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Across Asia, issuers are bringing local currencies onchain, regulators are establishing digital asset frameworks, and financial institutions are exploring stablecoins for payments, treasury, and cross-border settlement. Issuance, however, is only the first layer of a functioning financial network. Moving local currencies between countries requires banking connectivity, institutional liquidity, foreign exchange execution, compliance, and settlement infrastructure. […]

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The technology behind World ID can let people prove their age, nationality or possession of a valid ID without handing over the personal information behind it World is opening up one of the privacy technologies behind World ID, giving developers a new way to build identity checks that can happen directly on a user’s phone […]

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For B2B software companies, product-led buying has created a new challenge: buyers increasingly expect to explore products on their own terms, while go-to-market teams still have limited time to tailor those experiences. Walnut is now betting that AI can make that personalization scalable. Walnut, a platform used by go-to-market teams at hundreds of B2B software […]

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