Industry Adoption

Orange is reportedly seeking compensation from Nokia over an outage earlier this month in France that affected millions of Orange customers.

Conglomerate Chatterjee Group has launched Cortex DC, which targets 2GW of data center capacity in India. Few details about the rollout have been shared.

Ben Hylak quips that every product he uses should just be a headless MCP feeding an agent, so he never has to think about what is underneath, except his own product, where customers supposedly love the UI. The short quote, shared by Simon Willison, pokes at the tension between agent-first design and UI value.

Colombia is importing more LNG as domestic production keeps falling. A potential drought this fall and winter could limit hydroelectric generation and boost demand for gas-fired power.

Credit Saison's ChatGPT Enterprise pilot delivered a 954% return on investment. OpenAI describes how leaders and employees helped turn the pilot results into companywide adoption.

Cohere details a financial research assistant on AWS that combines Embed, Rerank and Parse with SageMaker AI, OpenSearch Serverless and Bedrock to search filings and answer with page-level citations, tuning retrieval quality, latency and cost.

A new diagnostic service helps manufacturers chart a path toward becoming AI-native companies, working backward from the future role of AI. It targets firms moving beyond personal task efficiency to redesign how value is created around AI.

KDDI Group's KDDI Iret has released a free special website compiling 113 internal AI use cases. The examples include using Gemini Notebook to support checks of approval-request (ringi) data, offering practical references for firms weighing AI adoption.

A manufacturer founded over 90 years ago turned to IT after a staff vacancy, replacing paper-and-seal and cash-handoff expense processes that piled up 600 approval rows at month-end. Today AI approves roughly 90% of expense claims, easing person-dependent accounting.

The president of Dell Technologies Japan reflects on how Japanese companies' IT adoption has changed. Firms were often called laggards in adopting IT, but the arrival of AI is shifting the picture. The interview asks whether Japan has escaped its 'IT backward nation' label.

An ITmedia reader survey on the major overhaul of Japan's national IT exams planned from fiscal 2027: hopes and concerns, changes in certification plans, and skills like AI and security. Only the intro was available; detailed results are unconfirmed.

Virgin Media O2 has begun offering 2Gbps broadband over its cable network, live in 18 locations including Manchester, Newcastle and Oxford, with most of the network due to follow next year.

Enphase and Infineon say they are deploying the world's first 900V GaN bidirectional switches in Enphase's solid-state transformer modules, claiming lower switching losses and fewer parts. The devices passed testing and are being integrated into IQ SST builds.

OpenAI and ServiceNow are expanding their partnership to bring OpenAI models and agents into ServiceNow. ServiceNow workflows will also come into ChatGPT and Codex, linking the two platforms in both directions.

ITmedia reports that Oracle Cloud will adopt Google's TPUs and begin offering them in 2027. It signals cloud providers widening their AI accelerator sources. Service details and pricing are not confirmed yet.