African Church Leaders Explore Artificial Intelligence: Guiding Tech with Faith and Ethics

Across Africa, artificial intelligence is no longer a distant concept. It’s in mobile banking apps that let farmers send payments, in crop-disease detection tools that boost harvests, and in chatbots that answer questions about healthcare. But as AI spreads, so do questions: Will it respect local cultures? Protect human dignity? Uphold the values that bind communities together? For Africa’s church leaders, these aren’t just technical questions—they’re spiritual ones. Last month in Nairobi, religious leaders from across the continent gathered to grapple with AI’s promise and perils. Hosted by the All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC) and the Future of Life Institute, the meeting wasn’t about rejecting technology. It was about […]

How Intelligent Automation Helps Navigate Global Trade Disruptions

A new tariff is announced at midnight. A shipment is delayed by a port strike in Singapore. A customs regulation, buried in 50 pages of legal text, takes effect next week. In global trade, disruption isn’t an exception—it’s the rule. And for companies still relying on spreadsheets, manual data entry, and “firefighting” mode, these disruptions aren’t just headaches. They’re costly: delayed shipments erode customer trust, missed regulatory updates trigger fines, and last-minute reroutes inflate logistics costs. But imagine a system that sees these disruptions coming. It scans policy feeds for tariff changes, tracks port delays in real time, and even parses dense legal documents to flag new rules. Then, it […]

Beyond Bare Metal: How Automation Is Redefining AI Infrastructure

When CIOs and AI leaders talk about scaling AI, the conversation almost always circles back to a single tension: performance versus flexibility. For years, the conventional wisdom has held that you can’t have both. To get the speed AI demands, you’d have to lock into rigid, bare-metal infrastructure—wasting hardware capacity, ballooning costs, and trapping yourself in inflexible systems that can’t keep up with evolving models or workloads. But that trade-off is dead. Recent MLPerf Inference 5.0 results—independently verified benchmarks—tell a new story. Using VMware Cloud Foundation and NVIDIA H100 GPUs, we ran large AI models like Mixtral-8x7B and GPT-J in a virtualized environment and matched (even outperformed) bare-metal performance. What’s […]

4 Automation Tips to Unlock Packaging Line Flexibility

In the world of consumer packaged goods (CPG), change is the only constant. Consumer preferences shift overnight, product ranges expand to meet niche demands, and packaging designs evolve to stand out on shelves—all while brands race to get products from factory to customer faster than ever. For packaging lines, this means one non-negotiable: flexibility. A rigid packaging line, stuck in fixed processes, can’t keep up. It struggles with frequent changeovers, wastes time on reconfigurations, and misses opportunities to adapt to new trends. The solution? Strategic automation that doesn’t just speed up production, but makes it adaptable. By integrating the right tools and practices, CPG operations can turn their packaging lines into […]

Warehouse Automation: Building a Strong, Data-Driven Business Case

Every order that arrives at a customer’s door, every pallet restocked in a retail backroom, every shipment that meets a tight deadline—behind these moments lies a warehouse operation balancing speed, cost, and reliability. Today, supply chain and fulfillment leaders find themselves navigating a high-stakes paradox: capital is scarce, interest rates are high, and uncertainty looms, demanding cautious spending. Yet at the same time, they’re pressured to process more orders faster, manage rising labor costs, and scale to meet growth—all while keeping operations lean. This is where warehouse automation emerges not as a “nice-to-have” but a strategic necessity. Whether supporting omnichannel retailers, B2B stalwarts, or e-commerce giants, automation transforms core materials […]

Robots on Construction Sites: Why Construction Automation is About Safety, Not Pink Slips

Construction sites across the U.S. are caught in a brutal bind: demand for new housing, roads, and energy projects is surging, yet nearly 400,000 construction jobs sit unfilled. At the same time, the industry remains one of the most dangerous—199 workers died from heavy machinery incidents in 2022 alone, with hundreds more injured by crushes, amputations, or equipment collisions. Into this gap steps Bedrock Robotics, a San Francisco startup that last week announced an $80 million funding round to retrofit bulldozers and excavators with AI-driven automation. The goal, the company stresses, isn’t to replace workers with robots. It’s to ease a critical labor shortage, make deadly tasks safer, and unlock […]

Emerson Launches First Generative AI (GenAI) Automation Solution for Power and Water Industries

Guide: Emerson announced the launch of AI-powered Ovation™ Virtual Advisor, the first generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) virtual advisor software integrated into an automation system and specifically designed for the power and water industries. As a new feature added to Emerson’s Ovation 4.0 automation platform, this AI-powered virtual advisor software can provide real-time insights, improve efficiency, detect anomalies, predict maintenance issues, and support strategic decision-making. Pittsburgh (July 15, 2025) — Emerson (NYSE: EMR), an industrial technology company providing advanced automation solutions, announced the launch of AI-powered Ovation™ Virtual Advisor, the first generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) virtual advisor software integrated into an automation system and specifically designed for the power and water […]

Drivers of Industrial Innovation! How Smart Sensors Are Reshaping Industrial Operations

  Guide: Smart sensors are no longer just “auxiliary tools” but have become one of the indispensable infrastructures in modern industry. Integrating sensing, data processing, and communication capabilities, smart sensors can not only collect real-time data on the environment and equipment operation but also perform local computing and feed key data back to the central system for automatic responses. In the current fast-paced and highly competitive industrial environment, “efficiency”, “precision”, and “safety” have become key words for enterprise operations. Manufacturers, factory operators, and various industrial enterprises are facing multiple challenges: they need to improve productivity, reduce operating costs, while ensuring high-quality standards and employee safety. Against this backdrop, smart sensors […]

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