
Alibaba missed forecasts as profits slumped despite stronger cloud growth. The results revived a wider market question: how long investors will keep rewarding AI narratives when core commerce remains under pressure.

Cellebrite has launched a collaborative AI investigations management platform globally. Guardian Investigate is aimed at helping agencies coordinate evidence, tasks, and oversight across high-pressure cases.

Jitterbit has topped G2’s enterprise iPaaS implementation ranking once again. The company says faster go-live times and earlier ROI continue to separate its Harmony platform from category averages.

Data literacy is becoming a core business capability for AI. Carruthers and Jackson says AI use is spreading faster than workforce capability, with most senior data leaders reporting that employees remain underprepared to question and apply data-driven outputs.

Client demands are rising faster than budgets will allow now. Teamwork.com says 66% of leaders see clients asking for more while resisting higher fees, as AI reshapes expectations around speed, cost, and delivery.

Napier AI has launched a new AML investigation support capability. Insights AI is designed to give analysts clearer behavioural explanations inside transaction monitoring workflows after sandbox testing with the FCA.

Layoff language matters most when technology begins redrawing the contract. At Atlassian, the challenge is not only explaining fewer roles, but explaining why AI changes the skills mix, what retraining could not solve, and how leaders avoid sounding evasive when strategy, headcount, and empathy collide in one announcement to staff.

Azoma has launched a protocol for managing AI commerce visibility. The company says AMP is designed to help brands control product intelligence across agentic commerce platforms and the wider web.

SSOW’s new report signals faster AI adoption in shared services. Survey data from more than 400 senior professionals suggests the sector is becoming more mature, more automated, and more focused on strategic value as well as cost.

Organisations increasingly anchor AI strategies in governed enterprise knowledge platforms. iManage reported strong global growth in 2025, adding 340 new customers and expanding cloud adoption to 71% of its base as organisations prioritise reliable knowledge infrastructure to support AI deployment.