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How building firm Travis Perkins is laying the foundations for agentic AI

After around 13 years on its heavily customized, legacy platform for service and operations, Travis Perkins wanted to switch to an ITSM system that it could self-manage and offer better control. With a renewal of its old software coming up, the builders’ merchant took the opportunity to source a more appropriate tool to meet its latest needs.

In the summer of 2024, the firm started to look at the market to see what tools were available, and after going through that process, it ended up selecting Freshworks. After nine months of set-up time, the project went live last September.

The main reason for the selection was around control. Brett Jackson, Head of IT Service Operations at Travis Perkins, explains:

The biggest users of the tool are generally in my space, in the service and operations space, yet the old tool, any work required on it was full-on coding and sat...

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Nvidia commits $1.5B to Amkor to expand US chip packaging

Nvidia has agreed to give Amkor Technology a $1.5 billion prepayment to expand advanced semiconductor packaging and testing in the United States, tightening a supply relationship that already sits behind its data-centre chips. The agreement, announced on 23 July, pushed Amkor shares up by roughly 12% in after-hours trading.

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Oracle wins Pentagon software deal worth up to $7bn

The Navy-negotiated framework consolidates the military’s scattered Oracle licences, on a $3.31bn base that could nearly double if a five-year option is exercised. Oracle has secured a contract with the US Department of War worth as much as $6.99bn, the largest step yet in the Pentagon’s

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Genesis AI is in talks to raise about $500m for its robot brains

Genesis AI, the startup building foundation models that it hopes will run inside a wide range of robots, is in talks to raise about $500m, according to Bloomberg. A round of that size would value the company at roughly $3bn, capping a fast climb for a business that only came

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AMD teams up with Eric Trump-backed Foundation to build humanoid robots

AMD has spent the year trying to prove it can do more than trail Nvidia. Its latest move takes the fight somewhere new, to the inside of a humanoid robot. The chipmaker has agreed to supply the compute for machines built by Foundation, a San Francisco startup whose backers include

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Nvidia commits $1.5B to Amkor to expand US chip packaging

Oracle wins Pentagon software deal worth up to $7bn

Genesis AI is in talks to raise about $500m for its robot brains

AMD teams up with Eric Trump-backed Foundation to build humanoid robots