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Patagonia’s annual past-season sale is underway, with deals up to 40 percent off regular price. Patagonia is a perennial favorite here at WIRED. Founded by dirtbag climber extraordinaire Yvon Chouinard, the company has been reliably churning out durable outdoor clothing and gear that's topped many of our
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Haier Appliances India, the No.1 global major appliances brand for 17 consecutive years, has taken a significant step forward in reimagining laundry care with the launch of its next-generation F17 Washing Machine series featuring India’s Only Tilted Touch Screen with AI Wash. Designed to bring greater comfort and
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By Gaurav Mishra, Founder and CEO, Proshort AI For decades, sales onboarding has followed a familiar pattern. New hires spend weeks studying product manuals, listening to recorded calls, and shadowing experienced colleagues before speaking to customers independently. While these methods establish foundational knowledge, they frequently do not effectively connect the
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PUBLIC SECTOR Global players dominate the market. Will public sector buyers give local suppliers a look-in? The British government has awarded places on its latest G-Cloud procurement framework, through which the public sector could spend an estimated £14 billion ($18.9 billion) over four years. Whitehall hopes smaller UK suppliers
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Enterprise internet security vendors and experts have spent many years trying to understand human behavior. As a result, there is now a wide variety of very effective tools and processes that help distinguish legitimate user activity from behavior that may indicate a compromised account or malicious activity. Behavioral analytics has
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Oracle and Quantinuum have entered a multi-year partnership to make Quantinuum’s Helios quantum computer available through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, giving OCI customers access to quantum hardware alongside existing GPU and high-performance computing services. Financial terms were not disclosed, and the companies did not provide a deployment date. Oracle plans
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Across 107 enterprises, agentic orchestration is not a choice of a single platform. The typical enterprise runs three orchestration platforms at once, and selects them for flexibility across models rather than affinity to any single one. Microsoft leads primary usage while Anthropic leads forward consideration by a wide margin. The
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Across 101 enterprises, the context feeding AI agents is failing often and repeatedly. Sixty-eight percent have traced a confident but wrong agent answer to missing or inconsistent business context in the past six months, and the single most common answer is not "once" but "more than once.
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Across 108 enterprises, trust in automated agent evaluation rose sharply in July — and the failure rate it is supposed to predict did not move at all. The share of organizations that fully trust automated evaluation nearly tripled, from 5% in June to 13%, and the complaint that evaluations don’t
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Across 116 enterprises, agents are in production and so are the incidents: A majority have already had a confirmed agent security event or a near-miss. Two-thirds of enterprises enforce scoped permissions at runtime. Barely one in five isolates its highest-risk agents, making containment the weakest layer in the stack precisely
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Across 170 enterprises, AI infrastructure has moved decisively into production — two-thirds now run AI workloads live and three in 10 run them at scale — while the ability to account for what that infrastructure costs has not kept pace. Enterprises have quietly demoted cost in the buying decision: performance and GPU
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Ask any business what it actually does and the answer is almost always specific. A quarrying company extracts rock. A peatland conservation organization restores peatlands. A retailer sells items. The answer is not "we send emails" or "we have meetings." This distinction between what makes a
