Llanor Alleyne

eWEEK • January 5 2026

170 Million New Jobs, 92 Million Lost: Inside the AI Employment Paradox

For much of the past two years, analysts and labor studies have warned of a looming job apocalypse, particularly for entry-level roles that once served as the primary on-ramp for new college graduates.

eWEEK • December 31 2025

The Man Who Built Modern AI Says Your Job May Not Survive It

On Dec. 28, during CNN’s State of the Union, Hinton raised concerns about AI’s staggering advancement, noting that the technology has already replaced jobs in call centers and will replace more in the coming year.

Hertzman Global Intelligence • December 16 2025

McKinsey: Why Upstream Efficiency Will Decide Fashion’s Performance in 2026

Digitized workflows, accurate forecasting and tighter production alignment are becoming the foundations of resilience as brands face rising costs and new compliance demands.

Raconteur • December 2 2025

What Nvidia’s dominance means for UK enterprises

The company’s near-monopoly leaves UK firms wrestling with ballooning cloud bills and uncertain access to compute resources.

TechRepublic • November 12 2025

Google’s €5.5B Germany Investment Tests Europe’s AI Ambitions

In its largest European investment to date, the tech giant plans to build two new data centers near Frankfurt and Berlin, expand its regional cloud footprint, and accelerate its push toward running entirely on carbon-free energy by 2030.

TechRepublic • November 10 2025

Meta’s $600B AI Data Center Expansion

Meta is doubling down on its US infrastructure buildout, announcing plans to pour more than $600 billion into data centers nationwide.

Raconteur • November 10 2025

Can the UK’s AI Growth Lab make regulation an engine for growth?

The UK government is moving to put its AI plan into action with the launch of the AI Growth Lab, a key initiative designed to strengthen public trust, drive innovation and unlock growth across critical sectors, including health, construction and finance.

Raconteur • November 6 2025

What is a chief AI officer?

As AI swiftly moves from experimentation to widespread enterprise adoption, a new role is emerging in corporate hierarchies: the chief AI officer (CAIO).

eWEEK • November 4 2025

Anthropic’s Latest Deal Signals a New Era for Enterprise AI

Anthropic has partnered with business transformation firm Cognizant to bring the AI company’s Claude model family to enterprises at scale.

TechFinitive • October 29 2025

Inside the modern CFO’s tech stack: why ERP still matters

Sponsored Feature: Today’s CFOs rely on connected systems to balance stability with speed and to build a foundation for smarter scaling.

TechFinitive • October 15 2025

Oracle’s Larry Ellison outlines AI future built on secure access to private enterprise data

During Oracle’s AI World conference, company Founder and CTO, Larry Ellison, made the case for leveraging enterprise and private data to train and deploy large AI models.

eWEEK • October 9 2025

How AI Automation Is Reshaping the Workforce

As AI integration continues to reshape business operations, more companies worldwide are increasingly forgoing human labor and prioritizing AI-driven automation to reduce headcount and operational costs, according to a new study released by the British Standards Institution (BSI).

TechRepublic • October 3 2025

Study: ChatGPT Hasn’t Upended the US Job Market…Yet

The maelstrom of anxiety that rode in on the debut of ChatGPT nearly three years ago hasn’t translated into mass U.S. job losses as feared, according to a new study.

TechRepublic • October 3 2025

9 Guidelines on Advancing Transformative Responsible AI

The core value of responsible AI is harm reduction. As more and more organizations adopt and report the benefits of responsible AI, including improved efficiency and greater customer trust, research shows that less than 1% of them have implemented the practice in a comprehensive, operational way.

VentureBeat • July 22 2022

Intuit and Canva: How Custom Bots and Workflows Help Employees be More Productive

Properly connecting data and people can exponentially improve how meaningful work is done. A custom bot that made a service team 36% faster and saved agents over 9,000 hours of work did so for Intuit because the right data was used to create it. Canva’s finance team built a workflow that saves it over 64 hours of work each week. This video chat between Llanor Alleyne and Slack's Steve Wood shares best practices for using data to approach automation in ways that are designed to scale human interaction and organizations to empower people to turn noise into productivity.

VentureBeat • July 22 2022

Walgreens Boots Alliance: Using data and insights to transform the customer experience

In a video chat between Llanor Alleyne, executive editor at VentureBeat, and Mike Maresca, chief technology officer at WBA, during VentureBeat’s Transform 2022 virtual conference, Maresca describes how WBA relies heavily on its extensive global presence in the retail, pharmacy and healthcare sectors.

VentureBeat • July 12 2022

Transform: The Data Week continues with a dive into data analytics

VentureBeat Executive Editor Llanor Alleyne will chat with Mike Maresca, CTO at Walgreens Boots Alliance to learn how Walgreens is using data and insights to transform the customer experience at every touchpoint.

IT Business Edge • February 23 2022

What is AutoML?

In recent years, automated ML (AutoML) has become a tool to simplify steps in the ML process, allowing enterprises that want to introduce AIOps into their operations to do so cheaply.

Worth • October 20 2021

Speaking Up and Out: How Women & Women of Color Can Advocate for Themselves, According to a Woman Who’s Done It | Worth

In the late 1980s, a year or so before I entered high school, my father built me a desk and bought me a Commodore 64. I felt like the luckiest kid in Brooklyn.

IT Business Edge • May 17 2021

Enterprise End-to-End Encryption is on the Rise

Created to ensure that messages stay private between correspondents, E2EE has been a thorny issue between law enforcement and intelligence agencies seeking to gain access to users’ encrypted messages and tech companies who want to keep their customers’ communications confidential.

IT Business Edge • May 7 2021

AIOps Trends & Benefits for 2021

AIOps moves IT teams and infrastructures away from siloed architectures to a single, automate platform that allows IT professionals to proactively and quickly respond to innumerable IT challenges, including outages and slowdowns.

Small Business Computing • May 3 2021

Mining Data to Spur Digital Business Transformation

Data mining is a powerful, predictive tool that, if used correctly, can reduce business costs and increase revenue.

Small Business Computing • March 31 2021

Customer Data Platform (CDP) | Better Customer Journey 2022

Designed specifically for marketers, CDPs are the central location for customer data collected from all sources and creates customer profiles that are integral to targeted marketing campaigns.

Small Business Computing • March 24 2021

Top Things You Should Know about Edge Computing 2022

Born in the explosion of internet-connected devices and applications requiring real-time data processing, edge computing is the analyzing and processing of data near or at its source.