Ai Sector

B2B ecommerce is posting real numbers — and operators are taking notice

MSC Industrial's Q3 topped $1B in sales as B2B ecommerce adoption accelerates. Here's what the data means for procurement and ops teams.

Eighty percent of U.S. factories have no automation. Here's what's holding them back

Most U.S. manufacturers believe AI is critical to their future, yet few have deployed it broadly. The gap between intent and execution is widening.

Buy, Build & AI: Your New Software Strategy for Energy Leaders

Energy companies are running into a hard truth: the old “buy vs. build” debate no longer fits today’s reality—especially as AI moves from experiment to expectation. A modern software strategy must now account for cloud-native, modular ecosystems, where open APIs, integrations, and AI-ready interfaces determine how quickly teams can launch, adapt, and scale. Early…

Small Margins, Big Risks: How Fraud Hurts Texas Energy Retailers

Fraud has quietly become one of the most existential threats in Texas’s deregulated retail electricity market—because the business runs on razor-thin margins and delayed payment. Under the non-POR system overseen by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), retail energy providers assume the full risk of nonpayment. With profit margins often measured in just a…

Unveiling Sai Computing: The Future of GPU-Powered Cloud Solutions by Applied Digital

Jason Zang, Co-founder of Applied Digital, introduced Sai Computing, the latest subsidiary of Applied Digital, at a recent event. Launched in May 2023, Sai Computing specializes in GPU cloud computing, catering predominantly to the high-performance computing and AI sectors. Their offerings span a range of services, from long-term, extensive GPU deployments under the “Reserve Compute”…