Aging demographics, labor shortages, the adoption of GenAI, and the 2023 implementation of e-invoicing are driving companies to automate finance, tax, procurement, and HR in Japan. Yet only 16% of digital transformations succeed, and that’s only 4–11% in traditional industries. The main barriers? Weak leadership commitment, a rigid culture, and a lack of digital talent. […]
LayerX uses AI to cut enterprise back-office workload, scores $100M in Series B
Aging demographics, labor shortages, the adoption of GenAI, and the 2023 implementation of e-invoicing are driving companies to automate finance, tax, procurement, and HR in Japan. Yet only 16% of digital transformations succeed, and that’s only 4–11% in traditional industries. The main barriers? Weak leadership commitment, a rigid culture, and a lack of digital talent. […]
PGA Tour Championship format change, explained: Why final leg of FedEx Cup playoffs no longer uses starting strokes
The PGA Tour season comes to a close this weekend with the TOUR Championship in Atlanta, as the top 30 golfers on the tour this season battle it out. This year, however, the PGA Tour is using a different format to determine a TOUR Champion for the 2025 season compared to previous seasons. The change […]
Can managers sit in stands when sent off? Explaining head coach rules as Mascherano uses phone after red card
While yellow and red cards given to coaches and technical staff are a relatively new feature in modern football, a coach being “sent to the stands” is nothing new. Referees have long been able to dismiss a coach from the touchline for their behavior. Usually, a coach is sent away from the field of play […]
Nvidia unveils new Cosmos world models, infra for robotics and physical uses
Nvidia on Monday unveiled a set of new world AI models, libraries, and other infrastructure for robotics developers, most notable of which is Cosmos Reason, a 7-billion-parameter “reasoning” vision language model for physical AI applications and robots. Also joining the existing batch of Cosmos world models are Cosmos Transfer-2, which can accelerate synthetic data generation from […]