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According to SAP, enterprise AI governance secures profit margins by replacing statistical guesses with deterministic control.Ask a consumer-grade model to count the words in a document, and it will often miss the mark by ten percent. Manos Raptopoulos, Global President of Customer Success Europe, APAC, Middle East & Africa at SAP, observes that the operational gap between near-perfect and perfect is absolute.“The distance between 90% and 100% accuracy is not incremental. In our world, it is existential,” notes Raptopoulos.As organisations push large language models into production environments, Raptopoulos emphasises that the evaluation criteria have formally transitioned toward precision, governance, scalability,…

Latest warning comes as Iranian state media reports Tehran has presented new peace proposal to US.Published On 1 May 20261 May 2026The United States has warned that any shippers paying tolls or other fees to Iran for passage through the Strait of Hormuz risk being sanctioned.The warning on Friday comes as a US naval blockade of the strait continued for its third week, amid stalled US-Iran ceasefire talks. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has called the ongoing siege on the country’s ports “intolerable”.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listIran’s influence over, and ability to effectively close, the Strait of Hormuz…

A token is often described as representing around three-quarters of a word. Thus, giving an LLM a text of 10,000 words to examine would equate to 12,000-13,000 tokens of content. In developer terms, if a body of code which Copilot were to examine (for refactoring or bug-hunting for example), comprised of 10,000 ‘words’ (expressions, statements, variable names, functions, and so on), then that using it in one query, once, would count as 12,000-13,000 tokens out of their allottment for the month.Prompt text, as inputs, will also count, as will the outputs from Copilot.The pricing tiers coming into effect next month…

EXPLAINERIran’s president calls the US siege ‘intolerable’ as Donald Trump says war may resume.Published On 1 May 20261 May 2026Tensions remain high across the region, with Iran, the United States and Israel trading warnings as violence continues.Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has described the US naval siege of Iranian ports as an “extension of military operations” that is “intolerable”, while US President Donald Trump said Washington “might need” to restart the war, adding that only a handful of people know the details of ongoing talks.Here is what we know:In Iran Air defences activated in Iran: Air defences were heard in the…

LG is currently engaged in exploratory discussions with NVIDIA concerning physical AI, data centres, and mobility.Following a meeting in Seoul between LG CEO Ryu Jae-cheol and Madison Huang, Senior Director of Product Marketing for Omniverse and Robotics at NVIDIA, the core operational dependencies required to run complex automated systems are becoming apparent.While the companies have not formalised investment amounts or timelines, their intersecting hardware and processing priorities highlight the massive capital expenditure required to bring autonomous systems out of simulation.The densification of compute clusters required for complex machine learning models creates an unavoidable physics problem. NVIDIA’s data centre business generates…

President Donald Trump has renewed his attacks on German Chancellor Friedrich Merz as the rift between the United States and one of its closest European allies widens over Berlin’s criticism of the war on Iran.The US president suggested on Thursday that Merz should focus on German and European affairs rather than comment on the conflict in the Middle East.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“The Chancellor of Germany should spend more time on ending the war with Russia/Ukraine (Where he has been totally ineffective!), and fixing his broken Country, especially Immigration and Energy, and less time on interfering with…

A gateway is a device (usually instantiated in software) that fronts both types of service. It handles authentication, rate limits, logging, monitoring, and access control. If MCP use grows, organisations need to know which AI tools are requesting data from which systems, what data they are allowed access to, and what actions they can perform on that data. A gateway can create a place to manage these types of controls.However, as they operate at the network layer (arbitrating and recording data movement), they do not solve problems that emanate from the software layer (including LLMs, deterministic code, or user activity).…

European leaders are seeking to clarify a little-used mutual defence clause in the European Union treaty as questions grow over Washington’s long-term commitment to NATO during a deepening rift with the United States.NATO, founded in 1949, is a military alliance of North American and European countries built on the principle that an attack on one member is an attack on all. But years of tension between Washington under President Donald Trump and its European allies have pushed European governments to place greater emphasis on their own defence capabilities.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listThe shift has come as Trump…

Getting stalled enterprise AI rollouts in the EMEA region moving again will require CIOs to aggressively audit their systems.Over the past 18 months, AI deployments across Europe advanced far beyond initial testing. Companies poured capital into large language models and machine learning, expecting heavy operational upgrades. IDC research reveals that boards are slowing down, scaling back, or refocusing these initiatives.The contraction rests on execution issues and financial validation rather than a loss of technical interest. Competing IT demands and macroeconomic pressures are forcing directors to demand hard evidence of financial returns before authorising wider deployment.Only nine percent of the region’s…

The decades-old football book craze will comprise 980 unique stickers, including 68 ‘special’ ones in a 112-page ​album.Published On 29 Apr 202629 Apr 2026For generations of ‌football fans, no World Cup would be complete without the thrill of opening ⁠a packet of ⁠Panini stickers and discovering Zico, Franz Beckenbauer, Diego Maradona or Lionel Messi staring back.Since Italian company Panini’s first sticker collection at the 1970 World Cup ⁠in Mexico, trying, and usually failing, to complete the set has been an obsession for young fans around the globe, with playground swapping mandatory.This year’s World Cup in ⁠the United States, Canada and…