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(MENAFN - APO Group) As parcel volumes surge and de minimis rules shift worldwide, rule-based customs systems are running out of road, and the fix isn't more policy patches but rebuilding around AI ...

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Tamil Nadu announces a five-year plan to introduce Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning trades across 50 government ITIs, aiming to enhance vocational education and employment prospects.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang disagrees with Bill Gates' robot tax proposal. Huang believes AI will create more jobs overall, not fewer. He suggests companies with increased productivity tend to hire more people. Huang sees a future of reindustrialization with demand for skilled labor. This new economic era will create many jobs across various sectors.

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New platform combines enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, automation, analytics, and AI into a unified operating system Bentonville, Arkansas, United States, August 30, 2026 -- ERP.io today announced the launch of its AI-native enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management platform, designed to give businesses a unified system for managing customers, sales, operations, finance, projects, workflows, and business intelligence. Unlike traditional ERP and CRM systems that were built before the emergence of modern artificial intelligence and later added AI features, ERP.io has been designed around AI from the outset. The platform brings core business functions together within a common data and intelligence layer, allowing organizations to automate routine work, query business information conversationally, identify problems and opportunities, generate reports, and coordinate workflows across departments. "Most businesses have accumulated a collection of disconnected software systems that each manage a small piece of the company,” said Nate Nead, founder of ERP.io. "ERP.io is built around the opposite idea. We want the business to operate from a shared system where the data, workflows, applications, and AI all work together.” ERP.io combines capabilities traditionally spread across ERP, CRM, project management, financial software, workflow automation, reporting, and business intelligence platforms. Core capabilities include: CRM: Manage leads, accounts, contacts, opportunities, pipelines, activities, and customer relationships.Sales Automation: Automate lead routing, follow-up, pipeline management, forecasting, and sales workflows.Financial Management: Track invoices, payments, expenses, financial activity, and operational performance.Accounts Receivable and Payable: Manage billing, collections, vendor invoices, approvals, and payment workflows.Project Management: Coordinate projects, tasks, milestones, teams, budgets, and deliverables.Operations Management: Create repeatable workflows for internal business processes and departmental operations.Reporting and Analytics: Build dashboards, reports, forecasts, and performance views across company data.AI Assistants and Agents: Use AI to retrieve information, analyze data, prepare reports, recommend actions, and perform multi-step business processes.Workflow Automation: Trigger actions across sales, finance, service, operations, and administrative processes.Integrations: Connect ERP.io with existing business applications, data sources, communications platforms, and third-party services. An ERP Designed Around AI Artificial intelligence is changing what businesses should expect from enterprise software. Historically, business applications have required employees to navigate menus, build reports, export spreadsheets, reconcile information across systems, and manually move work from one application to another. ERP.io is designed to reduce that friction. Users can interact with the platform using natural language to ask questions such as: "Which customers are more than 30 days past due?” "What opportunities are most likely to close this month?” "Show me projects that are over budget.” "Which customers have declining revenue?” "Prepare a weekly operating report.” The longer-term objective is for ERP.io to move beyond answering questions and increasingly execute authorized business processes through AI agents. "AI changes the interface between people and business software,” said Timothy Carter, Chief Revenue Officer. "Instead of requiring employees to understand every screen, field, report, and workflow inside an ERP, the software should increasingly understand what the employee is trying to accomplish. That has the potential to make sophisticated enterprise software substantially more accessible to small and mid-sized businesses.” Bringing CRM and ERP Together ERP.io also challenges the traditional separation between CRM and ERP software. Customer information often lives in the CRM, financial information in accounting software, project data in another application, support information in another system, and operational information in spreadsheets or specialized tools. ERP.io is designed to connect those records around a common business data model. A customer record can therefore extend beyond basic contact information and sales activity to include proposals, contracts, invoices, payments, projects, support activity, communications, profitability, and other operational information. "Businesses do not operate in separate CRM, accounting, marketing, and operations realities,” said Samuel Edwards, Chief Marketing Officer. "Those divisions mostly exist because software developed that way. When the underlying information is connected, AI can understand a much more complete picture of the customer and the business. That is where the platform becomes considerably more useful.” Built for SMB and Mid-Market Companies ERP.io is being developed primarily for small and mid-market organizations that need increasingly sophisticated business systems but may not want the cost, complexity, consulting requirements, and lengthy implementations traditionally associated with large enterprise ERP deployments. The platform is designed to support companies as they grow, allowing businesses to adopt the modules they need while maintaining a unified underlying system. Potential users include professional services firms, agencies, software companies, manufacturers, distributors, construction companies, financial services businesses, ecommerce companies, technology firms, and other organizations with complex operational workflows. ERP.io is also being designed to accommodate industry-specific configurations and workflows rather than forcing every company into the same operating structure. From System of Record to System of Action The company's broader vision is to evolve ERP software from a passive system of record into an active system of intelligence and action. Traditional enterprise applications largely store information and wait for humans to determine what should happen next. ERP.io is being designed to continuously analyze operational information and eventually help businesses identify exceptions, surface risks, recommend actions, and execute approved workflows. Examples could include identifying an overdue receivable and initiating a collection sequence, detecting a stalled sales opportunity and creating follow-up actions, identifying declining account activity, generating management reports, or flagging projects likely to exceed their budgets. "The important shift is not simply putting a chatbot inside an ERP,” Nead said. "The larger opportunity is giving AI access to the structured data and workflows that actually run the company. Once those pieces are connected, AI can move from answering questions to helping operate the business.” ERP.io is available at ERP.io. About ERP.io ERP.io is an AI-native enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management platform designed to help businesses manage customers, sales, finance, projects, operations, workflows, analytics, and automation from a unified system. The platform combines ERP, CRM, business intelligence, workflow automation, and AI agents within a common data and application layer, with the goal of helping organizations operate more efficiently and make better decisions. For more information, visit ERP.io. About DEV.co DEV.co is a software development and technology services company specializing in custom web applications, SaaS platforms, AI-enabled software, system integrations, and ERP development. DEV.co works with startups, growth companies, and established businesses to design, build, launch, and scale custom software products. DEV.co served as the development partner for ERP.io, helping architect and build the platform's core application, integrations, data infrastructure, user experience, and AI-powered capabilities. 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Investors should be cautious of a cashless earnings bubble in AI stocks amid rising valuations and historical precedents.

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Key Points - Interested in 1stdibs.com, Inc.? Here are five stocks we like better. - 1stDibs returned to growth while improving profitability: Second-quarter GMV rose 7% to $96 million, revenue exceeded $23 million and EBITDA reached $1.3 million. Management expects continued GMV growth and a...

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On Friday, the institutionally focused digital asset exchange Bullish announced it has extended a $100 million stablecoin debt facility to USD.AI in order to finance loans secured by graphics processing units (GPUs). Alongside this, the company noted that it plans to list USD.AI’s yield-bearing crypto asset sUSDai on the trading platform as well. Bullish Puts [...]

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Remembering Prof Talwar as a demanding yet deeply committed mentor, Dr. Sastry recalled his philosophy of academic freedom and further described the mentorship that shaped his surgical career

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Marvell’s shares fell after investors decided its giant Google AI deal would take too long to move the numbers. Then Coherent Corp. (NYSE:COHR) and Lumentum Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:LITE) fell with it on August 28. Barron’s argued the sympathy selloff made little sense because Marvell’s actual data-center results remained strong, especially for the optical demand that [...]

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JMIR Publications this week released seven feature News and Perspectives articles covering how digital tools are transforming clinical research, public health readiness, health care institutions, and consumer choices.

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Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ:OKTA) jumped 28.6% on August 27 and closed at $172.91 after reporting better-than-expected results. The easy explanation is an earnings beat. The stock also reached a four-year high, making this more than a routine relief rally after a quarter that narrowly cleared estimates. The more interesting explanation is that investors may be starting [...]

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Zetrix AI Berhad has denied any involvement or association with former Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri M. Saravanan in relation to three graft charges brought against him, after Bursa Malaysia Securities queried the company over a sharp fall in its share price and high trading volume. In a Bursa Malaysia filing on Friday (Aug 28), [...]

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Nancy Pelosi’s household disclosed one of the more eye-catching AI infrastructure trades of the summer. Public transaction data filed on August 21 shows her husband, Paul Pelosi, bought 10,000 shares of Bloom Energy Corporation (NYSE:BE) on July 24 and another 5,000 shares on July 28. He also bought 200 call options with a $100 strike [...]

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The tech industry is trying to blunt a ferocious backlash against the data centers it needs for artificial intelligence.

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Workday Inc. (NASDAQ:WDAY) saw its share price jump by 5.76 percent on Friday to finish at $204.72 apiece, as investors cheered its strong earnings performance in the second quarter of the year, thanks to the rapid growth in artificial intelligence. In a statement, the listed firm said that it was able to grow its net [...]

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Get latest articles and stories on Business at LatestLY. IndiGo Ventures invested in Sarvam AI as part of the full-stack sovereign artificial intelligence company's Series B round of funding.

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IndiGo Ventures backs sovereign AI firm Sarvam in Series B funding round

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Global digital asset platform OpenSea is supplying real-time onchain market data to Perplexity Computer, the AI agent platform developed by Perplexity. The companies announced the partnership on August 27, introducing a connector that allows users to ask natural-language questions about tokens, digi

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MELBOURNE, Australia and DENVER, Aug. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- To address the growing complexity and operational blind spots of fragmented CX AI Agent and CX tech stacks, Operata today introduced expanded CX AI Agent Observability. CX observability is the critical control layer to...

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As scammers become increasingly sophisticated, staying vigilant online has never been more important.

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New reports outline deal talks between the two companies as open-source AI technology comes more into focus.

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Zoom Communications (NasdaqGS: ZM) is expected to benefit from rising enterprise demand and broader use of AI tools. Analyst commentary points to AI driven features and enterprise adoption as key factors for the company despite current margin pressure. The focus on AI and large corporate customers is described as a long term growth opportunity that sits apart from near term earnings or share price moves. Consider reviewing other companies building the tools and infrastructure that support...

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Bill Gates' Human Reserved proposal would keep some jobs human even when AI can perform them, potentially protecting up to 40% of jobs.

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NuScale Power (NYSE: SMR) announced a new alliance with Nuclearn and NPX to deploy nuclear specific AI tools for Small Modular Reactor development and operations. The AI platforms are designed to give engineers rapid access to proprietary knowledge and technical documentation, with reported information retrieval time reductions of up to 80%. NuScale Power expects the tools to support engineering productivity, regulatory compliance workflows, and safety focused analysis across its SMR...

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