Digital transformation

Oracle Cut 21,000 Jobs Last Year. Its Own Filing Says AI Is a Big Part of Why

On the morning of 31 March 2026, thousands of Oracle employees opened their email to find a message from “Oracle Leadership” confirming their role had been cut, effective immediately. For the vast majority, there was no prior conversation and no...

SAP CEO Says His Developers May Have Four Years Left Before AI Displaces Them. Here’s Why CX Leaders Should Pay Attention

Christian Klein has a prediction about his own workforce, and it is not a comfortable one. The chief executive of SAP, Europe’s largest software company, with a market capitalisation of around $195 billion and more than 110,000 employees globally, told...

Big Tech is Increasingly Moving Beyond ‘Human in the Loop’: Can Agentic AI Oversee Its Own Governance?

The human reviewer at the end of your AI pipeline may be less useful than you think. That, at least, is the argument being made by one of Amazon’s most senior security engineers. The rest of Big Tech appears to...

Amazon Is Investigating the Engineers Who Testified Against Its Data Centres

Amazon is investigating three of its engineers after they testified before the Seattle City Council last month in support of a moratorium on new AI data centre construction. This is a move the employees’ lawyers say violates a local ordinance...

Salesforce and Databricks Partner to Elevate Cross-Platform Data Governance Guardrails for AI

Salesforce and Databricks have announced an expansion of their strategic partnership. It introduces cross-platform data governance AI capabilities aimed at keeping corporate data secure as businesses deploy autonomous agents. The updates build upon the companies’ existing “Zero Copy” architecture. This allows...

Salesforce Puts $1bn Behind Agentforce in Italy, and One Number Tells the Real Story

Salesforce is spending $1 billion in Italy over the next five years. The money buys a new Milan office at Palazzo Missori, a hiring push in data science and deployment engineering, and a training programme called the Enterprise Architecture Academy....

PwC Report Suggests Users With AI Skills Are at a Premium for Employers: Key Takeaways for CX and Contact Centre Teams

UK hiring for AI-related roles surged 61% over the past year, rising from 112,000 positions in 2024 to 180,000 in 2025, indicating the evolving skillsets are at a premium for many industries and businesses. This transpired even as overall job...

Fresh ServiceNow and Salesforce Layoffs Coincide With Growing Focus on AI Productivity

ServiceNow and Salesforce are both making workforce reductions, with executives at each company increasingly highlighting AI as a driver of productivity and organisational change. The developments come as both vendors continue to invest heavily in AI-powered products designed to automate workflows,...

Microsoft AI Boss Dials Back Prediction that AI Will Displace White Collar Jobs

When Mustafa Suleyman told the Financial Times in February that AI would reach “human-level performance on most, if not all, professional tasks” within 12 to 18 months, it made uncomfortable reading for anyone running a contact centre workforce. The Microsoft...

Zoom Brings UK Data Hosting to Its Contact Centre and AI Tools — and Isn’t Charging Extra for It

Zoom’s UK data infrastructure is operational. The company has launched regional hosting across more than twenty of its platform services. These include Zoom Contact Center, Zoom Phone, Zoom Virtual Agent, and its Workplace AI features. As a result, UK-processed customer...

Half a Million NHS Staff Are Getting Microsoft Copilot — How Might it Empower Their CX Teams?

NHS England announced this week that it will roll out Microsoft 365 Copilot to 505,000 clinicians and support staff. This follows what it describes as the largest AI trial of its kind in healthcare. A pilot involving 30,000 staff across 90...

Microsoft’s New Always-On ‘Scout’ AI Agent Works While You’re on Calls

Microsoft used its Build 2026 developer conference to introduce something it is calling an Autopilot. This is a category of AI agent designed not to answer questions, but to keep work moving without being asked. The first example, Microsoft Scout,...