Skills shortage stories
Fewer than one in three manufacturers have received direct grant funding, underscoring doubts that the Government's strategy is reaching factory floors.
Demand for specialist AI and technology freelancers has climbed sharply as companies across Europe plug skills gaps and move projects to production.
Demand for specialist AI staff is lengthening vacancies and driving salaries higher as firms move from experiments to deployment.
Most finance chiefs still need sharper strategic, people and commercial skills before boards will back them for the top job, a survey found.
Employers could gain a clearer read on staff judgement and adaptability as Lumenai's structured capability data attracts pre-seed backing from Corpora.ai.
Manufacturers and distributors can now query live ERP data in context, as the new tool aims to ease skills shortages and speed decisions.
Critical infrastructure operators face a new AI defence as EmberAI is designed to speed OT threat triage amid rising cyberattack risk.
The top ranking underscores Schneider Electric's push to cut emissions and expand clean energy access as it rolls out its Impact 2030 roadmap.
Strict controls are now central to One NZ's AI push as it guards customer data and avoids costly errors in billing and finance.
More than 1,300 organisations have adopted the platform in six weeks, as Tanium bets AI can cut endpoint security and IT workflows.
Analysts at critical infrastructure sites can now use a specialised AI tool that keeps data in-house and speeds OT threat response.
Entry-level hiring, not a lack of talent, is keeping many would-be Web3 workers out, with 54% citing experience demands as the main barrier.
Nearly half of Canadian business leaders are testing AI without seeing returns, as firms struggle to embed the technology into daily operations.
Only 23% of firms say staff are fully ready for AI, even as spending and deployment surge ahead of training and governance.
Three-quarters of geospatial teams say demand is rising faster than capacity, heightening pressure on staff, systems and decision-making.
Students will gain hands-on AI and CRM training from first year under a new degree designed to meet rising employer demand for data skills.
Labour shortages could slow repairs and raise outage risk, as TP Reach lets junior technicians get remote help from senior engineers on site.
Small firms are being squeezed as payroll gets harder and skilled staff near retirement, leaving software to fill the gap.
The record haul will fund bursaries and grants for young Canadians hit by affordability, mental health and education barriers.
A veteran pipeline for data centre work is set to ease staff shortages as Salute and UHP target more than 10,000 recruits.