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What a Locomotive Alarm Needs on the Shelf
"I've been impressed that some of the parts actually started arriving earlier than expected." That was Solly Letsoalo, Transnet's group chief operating officer, speaking at the signing of a new support deal for two of South Africa's diesel locomotive fleets, as reported by Railway Gazette. In the same breath he asked for more of …
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Industry Comparison, No Industry Agreement on What Counts
GitHub shipped an industry comparison section to its Copilot impact dashboard on 22 October 2026, allowing enterprises to benchmark their agentic adoption and leverage against participating peers. The feature is opt-in and disabled by default, which means every director who turns it on has already decided the number matters. What nobody has decided is …
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What the Grid Paid For, and What Arrived
On 18 July 2026, WitnessAI published a survey of 300 business executives showing that 68% say at least some AI initiatives ran over budget in the past year, with 33% reporting that overruns occurred mostly or always. The energy sector was not exempt. 94% of power and utility CIOs plan to increase AI investments …
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