Operations News & Insights
Career signals for operations professionals.
Original OperationsCareers articles first, followed by selected headlines across operations, AI, technology, finance, sales, manufacturing and supply chain.
It is not a generic news feed — it is for busy operations professionals who want useful context without scrolling through noise.
Newsletter
Your team saved 10 hours this week. Where did 3.7 of them go?
Ask someone how much time AI saved them last week and you get a number. Ask where it went and you get a pause. Where the hours actually go, and how to decide.
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AI & Ops Roles
Mop the slop from your LinkedIn feed with a new open-source Chrome extension
Jev-powered Slop Mop demonstrates another great use case for probabilistic, non-chatty AI model
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AI & Ops Roles
Employees report performative AI use amid role changes
Pressure to use the technology exists all across the enterprise, but employees are concerned about job loss and a lack of paths to advancement, a Visier study found.
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Finance Ops
Directors flag gaps in board expertise: PwC
The share of directors who see a fellow board member’s “insufficient expertise” as warranting their replacement nearly doubled this year, a PwC survey says.
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AI & Ops Roles
Shippers’ coalition advances Class 8 electric battery truck adoption
Companies such as Microsoft and PepsiCo are aggregating demand to access sustainable transportation more affordably, recently placing an order for 2,500 trucks.
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Newsletter
The equipment held. The procedure didn't.
87% of operators say their last major outage was preventable. 59% of human-error failures came from procedures not being followed — and 36% from the procedures being wrong. Most organisations respond to both the same way.
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AI & Ops Roles
McDonald’s plans $8.5B push to deploy tech, modernize operations
The 10-year investment roadmap includes scaling the company's AI-enabled ordering system, ArchIQ.
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AI & Ops Roles
CFO optimism holds steady overall, weakens at small firms
Twenty percent of small companies reported financial constraints preventing them from covering costs or pursuing new business opportunities.
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Finance Ops
Business growth surges at fastest pace in five years: S&P Global
Amid rising business activity, U.S. companies this year have grown more pessimistic about future inflation.
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Finance Ops
Want a smart tariff strategy? Lawyer tells CFOs to go back to basics
Executives should be mindful that earnings calls are effectively a “voluntary deposition,” Terence Lau, dean of Syracuse University’s College of Law.
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OC Article
The AI Skill Companies Are Missing Is One Operations Managers Already Have
88% of organisations use AI. Only 21% have redesigned any workflow around it. McKinsey data shows that gap is an operations skill — here is what to do with it.
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AI & Ops Roles
Europe's fastest supercomputer is finally getting its domestic silicon infusion
Bull, the system builder behind JUPITER, takes delivery of SiPearl's long-awaited Rhea1 CPUs
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IT Ops
Databank names new CFO ahead of CEO succession
Four months ahead of acting finance chief Kevin Ooley taking the CEO seat, the data center company named Ben Lowe as its next CFO.
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IT Ops
Someone's attacking a critical 0-day RCE in F5 BIG-IP APM
Good news: there's a patch. Bad news: both CISA and F5 warn that it's under active exploitation
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IT Ops
Discordians now subject to whims of new age verification technology
Discord users asked to prove they’re adults get less intrusive options
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OC Article
AI Agents in Operations: A Practical Field Guide
What AI agents actually are, where they fit in operations work by function, and what to learn now — a practical guide without the hype
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AI & Ops Roles
Robot dog ran a marathon on one charge and lived to publish the paper
Two years later, creators explain how lightweight hardware and reinforcement learning helped it go the distance
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AI & Ops Roles
Federal judge blocks New Mexico’s PFAS label mandate
The regulation, which was set to begin Jan. 1, 2027, would have required manufacturers to label their products containing intentionally added per- and polyfluoroalkyl...
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AI & Ops Roles
How manufacturers can improve factory sustainability through AI
Experts at Climate Week NYC 2026 discussed how to leverage technologies to drive energy efficiencies, including predictive maintenance and machine-learning models for critical...
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IT Ops
An Epyc trip to Venice: Everything we do and don't know about AMD's 256-core monster chip
16 channels of DDR5, 5 GHz clock speeds, and support for CXL 3.1 memory god boxes? What's not to like?
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AI & Ops Roles
Thoughts return to forbidden RAM upgrades as Raspberry Pi OS gets fresh lick of paint
New dock and app launcher arrive while soaring memory prices revive scrutiny of a two-year-old firmware restriction
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IT Ops
Academic publisher Elsevier hit by LAPSUS$ redirect attack
Customers got crime crew's calling card instead of access to journals
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Manufacturing
Manufacturing growth drives need for hazardous waste solutions: Veolia
Hazardous waste volumes may grow 4 millions tons by 2033 due to increased manufacturing activity in semiconductors, autos, biotech and more. A Veolia-backed report outlines the...
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Supply Chain
Old Dominion announces 4.9% general rate increase
The increase, which applies to a selection of services, is effective Oct. 5.
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