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1 week ago | 
sustainabilitymag.com | James Darley
Microsoft has released its 2025 Environmental Sustainability Report, marking the halfway point to its 2030 climate commitments. In the 90-page document, the US-based tech giant reflects on the progress it has made against the pledges it made in 2020. The goals it had aimed to accomplish by 2030 were various and ambitious. They included becoming carbon negative and water positive, whilst also producing zero waste and protecting more land than it used.
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1 week ago | 
technologymagazine.com | James Darley
According to McKinsey & Co., 78% of businesses around the world are now using AI to fulfil at least one business function, whether that's for data analysis, customer service or even for writing emails. For some industries, AI has been like the ideal new hire, slotting in seamlessly. For others, integrating AI has been more difficult. In highly regulated industries like healthcare, finance or civil service, strict governance requirements prevent AI technologies from being used so freely.
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1 week ago | 
technologymagazine.com | James Darley
For a brief period in 2024, between June and October, Nvidia was the world’s most valuable company. A strong end to the year put its rival Apple back atop its perch, but Nvidia may be about to claw back supremacy. The tech powerhouse, run by CEO Jensen Huang, has reported record quarterly revenue of US$44.1bn for Q1 of fiscal 2026, which is a 69% increase from the same period last year. Nvidia’s financial performance reflects the extraordinary global demand for AI infrastructure.
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1 week ago | 
technologymagazine.com | James Darley
A recently published research study from US-based identity security firm SailPoint has called attention to a striking contradiction in the attitudes of technology executives towards AI. The study shows that, above all else, the tech sector is concerned about agentic AI – the form of artificial intelligence that can act independently of human direction.
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1 week ago | 
sustainabilitymag.com | James Darley
Merck’s shareholders have rejected a proposal from the National Legal & Policy Centre (NLPC) urging the company to end its diversity, equity and inclusion programmes. The vote – which took place on 27 May at the pharmaceutical giant’s AGM – was a landslide, with 99% of shareholders voting to stand behind the company’s DEI policies.
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1 week ago | 
sustainabilitymag.com | James Darley
When the idea of ESG was first raised by the UN in 2004, never before had the environmental, social and governance performance of companies been quantified in quite this way. Despite being the subject of some backlash, ESG remains crucial for businesses looking to pass muster with the vast majority of regulators and investors. ESG ratings providers have become an important part of this process, acting as the independent arbiters of corporate sustainability performance.
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1 week ago | 
technologymagazine.com | James Darley
When Duolingo’s CEO and Co-Founder Luis von Ahn announced the language-learning platform’s ‘AI-first’ strategy with a memo in late April, he sparked frenzied concerns among his staff. Duolingo’s team feared that, by prioritising the rollout of AI, the jobs of many of the company’s content creators would be at severe risk. “AI is already changing how work gets done. It’s not a question of if or when. It’s happening now," Luis wrote in his original statement.
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1 week ago | 
sustainabilitymag.com | James Darley
Transparency has rarely been as important for businesses as it is today. In years gone by, the inner workings of a global corporate supply chain were difficult to comprehend, let alone influence. The modern business, though, is under pressure from all sides, with consumers, regulators, investors, governments and employees all pushing for supply chain sustainability.
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2 weeks ago | 
sustainabilitymag.com | James Darley
The US Plastics Pact has witnessed a mass exodus of some of its most prominent members, including Walmart, Mondelēz, Mars, Nestlé and L'Oréal USA. The pact is one of the world’s largest frameworks for addressing the problem of plastic waste, with a specific focus on the fast-moving consumer goods industry. The departure of several high-profile companies represents a hammer blow to the pact’s aims, raising questions about the corporate world’s commitment to packaging sustainability.
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2 weeks ago | 
technologymagazine.com | James Darley
Bain Capital has officially launched hscale, a hyperscale data centre provider, which will see the investment firm scale its data centre projects across the EMEA region. It's an initiative that aligns with Bain's overarching digital transformation strategy and aims to position the company as a significant player in the future of European data infrastructure.
