Three beverage groups revise EU labels, Capcom leak hits 11.77 million records, Barclays plans 5,000 cuts — and 7 more | BPJ News
The cost of correcting environmental claims, delivery automation for staff shortages, AI-linked restructuring and the speed of attacks are shifting the line between order terms and fixed costs.
In the EU, three major beverage groups have promised to revise bottle labels, extending the cost of environmental claims to artwork and obsolete packaging. Delivery automation for labour shortages, job cuts partly attributed to AI, and an information leak affecting more than 11.77 million records are also beginning to change printers’ costs and order terms.
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In Europe, scrutiny of environmental claims is spreading from advertising images to entire packages. In Japan, technology that reorganises deliveries when staff are absent, and a retail space that brings completed comics back into circulation, have begun moving. Job cuts partly attributed to AI, cyberattack attempts reaching into the millions, and higher crude-oil prices are shaking assumptions about fixed costs and delivery deadlines.…
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