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22 Oct 2026
Reality complicates CIOs' big AI observability plans
What happens when an AI agent does something nobody intended? New Omdia research puts CIOs' observability plans under the microscope.
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22 Oct 2026
AgentSpot a means for ThoughtSpot users to build and share AI
With business decisions often a collaborative process but AI tools frequently used in isolation, the vendor's new workspace provides an environment for multiplayer AI.
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21 Oct 2026
IT leaders test the waters of autonomous network operations
AI agents largely remain in an advisory role for NetOps teams as they take a 'trust but verify' approach, but autonomy is growing alongside network complexity.
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22 Oct 2026
Climb Global Solutions adds more European depth
Distributor is back in the M&A game, this time targeting a value-added player in France
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22 Oct 2026
Newly published NSA audits reveal QPA miscalculations
Two recently published audits of No Surprises Act claims uncovered troubles two plan sponsors have had with calculating the QPA, a highly criticized metric in the IDR process.
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22 Oct 2026
Extreme aims to be network local hero with Exchange Zones
Network systems provider unveils industry’s first on-premise enterprise AI infrastructure for networking to bring AI to branch and edge sites, supporting data sovereignty, localisation, survivability
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22 Oct 2026
MSPs still at early stages of AI journey
Research from Nerdio has revealed the relatively low levels of partners that have been able to turn investments into measurable business outcomes
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22 Oct 2026
India’s quantum mission takes shape, but adoption is the harder test
Three years into its National Quantum Mission, India has a 1,000km quantum-secure network and a home-grown 25-qubit computer, but turning that research into revenue and building skills at scale will decide how far it goes
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22 Oct 2026
Barclays to cut 5,000 jobs and employ more artificial intelligence
The UK bank is cutting thousands of jobs as it invests in the latest technologies, such as artificial intelligence
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22 Oct 2026
Interview: IQT, the organisation with roots in the CIA
Jennifer Nelson runs the international arm of an organisation that takes stakes in tech firms that secure US and allied interests
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22 Oct 2026
Government can’t account for digital transformation spend
Being transparent on digital spend across departments currently ‘not feasible’ due to finance systems constraints, the government responds to Science and Technology Committee recommendations
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21 Oct 2026
Grid ‘runs on coal-age data’, warns Open Climate Fix
Open Climate Fix says opening priority energy datasets could cut consumer bills, as a coalition of energy and data innovators urges ministers to act on the clean power mission
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21 Oct 2026
Grid ‘runs on coal-age data’, warns Open Climate Fix
Open Climate Fix says opening priority energy datasets could cut consumer bills, as a coalition of energy and data innovators urges ministers to act on the clean power mission
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21 Oct 2026
What to do as critical PHP flaws puts millions of websites at risk
Patch or go offline, say UK, US and EU agencies as two AI-discovered flaws in PHP, the language behind most websites, allow unauthenticated remote code execution
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21 Oct 2026
PHP2Shell: 22M exposed servers at risk as emergency patches released
AI gave defenders a head start, but PHP2Shell has sparked a chaotic race against automated exploits across 22 million vulnerable servers.
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21 Oct 2026
CBRE to acquire Onnec in $1 billion data center infrastructure deal
CBRE will acquire Onnec for up to $1 billion, expanding its global data center infrastructure services as hyperscalers demand more fiber, networking and deployment expertise.
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21 Oct 2026
What do patients think of AI in patient portal messages?
Patients are receptive to AI-drafted patient portal messages, but prefer their healthcare provider to be involved in messages about their clinical needs and symptoms.
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21 Oct 2026
Armstrong Bell marks 25 years with acquisition
Deal adds more muscle in Midlands and provides a chance to reflect on the progress made across two-and-a-half decades
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21 Oct 2026
Burnham ministry shifts look far from fixing datacentre gridlock
Clogged grid queues and speculative planning applications threaten the UK’s 2030 datacentre and clean energy targets. Is a national ‘superministry’ the only way out?
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21 Oct 2026
Provider-sponsored health plans negotiate lower rates
New research shows health systems with their own insurance plans negotiate significantly cheaper rates, but researchers warn against treating the model as a blueprint for savings.
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21 Oct 2026
CIOs walk AI tightrope as CEOs demand innovation
AI adoption carries risks, but moving too slowly does, too. Business leaders explain where CIOs should accelerate and where they should be cautious.
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21 Oct 2026
Dell stresses the need to support users around AI
Vendor enhances its offering and shares research that shows users are looking for clear business outcomes
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21 Oct 2026
Five resellers won one in seven UK public sector IT deals in 2025-26
UK public bodies awarded 7,994 IT contracts worth £91bn in the year to August 2026, a figure flattered by framework ceilings, while the typical award was worth £164,000
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21 Oct 2026
Retailers taking greater slice of the business laptop market
Context analysis indicates that the tug of war between specialist resellers and the large retail chains is continuing
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21 Oct 2026
Telstra, Ericsson expand autonomous network collaboration
Leading operator and comms tech firm expand collaboration to accelerate the industry’s shift towards autonomous networks with a common knowledge taxonomy, exchange and composition
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21 Oct 2026
UK government adapts Post Office scandal redress schemes and investigates pre-Horizon software
The UK government will investigate Post Office software that predates Horizon and opens up new routes to financial redress for subpostmasters as claims of unfairness continue
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21 Oct 2026
MPs ask finance regulators how they will deal with Google Cloud after outage
Tech giants, including Google Cloud, now fall in the regulatory remit of Critical Third Parties
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21 Oct 2026
AI will drive up credit cost of weak cyberdefenses, says Moody's
As Moody's links poor cyber resilience directly to higher capital costs, CISOs gain a powerful financial metric to convince boards to fund defenses.
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21 Oct 2026
Capita postpones investor event to focus on CSPS fix
Capita has pulled the plug on a planned event for investors, financial analysts and shareholders to prioritise addressing Civil Service Pension Scheme issues
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21 Oct 2026
ClickFix scams pose growing risk to education sector, Jisc says
Observers have noted a surge in so-called ClickFix scams targeting the UK's higher education sector as threat actors seek valuable personal and research data
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21 Oct 2026
Southeast Asian enterprises trail consumers in AI usage
Per capita AI usage in Southeast Asia is about a tenth of US levels, a gap the latest e-Conomy SEA report puts down to consumer-led, mobile-first adoption rather than enterprise deployments
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21 Oct 2026
Prime minister announces thousands of tech-based work experience places for UK’s youth
Thousands of young people will have the chance to get their tech careers off to a start
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20 Oct 2026
PAC warns that UKRI is not delivering value for money
Intellectual property supported through funding from UK taxpayers via UKRI is not delivering a good return on investment
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20 Oct 2026
CNCF's llm-d 1.0 tackles high AI inference costs
The llm-d project, now ready for production, aims to do for distributed inference on GPUs what Kubernetes did for web apps: make the most of infrastructure resources.
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20 Oct 2026
DeepSeek makes DeepInfer open source to cut AI costs
With the move, the Chinese AI vendor is looking to gain an advantage in the open source market, while addressing enterprise concerns about steep token rates.
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20 Oct 2026
Survey: Providers, payers prefer to buy rather than build AI
With ROI, change management and workflow integration challenging AI in healthcare, providers and payers are increasingly purchasing AI technology over building it themselves.
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20 Oct 2026
Google Cloud power event knocks out UK banks, courts and couriers
Google runs a single UK cloud region, so when one London zone lost power, there was nowhere to failover – most services recovered by late afternoon, but courts are still down
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20 Oct 2026
Confusion around how to adhere to new Medicaid rules persists, survey shows
While Americans know about changes to Medicaid work requirements, many are unsure who the new rules apply to and how to comply with them to ensure they keep their coverage.
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20 Oct 2026
AI agents risk blind spots without shared security data, experts warn
Building a common, continuously updated view across security tools raises practical questions about data ownership, freshness and resolving disagreements.
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20 Oct 2026
AstraZeneca works with Oracle to speed up drug trials
Pharmaceutical company is working with Oracle to advance the use of AI and data analytics in medicine
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20 Oct 2026
Nvidia, German government team to advance industrial AI
Summit sees AI chip leader embark on joint initiative to advance cutting edge artificial intelligence models for physical AI using German industrial data, manufacturing know-how and engineering expertise
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20 Oct 2026
Utilize buys again to strengthen Sage channel position
Serial acquirer has picked up TN4 Solutions as it continues to broaden its expertise and widen its customer base
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20 Oct 2026
Future digital ID arrangements remain unclear, PAC hears
Following the scrapping of the government’s digital ID scheme, future plans, costs and data-sharing agreements are not yet settled
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20 Oct 2026
Couchbase's new features target cost, complexity of deploying agents
New capabilities in the vendor's AI Data Plane include native integration with Amazon Bedrock and converting unstructured data to vector embeddings in private networks.
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20 Oct 2026
OpenText wants to orchestrate its own AI, not run the whole show
OpenText is saying out loud what other vendors might be afraid to say: It wants to orchestrate AI within its own products, not become the enterprise-wide orchestrator.
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20 Oct 2026
AI agents turn enterprise access into an ongoing decision
Workplace agents, identity lifecycle controls and recent AI failures show why enterprise access can no longer be treated as a one-time approval.
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20 Oct 2026
GTIA takes Alliance approach to improving AI trust
Channel organisation working with a number of partners to improve the support for those looking to take the technology out to SME customers
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20 Oct 2026
Teradata's new security measures aim to harness AI agents
The vendor's new features, including poly-anonymization to reduce PII exposure address customer needs, bring its privacy and security capabilities in line with its peers.
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20 Oct 2026
FCA gets hundreds of applicants for two top artificial intelligence roles
The financial services regulator is looking for senior staff to lead its agentic AI and data science operations
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20 Oct 2026
Mercedes-Benz accelerates global product development with PLM.AI
Product lifecycle management system connects sales and after-sales across entire product lifecycle through AI to enable innovations to reach series maturity faster
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20 Oct 2026
BT spreads Global Fabric security across networks
AI-ready networking platform offers optimised secure connectivity, allowing users to scale use of AI agents, cloud applications and autonomous digital workflows
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20 Oct 2026
Teachers’ pension transfers from Capita on eve of government’s civil service scheme decision
The government is currently deciding what to do with two failed pension outsourcing contracts as members of a third brace for upcoming switchover
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20 Oct 2026
Freshworks builds towards autonomous IT as it moves upmarket
Freshworks CEO Dennis Woodside is expanding Freshservice into IT operations and software spend management and says customers shouldn’t have to work out what AI is costing them in tokens
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20 Oct 2026
Neo4j joins the context cavalcade with suite for informing AI agents
Context Engine is a set of features that enables the vendor's customers to build knowledge layers for agents to access to inform their actions.
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20 Oct 2026
CIOs admit they are being forced to upgrade enterprise IT
The deep integration within the organisation makes it increasingly difficult for IT departments to select alternative enterprise IT systems, says survey
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19 Oct 2026
Microsoft could hold an advantage with Copilot for Legal
While the vendor is not the first in the AI for legal market, the Microsoft environment is entrenched in many law firms.
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19 Oct 2026
Tenstorrent raises $1.5B to challenge Nvidia in AI servers and chip IP
AI chipmaker reaches $6.2B valuation as it expands server production and licenses processor IP, but it remains to be seen whether it can offer a viable Nvidia alternative.
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19 Oct 2026
Off the rails: Railway cyberattacks highlight infrastructure risks
Cyberattacks on Japanese rail operators Keio and Tokyo Metro reveal how corporate IT breaches expose passenger data and threaten operational technology systems.
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19 Oct 2026
5 things to know right now about modern data catalogs
As data catalogs shift from passive registries to platforms that drive AI and analytics, utilizing them to improve data use and governance is a priority for data leaders.
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19 Oct 2026
How Boston is becoming a physical AI hub
Robotics talent, customers and investment are concentrating in Boston, and what that means for the U.S. physical AI industry.
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19 Oct 2026
Robot company bets touch, sound can give bots an edge over vision AI
Neura’s latest foundation model combines vision, touch and audio to improve robotic perception, but training it on enough real-world data could prove difficult.
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19 Oct 2026
Verizon, Ericsson complete first outdoor 6G field call at 7GHz
Trial said to mark the first time 6G has moved from lab integration into a real-world environment, where performance can be assessed outdoors and as signals travel from outside to inside buildings
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19 Oct 2026
AI-based clinical intelligence is all the rage. But who is using it?
A new study finds that use of the OpenEvidence platform has soared since 2024, with early-career clinicians relying on it most for clinical decision-making.
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19 Oct 2026
Microsoft's Nscale exit exposes $103B AI contract pipeline risk
Microsoft terminated its Nscale data center contract after UK power delays. Nscale's $103B contract pipeline highlights the financing risks facing AI infrastructure developers.
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19 Oct 2026
Denmark stands against critics of public sector AI plans
Public authorities to get standing permit to process personal data with artificial intelligence, but critics say it plays too loosely with rights against government intrusion
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19 Oct 2026
Funding, people and patience: How the UK can become a deeptech leader
At an event run by the Global Tech Advocates group, female leaders working in the deeptech sector discussed the ways in which the UK can become a leader in the space, including a focus on funding, people and having patience
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19 Oct 2026
DE-CIX claims AI-agent network management first
Internet exchange introduces open source Model Context Protocol server to let customers use AI agents to find, order and manage network connections, through natural-language network
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19 Oct 2026
The AI happy path is easy, but enterprise reality isn't
David Linthicum says the AI happy path ends where enterprise reality begins. CIOs must design for messy data, exceptions and failure before production.
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19 Oct 2026
IAA Mobility: Mercedes-Benz gears up AI-driven experiences in all-electric vehicles
Digital Chassis powers the next-generation MBUX system in CLA and electric GLC car range to deliver immersive, AI-driven in-cabin functionality, real-time assistance and 5G connectivity
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19 Oct 2026
AI can find IT problems faster, but fixing them is another matter
AI tools can be bossy and prescriptive. They are getting better at telling us what's wrong and how to fix it, but CIOs must decide who authorizes changes and verifies results.
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19 Oct 2026
How quantum computing can work in enterprise IT
The latest thinking on quantum computing suggests that it will be used in application areas alongside existing high performance computing systems
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19 Oct 2026
Interview: Jakob Freund, the quiet founder behind software that banks run on
Camunda’s co-founder and CEO on bootstrapping in a city without a startup scene, learning to lead without pleasing everyone, and the day he broke down after a layoff call
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19 Oct 2026
Santander slashes cost of generating AI responses
Working with Nvidia, Spanish bank is using smaller specialised AI models for specific banking tasks
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19 Oct 2026
Lenovo’s AI Express targets enterprises waiting for AI servers
Lenovo has set a 15 to 25 business day order-to-ship target for three pre-validated AI server configurations, offering faster shipments to enterprises that have struggled to get GPU kit amid a memory crunch
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18 Oct 2026
OpenAI backs AI incident reporting rules but leaves timelines to governments
OpenAI’s global affairs chief Chris Lehane said the company is behind Singapore’s call for full transparency on AI incidents, but will let governments decide how quickly they must be told
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16 Oct 2026
What the H-1B crackdown means for the future of AI tech talent
Enterprise IT leaders face potential challenges in the wake of President Trump's recent policy changes regarding the H-1B work visa. Is the future of your tech workforce at stake?
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16 Oct 2026
Open source and on device: the strategy behind Nvidia’s new AI models
The latest Nemotron 3.5 models show how the AI giant is focusing on reinforcing its own GPU infrastructure while supporting the open source community.
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16 Oct 2026
Enterprise controls can't keep up with AI agents
Companies are giving agents more authority, but many are still struggling to track what they can access, what they're doing and how to stop them.
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16 Oct 2026
Google AI chatbot performs well in primary care settings
Data from Beth Israel Deaconess and Google shows a low error rate and good patient satisfaction when deploying the AI chatbot in a primary care setting.
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16 Oct 2026
CEOs press CIOs to rethink IT's role in the AI era
CEOs want CIOs to take a bigger role in business strategy as AI adoption grows. Eight executives share what they need most from their IT leaders in the AI era.
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16 Oct 2026
Channel forum: AI the dominant theme
Artificial intelligence is affecting every aspect of the industry, with the topic dominating 2026’s Canalys Channels Forum
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16 Oct 2026
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at Barracuda Networks, Plasma Cloud, WWCS and Zyxel Networks
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16 Oct 2026
Crest CEO: 'Basics shouldn't be abandoned in the race to deploy AI'
Crest's Nick Benson breaks down new AI testing standards, human oversight and the rapid shift toward mandatory security compliance.
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16 Oct 2026
CMA to decide Microsoft strategic market status by February 2027
The CMA proposes to designate Microsoft’s business software ecosystem with strategic market status and sets out a roadmap on Copilot, Teams, cloud licensing and security
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16 Oct 2026
Turing AI chips hit accelerator for XPeng L03
Intelligence platforms are based on AI chips delivering 2,250 Tops computing power to support intelligent driving and smart cockpit systems
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16 Oct 2026
International finance body espouses ‘sound practices’ for AI adoption
The Financial Stability Board has published 12 practices for financial services organisations to follow when implementing AI
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16 Oct 2026
Europe is watching Starshield’s actions in Ukraine
Policymakers in Europe may be having second thoughts following the widely reported throttling of SpaceX’s Starshield system in Ukraine
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16 Oct 2026
London AI concentration could stunt UK growth
Demand for artificial intelligence is surging across the UK, but talent is concentrated in the capital
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15 Oct 2026
AI agents can act, but humans must own the outcome
AI agents can operate at machine speed, but people still need to set intent, make the hard calls and answer for outcomes, says Goh Eng Choon of ST Engineering
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15 Oct 2026
Customer service faces a new customer: Personal AI agents
Bots are filling carts, seeking service and getting banned by Amazon. Customer service has a strange new customer.
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15 Oct 2026
Vendors build safeguards for autonomous software factories
Experts say baked-in workload isolation, network controls and continuous verification are important safeguards for autonomous software development.
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15 Oct 2026
Salesforce expands Tableau agentic analytics push with Loops buy
The startup's acquisition will add an AI agent that tracks and analyzes KPIs to the Tableau platform. Full details of the integration plans weren't disclosed.
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15 Oct 2026
MoD’s new SIEM, analytics platform up and running
At a critical moment for Britain's national security, the Ministry of Defence’s upgraded SIEM and security analytics platform is being delivered by Centerprise and Elastic
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15 Oct 2026
UK data watchdog warns Met Police over shadow IT data breach
The UK’s data protection watchdog warns of an ‘ongoing failure’ by the Metropolitan Police Service to restrict staff from using unauthorised IT services
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15 Oct 2026
Project teams get new names, but the money stays put
A former Verizon VP and other executives explain why product operating models stall when funding and decision rights don't change -- and what CIOs can do about it.
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15 Oct 2026
RFK Jr. gives CMS authority to ban individual providers
The head of the CMS can now exclude healthcare providers from receiving federal healthcare funds, an authority once reserved for the HHS OIG.
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15 Oct 2026
Warm jumpers and a power imbalance – this year’s most influential woman in UK tech
Stop offering ‘warm jumpers’ and actually change the inhospitable tech climate, says Computer Weekly’s most influential woman in UK tech 2026
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15 Oct 2026
Computer Weekly announces the Most Influential Women in UK Tech 2026
Computer Weekly has revealed who has made the 2026 list of the 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech, including this year’s winner, Karen Blake
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15 Oct 2026
Computer Weekly’s Women in Tech to Watch 2026
Each year, Computer Weekly selects a number of Women in Tech to Watch who are making waves in the women, diversity and inclusion in tech space and may find themselves on the top 50 list in the future
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15 Oct 2026
AI will trade in finance markets instead of humans, says HSBC investment bank boss
Humans will have to remain in the loop as AI completes more algorithmic trading, according to HSBC’s corporate and institutional banking CEO
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15 Oct 2026
Waste-to-energy firm picks Stackable on Ionos for sovereignty
Munich plant builder Martin centralises 10GB of telemetry per line each day on open-source Stackable, hosted by Ionos, to dodge US hyperscaler lock-in and the US Cloud Act
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15 Oct 2026
Robots can't talk to each other yet -- that's a big AI bottleneck
Coordinating robots and autonomous systems will be critical to unlocking physical AI, but it’s still unclear whether interoperability is an immediate barrier to adoption.
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15 Oct 2026
Canalys Channel Forum: Now is the moment for circular computing
With customers struggling to afford or source hardware, and the pressure to keep energy costs down multiplying, there is a clear case for an alternative approach