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22 Aug 2025
U.S.-EU trade framework caps pharma tariffs on branded drugs at 15%
A new U.S.-EU trade framework caps pharma tariffs at 15% for branded pharmaceuticals and places generics and their ingredients under the "most-favored nation" rate system.
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22 Aug 2025
News brief: Safeguards emerge to address security for AI
Check out the latest security news from the Informa TechTarget team.
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21 Aug 2025
Proposed U.S. law targets contact center AI, offshoring
Contact centers are in the sights of bills before the House and Senate with bipartisan support.
Artificial Intelligence News from the past 365 days
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21 Aug 2025
IBM-NASA Surya open source AI model forecasts solar flares
The new AI model could improve readiness for surges in solar activities that affect communications systems such as GPS. It also affects space weather forecasts.
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21 Aug 2025
UK equality watchdog: Met Police facial recognition unlawful
The UK’s equality watchdog has been granted permission to intervene in a judicial review of the Met Police’s live facial-recognition (LFR) technology use, which it claims is being deployed unlawfully
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21 Aug 2025
Latest from Vast Data aims to simplify, speed AI development
SyncEngine has the potential to be a differentiator for the vendor, combining capabilities usually performed by specialized tools to provide pipelines with relevant information.
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21 Aug 2025
Reserve Bank of India proposes framework for AI adoption in India’s finance sector
India’s central bank has proposed a framework to guide artificial intelligence adoption in the financial sector, along with recommendations to build shared infrastructure, implement safeguards and promote financial inclusion
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21 Aug 2025
Dell builds on $50m Singapore investment with new AI hub
Dell Technologies has opened an AI innovation hub to speed artificial intelligence adoption for enterprises across Asia-Pacific and upskill 10,000 students and mid-career professionals in Singapore
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20 Aug 2025
Mozilla.ai CEO Dickerson talks open source AI advantages
Firefox parent Mozilla's AI startup, Mozilla.ai, is focused on building open source products for enterprises to enhance IT infrastructure.
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20 Aug 2025
GenAI makes its way into Microsoft Excel, Adobe Acrobat Studio
The new AI features transform documents and spreadsheets into interactive tools that enhance productivity and streamline workflows across industries.
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20 Aug 2025
Meta restructures AI division aiming for superintelligence
Despite the resources Meta has, it will likely face challenges as it seeks to meet its goal.
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20 Aug 2025
Nasa and IBM apply artificial intelligence to tackle solar digital disruption
Solar storms and flares can have a big impact on digital society, which is why IBM and Nasa are forecasting solar weather with AI
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20 Aug 2025
Nasa and IBM apply artificial intelligence to tackle solar digital disruption
Solar storms and flares can have a big impact on digital society, which is why IBM and Nasa are forecasting solar weather with AI
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20 Aug 2025
Interview: David Walmsley, chief digital and technology officer, Pandora
The jewellery retailer is building on a four-year digital transformation by adding agentic AI alongside a major overhaul of its back-end ERP infrastructure
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20 Aug 2025
UK chip strategy needs an AI acceleration slant
Analysis for the government shows gaps in Labour’s AI plan of action, but the big opportunity is in optoelectronics
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19 Aug 2025
Google spins up agentic SOC to speed up incident management
Google Cloud elaborates on its vision for securing artificial intelligence unveiling new protections and capabilities across its product suite
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19 Aug 2025
ISACA launches AI security management certification
ISACA accredited security professionals can now pursue a new AI security management credential
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19 Aug 2025
Lumen lights up 400GB datacentre connectivity to fuel AI
Network expansion across 16 major US metro markets and more than 70 third-party datacentres designed to support AI-first planning and multi-cloud architectures aimed to ensure high-performance environment for business applications
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19 Aug 2025
AI, streaming to deliver ‘network crunch’ by 2030
Research from carrier routing software provider finds that despite significant investment in AI, operators admit they can’t fully optimise networks without access to more real-time data and network modernisation delayed through staff issues
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19 Aug 2025
Grammarly's new AI agents target professionals, students
The new AI agent features include a plagiarism checker, citation finder and the ability to predict reactions to the content users create.
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19 Aug 2025
Alation unveils agentic AI-powered query capabilities
By accessing a knowledge layer consisting of curated data products and metadata, Chat with Your Data provides more accurate responses than the vendor's previous capabilities.
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19 Aug 2025
Confluent joins agentic AI fray with Streaming Agents
The vendor's new environment for developing agents includes tool calling via model context protocol and connections with key sources such as LLMs and vector databases.
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19 Aug 2025
Interview: Differentiating with AI in pet care
We speak to Mars Pet Nutrition’s head of digital innovation about making AI relevant across its brands to support pet health
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18 Aug 2025
AI tackles customizations in SAP clean core migrations
New tools from Lemongrass and Kyndryl are designed to find custom code and figure out what to do with it when moving to a clean core in S/4HANA Cloud transition.
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18 Aug 2025
China Unicom 5G-A network powers world’s first humanoid robot games
Leading Chinese telco offers robot showcase next-gen 5G network that supports embodied AI realising seamless connectivity for both spectators and robots even during peak usage
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18 Aug 2025
AI advances clear path to software development careers
Programming skills are always in demand, but with artificial intelligence, people will have to adapt their approach to writing code
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18 Aug 2025
Okta: AI adoption fuels problems for identity management
Okta research indicates the emergence and growth of novel security problems, connected with the spread of AI agents and non-human identities
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15 Aug 2025
Trump shifts U.S. competition policy
While revoking former President Joe Biden's executive order on competition may make M&A more favorable for tech companies, it doesn't hand the industry a pass for future deals.
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15 Aug 2025
US trade body calls on Washington to cut cyber red tape
The US Information Technology Industry Council has called on the White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director to cut burdensome regulations in areas such as AI and incident reporting, and to do more to build a unified security regime
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15 Aug 2025
Modern architecture, high-quality data key to AI development
An expert explains how components such as a shared foundation and protocols that ensure quality help foster real-time insights and AI-driven analysis.
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15 Aug 2025
Zendesk CTO on the new era of customer experience
Zendesk once pushed its AI vision, but now customers are leading the charge. Its CTO, Jason Maynard, explains how this reversal is creating roles like the ‘bot manager’ and shaping the future of customer experience
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15 Aug 2025
Autocratic UAE gets democratic artificial intelligence
US-China rivalry has come to a head in authoritarian Gulf state UAE, where OpenAI is attempting to make a stand for democracy and free speech
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15 Aug 2025
SK Telecom to build sovereign AI infrastructure
The South Korean telco is building the Haein Cluster AI infrastructure to support its Petasus AI Cloud service in a bid to meet the demand for AI training and inference within its borders
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14 Aug 2025
AI model provider Cohere raises $500M, valuation now $6.8B
The AI vendor rose to prominence during the same time period as OpenAI and Anthropic, but it seemed to have fallen behind. The new funding shows it still has a play in the AI market.
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14 Aug 2025
What’s going on inside Intel?
Chipmaker Intel has had a tough couple of weeks: job cuts, Donald Trump calling for the CEO’s resignation, and now an attack by its former chief executive
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14 Aug 2025
Alibaba unveils Accio Agent for global trade
The e-commerce giant's new agent targets tasks such as building a business plan and following through on it.
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13 Aug 2025
MongoDB launches enterprise-focused AI models
The vendor's new models enhance document context capture and enable developers to guide the reranking process with instructions, while improving accuracy.
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13 Aug 2025
Santander will make AI training mandatory for all staff in 2026
Spanish banking giant announces mandatory AI training for staff, and collaborates with OpenAI on a ‘data and AI-first transformation’
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13 Aug 2025
SAP touts Business Suite as key to enterprise AI
The German software giant pitched its Business Suite set of integrated applications for the AI era, along with the SAP Joule copilot as the future orchestrator of business workflows, at its customer conference in Melbourne
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13 Aug 2025
ODI tells EU to balance AI safeguards with innovation promotion
The Open Data Institute has published a manifesto to guide European Union data and artificial intelligence policy formation
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12 Aug 2025
Macquarie Data Centres to offer Dell-Nvidia AI tech stack
The Australian datacentre operator will host the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia infrastructure platform in its sovereign facilities to meet growing demand for local, secure and compliant generative AI infrastructure
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12 Aug 2025
Perplexity's Chrome bid shows growing competition in AI search
The AI search startup's bid comes as the world waits for the final decision following the antitrust case against Google.
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12 Aug 2025
Aerospike update aims to improve database performance
With the addition of expression indexes that enable users to streamline the data discovery process, the vendor is providing capabilities that could force competitors to respond.
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12 Aug 2025
Nvidia new world models power physical AI systems, apps
The hardware and software vendor's new world models target the development of robotic applications and reasoning in robots.
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12 Aug 2025
Workday research: 75% of employees will work with artificial intelligence, but not for it
Workday research finds 75% of workers like AI as a teammate, but only 30% want it to be the boss. Trust in the technology may grow with use, but human focus, clear roles and governance are key
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12 Aug 2025
Salesforce research: CFOs zealous for agentic AI
A Salesforce study says chief financial officers have shifted from agentic artificial intelligence caution to putting the technology front and centre of their business strategies
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12 Aug 2025
Ola’s Krutrim builds ‘AI-first’ sovereign cloud for India
Krutrim is building a vertically integrated technology stack to make AI affordable, scalable and sovereign for Indian businesses while catering to the country’s linguistic needs
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11 Aug 2025
EDGX closes €2.3m funding to boost AI compute for satellites
Belgian space tech company gains funding to aid its mission to deliver the world’s fastest edge computing service for satellite constellations, enabling fast and efficient data processing from space
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11 Aug 2025
Watching the watchers: Is the Technical Advisory Panel a match for MI5, MI6 and GCHQ?
Dame Muffy Calder is chair of the Technical Advisory Panel (TAP), a small group of experts that advises the Investigatory Powers Commissioner on surveillance technology. Do they have what it takes to oversee the intelligence community?
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08 Aug 2025
Intel CEO's potential China links a warning for U.S. companies
President Donald Trump called for Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to resign, another signal of the administration's heightened focus on competition and support of domestic manufacturing.
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08 Aug 2025
OpenAI closes gap to artificial general intelligence with GPT-5
As OpenAI’s latest large language model delivers smarter AI, experts are wary of the risks GPT-5 poses to human creativity
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07 Aug 2025
OpenAI's GPT-5 is out: Where it shines, and where it doesn't
Experts say it's an incremental release but shows some strengths that might interest enterprises.
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07 Aug 2025
Interview: Kirsty Roth, chief operations and technology officer, Thomson Reuters
As a technologist who also runs corporate operations, Thomson Reuters’ CTO believes her tech background gives her a unique edge as the business information group looks to transform its products with AI
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07 Aug 2025
DeepSeek shows enterprises model distillation opportunity
DeepSeek showed how it is possible to run an AI model using far less compute than existing models. AI model distillation is now becoming mainstream
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06 Aug 2025
Government looks at tech to tackle peak electricity demand
Forecasting, AI, smart meters and electrical vehicle batteries are part of an ambitious project to reduce the use of fossil fuels on the UK's energy grid
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06 Aug 2025
NCSC updates CNI Cyber Assessment Framework
Updates to the NCSC’s Cyber Assessment Framework are designed to help providers of critical services better manage their risk profiles
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06 Aug 2025
OpenAI now offers open AI models, but CIOs need to assess the risk
Open models offer enterprise IT a way to build tailored LLMs trained on corporate content. Open AI is now offering two open models
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06 Aug 2025
Australian scaleup to bring AI-led data protection to the MoD
The UK’s Ministry of Defence is embracing AI-led data protection in the wake of a major privacy breach, enlisting Australian cyber firm Castlepoint Systems to oversee sensitive records
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05 Aug 2025
Google intros array of technical AI agents across its apps
The tech giant’s latest GenAI offerings arrive amid surging interest in agentic AI technology.
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05 Aug 2025
Belatedly, OpenAI releases 2 new open weight models
This is a highly anticipated release, as the vendor has received criticism for straying from its open background after GPT-2.
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05 Aug 2025
Salesforce, ServiceNow invest in Genesys agentic AI workflow
Two rivals pump cash into CCaaS leader Genesys in hopes that their respective AI agents grow roots into its users' contact centers.
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05 Aug 2025
Broadcom unveils Jericho4 for distributed AI networking across datacentres
Global semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions provider scales over one million specialised processing unit clusters beyond single facility limits
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05 Aug 2025
How StanChart balances AI-powered innovation with security
Alvaro Garrido, Standard Chartered’s technology and security chief, explains how multi-layered defences and its approach to data protection allows the bank to embrace artificial intelligence without compromising on security
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04 Aug 2025
Thomson Reuters intros agentic AI Deep Research system
The AI platform uses the company's legal content and tools, such as Westlaw Advantage.
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04 Aug 2025
Proliferation of on-premise GenAI platforms is widening security risks
Research finds increased adoption of unsanctioned generative artificial intelligence platforms is magnifying risk and causing a headache for security teams
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04 Aug 2025
Agentic AI a target-rich zone for cyber attackers in 2025
At Black Hat USA 2025, CrowdStrike warns that cyber criminals and nation-states are weaponising GenAI to scale attacks and target AI agents, turning autonomous systems against their makers
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04 Aug 2025
Interview: How ITSM helps deliver results at McLaren Racing
We speak to Dan Keyworth, director of business technology at McLaren Formula One Team, about how IT keeps the F1 team on track
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03 Aug 2025
NUS and Google team up on AI research centre
The National University of Singapore and Google will set up a joint research centre focused on applied AI in education, law, and public health while also building a talent pipeline for the city-state
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01 Aug 2025
Met Police to double facial recognition use amid budget cuts
The UK’s largest police force is massively expanding its use of live facial recognition technology as it prepares to lose 1,700 officers and staff
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01 Aug 2025
Securing agentic identities focus of Palo Alto’s CyberArk buy
Palo Alto Networks is entering the identity security space with a multibillion-dollar acquisition, and plans to address growing concerns around protecting identities associated with AI agents
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01 Aug 2025
Ministry of Justice unveils strategy for safe, secure AI
A new chief AI officer, together with a framework co-developed with the Alan Turing Institute, form part of a three-year AI action plan at the MoJ
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01 Aug 2025
Microsoft, DISG launch AI agent accelerator programme
Microsoft and DISG’s programme will provide cloud credits, training and tools to local businesses as part of a national push to create ‘frontier firms’ where humans work alongside autonomous AI agents
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31 Jul 2025
ITU, IOWN further collaboration on next-gen photonics network
Collaboration forged between UN agency for digital tech and Innovative Optical and Wireless Network to achieve ‘a more sustainable and smarter world on a global scale’
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31 Jul 2025
Microsoft reports massive cloud uptick as CMA questions licensing
The company’s latest quarterly results show that the Microsoft cloud is booming. But the CMA is not happy with how it’s winning business
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31 Jul 2025
Informatica adds MCP support, spate of AI-fueled features
With Model Context Protocol helping standardize how enterprises develop and deploy agents, support for the open standard is valuable for customers building advanced applications.
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31 Jul 2025
Palo Alto Networks to acquire CyberArk for $25bn
The deal marks Palo Alto Networks’ entry into the identity and access management space amid the growing need to secure human, machine and emerging AI agent identities
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31 Jul 2025
Meta prepares for gigawatt datacentres to power ‘superintelligence’
Meta’s latest results show a big jump in datacentre costs as it builds out personal AI capabilities
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31 Jul 2025
ServiceNow targets ‘data hell’, eyes BI play
The workflow giant is building a data foundation for agentic AI and eyeing a slice of the business intelligence and analytics market
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30 Jul 2025
Be wary of enterprise software providers’ AI
IT leaders need to assess lock-in risk, data silos, a lack of openness, removal of discounts and product bundling in AI offerings
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30 Jul 2025
AI-enabled security pushes down breach costs for UK organisations
Organisations that are incorporating AI and automation into their cyber security practice are seeing improved outcomes when incidents occur, according to an IBM study
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30 Jul 2025
AI and machine learning engineers earn far less in UK than in US
While there is plenty of demand for artificial intelligence engineers, there appears to be a disparity of salaries in different countries
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30 Jul 2025
International AI Alignment effort tackles unpredictability
Given AI systems are probabilistic, a group of international experts are collaborating to ensure such systems operate in the best interest of society
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29 Jul 2025
European Commission ignores calls to reassess Israel data adequacy
The European Commission is ignoring calls to reassess Israel’s data adequacy status in spite of concerns raised about its data protection framework and use of personal data in ‘repressive practices’
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29 Jul 2025
Logicalis targets APAC’s mid-market with ‘GSI quality’ services
The global technology service provider is banking on its ‘think global, act local’ strategy, a deep focus on application modernisation and security to differentiate itself in the region
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28 Jul 2025
Domestic manufacturing policy emphasizes U.S. tech, products
Bringing manufacturing back to the U.S. might be a lofty goal for some products, but companies like Apple are making moves to source some components for products locally.
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28 Jul 2025
Microsoft opens first Southeast Asia research lab
Microsoft Research Asia’s Singapore facility will pursue breakthroughs in domain-specific foundation models and agentic AI for sectors like healthcare and finance, aligning with the country’s AI strategy
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25 Jul 2025
Intel cuts spending, eyes data center recovery after mixed Q2
CEO Lip-Bu Tan says the company's layoff plan is mostly complete as Intel tries to rebound after financial woes in recent years.
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25 Jul 2025
Interview: Cambridge Consultants CEO Monty Barlow scans for tech surprises
Cambridge Consultants is a technology and consulting business unit of Capgemini. Its chief executive, Monty Barlow, talks about its heritage and vision for the future of digital technology
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24 Jul 2025
How Salesforce deploys its AI agents internally
Is 30% to 50% of the work at Salesforce really done by AI, as CEO Marc Benioff claimed? We put that question to the company's chief digital officer.
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24 Jul 2025
US seeks ‘unquestioned’ AI dominance
US AI action plan sets out aims to expand American dominance in the world of artificial intelligence
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24 Jul 2025
Why Apple is ripe for an AI acquisition to improve Siri
Following WWDC, questions mount over the company's GenAI approach. An acquisition may be necessary for it to gain ground in GenAI.
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24 Jul 2025
SAP Q2 2025: 9% revenue growth to €9bn, with steady pace in cloud ERP
Amid what SAP CEO Klein has called this year’s ‘economic uncertainty’, the supplier posted 9% revenue growth for Q2 2025, with cloud revenue up 24%
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24 Jul 2025
IBM chief confident AI isn’t eroding other parts of the business
Chairman, president and CEO Arvind Krishna talks of growth and margin expansion as Big Blue expects artificial intelligence to deliver internal savings of $4.5bn this year
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24 Jul 2025
Collibra's acquisition of Deasy targets unstructured data
With AI development on the rise, the vendor's latest purchase better enables customers to combine the complete array of relevant data to inform advanced applications.
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24 Jul 2025
Google chief says cloud spend is paying off
While Google’s public cloud business ramps up thanks to artificial intelligence, agentic search is the new frontier to conquer
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24 Jul 2025
AI’s uneven distribution widening diversity divide
Access to AI depends in many cases on salary, gender and company size, according to research
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24 Jul 2025
ServiceNow tackles ‘sidecar AI’ chaos with agentic workforce strategy
ServiceNow unveils agentic workforce strategy to orchestrate autonomous AI agents across business processes to help organisations avoid the complexity and problems with managing disconnected applications
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23 Jul 2025
White House AI plan places scrutiny on state AI laws
While the White House wants to ensure U.S. companies can export AI products, it's considering new export controls for semiconductor manufacturing subsystems.
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23 Jul 2025
Google advances Gemini with low-cost Flash-Lite 2.5
The cloud provider's model release targets businesses looking for performance, cost-effectiveness and precision.
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23 Jul 2025
Judge questions HP’s ‘exaggerated’ Autonomy loss claim
Did HP pay 10% more than it needed to for Mike Lynch’s company?
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23 Jul 2025
StarTree adding Iceberg support to simplify, speed analysis
With open table data storage formats gaining popularity, the vendor's pending support for Apache Iceberg promotes flexibility while also making analysis more efficient.
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23 Jul 2025
StarTree adding Iceberg support to simplify, speed analysis
With open table data storage formats gaining popularity, the vendor's pending support for Apache Iceberg promotes flexibility while also making analysis more efficient.
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22 Jul 2025
Federal research funding cuts could slow tech innovation
With massive funding cuts proposed at both federal research agencies and U.S. universities, U.S. R&D investment is poised to fall behind China and the EU.
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22 Jul 2025
FuriosaAI to fuel LG Exaone LLM: Is it a challenge to Nvidia?
The South Korean semiconductor startup scored LG as its first major customer, as companies compete to take advantage of the AI boom.