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05 Aug 2026
AI Kill Switch Act: What it means for enterprise leaders
The proposed bill could apply to much more than just frontier model makers and might signal stricter regulatory restrictions for enterprise leaders to contend with.
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05 Aug 2026
AI open letters shift from warnings to push for business action
A recent statement signed by more than 200 economists and AI experts signals a shift from abstract warnings to actionable concerns about workplace transformation and readiness.
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31 Jul 2026
HPE storage exec dishes on AI, cyber, VMware migrations
It’s no secret that enterprises are trying to figure out their AI strategy. But where does storage for AI fit in? How does security affect it? And where can companies save money?
Artificial Intelligence News from the past 365 days
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06 Aug 2026
South Korea's government overtakes telcos as top cyber attack target
Kaspersky researcher Sojun Ryu says ransomware crews have joined nation-state groups in going after South Korean organisations, as traces of LLM output start turning up inside malware
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05 Aug 2026
Power scarcity pushes APAC datacentre pipeline to record 26.5GW
Asia-Pacific’s datacentre development pipeline grew by 7.1GW in the first half of 2026, with Southeast Asia now accounting for half of all capacity under construction
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05 Aug 2026
Mythos ran real-life supply chain attack in AI safety body test
Anthropic’s Mythos 5 has been caught orchestrating a real-world open source supply chain attack using social engineering techniques during a test run by the UK’s AI Security Institute
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05 Aug 2026
Chi Onwurah pushes to curb digital twins of real people
The chair of the science, technology and innovation committee says digital twins of people should be covered by data protection law
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05 Aug 2026
Munich Airport marshalls digital twin to improve operations
Munich Airport turns to Celonis process mining software to optimise operations and passenger experience through real-time digital twins, focusing on baggage handling efficiency
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04 Aug 2026
Government gives regulatory boost to support AI in legal sector
Legal firms have been invited to participate in the new Legal Services AI Growth Lab to reduce barriers to the use of artificial intelligence in legal services
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04 Aug 2026
Time to rethink US frontier AI model dominance
DeepSeek has done it again, usurping US AI power when it comes to cost by demonstrating that artificial intelligence can be done on the cheap
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04 Aug 2026
Nvidia-backed Open Secure AI Alliance puts AI security and sovereignty in focus for Middle East
Industry coalition aims to develop open tools for securing artificial intelligence systems, a model that could resonate strongly in the UAE and Saudi Arabia as governments and enterprises seek greater control over AI infrastructure, data and cyber risk
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04 Aug 2026
Many medical AI developers unfamiliar with regulations
Most developers feel responsible for the AI tools they build, but few know the frameworks meant to keep patients safe, according to a study by Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University
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04 Aug 2026
Many medical AI developers unfamiliar with regulations
Most developers feel responsible for the AI tools they build, but few know the frameworks meant to keep patients safe, according to a study by Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University
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03 Aug 2026
Court document in Asato case reveals xAI/Grok sexual prompts
Grok’s design and training allows it to generate harmful sexualised content, according to the policy file in its GitHub repository
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03 Aug 2026
Kaspersky to scan AI agents for backdoors as shadow AI spreads
The security supplier will release a tool this month that vets agent skills, models and artificial intelligence development components before they reach corporate networks to defend against threats from shadow AI
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02 Aug 2026
TeamViewer touts self-healing IT as turnaround takes hold
CEO Oliver Steil sets out the supplier’s push into autonomous IT management and the guardrails around it, as its latest results point to a recovery from a year spent absorbing the acquisition of 1E
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31 Jul 2026
Anthropic lost control of Claude in latest AI cyber blunder
Days after two OpenAI frontier AI models conducted their own real-world cyber attacks, Anthropic admits that three of its models went off the rails and hacked external organisations thanks to a ‘misunderstanding’ with one of its technical partners
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31 Jul 2026
Troubleshooting cloud connectivity emerges as main barrier to AI adoption
Research finds that despite 96% of respondents claiming their enterprise networks are ready for future cloud and AI, the average IT team still spends more than 11 hours each week resolving cloud connectivity problems
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31 Jul 2026
AI will support all Lloyds Bank customer interactions by 2030
Artificial intelligence was a major contributor to the bank’s £2bn cost savings in past four years
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31 Jul 2026
Microsoft earnings reflect efficiency gains from faster GPU deployment
With delays in GPU orders, Microsoft has focused on getting its AI chips installed in Azure datacentres more quickly
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31 Jul 2026
Offshore support staff don’t fear artificial intelligence
Workers supporting business from offshore locations are unconcerned about the impact of AI on their jobs
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31 Jul 2026
BMW Group drives digital cockpit, automated driving future with Qualcomm
Mobile platform firm named lead compute silicon provider for BMW Group, covering digital cockpit and ADAS/AD systems with model programmes for next decade
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30 Jul 2026
EU AI Act compliance deadline is here: What to watch
The EU AI Act's high-risk compliance deadlines have been delayed, but August 2 remains important. Here's what enterprises need to know about enforcement, governance and what comes next.
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30 Jul 2026
Meta results reveal people are vying for its compute
While it builds out its own AI infrastructure, Meta appears to be considering a new revenue stream, as a provider of processing power
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30 Jul 2026
UK emergency services struggle with unreliable connectivity
Survey reveals a stark 5G adoption gap in UK emergency services, where connectivity is recognised as mission-critical, yet only 22% use 5G routers while 44% remain reliant on mobile hotspots
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29 Jul 2026
OCBC taps agentic AI to cut private banking onboarding time
The bank’s Helios platform front-loads compliance checks to reduce account opening times and turn its compliance function into a source of quality leads for its private banking business
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29 Jul 2026
Nimble launches agents to cull relevant web data for AI
The vendor's Web Search Agents autonomously learn domain-specific use cases to help enterprises collect contextually relevant information for AI and analytics.
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29 Jul 2026
Potential consequences are severe when AI agents lack context
When connected with relevant context, agents can increase organizational efficiency and reduce spending. When left to guess, they can cause significant harm.
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29 Jul 2026
Interview: Fabrizio Pilotti, CIO, Aston Martin Formula One
Managing IT for a Formula One racing team is almost as much of a high-speed experience as the cars themselves – and tech is becoming more and more embedded into the sport
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29 Jul 2026
NUS builds AI assistant to ease research process
AI Sense Maker draws on 150,000 NUS research papers and digitised Southeast Asian materials to help students and researchers generate insights from trusted sources
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28 Jul 2026
Adobe releases AI search product catalog optimization tool
Soon, if not already, the customer relationship begins by persuading AI agents that your brand is legit.
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28 Jul 2026
Inside police plans to share intelligence and crime data across the UK
Computer Weekly examines how UK police will use Palantir’s AI tools to dramatically increase intelligence sharing between forces, enabling investigators to analyse mobile phone data and sensitive information at scale
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28 Jul 2026
Technology teams to be hit by Visa’s 7% jobs cull
Payments giant Visa set to cut thousands of jobs as competition in the sector intensifies
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28 Jul 2026
Did an AI agent really break free and attack another company?
The reality of the AI-orchestrated cyber attack on Hugging Face is rather more complicated, and much more worrying, than it might appear at face value
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28 Jul 2026
Data management vendors race to connect AI with context
With agents requiring situational awareness to be accurate, connecting AI with relevant data and business logic has been an almost singular focus throughout 2026.
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28 Jul 2026
DBS holds off on letting AI agents run on their own as controls lag capability
The bank has strung together as many as 80 agents to prepare credit approvals for big corporate clients but says the industry’s ability to police such systems is advancing at a fraction of the pace of the technology itself
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27 Jul 2026
All agentic AI data access, orchestration hinges on these two standards
A vibe check on the state of the two foundational generative AI standards.
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27 Jul 2026
Nvidia pushes ahead with security alliance for AI openness
Nvidia and several businesses have formed a cross-industry alliance to promote open, secure AI to improve cyber defences
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27 Jul 2026
AT&T unveils telco open AI model
US comms giant reveals open AI model built specifically for the telco industry, claimed to be able to reduce the cost of deploying AI at scale
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27 Jul 2026
HSBC chooses Singapore for global AI centre of excellence
UK-headquartered bank will develop artificial intelligence in Singapore-based centre of excellence
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27 Jul 2026
Context is king as agents evolve, but problems persist
Awareness enabled by appropriate data and business logic is one of the differences between agentic applications that properly perform and those that never reach production.
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24 Jul 2026
US government to consider AI Kill Switch law
Two US congressmen have introduced a bill to give Washington the power to pull the plug on rogue AI models in an emergency
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24 Jul 2026
WEKA pushes full-stack approach to keep GPUs fed
WEKA addresses AI inference bottlenecks with WEKApod 3, its first custom-designed hardware, paired with NeuralMesh 6 software to improve GPU efficiency.
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24 Jul 2026
Physical AI now mainstream as manufacturers scale AI implementation
Study reveals how physical AI is set to transform industrial environments – from factories and warehouses to logistics networks, maintenance operations and quality management
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24 Jul 2026
Patrick Vallance returns as AI taskforce chair
Following stepping down as science minister, Vallance’s return marks a rethink on AI, taking best practices from the UK’s Covid-19 Taskforce
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24 Jul 2026
OpenUK calls for a UK version of the Linux Foundation
Tech sovereignty needs to be a part of the UK government’s reindustrialisation plans, and this requires an open source focus
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24 Jul 2026
Why embodied AI security extends beyond the robot
As AI moves into robots, autonomous vehicles and industrial systems, attackers are likely to target the credentials, cloud services and update channels that control them
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23 Jul 2026
New Oracle AI database targets cost, data residency concerns
The tech giant's latest offering is a scaled-down version of its Exadata platform and helps differentiate its lineup of databases from those of competing providers.
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23 Jul 2026
Domo acquired for $400M, sells to Progress Software
Amid slow growth and a sliding stock price, the analytics provider is the latest specialist to join forces with a larger enterprise rather than remain independent.
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23 Jul 2026
Will digital government recover from DSIT breakup?
Computer Weekly looks at what Andy Burnham’s decision to dismantle the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology means for the UK tech sector, and how the department will be split up
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23 Jul 2026
How CIOs can navigate federal, state AI regulation uncertainty
AI laws are evolving across the EU, U.S. states and the U.S. federal government. An effective governance framework helps organizations meet requirements across all jurisdictions.
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23 Jul 2026
Digital government services increase accessibility gap
Many adults are unable to access digital government services in the UK, leading the digital divide to widen
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23 Jul 2026
Alphabet borrows $100bn to pay for AI investments
The parent company of Google and YouTube has increased its debt portfolio from $16bn to $100bn to pay for AI infrastructure
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23 Jul 2026
Why AI coding agents won’t kill SaaS
Investors may fear that AI coding agents will wipe billions off SaaS valuations, but SiteMinder CTO Tom Varsavsky thinks the technology will speed up software delivery, reduce tech debt and force IT leaders to master token economics
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22 Jul 2026
Hugging Face ‘hacker’ was rogue OpenAI model
A hacker who broke into Hugging Face’s systems last week has been exposed as a pair of advanced OpenAI frontier models that were trying to cheat on an exam
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22 Jul 2026
House of Lords questions Andy Burnham’s AI plans
An urgent question relating to the disbandment of DSIT has put the new administration under pressure to clarify funding and strategy for AI and science
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21 Jul 2026
Singapore’s military to explore quantum computing for mission planning
The Singapore Armed Forces’ Digital and Intelligence Service and the Defence Science and Technology Agency are working with IBM to test quantum optimisation for military logistics
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21 Jul 2026
AMD CTO: Europe’s AI opportunity lies beyond semiconductor manufacturing
Mark Papermaster says Europe’s commitment to interoperability and diversity of supply could become a strategic advantage as AI infrastructure grows more heterogeneous
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21 Jul 2026
Kanishka Narayan takes on AI sovereignty in Burnham cabinet
AI minister will attend cabinet meetings held by UK prime minister Andy Burnham, with focus on ownership of UK tech
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20 Jul 2026
Zilliz ups vector search results with Milvus database update
Native access to data lakes and a new data retrieval engine highlight the latest release as the vendor competes for market share amid a crowded field.
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20 Jul 2026
How Lithuania became a tech startup nation
Lithuania has built a network of tech startup companies the hard way, through bootstrapping. Today, it claims six companies with valuations over a billion dollars
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20 Jul 2026
Where AI fits in modern supply chains
We find out how businesses are using artificial intelligence (AI), GenAI and agentic AI to streamline supply chain operations
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20 Jul 2026
Singapore spells out how personal data can be used in GenAI
Advisory guidelines clarifying when organisations can scrape and reuse personal data to build GenAI models are among a raft of announcements at the inaugural Singapore Data Festival
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17 Jul 2026
Interview: Dan Cherowbrier, CTO, Formula E
For the tech chief at the electric vehicle racing organisation, innovation extends from everything digital to all the technology elements that make the growing motorsport operation a success
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17 Jul 2026
NatWest signs up to quantum trial for fraud detection
The retail bank is one of 11 organisations testing quantum technologies as part of Digital Catapult’s quantum technology access programme
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17 Jul 2026
Interview: Reflections on tech revolutions and silos
David Minahan, director of digital at Young Lives vs Cancer, discusses data silos and how new tech is offering a more natural user experience
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17 Jul 2026
Check Point builds homegrown AI model as attack barriers collapse
The company is training a security-only small language model as AI hands attackers industrial-scale capabilities and pushes cyber defence towards full automation
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15 Jul 2026
World leaders confront AI layoffs; more in store for contact centers
Apprenticeship may solve the problem of training new contact center hires after AI vacuums up all the entry-level jobs humans now perform.
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15 Jul 2026
Chaotic July Patch Tuesday threatens to overwhelm defenders
Another mammoth Patch Tuesday update, likely topping 600 flaws in total, sends defenders into the weeds
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15 Jul 2026
Regatta Data launches unified base for AI with RegattaDB
The database vendor is entering a crowded market with the launch of a database purpose-built for agents by unifying disparate data workloads.
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15 Jul 2026
Home Office proposes AI tooling to accelerate digital disclosure
PoliceAI will be used to pilot artificial intelligence tools that are capable of automatically generating summaries of digital material, saving ‘countless’ admin hours
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15 Jul 2026
Reeves speaks up about UK sovereign AI
The UK government has ambitions to build out its own AI capabilities, but its plans are stumped by high datacentre power costs
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15 Jul 2026
Digital Dubai and Emirates Group deepen collaboration on shared digital platforms
Agreement will give Emirates Group access to Dubai’s expanding ecosystem of digital services, data capabilities and shared platforms as the emirate pushes towards a more integrated, AI-enabled digital economy
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15 Jul 2026
Australia launches Office of AI to drive world-first national framework
Prime minister Anthony Albanese establishes Office of AI to coordinate binding standards for the technology, promising the world's first single national AI framework
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15 Jul 2026
Inside AWS’s $1bn forward-deployed engineering initiative
The cloud giant is embedding cross-functional teams of engineers, scientists and strategists with customers, with Commonwealth Bank of Australia among those already seeing results
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14 Jul 2026
AI impacting stress levels among cyber professionals
AI is affecting the day-to-day careers of cyber security pros in regard to stress levels, but respondents to an ISC2 data-gathering exercise are split over whether or not their stress levels are going up or down
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14 Jul 2026
Oracle AI agent builder brings no-code, low-code and pro-code together
AI apps: Oracle's latest answer to mixing deterministic and probabilistic automations with governance.
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14 Jul 2026
Alation launches OS for building, governing AI agents
While not the first AI governance suite, the vendor's Intelligence Operating System is somewhat unique by unifying data, context and agents in one environment.
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14 Jul 2026
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AI skills fund launches in Barnsley
The government is looking for ideas on how to deliver AI training to Barnsley residents as part of the government’s AI Upskilling Challenge Fund
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14 Jul 2026
Scottish Building Society subscribes to embedded AI to begin a new journey
Oldest remaining building society becomes first customer to sign up to embedded AI offering from current supplier SBS
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13 Jul 2026
Cyber body Crest launches AI security charter
Crest’s industry-backed AI charter commits signatories to supporting responsible AI adoption and aims to foster trust in AI-enabled security services.
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13 Jul 2026
Microsoft admits datacentre greenhouse gas emissions hike
Growth in carbon emissions for 2024-25 matches total emissions over the previous four years, as Microsoft focuses on datacentre power
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13 Jul 2026
Singtel and Thales launch multi-operator IoT eSIM network
Bridge Alliance service will allow enterprises to provision and manage connected devices across four Asia-Pacific mobile operators through a single platform
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12 Jul 2026
Singapore investors embrace AI but still lean on human advisers
Singapore’s affluent investors are among the world’s keenest adopters of AI for investment research, but most still want a professional adviser to validate machine-generated insights
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10 Jul 2026
AI is making the mainframe harder to retire, not easier
Once dismissed as legacy tech on the way out, the mainframe is being reframed as the trusted anchor of hybrid, AI-era architectures
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09 Jul 2026
MPs call on NHS to scrap Palantir and its Federated Data Platform
Health and Social Care Committee urges health minister to get rid of US firm Palantir and its Federated Data Platform amid ‘mistrust’ and ‘contested benefits’
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09 Jul 2026
Cyber field doubts promise of Cyber Shield
The NCSC has shared more details of its national AI Cyber Shield initiative, but experts say the project faces serious delivery challenges
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09 Jul 2026
Capita to lose money on pension debacle but ‘has government’s private parts in its grip’
Joint select committee grilling reveals that the tech Capita planned to use to increase process automation did not work
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09 Jul 2026
Insurer Unum aims to deliver benefits of $20m using AI to re-write old Cobol code
We speak to Shelia Anderson, chief information and digital officer of insurance company Unum, about its project to ‘reimagine’ mainframe software
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09 Jul 2026
R&A drives AI critical networking infrastructure refresh at Open
Golf governing body partners with networking and comms giant to deliver critical networking infrastructure to major championships and new global headquarters bringing AI-based next-gen connectivity
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09 Jul 2026
The FDP debate is looking in the rear-view mirror – what’s around the next bend?
The question is no longer whether the Federated Data Platform has delivered enough, but whether the NHS will have the data infrastructure to deploy AI before the workforce crisis forces the issue
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09 Jul 2026
NCS: Chinese open AI models gaining ground in Singapore
As American and Chinese AI worlds pull apart, the Singtel unit is courting both by putting OpenAI and Alibaba engineers on the same stage and folding Chinese models into its own products
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08 Jul 2026
NTT Data and HYMH claim physical AI breakthrough
Collaboration embeds AI‑driven quality assurance directly into production, helping validate assembly process in real time to support quality assurance, improve efficiency and enable smarter manufacturing
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08 Jul 2026
Lumen completes Alkira acquisition to boost enterprise networking
Acquisition designed to bring together network and digital services with intelligent networking software and simplify enterprise connections across cloud, AI and hybrid environments
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08 Jul 2026
The AI handshake: More MCP interoperability for Salesforce's Slackbot
MCP is now table stakes, just like APIs had to be back in the early era of microservices.
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08 Jul 2026
European Central Bank demands AI security ‘action plan’
European Central Bank gives banks deadline to outline their plans to defend against artificial intelligence-based security threats
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08 Jul 2026
Road to higher vehicle automation accelerates
Research reveals how vehicle autonomy systems are advancing steadily, with as many as eight million new passenger cars sold globally in 2025 equipped with L2+ advanced driver assistance systems capabilities
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07 Jul 2026
AI workloads to test mobile network capability
Research across 22 markets finds which 5G network metrics emerging AI use cases will place under stress, relative to standard internet traffic
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07 Jul 2026
Can Oman become the Gulf’s third AI infrastructure hub?
The Sultanate is leveraging subsea cables, lower costs and regulatory stability to position itself alongside regional AI giants, but a large ecosystem scale gap remains
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07 Jul 2026
Singtel’s AI push could lift its digital business to a third of earnings
Singtel’s group CEO, Yuen Kuan Moon, says the telco is investing in datacentres, GPUs and AI services while staying focused on shareholder returns
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07 Jul 2026
Singapore Changi Airport’s 10-second border points to aviation’s AI future
As passenger volume heads towards 10 billion a year, airlines, airports and governments are leaning on AI, biometrics and real-time data to keep travellers moving
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06 Jul 2026
US Anthropic restrictions dent UK tech sovereignty ambition
The UK government cannot rely on allies. Instead, it must sort out startup funding and do more to build out a full tech stack
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06 Jul 2026
UK regulator publishes ‘landmark’ AI review
FCA review of the use of artificial intelligence in retail finance follows MPs’ criticism of regulators