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21 Apr 2025
Top APAC firms recognised at innovation awards
By Aaron TanCitic Telecom, CapitaLand Investment and DBS Bank were among the region’s top industry innovators recognised for their digital transformation efforts at the Computer Weekly Innovation Awards APAC 2025
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21 Apr 2025
CW Innovation Awards: Finding revenue gains from parked cars
By Eileen YuSingapore real estate investment firm CapitaLand Investment taps machine learning models to optimise space utilisation across 23 commercial buildings and business parks
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21 Apr 2025
CW Innovation Awards: M1 aims to become digital-native telco
By Eileen YuThe digital-first telco is running all its back-end systems on the cloud, enabling it to speed up decision-making and enhance customer service
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21 Apr 2025
CW Innovation Awards: Transforming cyber security with AI
By Ai Lei TaoFacing rising cyber threats and a shortage of experts, Citic Telecom International CPC developed an AI-powered penetration testing tool to automate security audits and reduce costs
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21 Apr 2025
CW Innovation Awards: DBS AI assistant slashes call times and boosts productivity
By Aaron TanThe bank’s in-house generative AI tool is streamlining customer service, reducing manual work and speeding up response times, improving both employee and customer experience
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18 Apr 2025
Google, Meta antitrust cases could set legal precedents
By Makenzie HollandThe courts dealt Google a blow this week, deciding it operates an illegal monopoly in digital ad tech. Meta's antitrust trial over Instagram and WhatsApp also began this week.
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17 Apr 2025
AI companies claim existing rules can govern agentic AI
By Makenzie HollandAI agents are trained to perform tasks autonomously. Vendors including Meta, OpenAI and others offer platforms for businesses to build their own AI agents.
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17 Apr 2025
What’s new and not new with OpenAI’s latest reasoning models
By Esther ShittuThe o3 and o4-mini models are supposed to be better than previous models. While they have improved abilities that can be seen as agentic, the upgrades are mostly incremental.
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17 Apr 2025
Monte Carlo launches first agents for data observability
By Eric AvidonThough the vendor already provides monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities, generative AI-powered agents for each aim to make instantaneous tasks that previously took days.
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17 Apr 2025
Standard Chartered grounds AI ambitions in data governance
By Aaron TanThe bank’s group chief data officer, Mohammed Rahim, outlines how the bank is modernising its data infrastructure and governance practices to support its AI initiatives
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16 Apr 2025
Kraft Group enlists NWN for New England Patriots network upgrades
By Joe O’HalloranNorth America’s largest AI-powered technology services provider to power fan experiences across entire sports enterprise business portfolio, including Gillette Stadium, New England Patriots and New England Revolution
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16 Apr 2025
Interview: Markus Schümmelfeder, CIO, Boehringer Ingelheim
By Mark SamuelsThe pharmaceutical giant has built a digital and data platform based on cloud and standardisation, from which it is exploring technology opportunities in AI and quantum computing
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16 Apr 2025
AI chip restrictions limit Nvidia H20 China exports
By Cliff SaranThe US government’s export controls have come into effect, limiting Nvidia’s ability to sell its H20 chip in China
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16 Apr 2025
Saudi Arabia struggling to reach global leadership in deeptech
By Mark BallardPetrostate monarchy trying to build surrogate industry made of foreign startups because own ecosystem is too immature
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16 Apr 2025
Security leaders grapple with AI-driven threats
By Aaron TanExperts warn of AI’s dual role in both empowering and challenging cyber defences, and called for intelligence sharing and the need to strike a balance between AI-driven innovation and existing security practices
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15 Apr 2025
Global leaders reckon with U.S. tariffs
By Makenzie HollandThe Trump administration says it is using tariffs to renegotiate trade deals, stop illegal drug crossings into the U.S. and boost domestic manufacturing.
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15 Apr 2025
OpenAI's GPT-4.1 targets coding for developers
By Esther ShittuThe new family of models is aimed at making developers code better. It includes OpenAI's first nano model.
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15 Apr 2025
Tableau enters the agentic AI era with the launch of Next
By Eric AvidonThe new platform features agents addressing needs such as data preparation and natural language-based analysis, and includes a semantic layer that targets relevancy and accuracy.
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15 Apr 2025
Alibaba Cloud bolsters AI offerings
By Aaron TanThe Chinese hyperscaler has launched new models, tools and infrastructure upgrades for international customers following plans to advance its cloud computing and AI infrastructure
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14 Apr 2025
Nokia networking backbone firms up ResetData AI factory
By Joe O’HalloranDeployment of networking backbone to support immediate roll-out of Australia’s first sovereign and sustainable liquid immersion-cooled data centres looks to gain 75% reduction in energy consumption over previous generations
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14 Apr 2025
BT stretches Fabric further through Google Cloud partnership
By Joe O’HalloranUK’s leading telco announces step forward in partnership with IT giant, deepening collaboration to offer customers cloud WAN routes via its Global Fabric network platform
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11 Apr 2025
GenAI vendor Writer releases agentic platform for business
By Esther ShittuThe platform is geared for business users, the vendor's primary targets. However, it must compete with bigger tech companies' agentic tools.
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11 Apr 2025
AI surveillance towers place migrants in ‘even greater jeopardy’
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe use of autonomous surveillance towers throughout the English coast forces migrants into increasingly dangerous routes and contributes to their criminalisation
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11 Apr 2025
Google Cloud, Juniper Networks accelerate enterprise campus deployment
By Joe O’HalloranAI-native networking platform to use Google’s Cloud WAN service to help accelerate new branch deployments, and offer simplified branch operations with security and agility
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11 Apr 2025
Met Police to deploy permanent facial recognition tech in Croydon
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe Met Police is set deploy permanent live facial recognition cameras on street furniture in Croydon from summer 2025, but local councillors say the decision – which has taken place with no community input – will further contribute the over-policing of Black communities
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10 Apr 2025
With Llama 4, Meta ups stakes in open model race
By Shaun SutnerModels in the new Llama 4 family compete with open source offerings, most notably from Chinese upstart DeepSeek.
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10 Apr 2025
Antitrust fix elusive as Google set to face remedies trial
By Makenzie HollandDivesting Chrome, ending search engine agreements and increasing data access are some of the remedies proposed by the Justice Department to fix Google's monopoly in online search.
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10 Apr 2025
Google bets on unifying security tools to ease CISO pain
By Alex ScroxtonAt Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas, Google launches its Unified Security platform with the goal of bringing together disparate security solutions to help cyber leaders and practitioners address their most keenly felt pain points
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10 Apr 2025
Ericsson unveils AI-led enterprise wireless-first branch architecture
By Joe O’HalloranGlobal comms tech provider launches wireless-first branch architecture to deliver secure, reliable and scalable connectivity to support higher-bandwidth, business-critical AI-based operations across multiple industries
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10 Apr 2025
Google offers open protocol for AI agent connectivity
By Cliff SaranThe idea of having AI agents coordinate activities to achieve a task requires a standard protocol for sharing queries, answers and admin tasks
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10 Apr 2025
Lloyds Bank moves AI work onto Google Cloud platform
By Karl FlindersBanking group is cutting its emissions and accelerating the development of AI platforms by moving work onto Google Cloud
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10 Apr 2025
NetSuite bets big on built-in AI
By Stephen WithersAt its customer event in Sydney, Oracle NetSuite unveiled a suite of AI-powered features integrated directly into its platform at no extra cost in a bid to make AI more accessible to customers
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09 Apr 2025
Trump puts stamp on CHIPS Act deals with new office
By Makenzie HollandPresident Donald Trump tasks a new U.S. Investment Accelerator office with managing the CHIPS Program Office and reducing businesses' regulatory burdens.
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09 Apr 2025
Microsoft’s April 2025 bumper Patch Tuesday corrects 124 bugs
By Brian McKennaMicrosoft is correcting 124 vulnerabilities in its March Patch Tuesday, one of which is being actively exploited in the wild, and 11 of which are ‘critical’
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09 Apr 2025
Google intros agent building tools and an agent protocol
By Esther ShittuThe tech giant introduced a new agent development kit. It also introduced enhanced reasoning capabilities and new features for its multimodal models.
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09 Apr 2025
Salesforce adds Agentforce to field service verticals
By Don FluckingerSalesforce spreads Agentforce's net to field service, across numerous industries.
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09 Apr 2025
Google enters new era of AI for data with launch of agents
By Eric AvidonAgentic AI applications for data engineering and data science along with a new underlying knowledge engine aim to make data management and analytics easier and more efficient.
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08 Apr 2025
Policymakers weigh U.S.-China AI competition after DeepSeek
By Makenzie HollandBoosting federal R&D, sustaining export controls and creating a federal AI framework are a few suggestions experts made to help maintain the U.S. lead in AI.
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08 Apr 2025
IBM boosts AI mainframe capabilities with Z17
By Cliff SaranIBM continues to try to break out of the mindset that mainframes are just for transaction processing. The latest server offers greater AI capabilities
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08 Apr 2025
Global law firm Freshfields embarks on AI-led digital transformation with Google Cloud
By Caroline DonnellyFreshfields has enlisted the help of Google Cloud and its artificial intelligence portfolio to help streamline its processes, as its global chief innovation officer sets about empowering staff to confidently use AI in their everyday work
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08 Apr 2025
New AI-powered tools from Dremio target data discovery
By Eric AvidonWith relevant data key to developing accurate AI and analytics applications, the data lakehouse specialist's latest features target making data faster and easier to find.
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08 Apr 2025
Government punts cyber governance code of practice for UK businesses
By Brian McKennaThe Department for Science, Innovation and Technology’s cyber security minister Feryal Clark announces a cyber security code of governance for UK businesses to follow
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07 Apr 2025
KubeCon London: Prepare for a shake-up
By Cliff SaranDeveloper overload, inadequate fault tolerance and regional fractionalisation are among the issues the Linux Foundation needs to address
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07 Apr 2025
India’s tech talent adapts to AI era
By Pratima HarigunaniIT professionals in India need to unlearn old skills and embrace artificial intelligence, automation and specialised domains as the country cements its position as a global tech hub
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04 Apr 2025
Where AI really fits into digital customer experience tech
By Don FluckingerAn interview with Calvin Cheng, partner at consultancy West Monroe, who works on digital strategy and CX teams.
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04 Apr 2025
UN warns of economic productivity crash due to AI job losses
By Cliff SaranArtificial intelligence can improve productivity, but a report from the United Nations warns of potential job losses disrupting economies
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03 Apr 2025
Qualcomm seeks AI expansion with possible Alphawave buy
By Antone GonsalvesQualcomm eyes Alphawave acquisition and buys research firm MovianAI to enhance its AI infrastructure portfolio, which includes an AI accelerator for model inference.
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03 Apr 2025
Anthropic brings AI to students with Claude for Education
By Esther ShittuThe initiative is unsurprising, especially since students and employers have been pushing for more AI tools. However, it fails to address some issues.
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03 Apr 2025
Oxa and Applied EV drive for first in industrial mobility automation
By Joe O’HalloranPartnership empowers businesses to tackle industry challenges through the deployment of safe, secure and efficient autonomous fleets
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03 Apr 2025
Danish supercomputer to drive innovation
By Gerard O'DwyerSupercomputer project will add a competitive edge to drive innovation and growth among Denmark’s enterprises and research organisations
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03 Apr 2025
Are LLM firewalls the future of AI security?
By Aaron TanAs large language models permeate industries, experts at Black Hat Asia 2025 debate the need for LLM firewalls and explore their role in fending off emerging AI threats
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02 Apr 2025
UKtech50 2025 – help us find the most influential people in UK IT
By Lis EvenstadComputer Weekly’s annual search for the 50 most influential people in UK IT is on – let us know who you would like to nominate for this year's list
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02 Apr 2025
A look at OpenAI's $40B funding and $300B valuation
By Esther ShittuWhile the amount investors promised shows the potential for the ChatGPT maker in the AI market, concerns about the vendor's profitability could keep it from seeing the full amount.
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02 Apr 2025
Informatica adds to Claire lineup of GenAI capabilities
By Eric AvidonNew copilots for data integration and iPaaS highlight the vendor's Spring 2025 release, along with a tool aimed at simplifying access to unstructured data to fuel AI development.
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02 Apr 2025
Keysight introduces AI network architecture validation, optimisation tool
By Joe O’HalloranTool designed to validate the network performance of AI workloads and system infrastructure by adjusting and optimising parameters
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02 Apr 2025
Interview: Tomer Cohen, chief product officer, LinkedIn
By Mark SamuelsThe professional social network’s product chief is leading the introduction of artificial intelligence for the firm’s in-house development processes and to enhance services for users
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01 Apr 2025
Nvidia tackles graphics processing unit hogging
By Cliff SaranPeople may try to lock up GPU resources even if they don’t need them all day – but not anymore, thanks to Nvidia KAI Scheduler
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01 Apr 2025
Intel CEO Tan to revamp Intel development for AI
By Antone GonsalvesIntel CEO Lip-Bu Tan plans to leverage AI for semiconductor design, shed non-core assets and foster a culture of innovation to turn around Intel.
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01 Apr 2025
How Singapore researchers are using AI to fight Parkinson’s disease
By Aaron TanSingapore researchers are using Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold to understand the intricate protein interactions at play in Parkinson's disease, paving the way for potential diagnostics and treatments
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31 Mar 2025
Amazon aims at AI agents with Nova Act for browser use
By Esther ShittuThe vendor introduces a new model and SDK that developers can use to build AI agents to complete tasks on the web. But it's not the first -- or even the second -- to do so.
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28 Mar 2025
Anthropic's early lawsuit win pushes courts forward on fair use
By Esther ShittuThe judge's ruling shows the complexity of bringing a lawsuit against model providers and the need for clarity on fair use in the age of generative AI.
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28 Mar 2025
Government sends data scientists to AI school
By Lis EvenstadPublic sector data scientists will learn how to become artificial intelligence (AI) engineers as part of government scheme to upskill civil servants
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27 Mar 2025
UK public expresses strong support for AI regulation
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonMost of the UK public have experienced an AI-related harm and say they want laws introduced to regulate the technology, according to national survey by the Ada Lovelace and Alan Turing Institutes
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27 Mar 2025
AMD teams up with Rapt AI to boost GPU performance for AI
By Antone GonsalvesAMD is partnering with Rapt AI to focus on workload management and performance optimization when running AI models on AMD's Instinct GPUs.
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27 Mar 2025
AWS boosts Q in QuickSight with AI-powered scenario analysis
By Eric AvidonDriven by customer feedback, the BI platform now enables nontechnical and expert users alike to model data and perform deep analytics using generative AI-fueled natural language.
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27 Mar 2025
Ericsson, SoftBank team to seek out 6G, XR, AI potential
By Joe O’HalloranLeading comms tech and service provider forges strategic partnership with telco and IT conglomerate to drive innovation in technologies towards 2030
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27 Mar 2025
Selangor teams up with Google Cloud on AI
By Aaron TanThe Teraju AI Selangor initiative will provide state agencies with access to Google Cloud’s AI tools and training to build AI applications in areas such as education and healthcare
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26 Mar 2025
AI model race heats up with OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek releases
By Esther ShittuThe GenAI race intensifies with rapid model releases from LLM players, but enterprises are less focused on incremental upgrades and more interested in agentic AI.
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26 Mar 2025
Chancellor Rachel Reeves to use AI to catch wealthy tax dodgers
By Cliff SaranHMRC’s use of artificial intelligence is one of many initiatives outlined in Chancellor’s Spring Statement
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26 Mar 2025
More than 200 Lloyds bank bosses to receive artificial intelligence training
By Karl FlindersLloyds banking group is running a six-month training programme with the aim of giving senior leadership AI skills
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26 Mar 2025
4 Day Week Foundation launches tech sector pilot
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonUK tech firms are being invited to join a pilot programme run by the 4 Day Week Foundation, which aims to help prepare them for implementing shorter working weeks
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26 Mar 2025
Databricks partners with Anthropic to aid GenAI development
By Eric AvidonWith the Claude line of models natively available in the Data Intelligence Platform, developers can securely combine data and AI models to build agents and other applications.
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26 Mar 2025
Military AI caught in tension between speed and control
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe use of artificial intelligence in military contexts can unlock a range of benefits for defence organisations, but also highlights a clear tension between speed and control baked into the technology
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26 Mar 2025
Oracle bets big on AI, drives Australian business transformation
By Stephen WithersAt the Oracle CloudWorld Tour in Sydney, Oracle executives talked up the company’s strategy to integrate AI across its entire technology stack, empowering Australian businesses to move beyond experimentation and into practical AI-driven solutions
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25 Mar 2025
Scottish police hold almost no data on facial recognition use
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonIt is currently impossible to assess Police Scotland’s use of retrospective facial recognition for efficacy and fairness because the force does not collect meaningful information that would enable a proper evaluation
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24 Mar 2025
OpenAI targets customer service with new audio models
By Esther ShittuThe models build on GPT-4o and 4o mini architecture. With it, developers can control tone so that contact center agents can effectively help customers on the other end of the call.
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24 Mar 2025
Storage players ride the Nvidia bus at GTC 2025
By Antony AdsheadAs artificial intelligence’s big beast holds its annual shindig, storage firms line up to launch everything from new array products to validations, certifications and vague ideas around data ecosystems
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24 Mar 2025
Oracle plants agentic AI flag in business process automation
By Brian McKennaOracle promotes its Agentic AI Studio, unveiled at OracleCloud World Tour London, as an avowed business process automation accelerant
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24 Mar 2025
APIs key to unlocking AI agent potential, says MuleSoft
By Aaron TanMost Asia-Pacific IT leaders have either implemented or intend to deploy agentic AI in the next two years, but success will hinge on the implementation of APIs that AI agents rely on
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23 Mar 2025
How Jetstar is tapping data analytics
By Stephen WithersLow-cost carrier Jetstar is using the Snowflake data platform to optimise the number of meals to carry onboard and to generate flight schedules, among other data analytics initiatives to improve its operations
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21 Mar 2025
Google, OpenAI target state laws in AI action plan
By Makenzie HollandThe federal government is developing plans for AI policy in the U.S. Stakeholders want a federal policy preempting state laws as a top strategic priority.
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21 Mar 2025
Dutch workforce faces radical transformation as AI adoption accelerates
By Kim LoohuisWhile the Netherlands leads Europe in AI adoption, a deeper analysis of the labour market reveals a more nuanced narrative than the apocalyptic predictions of job losses
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21 Mar 2025
Nvidia CEO leads expert panels on quantum computing
By Antone GonsalvesNvidia's Jensen Huang and experts set realistic expectations for quantum computing and discuss its place next to traditional high-performance computing.
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20 Mar 2025
Domo unveils agentic AI toolkit to simplify development
By Eric AvidonAgent Catalyst provides users with a four-step process for developing agentic applications, including selecting an LLM and connecting it to relevant proprietary data.
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20 Mar 2025
DBT Labs launches AI copilot to boost developer efficiency
By Eric AvidonThe assistant includes features such as autogenerated documentation and testing to relieve developers and engineers of repetitive tasks and free them up for more innovative work.
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20 Mar 2025
Oxa taps Nvidia to accelerate industrial mobility automation
By Joe O’HalloranSelf-driving vehicle software provider announces deepened collaboration with AI processor leader to accelerate plans in IMA sector, through the support of physical AI, generating photoreal virtual world states to enhance its own training tools
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20 Mar 2025
Cloudflare unveils tools for safeguarding AI deployment
By Esther ShittuThe cybersecurity vendor's new suite helps businesses, developers and content creators deploy AI technology at scale safely and securely.
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20 Mar 2025
IDC: global edge computing spending to approach $380bn by 2028
By Joe O’HalloranLeading analyst predicts robust spending on edge computing services to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 13.8% over next three years, with AI workloads fuelling massive hardware investments, particularly in AI-accelerated processors
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20 Mar 2025
Oracle launches new AI Agent Studio in Fusion suite
By Esther ShittuThe studio is designed for Oracle customers that already have most of their data situated in the Fusion suite. It includes new libraries and a trust and security framework.
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19 Mar 2025
Air New Zealand takes off with digital transformation deal
By Aaron TanThe airline aims to become a digital leader with TCS’s help to improve fleet management, crew scheduling and ground services through the use of artificial intelligence
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19 Mar 2025
Nvidia readies Vera Rubin to replace Blackwell
By Antone GonsalvesNvidia's upcoming advanced GPUs, Blackwell Ultra and Vera Rubin, give it as much as a two-year lead over competitors, an analyst says.
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19 Mar 2025
Zoom debuts new agentic AI skills and agents for Zoom AI Companion
By Joe O’HalloranAI-first work platform provider expands agentic skills across the entire portfolio using reasoning and memory to take action and orchestrate task execution, conversational self-service and custom agent creation
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19 Mar 2025
HPE teams up with Nvidia for enterprise AI solutions
By Joe O’HalloranLeading networking tech firm latest to get on board agentic AI road in partnership with GPU leader focusing on customer transformation with new enterprise AI solutions and enhancements encompassing data management and storage.
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19 Mar 2025
DeepMind founder warns of compounding AI agent errors
By Cliff SaranArtificial general intelligence may be years away, but in the meantime, organisations are being urged to adopt agent technology
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19 Mar 2025
Coalesce acquires data catalog upstart to aid transformation
By Eric AvidonAfter raising $50 million in venture capital funding in 2024, the startup acquired CastorDoc to add AI-powered data catalog capabilities to its data preparation platform.
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19 Mar 2025
Confluent launches Tableflow to ease use of streaming data
By Eric AvidonThe vendor's new feature enables users to convert event data to tables that developers and engineers can search and discover to inform AI and BI applications.
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18 Mar 2025
Nvidia aims at agents, physical AI with reasoning models
By Esther ShittuThe AI hardware and software vendor launched Llama Nemotron, a family of open source models for agentic AI. It also introduced Cosmos Reason.
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18 Mar 2025
As lawsuits pile up, Section 230 shields digital platforms
By Makenzie HollandSection 230 immunity and First Amendment rights create a staggering challenge for legal teams looking to hold social media platforms accountable for alleged harms.
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18 Mar 2025
Formula 1 accelerates decision response with team content delivery
By Joe O’HalloranAI services and digital transformation specialist claims to have halved crucial response times in Formula 1, redefining how teams analyse race data in real time
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18 Mar 2025
Adobe joins agentic AI fray with platform, prebuilt agents
By Don Fluckinger2025 is the Year of Agentic AI -- and it's only March.
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18 Mar 2025
Cisco unveils Webex agentic AI systems to automate CX, EX
By Joe O’HalloranMission to transform contact centres into customer experience centres sees systems for core collaboration platform designed to predict and automate customer and employee experiences
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18 Mar 2025
Interconnect infrastructure set for sixfold increase in bandwidth demand
By Joe O’HalloranGlobal survey explores networking needs for artificial intelligence era as more than half of IT professional believe AI workloads will place the biggest demand on datacentre interconnect infrastructure over the next three years
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18 Mar 2025
AI pushes data storage need but UK firms struggle to manage it
By Antony AdsheadThe rise of AI means potentially almost any corporate data could be useful, but has led to ballooning data volumes and organisations spending more on storage and energy