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01 Aug 2025
Trump urges top drugmakers to cut U.S. prescription drug costs
By Alivia Kaylor, MScTrump increases pressure on 17 of the world's largest drug makers to lower U.S. prescription drug prices in 60 days, ahead of proposed tariffs and pharmaceutical import fee hikes.
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01 Aug 2025
AWS reports 17.5% growth, fails to impress investors
By Shane SniderAmazon's cloud business delivered better-than-expected growth in the second quarter but pales in comparison with results from Google and Microsoft.
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01 Aug 2025
Lilly's Mounjaro rivals Trulicity in cardiovascular risk reduction
By Alivia Kaylor, MScMounjaro rivals its GLP-1 predecessor, Trulicity, in reducing cardiovascular events in type 2 diabetes and outperforms in A1C reduction, weight loss and cardiovascular biomarkers.
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01 Aug 2025
Met Police to double facial recognition use amid budget cuts
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe 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
By Alex ScroxtonPalo 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
By Cliff SaranA 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
By Aaron TanMicrosoft 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
By Joe O’HalloranCollaboration 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
By Cliff SaranThe 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
By Eric AvidonWith 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
By Aaron TanThe 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’
By Cliff SaranMeta’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
By Aaron TanThe 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
By Cliff SaranIT 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
By Alex ScroxtonOrganisations 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
By Cliff SaranWhile 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
By Cliff SaranGiven 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
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe 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
By Aaron TanThe 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
By Makenzie HollandBringing 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
By Aaron TanMicrosoft 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
By Shane SniderCEO 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
By Brian McKennaCambridge 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
By Don FluckingerIs 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
By Alex ScroxtonUS 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
By Esther ShittuFollowing 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
By Brian McKennaAmid 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
By Cliff SaranChairman, 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
By Eric AvidonWith 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
By Cliff SaranWhile 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
By Clare McDonaldAccess 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
By Aaron TanServiceNow 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
By Makenzie HollandWhile 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
By Esther ShittuThe 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
By Cliff SaranDid 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
By Eric AvidonWith 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
By Eric AvidonWith 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
By Makenzie HollandWith 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?
By Shane SniderThe South Korean semiconductor startup scored LG as its first major customer, as companies compete to take advantage of the AI boom.
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22 Jul 2025
Colt targets crypto traders with low-latency connectivity
By Aaron TanConnectivity service aims to give digital asset traders and enterprises deploying AI applications a performance edge by connecting cloud regions faster than native backbones
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22 Jul 2025
ASEAN urged to seize 5G-AI opportunity
By Aaron TanA report warns the region could miss out on economic opportunities as the growing digital divide between ASEAN member states threatens to undermine its competitiveness
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22 Jul 2025
UK government signs partnership with OpenAI
By Lis EvenstadDeal sees firm behind ChatGPT collaborate with government on AI security research to explore investment opportunities
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22 Jul 2025
Interview: How OpenAI is making ChatGPT public and private sector-ready
By Cliff SaranWe speak to OpenAI’s solution engineering lead, Matt Weaver, about enterprise adoption and making ChatGPT secure
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22 Jul 2025
AWS adds vector functionality to S3 object storage
By Antony AdsheadS3 Vectors allows customers to store AI vector data in S3 object storage, a move that potentially allows for much cheaper storage of vectorised data usually held in vector databases
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22 Jul 2025
Hitachi Vantara claims Hitachi iQ the most complete AI stack
By Stéphane LarcherHitachi Vantara says its approach to storage and AI offers the most comprehensive solutions, based on its industrial heritage and RAG-like functionality it claims others don’t have
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21 Jul 2025
Darktrace buys network visibility specialist Mira
By Alex ScroxtonAI cyber giant Darktrace buys network security firm Mira for an undisclosed sum, seeking to enhance the tech stack it offers to highly regulated sectors
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21 Jul 2025
Oracle adds MCP support to advance agentic AI development
By Eric AvidonGiven that the open standard simplifies the complex process of connecting systems during agentic AI development, the tech giant's integration with MCP stands to benefit users.
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21 Jul 2025
The Security Interviews: Jason Nurse, University of Kent
By Danny PalmerJason Nurse, reader in cyber security at the University of Kent, discusses the psychological side of cyber and online safety, why placing blame on users as ‘the weakest link’ is wrong – and why security pros should think about user needs more
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21 Jul 2025
Government consults public on self-driving vehicles
By Lis EvenstadThe consultation will inform the creation of laws and regulations for autonomous vehicles as the government aims to begin piloting self-driving taxis in spring 2026
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21 Jul 2025
Interview: Alexandra Willis, director of digital media and audience development, The Premier League
By Mark SamuelsDigital media is core to engaging nearly two billion fans of Premier League football around the world, with data analytics and AI playing an ever-more important role
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18 Jul 2025
Data-driven AI: How AWS partners and customers operate
By Esther ShittuA key factor is driving how organizations like The Ocean Cleanup and Dine Brands apply AWS' technology to their applications and needs.
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18 Jul 2025
DWP accused of shielding AI deployments from public scrutiny
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonAmnesty International and Big Brother Watch say Department for Work and Pensions’ ‘unchecked’ and opaque use of AI in the UK benefits system treats claimants as suspicious and is shielded from public scrutiny
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18 Jul 2025
Charities struggle to find the skills to adopt AI
By Clare McDonaldCharities are building pace with digital adoption, but in many cases a lack of skills stands in the way of properly utilising tech
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17 Jul 2025
Google adds new features in Search as AI race intensifies
By Esther ShittuThe tech giant added more GenAI features to AI Mode, and a new business calling system. The updates respond to growing rivalry in AI search from vendors like OpenAI and Perplexity.
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17 Jul 2025
TSMC's profit soars as AI chips boom globally
By Shane SniderThe Taiwan-based company, which manufactures a large portion of the world's semiconductors, saw booming profit and revenue in its most recent earnings report.
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17 Jul 2025
Lack of formal AI strategy holds back supply chain gains
By Jim O'DonnellOnly about one-fourth of supply chain executives have a formal AI strategy in place, according to new research from Gartner. That lack of planning is holding companies back.
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17 Jul 2025
Estimated 96% of EMEA financial services sector not ready for DORA
By Brian McKennaResearch from data backup provider Veeam indicates that vast majority of European financial services firms do not feel ready to meet the resiliency requirements of the EU’s DORA act
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17 Jul 2025
UK government plans to ramp up sovereign computer capacity
By Cliff SaranIsambard-AI and Dawn are two of the supercomputers that mark the beginning of the UK’s goal to deliver 420 Exaflops of computer by 2030
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17 Jul 2025
Travelex replacing its software spine as part of cloud migration
By Karl FlindersThe foreign currency supplier is replacing its legacy supply chain backbone to enable its migration to the cloud
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17 Jul 2025
ASEAN’s first driverless bus service debuts in Singapore
By Aaron TanThe fully autonomous shuttle will operate at Resorts World Sentosa, marking a significant step in Singapore’s push to integrate autonomous vehicles into its public transport network
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17 Jul 2025
Ataccama targets business users with latest AI capabilities
By Eric AvidonThe vendor's latest update makes data lineage accessible to business users, enabling them to trust their data and make decisions without consulting trained experts for assistance.
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17 Jul 2025
Terrorist potential of generative AI ‘purely theoretical’
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonUK terror legislation advisor takes stock of the potential for generative artificial intelligence systems to be adopted by terrorists, particularly for propaganda and attack planning purposes, but acknowledges the impact may be limited
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16 Jul 2025
Hackbots biggest cloud security risk, slashing attack times to minutes
By Stephen WithersWith cyber criminals using automated tools to steal data in minutes, organisations must focus on runtime protection and automated responses to combat the rising threat from AI and misconfigured cloud assets
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16 Jul 2025
AI training, copyright issues headline U.S. Senate hearing
By Makenzie HollandU.S. senators blasted companies, including Meta and Anthropic, for training AI models on copyrighted content, including pirated books and other materials.
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16 Jul 2025
AWS launches AgentCore system and agentic marketplace
By Esther ShittuThe cloud provider introduced a service that includes capabilities that help agents perform at a bigger scale. It also unveiled a new marketplace.
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16 Jul 2025
Meta AI training will be challenged at Europe’s highest court, says data protection chief
By Mark BallatdThe data protection commissioner for Hamburg believes Meta’s AI training should be stopped
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16 Jul 2025
Forrester urges IT leaders to dump technical debt
By Cliff SaranIT needs to invest in innovative technologies and outsource legacy IT management to tackle volatile global markets, says Forrester
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16 Jul 2025
Securonix tackles security data deluge with AI-driven platform
By Aaron TanAs security data volumes grow and security budgets tighten, Securonix is betting on its AI-driven platform to help businesses manage threats cost-effectively, says its CEO
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15 Jul 2025
UKtech50 2025 winner: Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO, DeepMind
By Lis EvenstadFrom chess prodigy to AI visionary, this year’s most influential person in UK technology is far from ordinary. From using AI to win video games to discovering the structure of proteins, Demis Hassabis is a force to be reckoned with
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15 Jul 2025
UKtech50 2025: The most influential people in UK technology
By Lis EvenstadComputer Weekly has announced the 15th annual UKtech50 – our definitive list of the movers and shakers in the UK tech sector
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15 Jul 2025
Interview: Philip Colligan, CEO, Raspberry Pi Foundation
By Clare McDonaldWith the trend of ‘vibe coding’ growing, Raspberry Pi Foundation’s CEO warns schools should not be complacent about continued coding education
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15 Jul 2025
Qdrant lowers vector database complexity to aid development
By Eric AvidonThe vendor now provides an integrated environment for operationalizing unstructured data to aid enterprises struggling with a profusion of tools to generate and manage vectors.
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15 Jul 2025
Ada Lovelace: using market forces to professionalise AI assurance
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe Ada Lovelace Institute examines how ‘market forces’ can be used to drive the professionalisation of artificial intelligence assurance in the context of a wider political shift towards deregulation
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15 Jul 2025
Soaring cloud costs force firms to curtail IT staff hiring and AI efforts, research shows
By Caroline DonnellyResearch from Akamai Technologies shines a light on how rising cloud costs are affecting business spending in other areas of IT
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15 Jul 2025
Datadog doubles down on APAC, targets faster growth
By Aaron TanThe observability tools supplier is executing a multi-year growth plan for Asia-Pacific and Japan, focusing on data residency, localisation and AI-driven observability to grow its market share
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14 Jul 2025
China startup Moonshot AI rivals U.S. with cheap open model
By Esther ShittuA Chinese startup is out with an open source trillion-parameter model that excels at coding and agentic tasks. It outperforms Western competitors on some benchmarks.
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14 Jul 2025
U.S. pushes back on China, invests in rare earth resources
By Makenzie HollandU.S. officials are increasingly concerned about China's dominance over critical minerals used in advanced technologies.
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14 Jul 2025
Technology fuels successful FCA fight against unauthorised financial services
By Karl FlindersThe UK finance regulator is using data and technology to identify websites and apps that could cause financial harm
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14 Jul 2025
UK sets sights on humanoid robot future
By Cliff SaranAI and robots are part of Labour’s plans to build out a high-tech economy, but a robot workforce is a long way off
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14 Jul 2025
AI adoption grows amid falling trust in AI outputs
By Aaron TanAs organisations move from AI hype to reality, a decline in trust for AI outputs is not a sign of failure, but a signal of market maturity, according to Bhavya Kapoor, Avanade's Asia-Pacific president
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11 Jul 2025
ACM president Yannis Ioannidis sees a more humane role for AI
By Pat BransPanel brought together academic, industry and policy leaders to discuss how AI can support climate goals, financial inclusion and infrastructure development
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11 Jul 2025
Schools using AI to personalise learning, finds Ofsted
By Clare McDonaldWhen looking into how some education providers in the UK are using AI, Ofsted found many have hit the ground running
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11 Jul 2025
Meta and Alan Turing Institute back open source AI fellowship
By Cliff SaranLabour’s AI fellowship will see experts use open source AI tools in a bid deliver better public services at lower cost
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11 Jul 2025
UK to create ‘governance framework’ for police facial recognition
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonHome secretary Yvette Cooper has confirmed UK will regulate police facial recognition, citing police reticence to deploy systems without proper governance, but declined to say if any new framework will be statutory
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11 Jul 2025
UK online safety regime ineffective on misinformation, MPs say
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonA report from the Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee outlines how the Online Safety Act fails to deal with the algorithmic amplification of ‘legal but harmful’ misinformation
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11 Jul 2025
AWS bolsters security tools to help customers manage AI risks
By Aaron TanAmazon Web Services has unveiled new and updated security services, including container-level threat detection and a unified command centre, to help organisations build and secure artificial intelligence applications
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10 Jul 2025
XAI releases Grok 4 amid furor over antisemitic comments
By Esther ShittuElon Musk’s xAI launches latest model amid backlash over antisemitic responses by previous version. Meanwhile, startup Perplexity releases Comet, an AI browser.
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10 Jul 2025
UK and France forge closer cyber, tech research ties
By Alex ScroxtonThe navigation and timing systems used by power suppliers and emergency services to run their operations will fall in scope of an Anglo-French research pact that will also foster development in AI and supercomputing
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10 Jul 2025
Irish bank rolls out AI tools to 10,000 staff
By Karl FlindersFollowing exploration of artificial intelligence’s potential in conjunction with staff, AIB is rolling the tools out across the company
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09 Jul 2025
NAO says government should employ data analytics to tackle fraud
By Cliff SaranThe National Audit Office recommends public bodies share and manage data in a way that prevents fraud and saves taxpayers’ money
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09 Jul 2025
CIOs will use AI and low-code to combat SaaS sprawl
By Aaron TanNintex CEO Amit Mathradas explains why the proliferation of software-as-a-service tools is unsustainable and how CIOs are reclaiming control by building their own applications using artificial intelligence and automation
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08 Jul 2025
Knime updates framework for agentic AI development
By Eric AvidonThe open source analytics vendor is keeping up with competitors by providing features aimed at enabling users to create cutting-edge applications capable of autonomous action.
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08 Jul 2025
Cerebras launches Alibaba model, forms key AI partnerships
By Esther ShittuThe vendor expanded Alibaba's Qwen3-235B context window to 131k. It also formed strategic partnerships with DataRobot, Notion and other companies.
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08 Jul 2025
Denodo unveils DeepQuery to provide AI-powered deep analysis
By Eric AvidonThe data virtualization specialist's new GenAI feature lets users dig deep into their data to discover the reasons underlying what's happening within their organization.
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08 Jul 2025
AI for Good: Signal president warns of agentic AI security flaw
By Cliff SaranSecure by design is a mantra of the tech sector, but not if it’s agentic AI, which wants ‘root’ access to everything
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08 Jul 2025
Liverpool launches community AI charter
By Lis EvenstadThe charter, which was created by a residents’ assembly, outlines public data sharing principles and supports the use of AI for public benefit
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08 Jul 2025
Interview: Vivek Bharadwaj, CIO, Happy Socks
By Mark SamuelsThe clothing manufacturer’s IT chief has a foot in every aspect of the tech stack – and is placing data and AI at the centre of future digital strategy
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07 Jul 2025
Interview: Antony Hausdoerfer, group CIO, The AA
By Mark SamuelsThe vehicle recovery specialist is looking to artificial intelligence and connected vehicle technology to enhance customer experience and get drivers back on the road in the shortest possible time
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07 Jul 2025
Tech firms complicit in ‘economy of genocide’, says UN rapporteur
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonA UN special rapporteur has called for technology firms operating in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories to immediately halt their activities, in wider report about the role corporate entities have played in the Israeli state’s ongoing ‘crimes of apartheid and genocide’
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07 Jul 2025
Financial services giant Prudential crafts agentic AI strategy
By Don FluckingerLike all technology deployments in highly regulated industries, agentic AI must be approached carefully.
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07 Jul 2025
Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, Nokia reduce energy demand and support AI comms
By Joe O’HalloranComms tech provider’s autonomous networks portfolio deployed to enable Asian operator to shut idle and unused radio equipment automatically during low network demand periods
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07 Jul 2025
Interview: Data processing for particle physics at Cern
By Cliff SaranWe speak to Cern principal scientist Archana Sharma about pattern recognition, machine learning and quantum technology