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27 Jun 2025
ACIP votes to remove thimerosal from flu vaccines
By Alivia Kaylor, MScThe CDC's newly restructured Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) votes to recommend against flu vaccines containing thimerosal.
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26 Jun 2025
Vibe coding with AI sparks debate, reshapes developer jobs
By Beth PariseauThe 'vibe coding' catchphrase shows that GenAI is transforming software developer jobs -- but just how much change is coming? It depends on who you ask.
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26 Jun 2025
Fair use rulings favor Meta and Anthropic but are limited
By Esther ShittuWhile the judges agreed with the fair use argument, it doesn't mean other lawsuits will have the same ruling. It's also likely that the Supreme Court will be the ultimate decider.
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03 Jun 2025
Analysis of job vacancies shows earnings boost for AI skills
By Cliff SaranEven when parts of a job are being automated, those who know how to work with artificial intelligence tools can expect higher salaries
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02 Jun 2025
Microsoft Copilot AI saves civil service hours of admin work
By Cliff SaranOver a third of Microsoft 365 users who took part in trials across government departments claimed they saved more than half an hour in productivity a day
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02 Jun 2025
Agentic AI set to handle 68% of customer service interactions by 2028
By Joe O’HalloranResearch reveals that advanced artificial intelligence will drive more personalised, proactive and predictive support to transform customer experience delivery
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02 Jun 2025
AI in IT services and the diminishing correlation between people and growth
By Karl FlindersWhile non-IT business professionals in the middle of their careers face the most disruption from generative AI, professionals in the IT services sector and their employers are prepared for change
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02 Jun 2025
Roig Arena to open with 6GHz Wi-Fi network and advanced analytics
By Joe O’HalloranState-of-the-art sports and events arena set to open in Valencia in September 2025 reveals connectivity set up to guarantee expected fan experience with high-speed connectivity plus optimised venue operations
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02 Jun 2025
NPCC calls for better tech investment
By Lis EvenstadThe National Police Chiefs’ Council sets out a series of digital ambitions and asks for £220m per year in the upcoming spending review to scale up science and technology capabilities
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02 Jun 2025
AI should be used to improve boardroom efficiency
By Cliff SaranArtificial intelligence is not just for business efficiency. Company boards should deploy the technology to support their own processes
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02 Jun 2025
Infosecurity 2025: NCA cyber intelligence head spells out trends
By Brian McKennaWill Lyne, head of cyber intelligence at the National Crime Agency, sketches out cyber criminal trends as ransomware and other attack varieties become democratised beyond Russophone, skilled software developers
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02 Jun 2025
How Mistral is driving growth through open source and enterprise AI
By Aaron TanCompany CEO Arthur Mensch details how the French startup is balancing its open source ethos with a strong enterprise focus and delivering efficient, customisable AI to solve business problems and expand its global reach
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30 May 2025
Grammarly secures $1B in funding as it plans for the future
By Esther ShittuGeneral Catalyst's investment shows confidence in Grammarly's AI and language expertise. The vendor plans to transition from an AI tool to a communications and productivity platform.
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29 May 2025
Workday adds seven agents to Illuminate platform
By Alexander S. GillisWorkday expanded its Illuminate platform, adding new automation features for HR, finance and workforce management.
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29 May 2025
The New York Times in multiyear licensing deal with Amazon
By Esther ShittuThis is the first licensing agreement the publisher has made with a company in the GenAI era. It is indicative of a trend in media, as many publishers partner with AI vendors.
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29 May 2025
Wildix rolls out embedded agentic AI for UCaaS
By Joe O’HalloranUCaaS provider offers real-time, codeless automation with shared memory, native privacy controls and ‘proven’ return on investment, live across more than 1,000 environments
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29 May 2025
Sapphire 2025: BASF evolves business with move to SAP S/4Hana
By Brian McKennaGermany-based global chemical giant BASF has elected to move its SAP IT estate to S/4Hana private cloud to evolve its business in uncertain times
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29 May 2025
Monte Carlo adds observability for unstructured data
By Eric AvidonWith AI tools requiring large amounts of high-quality input to be accurate, the vendor is making it easier to monitor all types of information as users build modern applications.
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29 May 2025
CEOs and IT chiefs misaligned on AI readiness
By Cliff SaranA report from Kyndryl shows a significant gap in how business leaders perceive the AI infrastructure of their organisations compared with IT chiefs
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29 May 2025
Nvidia takes $4.5bn hit due to export restrictions
By Cliff SaranNvidia warns it could miss out on $50bn market opportunity as China ramps up its AI capabilities
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28 May 2025
UK biometric surveillance exists in ‘legal grey area’
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonThe rapid proliferation of ‘biometric mass surveillance technologies’ throughout the UK’s public and private sectors is taking place without legal certainty or adequate safeguards for the public
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28 May 2025
Sisense unveils new suite of AI-powered capabilities
By Eric AvidonFeaturing a natural language interface and autonomous capabilities to augment human analysis, the vendor's toolkit simplifies developing and embedding advanced applications.
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28 May 2025
ANZ firms spending more on data management
By Stephen WithersNearly nine in 10 organisations in Australia and New Zealand increased their overall spend on data management last year to cope with higher data volumes and growing use of artificial intelligence, study finds
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28 May 2025
Infor bets on ‘micro-verticalisation’, sees uptick from SAP customers
By Aaron TanInfor’s head honcho in Asia-Pacific and Japan details how the company's deep industry focus and cloud-native business applications are driving growth and attracting customers, including those rethinking their SAP roadmaps
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27 May 2025
Salesforce pays $8bn for Informatica to underpin agentic AI play
By Alex ScroxtonSalesforce is to pay approximately $8bn for cloud data management specialist Informatica as it looks to shore up the foundations of its developing agentic AI strategy
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27 May 2025
Government launches search to link UK to European supercomputers
By Cliff SaranAs part of Horizon 2020, the UK recently signed up to an EU initiative to support the expansion of high-performance computing for AI
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27 May 2025
Interview: Richard Masters, vice-president of data and AI, Virgin Atlantic
By Mark SamuelsThe airline’s data chief is applying his expertise as a PhD in astrophysics to the nitty-gritty details of using artificial intelligence to improve customer experience
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27 May 2025
Imec ITF World 2025: The hardware horizon for AI
By Pat BransAt its recent ITF World 2025 conference in Antwerp, Belgian research institute Imec delivered a pointed message: as AI accelerates, the world needs new thinking – not just in software, but in the hardware ecosystems underpinning it
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27 May 2025
Norway’s autonomous bus moves into the fast lane
By Pat BransIn a small but ambitious project in Stavanger, Norway, autonomous buses are proving they might one day solve a critical problem: the chronic shortage of bus drivers
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23 May 2025
Essex Police discloses ‘incoherent’ facial recognition assessment
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonAn equality impact assessment of Essex Police live facial recognition deployments is plagued by inconsistencies and poor methodology, undermining the force’s claim that its use of the technology will not be discriminatory
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23 May 2025
Data embassies and US embargo halt give Saudi AI hope
By Mark BallardGulf autocracy gets access to powerful AI chips subject to export ban and pursues legal reforms to make foreign computing firms feel comfortable about putting their data there
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23 May 2025
Labour puts Humphrey AI to work for council admin
A tool built on the government’s Humphrey AI toolset is being piloted by 25 councils to take notes during meetings
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23 May 2025
Grab opens AI centre of excellence, bets on home-grown AI
By Aaron TanSoutheast Asian super app Grab has launched an AI centre of excellence in Singapore, aiming to develop its own specialised foundation model, bolster developer productivity and create 50 new roles, among other goals
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22 May 2025
U.S. policy moves reflect big tech issues with state AI laws
By Makenzie HollandHouse Republicans proposed a 10-year moratorium on state AI rules, reflecting a concern among tech companies about the growing patchwork of state AI and data privacy measures.
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22 May 2025
Anthropic intros next generation of Claude AI models
By Esther ShittuThe models are designed for coding. Opus 4 helps with sustained coding tasks, and Sonnet 4 replaces 3.7 Sonnet. The models give insight into a shift in the GenAI market.
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22 May 2025
Lloyds and Nationwide to use UK finance sector LLM
By Karl FlindersIndustry-specific large language models could improve customer services, strengthen security and support regulatory compliance
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22 May 2025
Google gets in gear with Volvo to drive connected vehicle AI
By Joe O’HalloranSwedish car giant and IT behemoth expand partnership with integration of Gemini artificial intelligence to accelerate automotive innovation
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22 May 2025
Agentic AI to drive heavy infrastructure demands
By Aaron TanAs organisations begin to explore agentic AI, Dell’s Soo Mei May warns that scaling these intelligent systems will have higher compute, memory, storage and networking requirements, far exceeding those for generative AI
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21 May 2025
Mistral AI intros Devstral, new coding LLM
By Esther ShittuThe model is aimed at coders. It expands the coding context window and focuses on enhancing current code. The LLM also shows what is possible with agentic technology.
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21 May 2025
Microsoft agent design, Power Apps evolve in sophistication
By Don FluckingerMicrosoft bets big on agents and apps.
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21 May 2025
State AI law moratorium shapes congressional debate
By Makenzie HollandWhile some policymakers argue that protecting consumers from AI-related harms means regulation, others say existing rules offer sufficient protection.
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21 May 2025
Sapphire 2025: SAP mints business AI flywheel with Palantir on board
By Brian McKennaSAP CEO Christian Klein put economic and geopolitical uncertainty at the centre of the opening keynote at the supplier’s global Sapphire event in Orlando
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21 May 2025
Google I/O: LLM capabilities power agentic AI search
By Cliff SaranAs Google strives to make AI universal, it is starting to integrate agentic AI into Google Search to fast-track purchasing on websites
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21 May 2025
Interview: Rom Kosla, CIO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
By Mark SamuelsThe IT chief of one of the world’s biggest tech companies still has to get the technology right – and he’s building on cloud, application consolidation and data to bring new capabilities in AI to his users
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21 May 2025
SAP sits Joule at the helm of apps, data 'flywheel'
By David EssexThe vendor also made its Sapphire 2025 conference a showcase for solving AI data challenges with Business Data Cloud and integrated 'suites' of cloud applications.
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21 May 2025
Vast Data launches into AI stratosphere with AgentEngine
By Antony AdsheadVast has built out into data management from its roots and will now offer customisable agentic AI agents that can tap into its existing storage, database and messaging capabilities
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21 May 2025
Capital One pushes out data tokenisation
By Cliff SaranOrganisations using the Databricks and Snowflake platforms will be able to use Capital One’s Databolt tool to secure their data
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21 May 2025
Extreme Networks ups networking AI ante with Platform One
By Joe O’HalloranLeading cloud networking provider announces limited availability of next-gen networking platform attributed with reducing manual tasks by up to 90%
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21 May 2025
Red Hat touts OpenShift Virtualization momentum
By Aaron TanEnterprises are increasingly adopting Red Hat’s OpenShift Virtualization, driven by Broadcom’s VMware licensing changes and a desire for a stable, AI-ready platform, company executives revealed at the Red Hat Summit this week
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20 May 2025
Google expands Gemini model, Search as AI rivals encroach
By Esther ShittuThe tech giant introduced a slew of new generative AI capabilities as the pace of innovation in search technology intensifies.
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20 May 2025
Court to weigh divestiture in Google ad tech antitrust case
By Makenzie HollandForcing Google to divest assets in the DOJ's advertising market antitrust case against it will present a challenging issue to the court during the upcoming remedies trial.
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20 May 2025
Dell unveils disaggregated infrastructure strategy
By Aaron TanDell makes push for disaggregated infrastructure, aiming to offer enterprises the independent scaling of three-tier architectures with the operational benefits of hyperconverged systems
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20 May 2025
New Microsoft database, analytics tools target agentic AI
By Eric AvidonNew features across the tech giant's broad array of BI and data management offerings, including Fabric and OneLake, provide developers with tools for agentic AI development.
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20 May 2025
Dell Technologies CEO expects AI ubiquity in the enterprise
By Tim McCarthyMichael Dell says he anticipates smaller, focused AI deployments for enterprise applications, but IT experts foresee challenges in adoption and security.
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20 May 2025
Nvidia AI platform for cloud GPU providers widens supply
By Esther ShittuThe vendor is addressing the AI chip supply and demand challenge while also helping some lower-tier cloud GPU providers that are facing challenges in the GPU-as-a-service market.
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20 May 2025
Alation boosts agentic AI with Numbers Station acquisition
By Eric AvidonThe acquisition adds capabilities such as Chat that enable users to embed agents in workflows to complement the vendor's existing plans for agentic development.
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20 May 2025
Interview: Driving tech innovation at the BBC
By Cliff SaranComputer Weekly speaks to Jatin Aythora, director of BBC Research and Development, about self-belief and learning from different industries
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20 May 2025
Build 2025: Microsoft opens up Windows machine learning
By Cliff SaranWindows machine learning is one of the highlights of this year’s Microsoft annual developer event. The company is also paving the way to multi-agent artificial intelligence in Windows
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19 May 2025
Trump visit bolsters Saudi AI
By Cliff SaranA new AI datacentre is among the initiatives the White House announced during the president’s Middle East visits
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19 May 2025
Dutch universities call for reduced dependence on Big Tech
By Kim LoohiusDutch universities are calling for greater digital autonomy as more research and educational data is stored in American clouds, posing risks to academic freedom, privacy and accessibility
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19 May 2025
Gartner: Most firms not tapping cloud’s full potential
By Stephen WithersOrganisations have not fully leveraged the full potential of cloud and must navigate emerging trends such as artificial intelligence, multicloud complexity and security perceptions to stay competitive
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18 May 2025
AI’s thirst for power pushing enterprises into supercomputing
By Aaron TanThe compute and energy demands of large-scale AI are turning enterprise AI infrastructure into supercomputing, though the search for a killer app and concerns over initial infrastructure costs remain
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16 May 2025
AWS intros Strands Agents SDK
By Esther ShittuMany developers find agentic AI difficult, so the new SDK is meant to help them deploy the technology and connect models and tools. The toolkit also aligns with AWS' SDLC strategy.
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16 May 2025
Mid-career professionals must learn to understand and use AI as GenAI tips balance
By Karl FlindersWhether in the finance, IT or legal sectors, artificial intelligence will change the way businesses operate and how their people work
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15 May 2025
Together AI acquires startup to improve data quality
By Esther ShittuThe startup has a family of models for data tasks. The acquisition adds complementary capabilities to improve AI model quality.
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15 May 2025
Proposed U.S. budget cuts raise fears about tech innovation
By Makenzie HollandPresident Donald Trump's proposed FY 2026 budget slashes funding for federal agencies, including NSF and NIST, which support tech research and innovation in the U.S.
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15 May 2025
Salesforce acquisition of Convergence adds Agentforce talent
By Don FluckingerSalesforce beefs up its Agentforce engineering corps, leadership.
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15 May 2025
Qlik evolves to keep up with latest AI, analytics trends
By Eric AvidonThe longtime BI vendor continues to expand beyond its historical base to keep current with what's happening in GenAI and agentic development, analytics, and data management.
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15 May 2025
How close is quantum computing to commercial reality?
By Cliff SaranAt a recent event, experts explored the progress towards logical qubits and how these will be applied to empower business IT
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15 May 2025
Smart ball analytics proves value in rugby
By Brian McKennaWelsh professional rugby player Dan Biggar gives his thoughts on the role of data analytics in his sport, at an event where the Sportable smart ball was demonstrated
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14 May 2025
Alteryx One launch aims to unify, simplify vendor's platform
By Eric AvidonThe updated version of the data integration vendor's platform aims to make it easier to prepare data for AI and analytics, while new GenAI tools further simplify data preparation.
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14 May 2025
Databricks adds Postgres database with $1B Neon acquisition
By Eric AvidonThe vendor's latest purchase comes six months after it raised $10B in funding. By adding PostgreSQL database capabilities, it aims to better enable users to build AI applications.
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14 May 2025
Informatica to build agents, foster agentic AI development
By Eric AvidonWith agents now a major trend in data management, the vendor plans to join the fray by developing agentic capabilities and providing customers with the tools to do the same.
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14 May 2025
Qlik unveils agentic AI capabilities, launches lakehouse
By Eric AvidonAn insight generation tool and capabilities that unlock unstructured data are among the longtime analytics vendor's latest features, while a data lakehouse represents expansion.
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14 May 2025
UK government outlines plan to surveil migrants with eVisa data
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonElectronic visa data and biometric technologies will be used by the UK’s immigration enforcement authorities to surveil migrants living in the country and to ‘tighten control of the border’, attracting strong criticism from migrant support groups
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14 May 2025
BBVA creates ChatGPT Store and expands use of the GenAI tool
By Karl FlindersData reveals that bank employees are saving an average of almost three hours every week by using ChatGPT
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14 May 2025
Humphrey AI tool powers Scottish Parliament consultation
By Cliff SaranAI-powered Consult tool has helped the Scottish Parliament to organise feedback from a public consultation into themes
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14 May 2025
Australian public cloud spending to hit A$26.6bn in 2025
By Aaron TanGartner forecasts strong growth in cloud infrastructure and platform services even as Australian organisations grapple with scaling AI initiatives and managing rising cloud expenditure
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13 May 2025
Nvidia, AMD, others tout AI partnerships with Saudi Arabia
By Esther ShittuThe U.S. tech involvement follows a long-term plan for the country to become an AI hub by 2030. Vendors get access to energy resources, and Saudi Arabia benefits from AI chips.
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13 May 2025
Automation Anywhere adds reasoning to agentic AI platform
By Esther ShittuThe robotic process automation vendor's agentic process automation platform now has a reasoning engine that can understand enterprise context and help with agentic orchestration.
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13 May 2025
AI copyright suits to be affected by Copyright Office stance
By Makenzie HollandFederal report findings could weaken GenAI vendors' fair use positions in copyright suits.
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13 May 2025
USAA takes an 'experiment and see' approach with AI
By Esther ShittuThe financial services company experiments with different models and AI tools and technologies. It uses AI technology both internally and externally.
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12 May 2025
Contempt order worsens Apple's antitrust woes
By Makenzie HollandA federal judge found Apple to be in contempt of an injunction ordering the company to make access to alternative payment options in the company's App Store easier.
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12 May 2025
Italian bank signs 10-year deal with Google Cloud
By Karl FlindersUniCredit will transform operations through cloud, AI and data analytics technologies from Google Cloud
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09 May 2025
Datadog acquisition gives it feature flagging for AI
By Esther ShittuThe move enables the vendor to integrate the startup's feature flagging software into its products. It is the second acquisition the vendor has made in the past few weeks.
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09 May 2025
Interview: Amanda Stent, head of AI strategy and research, Bloomberg
By Karl FlindersHallucinating AI, which lies through its teeth, keeps Amanda Stent busy at data analytics and intelligence giant Bloomberg
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09 May 2025
Government calls on tech companies to join crime-cutting campaign
By Lis EvenstadThe justice secretary met with 30 tech companies to discuss how technology can help to tackle prison violence and reduce reoffending rates
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09 May 2025
AI training gap puts Europe at a disadvantage
By Cliff SaranForrester study finds that workers in the US are more likely than their European counterparts to have received AI training to support their job roles
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08 May 2025
Trump targets AI diffusion rule as big tech talks AI race
By Makenzie HollandPresident Donald Trump will walk back a Biden-era rule restricting the sale of advanced U.S. AI chips and models in the month it's set to take effect.
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08 May 2025
NHS launches digital tool to improve cancer care
By Lis EvenstadCancer 360 tool aims to bring together data on cancer patients in one place, allowing clinicians access to all the information through the Federated Data Platform
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08 May 2025
Oracle NetSuite’s Goldberg: Autonomous AI next applications phase
By Brian McKennaSpeaking with Computer Weekly at SuiteConnect 2025 in London, Evan Goldberg, executive vice-president of Oracle NetSuite, discussed how artificial intelligence in ERP is evolving
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08 May 2025
Data streaming matures, cultural shift is key
By Stephen WithersConfluent’s Tim Berglund warns that a cultural transformation towards creating valued data products is vital even as the technology for data streaming is maturing
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07 May 2025
SAS update targets responsible agentic AI development
By Eric AvidonThe longtime independent analytics vendor's latest Viya platform update includes Intelligent Decisioning, a set of governance-infused capabilities for developing agents.
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07 May 2025
DSIT aims to bolster expertise with year-long secondments
By Cliff SaranTo drive forward its Plan for Change, the Labour government is looking to hire 25 experts for the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology Fellowship programme
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07 May 2025
Bill Gates hails ‘stunning’ AI progress, urges focus on global equality
By Aaron TanThe Microsoft co-founder underscored AI’s transformative potential in healthcare, education and agriculture while highlighting the need to ensure its benefits reach lower-income nations
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07 May 2025
UK critical systems at risk from ‘digital divide’ created by AI threats
By Bill GoodwinGCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre warns that a growing ‘digital divide’ between organisations that can keep pace with AI-enabled threats and those that cannot is set to heighten the UK's overall cyber risk
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07 May 2025
ServiceNow K25: McDermott vaunts agentic AI platform as revolutionary
By Brian McKennaAt its Knowledge 25 customer and partner conference in Las Vegas, ServiceNow painted an orchestrated agentic AI future for its Now platform and targeted CRM as prime field for growth
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07 May 2025
Latest Neo4j release aims to simplify graph technology
By Eric AvidonPrebuilt algorithms that reduce the complexity of queries and connectivity to any data source are designed to make graph-based analysis accessible to a broader audience.
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06 May 2025
IBM customers assess the performance of AI agents
By Esther ShittuEnterprises are carefully watching the popular technology. While some see agents as too immature relative to what vendors promise, others are slowly integrating them.
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06 May 2025
Epicor ERP adds agentic AI capabilities for supply chain
By Jim O'DonnellEpicor Prism's new agentic AI use cases aim to make supply chain processes more efficient and productive for its manufacturing customers.
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06 May 2025
Staying nonprofit could slow, not stop, OpenAI fundraising
By Shaun SutnerThe GenAI vendor could find itself slowing down after its decision to retain a nonprofit ownership structure, at least for now.
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06 May 2025
EU acts to mend ailing AI competitiveness
By Mark BallardLack of private investors, malformed markets and over-regulation present a big challenge for European officials trying to turn the continent into a global AI superpower
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06 May 2025
Snowflake launches auto industry-specific AI capabilities
By Eric AvidonThe latest AI Manufacturing Data Cloud update adds features aimed at helping auto manufacturers deal with massive amounts of data being created by the industry's evolution.