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12 Dec 2025
News brief: Future of security holds bigger budgets, new threats
Check out the latest security news from the Informa TechTarget team.
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12 Dec 2025
Geek gifts 2025: nostalgia and a human touch
Believe it or not, even tech geeks can use a break from technology sometimes. This year, authentic gifts that bring back memories are a gift giver's best bet.
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11 Dec 2025
Salesforce adds Informatica to Data 360, MuleSoft fold
Informatica brings a potentially stronger data foundation to Data 360 and, by extension, Agentforce.
Artificial Intelligence News from the past 365 days
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05 Nov 2025
Most developers in Southeast Asia and India use AI tools
Study finds that 95% of developers in Southeast Asia and India use AI tools, but many of their employers lack formal AI policies, leaving them to forge their own paths in upskilling and governance
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04 Nov 2025
Ryt Bank taps agentic AI for conversational banking
Malaysia’s Ryt Bank is using its own LLM and agentic AI framework to allow customers to perform banking transactions in natural language, replacing traditional menus and buttons
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04 Nov 2025
At TechEd, SAP continues to lay down the AI data foundation
New tools to speed up agentic AI development, open SAP platforms and provide access to data products were also touted as helping companies get business value from their AI.
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04 Nov 2025
Microsoft opens Copilot agent building to office rank and file
The battle for desktop agent mindshare heats up. Microsoft is the latest to arm everyday office workers with tools to make their own, taking on OpenAI, Google and Salesforce.
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04 Nov 2025
The Security Interviews: Colin Mahony, CEO, Recorded Future
Recorded Future’s CEO talks threat intelligence, AI in cyber security and the ever-changing cyber threat landscape
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04 Nov 2025
Snowflake delivers slew of AI tools, introduces new ones
The newly released tools simplify access to enterprise data and enable deeper analysis through natural language to address challenges in AI development and data utilization.
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04 Nov 2025
UAE Sovereign Launchpad begins nationwide roll-out with support from e& and AWS
The cloud infrastructure platform aims to strengthen digital resilience and regulatory compliance across government and regulated sectors in the United Arab Emirates
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04 Nov 2025
G42 and Cisco expand strategic partnership to drive AI innovation and infrastructure growth
The UAE-based tech group and global networking giant will co-develop secure AI infrastructure and cyber security solutions to support high-performance computing and datacentre growth
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04 Nov 2025
Microsoft’s $15.2bn investment in the UAE: A strategic bet on AI, talent and trust
Microsoft’s decade-long investment in the United Arab Emirates underscores its commitment to building a robust artificial intelligence ecosystem, advancing digital infrastructure and fostering local talent through a strategic partnership with G42
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04 Nov 2025
Microsoft’s $15.2bn investment in the UAE: A strategic bet on AI, talent and trust
Microsoft’s decade-long investment in the United Arab Emirates underscores its commitment to building a robust artificial intelligence ecosystem, advancing digital infrastructure and fostering local talent through a strategic partnership with G42
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03 Nov 2025
New Databricks tools target successful agentic AI development
With enterprises struggling to build agents, new Agent Bricks features address accuracy and governance to help move development projects from pilot to production.
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03 Nov 2025
CrowdStrike: Europe second only to North America for cyber attacks
Europe faces rising cyber threats from criminals and nation-states, according to CrowdStrike. Ransomware attacks now take just 24 hours, with 22% of global victims being European
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03 Nov 2025
ADNOC, Masdar, XRG and Microsoft forge strategic alliance to power the future of AI and energy
Unveiled before Abu Dhabi’s flagship energy event ADNOC, the partnership aims to deploy AI across ADNOC’s operations and deliver sustainable infrastructure to power Microsoft’s global datacentre growth
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03 Nov 2025
How Zoom is approaching agentic AI
Zoom CTO Xuedong Huang explains how AI Companion 3.0’s agentic AI capabilities can help turn conversations into completed actions using long-term memory and deep reasoning
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31 Oct 2025
Capgemini and Siemens combine to make AI industrial tech
Siemens and Capgemini are expanding their partnership to create AI-based industrial technologies, said to boost efficiency, sustainability and innovation in manufacturing sectors
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30 Oct 2025
US senators seek to prohibit minors from using AI chatbots
Two US senators have proposed legislation that would require AI chatbot companies to verify the ages of people using their chatbots, in attempt to limit their harmful effects on children
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29 Oct 2025
Rapid7: Cyber defences stuck in the 1980s as threats mount
The company’s chief product officer notes that many defence tactics are still stuck in the past, urging organisations to adopt AI-driven security platforms to improve threat detection and response
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29 Oct 2025
Zoom looks to launch next era of custom enterprise AI
AI-first work platform provider deploys AI leader’s technology to adapt to users’ personal work habits through model customisation and retrieval-augmented generation, with federated AI stack
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29 Oct 2025
Streaming specialist Confluent unveils AI development suite
In addition to a unified environment for building and deploying agents, the vendor launched a private cloud version of its platform and integrations that simplify data preparation.
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29 Oct 2025
Informatica launches agents, adds new AI development tools
Prebuilt agents for data quality and other data management tasks and a development framework featuring MCP support highlight the vendor's Fall 2025 platform update.
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29 Oct 2025
Nvidia, Cisco look to deepen AI innovation across 6G, telecoms
Comms tech giant and AI leader team to provide a critical AI reference architecture with datacentre switching services looking ahead to next generation of mobile
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29 Oct 2025
Monday.com eyes ASEAN growth with Singapore hub
The work management specialist’s Collier Quay office will serve as its hub for Southeast Asia as it looks to build deeper relationships with a growing customer base
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28 Oct 2025
Amazon links planned mass layoff to AI
E-commerce giant Amazon has cited artificial intelligence as a key driver of its decision to lay off thousands of its corporate employees
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28 Oct 2025
Alan Turing Institute refocuses on security following Peter Kyle intervention
A letter by the former secretary of state at DSIT, Peter Kyle, has led to a major transformation, with 78 projects taken off its books
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28 Oct 2025
Adobe advances GenStudio AI for video, Firefly, and ad prep
Adobe builds more agentic AI, other features into GenStudio; also introduces Firefly Foundry to host complex AI models for large customers.
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28 Oct 2025
Streaming vendor Redpanda buys SQL engine, unveils AI suite
With the Agent Data Plane, which features newly acquired SQL database capabilities, the specialist is expanding beyond its roots and adding tools to train and govern AI agents.
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28 Oct 2025
Qualcomm gears up for AI inference revolution
Rack-based AI acceleration hardware is being positioned as a cost-effective and straightforward way to power AI inference workloads
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28 Oct 2025
Cisco and Splunk plot multi-year data fabric journey
Company leaders talk up their vision for the Cisco Data Fabric that will allow enterprises to gain insights about their IT infrastructure and security posture from machine data wherever it resides, from the network edge to the cloud
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24 Oct 2025
Banks’ AI cost-cutting benefits won’t last, will ‘erode’ profits
Banks are making significant cost savings through initial artificial intelligence implementations, but the technology will eventually hit their profits
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24 Oct 2025
AI chip challenger Groq eyes APAC expansion
Groq’s novel chip architecture that speeds up AI inferencing has attracted a fast-growing developer base as it plans its first datacentre in the Asia-Pacific region
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24 Oct 2025
Canva to save 30,000 work hours with agentic AI
The graphic design giant is training hundreds of staff on a low-code AI platform and agentic AI tools that are set to save around 30,000 person-hours this year and generate financial returns
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23 Oct 2025
Capita rubbishes Public Accounts Committee report claims
The outsourcing giant has missed IT deadlines, stoking fears it won’t be ready to take over the civil service pension contract
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23 Oct 2025
Abu Dhabi bets on autonomous racing to accelerate AI and mobility innovation
Through the Autonomous Racing League, Aspire and the Advanced Technology Research Council are using high-speed competition to test and advance real-world AI and robotics systems
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23 Oct 2025
Ministry of Justice’s OpenAI deal paves way to sovereign AI
OpenAI has been busy signing deals with the UK government to bolster UK artificial intelligence. It’s now launching data residency for UK customers
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23 Oct 2025
NHS could save millions of hours a year using AI, pilot shows
A Microsoft Copilot AI trial in 90 NHS organisations found that a national roll-out could save up to 400,000 hours per month
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22 Oct 2025
Singapore unveils efforts to govern agentic AI, prepare for post-quantum era
Guidelines and tools will help organisations in the city-state manage risks from AI agents and prepare for a future where quantum computers could break current encryption
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22 Oct 2025
Atos boss ‘utterly determined’ not to allow GenAI to pull up career drawbridge
AI is being used in all sectors of the economy and society, but adopters must ensure the next generation of professionals are not denied a first rung on the ladder because of it
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22 Oct 2025
Building security and trust in AI agents
AI agents require standardised guidelines, clear human responsibility and a shared language between developers and policymakers to be secure and trusted, experts say
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21 Oct 2025
Do government services need a rethink for AI and automation?
Evidence presented in a new Public Accounts Committee report covering smart public services delivery suggests a change in tack is needed
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21 Oct 2025
Immuta adds provisioning prowess to speed insight generation
Featuring automation capabilities, the new tools dramatically reduce the time it takes to operationalize governed data and could help differentiate the vendor from its peers.
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21 Oct 2025
Couchbase ups database vector search, indexing capabilities
The vendor's update takes a three-pronged approach to storing and searching vectorized data to make building AI tools trained on massive amounts of relevant information faster.
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21 Oct 2025
Government to launch AI sandbox scheme
The proposed AI Growth Lab aims to cut red tape and allow companies to test artificial intelligence products in a safe environment
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21 Oct 2025
Startup law firm wants to ‘live and breathe technology’
Law firm will use artificial intelligence in its business from the word go, cutting the cost of managing large business contracts
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21 Oct 2025
AWS and e& launch AI and cloud training programme to build UAE’s future-ready workforce
The ‘AI Nation – Afaaq’ initiative will train 30,000 individuals in AI and machine learning, addressing critical skills gaps and supporting the UAE’s digital transformation ambitions
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21 Oct 2025
Dell Technologies accelerates AI and digital transformation across the Middle East
Through strategic partnerships and innovations unveiled at Gitex 2025, Dell is helping UAE organisations harness AI, multi-cloud, and edge computing to drive faster, smarter business transformation
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20 Oct 2025
From Whitehall to WhatsApp: The rise of conversational government
Chatbots and secure messaging are reshaping citizen access to public services, offering speed and simplicity, but raising questions of trust and inclusion
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20 Oct 2025
Companion.energy intros cost- and carbon-aware networking
Belgian energy company turns to comms tech provider to fulfil mission to allow enterprises to turn energy from a cost centre into a strategic advantage through sustainable networking
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20 Oct 2025
EU regulation sharpens fear of Norwegian AI exodus
Norway’s government wants fast-track adoption of EU AI Act as pressure mounts for the EU to ease regulation on high-tech sectors
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20 Oct 2025
Microsoft admonished for role in facilitating Gaza genocide
Following credible allegations that Microsoft Azure was being used to facilitate mass surveillance and lethal force against Palestinians, which prompted the company to suspend services to the Israeli military unit responsible, human rights organisations are calling for further action
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17 Oct 2025
HMRC rolls out Microsoft Copilot AI
HM Revenue and Customs has begun to roll out Microsoft 365 Copilot to its staff, with the aim of making productivity savings
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17 Oct 2025
UK Salesforce execs: Agentforce begins to stoke new business forms
Salesforce UK CEO Zahra Bahrololoumi and CTO Paul O’Sullivan put Dreamforce 2025 discourse about agentic AI into a UK context
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16 Oct 2025
Snowflake, Palantir team to simplify AI, insight generation
Native integration between the vendors' platforms aims to simplify and speed development of AI and analytics tools for current joint customers -- and to attract new ones.
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16 Oct 2025
Oracle shifts focus of Fusion Cloud Applications to AI agents
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and AI-enriched versions of the flagship database also saw major improvements as Oracle strengthened its claim to be the only full-stack AI provider.
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16 Oct 2025
Pet insurers fuel AI take up in veterinary sector
Through tech startups, insurers are offering artificial intelligence-based veterinary services as part of pet insurance contracts
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16 Oct 2025
UK banks must be more like Big Tech to catch the US on AI, which comes with a high price
Evident research into artificial intelligence adoption in banking reveals US banks dominate when it comes to making AI work for the business
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16 Oct 2025
AI market is ‘frothy not bubbly’, says Cloudian CEO
To meet the growth in demand for on-premise AI inferencing, Cloudian has developed an AI platform to help enterprises apply large language models to their private data and address security and sovereignty concerns
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15 Oct 2025
AI World: Oracle brings agents to bear on world of finance
Oracle AI World has seen a host of new introductions, among them agentic capabilities for customer finance teams
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15 Oct 2025
AI-ready companies turning network pilots into profit
Research finds ‘pacesetter’ companies significantly more likely to move network AI pilots into production, and 50% more likely to report measurable value from AI
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15 Oct 2025
Real-time analytics tops priorities for 82% of IoT enterprise
Research finds IoT is evolving from simple data collection to process automation, with enterprises starting to layer additional services like AI and machine learning to process data from IoT deployment
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15 Oct 2025
Why the future of work is agentic
Organisations are starting to look at where artificial intelligence fits into business workflows
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15 Oct 2025
Dreamforce 2025: Benioff vaunts Slack as interface to agentic enterprise
Salesforce has launched Agentforce 360, a platform for agentic AI, integrating Slack as its interface
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15 Oct 2025
Infor doubles down on APAC with cloud and AI
The enterprise software firm is targeting the region’s vast manufacturing sector by easing the move to the cloud and rolling out industry-specific AI agents, says CEO Kevin Samuelson
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15 Oct 2025
AI will create a better world, says Oracle’s Ellison
Oracle ramped up its plans to lead in all things AI on the opening day of its renamed customer event, AI World, with founder Larry Ellison emphasising AI’s transformative potential
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15 Oct 2025
AI becomes major accelerator for IoT
Survey reveals ‘soaring’ enthusiasm for IoT, with multiple emerging technologies acting as catalysts, and efficiency and productivity gains demonstrating return on investment
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14 Oct 2025
Oracle launches new platform to streamline AI development
The suite, which combines capabilities from OCI and other platforms, will help Oracle compete with rivals providing similar feature sets for building agents and other AI tools.
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14 Oct 2025
DBT Labs targets costs with data engine, adds AI agents
The new capabilities, revealed amid news that the vendor is merging with Fivetran, include an updated engine that lowers data transformation expenses and task-specific agents.
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14 Oct 2025
Vox pop: Digital transformation across the Arab world
We asked exhibitors at UAE startup event Expand North Star about the challenges – from lack of fundamental infrastructure to first-world problems – faced by startups and digital businesses in the Middle East
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13 Oct 2025
Nvidia scores Meta and Oracle for networking fabric
Nvidia lands hyperscalers Meta and Oracle for its Spectrum-X networking fabric and is leading an industry coalition to adopt an 800-volt DC power standard for datacentres
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13 Oct 2025
Fivetran, DBT Labs merge to add complementary capabilities
The deal brings together data movement and data transformation platforms that help developers build AI and analytics applications.
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13 Oct 2025
Interview: Shaping the future of AI in the UAE
At Gitex 2025 in Dubai, the largest tech show in the Middle East, Chiara Marcati, chief AI advisory and business officer at AI71, discusses the UAE’s ambition to become a global leader in artificial intelligence
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13 Oct 2025
Microsoft and the UAE: Driving AI from strategy to real impact
Exploring how Microsoft and the UAE are turning AI ambition into practical solutions, empowering talent, and guiding CIOs to adopt AI at scale
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13 Oct 2025
Thales: Trust in AI for critical systems needs to be engineered
Confidence in artificial intelligence capabilities that power critical systems must go beyond words and be built on a hybrid model that combines data with physics and logic to prove reliability, according to Thales’s chief scientist
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13 Oct 2025
UAE AI minister: ‘We’ll have 10,000 AI companies in five years’
Gulf state AI minister sets out plans to encourage artificial intelligence companies with certification and ranking based on AI competence and UAE presence at startup event in Dubai this week
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09 Oct 2025
Forget training, find your killer apps during AI inference
Pure Storage executives talk about why most artificial intelligence projects are about inference, during production, and why that means storage must respond to capacity needs and help optimise data management
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09 Oct 2025
Cloudera Evolve London: 91% of organisations say data unfit for AI purposes
Cloudera research finds only 9% of organisations have fully AI-ready data, with siloed data and security major barriers to enterprise AI success, as well as gender bias in AI development
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09 Oct 2025
Infor debuts AI agents to tackle industry-specific tasks
Infor unveils role-based AI agents to automate workflows in niche sectors from dairy to automotive, as well as a new cloud migration programme to ease the transition to cloud
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09 Oct 2025
Starburst's latest targets agentic AI development
The data lakehouse vendor continues to expand beyond its roots in data mesh, adding features such as an MCP server and access to vector stores that enable users to build agents.
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08 Oct 2025
SAP pitches role-based Joule assistants as ERP work partners
New AI-driven applications for supply chain, procurement and CX also shared the spotlight as SAP strives to portray its broad portfolio as a fully integrated SaaS suite.
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08 Oct 2025
Interview: Fausto Fleites, vice-president of data intelligence, ScottsMiracle-Gro
The data leader’s hands-on experience with machine learning has helped to build a three-part strategy to maximise the benefits of AI at the gardening specialist
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08 Oct 2025
Forrester Technology & Innovation Summit: Prepare for AI failures
The AI bandwagon is about to be derailed, and CIOs are going to have to pick up the pieces
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08 Oct 2025
FairPrice deploys autonomous vehicles for supply chain operations
The supermarket giant has teamed up with tech firm Zelos to deploy a fleet of electric autonomous vehicles to bolster supply chain efficiency and cut carbon emissions
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08 Oct 2025
Interview: Change management for digitisation and agentic AI
We speak to Thomas Bodé, chief digital transformation officer at European energy company Met Group, about delivering successful digital initiatives
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08 Oct 2025
TalkTalk undoes customer experience stack complexity to boost contact centre agents
TalkTalk chief operating officer Neil Smith describes the firm’s journey out of CX stack complexity towards more empowered contact centre agents
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08 Oct 2025
SuiteWorld 2025: NetSuite Next aims to transform business through AI
Next generation of leading Cloud ERP system embeds conversational artificial intelligence and agentic workflows across the suite to show how AI, in particular Chat GPT, can take businesses to a new level
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08 Oct 2025
How OpenAI’s AMD bet raises the stakes in GPU dominance
The OpenAI partnership with AMD gives it the option to invest directly in the chipmaker
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08 Oct 2025
SuiteWorld 2025: NetSuite unveils AI innovations for future business
AI cloud ERP provider lifts lid on GenAI-based ecommerce tools and presents how embedded AI is enabling customers, partners and developers to integrate models, design custom agents, and compose next-gen workflows and experiences
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08 Oct 2025
How the UAE is using AI to transform healthcare
The UAE’s decision to appoint AI leaders in every ministry signals a shift - in healthcare, success is measured not only in cost savings, but in efficiency, sustainability, and better patient outcomes
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08 Oct 2025
AI and big data: Driving the UAE’s smart transport revolution
From real-time passenger insights to predictive maintenance, the UAE is leveraging AI and advanced data platforms to transform mobility, enhance efficiency, and set a global benchmark in intelligent transport.
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07 Oct 2025
New AI-powered suite boosts Teradata's CX capabilities
Autonomous Customer Intelligence features agents and other tools aimed at enabling the vendor's users to gain greater insight into their own customers to improve business outcomes.
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07 Oct 2025
Nato chooses Oracle to secure battlefield communications
Nato has chosen Oracle and Druid to secure private 5G networks for cyber defence, war gaming and research, using Oracle Cloud and edge technology
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07 Oct 2025
The Security Interviews: David Bradbury, CSO, Okta
Okta’s chief security officer talks security by default and explains why he thinks time is running out for the shared responsibility model
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07 Oct 2025
AI halves clinical trial approval times
Use of artificial intelligence to flag up potential issues with clinical trial applications means assessors can approve new treatments faster
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07 Oct 2025
Vibe coding: A question of chicken feed or food
If used correctly, large language models promise to revolutionise software development – but they do not easily fit some obvious corporate IT use cases
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06 Oct 2025
Police facial recognition trials show little evidence of benefits
In-the-wild testing of police facial recognition systems has failed to generate clear evidence of the technology’s benefits, or to assess the full range of socio-technical impacts
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06 Oct 2025
Gartner: IT leaders need to prepare for GenAI legal issues
GenAI is being embedded into enterprise software. This has implications for governance and regulatory compliance
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06 Oct 2025
SAP: AI is commoditising business applications
Business applications are at risk of being commoditised with artificial intelligence increasingly becoming the new interface that lets businesses execute tasks across different systems, according to a senior SAP leader
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06 Oct 2025
Enterprise software sales through cloud hyperscale marketplaces set to hit $163bn by 2030
Research from IT market watcher Omdia suggests enterprise IT buyers are getting increasingly comfortable with making purchases through the Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google Cloud marketplaces
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06 Oct 2025
Cisco unveils agentic capabilities for next-generation collaboration
IT and networking giant claims ‘major’ steps forward in collaboration and customer experience, both powered by AI, and designed to help enterprises work and serve smarter
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06 Oct 2025
UK government to consult on police live facial recognition use
The UK’s policing minister has confirmed the government will consult on the use of live facial recognition by law enforcement before expanding its use throughout England, but so far, the technology has been deployed with minimal public debate or consultation
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03 Oct 2025
Software engineering limited by lack of full automation
The continuous deployment part of the software development lifecycle appears to be velocity-limiting
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02 Oct 2025
Aston University partners Capgemini for AI centre of excellence
University works with IT services giant to open artificial intelligence centre of excellence in London campus