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10 Jan 2026
E-commerce AI the focus of Salesforce Agentforce updates
Salesforce updates Agentforce Commerce with AI tools for personalization.
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09 Jan 2026
Flexera acquires ProsperOps, Chaos Genius for AI capabilities
Flexera's New Year's resolution for 2026 is to build the ultimate AI-driven FinOps platform that moves past visibility and into execution.
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09 Jan 2026
News brief: AI threats to shape 2026 cybersecurity
Check out the latest security news from the Informa TechTarget team.
Artificial Intelligence News from the past 365 days
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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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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
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02 Oct 2025
Singtel debuts low-code platform to ease AI deployment
Singtel’s AI Studio, part of its CUBΣ network-as-a-service offering, aims to simplify AI development and deployment while addressing enterprise concerns around security and data sovereignty
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01 Oct 2025
Mooncake acquisition boosts Databricks database capabilities
Five months after purchasing PostgreSQL specialist Neon and turning its tech into Lakebase, the data platform vendor is adding new database capabilities to aid AI development.
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01 Oct 2025
Databricks boosts data security with AI-powered suite
With cyberattacks becoming more sophisticated, the vendor's new set of features includes agents, AI-powered dashboards and integrations with specialists.
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01 Oct 2025
Development suite continues Alation's foray into agentic AI
Once a metadata management specialist, the vendor is keeping up with the competition by adding an environment for developing agents.
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01 Oct 2025
E-commerce platform eBay offers free ChatGPT training and tools
Through eBay Activate, small businesses selling on the online marketplace will gain access to GPT-powered productivity and e-commerce tools
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01 Oct 2025
Why AI agent projects are stalling in production
A Confluent technology strategist explains why multi-agent workflows become brittle monoliths and how access to real-time, streaming data is key to the success of agentic AI deployments
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30 Sep 2025
Cloud provider publishes ‘tech sovereignty’ plan for UK
In the face of mounting data sovereignty concerns across Europe, UK cloud provider Civo lays out high-level plan for how the government can retain control and access of its data should the geopolitical situation sour
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30 Sep 2025
Bank of America builds GenAI assistant for instant answers for customers
Queries that would take an employee an hour to answer are completed almost instantaneously with the Bank of America’s generative AI assistant
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30 Sep 2025
Companies reap the rewards of being AI-first
Few companies are seeing a return on their AI investment, but those that do tend to be laser-focused on artificial intelligence, with established training and IT growth plans
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29 Sep 2025
JLR tentatively restarts production, following £1.5bn government backing
Jaguar Land Rover is to resume car production after a £1.5bn government loan guarantee amid its cyber attack fallout. Debate is growing over the bailout and insurance
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29 Sep 2025
Women’s Rugby World Cup premiered GenAI for broadcast match analysis
England’s triumph at the Women’s Rugby World Cup also saw the debut of generative AI for real-time broadcast rugby match analysis
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29 Sep 2025
Interview: GitLab CTO on freeing developers for innovation with AI
Sabrina Farmer explains how GitLab’s platform for the software development lifecycle is using artificial intelligence to help eliminate developer toil and drive innovation
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26 Sep 2025
Okta CEO: AI security and identity security are one and the same
At Oktane 2025 in Las Vegas, Okta CEO Todd McKinnon describes AI security and identity security as inseparable as he tees up a series of agentic security innovations
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26 Sep 2025
How Mediacorp stops livestreams from freezing at key moments
Singapore’s national broadcaster has achieved a 99.5% crash-free rate for its mobile apps by using observability tools to find and fix issues in real time, ensuring a smoother experience for users
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25 Sep 2025
Databricks partners with OpenAI to boost AI development
GPT-5 is now the primary model for the data platform vendor's users. In addition, the partners will collaborate to improve model performance for real-world applications.
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25 Sep 2025
Government might support Jaguar Land Rover supply chain to mitigate cyber attack impact
The government is considering buying car parts from JLR’s supply chain to sell them on to the company once it recovers from the August cyber attack
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25 Sep 2025
Co-op declares cyber attack damage cost £206m
Co-op reveals £206m costs from April cyber attack, with revenues hit, member data stolen and shelves emptied, exposing major retail supply chain vulnerabilities
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25 Sep 2025
Lenovo targets AI and hybrid cloud to drive APAC growth
The tech supplier’s infrastructure arm is tapping its partner ecosystem and as-a-service model to help the region’s enterprises move from AI experimentation to delivering tangible business outcomes
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25 Sep 2025
Zoom includes AI at no extra cost to crack enterprise adoption puzzle
Zoom bets on free AI to drive enterprise adoption, despite evidence the highest return on investment comes from back-office automation
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24 Sep 2025
Oktane 2025: Okta takes aim at agentic AI governance gap
Identity specialist Okta is laying the groundwork for a number of incoming announcements designed to help its customers get to grips with the challenge of securing non-human, agentic identities.
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24 Sep 2025
NCA arrests man following cyber attack that disrupted air travel
The NCA has arrested a man in West Sussex over the cyber attack on Collins Aerospace that disrupted Heathrow and other EU airports. He has been released on conditional bail
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24 Sep 2025
Incorta unveils features as part of new focus on AI
The vendor's new AI-focused features include a Model Context Protocol layer for developing agents and prebuilt agentic AI capabilities to assist with specific tasks.
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24 Sep 2025
Alibaba Cloud targets full-stack AI dominance
The Chinese cloud giant has unveiled the Qwen3-Max model, a suite of agent development tools and cloud infrastructure upgrades to position itself as a one-stop shop for AI development and deployment
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24 Sep 2025
Digital Catapult sets sights on boosting AI take-up in agrifood sector
Innovation organisation announces details of its agrifood startup accelerator programme, which is geared towards boosting adoption of artificial intelligence in the sector
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24 Sep 2025
Salesforce shifts focus from AI models to agentic AI
Rather than being preoccupied with large language models, Salesforce is now focused on building AI agents, with an eye on achieving what it calls ‘enterprise general intelligence’
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23 Sep 2025
New consortium to aid AI by standardizing semantic modeling
An open standard for defining data would simplify data integration and discovery to reduce one of the barriers preventing organizations from successfully developing AI tools.
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23 Sep 2025
Jaguar Land Rover extends cyber attack-induced shutdown to October
Jaguar Land Rover is extending its production shutdown caused by the 31 August cyber attack into next month, as government ministers drop by and supply chain workers lose wages
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23 Sep 2025
Teradata unveils AgentBuilder to aid agentic AI development
Like many of its competitors, the longtime data management and analytics vendor is adding tools, such as an MCP server, to help customers build advanced applications.
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21 Sep 2025
NUS supercomputer enters global Top500
Dubbed Hopper, the supercomputer can perform 25 quadrillion calculations per second and is already fast-tracking research in fields from biomedical engineering to clean energy applications
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19 Sep 2025
AI investments threatened by ‘fundamentally unreliable’ IoT connectivity
Study shows a third of businesses warn that poor internet of things connectivity is a barrier to AI adoption, with just 2% of deployments reliable enough for success
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18 Sep 2025
Oxa gains more mileage from Nvidia for autonomous vehicles
UK-based autonomous vehicle systems provider looks to speed up its commercial roll-out in the $2tn industrial mobility automation market with use of advanced AI technology, including Cosmos World Foundation Models
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17 Sep 2025
Techcombank wields data and AI to drive customer engagement
By unifying data on the Databricks platform, the Vietnam bank has built AI capabilities to deliver hyper-personalised offers to 15 million customers and expand its footprint beyond its traditional affluent base
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17 Sep 2025
MongoDB adds MCP server, expands AI development capabilities
While the database vendor isn't breaking new ground with its updated features, they combine to provide customers with valuable tools that will help to build modern applications.
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17 Sep 2025
UK Tech Prosperity Deal: Business spend in AI set to grow
The UK-US tech deal promises vast amounts of AI capacity and technology infrastructure, which will be needed as businesses ramp up their AI spend
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17 Sep 2025
Google Cloud unveils open protocol for agentic payments
Google’s Agent Payments Protocol is an open standard developed with more than 60 global partners to create a secure standard for AI-driven transactions
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16 Sep 2025
Exabeam: Treat AI agents as the new insider threat
As artificial intelligence agents are given more power inside organisations, Exabeam’s chief AI officer, Steve Wilson, argues they must be monitored for rogue behaviour just like their human counterparts
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16 Sep 2025
UK government signs US partnership to deliver Europe’s largest AI factory
Some 120,000 GPUs are set to be deployed in the UK over the next 12 months, as the government says it’s laser-focused on attracting talent and startups
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16 Sep 2025
Interview: Using AI agents as judges in GenAI workflows
We speak to Ranil Boteju, chief data and analytics officer at Lloyds Banking Group, about how the bank sees agentic AI in customer-facing chatbots