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24 Apr 2026
Weekly news roundup: Tim Cook exits Apple, Meta layoffs intensify and Anthropic investigates Claude
Stay up to date with the latest U.S. tech news, IPOs and executive moves shaping the industry each week.
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24 Apr 2026
News brief: AI woes continue for security leaders
Check out the latest security news from TechTarget SearchSecurity's sister sites, Cybersecurity Dive and Dark Reading.
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23 Apr 2026
Merck, Home Depot tap Gemini Enterprise for AI agent development
Blue chips will expand use of Gemini Enterprise AI agents on a revamped platform, but how far its appeal will extend beyond the Google Cloud user base remains to be seen.
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24 Apr 2026
Wiz founder: Hack yourself with AI, before the bad guys do
At Google Cloud Next, Wiz co-founder Yinon Costica called on security defenders to use AI to steal a march on threat actors, and launched new agentic capabiltiies for cyber teams.
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24 Apr 2026
London Marathon runners get AI to go the extra mile
TCS has launched an artificial intelligence-powered digital mapping tool to help runners and spectators lessen the stress and find the fun during the 2026 London Marathon
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24 Apr 2026
Science, Innovation and Technology committee chair questions UK’s tech sovereignty approach
House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee chair Chi Onwurah questions the UK’s approach to tech sovereignty
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24 Apr 2026
UAE targets agentic AI to power half of government operations
With a two-year target to move 50% of government sectors, services and operations to agentic artificial intelligence, the UAE is positioning autonomous systems as the next phase of digital government
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24 Apr 2026
Capital injection, acquisition further Render Networks in critical infrastructure
Critical infrastructure software platform provider gains fresh capital to accelerate sector and portfolio expansion
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23 Apr 2026
Agentic AI speeds up mainframe modernisation, but human experts remain key
Agentic AI tools are helping organisations overcome Cobol skills shortages and untangle legacy infrastructure, but successful modernisation still requires an expert in the loop to manage complexity
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23 Apr 2026
FairPrice to roll out AI-powered smart carts to more stores
Shoppers can expect smart carts that slash checkout times to just 36 seconds, while supermarket staff will get an AI sidekick to automate daily operations
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22 Apr 2026
Bunnings shows off AI shopping agent at Google showcase
The Australian hardware chain has gone from digital laggard to e-commerce pioneer, teaming up with Google Cloud to launch a conversational AI assistant that turns simple queries into DIY project plans
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22 Apr 2026
Microsoft faces court battle in £2bn Windows Server class action
The Competition Appeal Tribunal has allowed the unfair licensing case against Microsoft to go ahead
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22 Apr 2026
Microsoft faces court battle in £2bn Windows Server class action
The Competition Appeal Tribunal has allowed the unfair licensing case against Microsoft to go ahead
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22 Apr 2026
Google launches Gemini Agent Platform, eighth-generation TPUs
With more AI agents moving to production, Google Cloud is targeting governance, multi-cloud data architecture and purpose-built silicon to help enterprises orchestrate agentic workflows
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22 Apr 2026
UK government beats drum for fintech industry at Fintech Week
UK government announces open banking strategies during London Fintech Week, including regulation and £1m investment
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22 Apr 2026
Three-quarters of UK IT leaders without strong AI governance plans
Almost one in nine British IT leaders say their organisations use agentic AI, but with few putting in place strong governance plans, according to a Red Hat survey
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21 Apr 2026
‘Platitudes’ hide struggle as Post Office scandal redress scheme closing date announced
Scheme for group that took the Post Office to court and exposed the widest miscarriage of justice in history to be completed by the year’s end
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21 Apr 2026
Danish logistics giant under pressure to rush world’s largest IT integration
The emergence of AI-driven competition has lit a fire beneath global logistics firm DSV, while it is distracted with integrating the global IT systems of a €14bn merger and trying to get its finances back to full health
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20 Apr 2026
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
People moves of note at Brother, Commvault, iManage, Paessler, Strider Technologies and Synaxon UK
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20 Apr 2026
Adobe defines its AI-powered customer experience platform
Adobe previews and releases elements of CX Enterprise at Summit.
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20 Apr 2026
Scientists map coral reefs off northern Australia
Researchers have mapped a previously uncharted network of coral and rocky reefs hidden in the murky coastal waters of Australia’s north, without ever setting foot on a boat
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17 Apr 2026
Surging CVE disclosures force NIST to shake up workflows
NIST announces big changes to the way it categorises and manages CVEs, which are set to have a big impact on how organisations manage patching and remediation
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17 Apr 2026
How to escape agentification pilot purgatory for scalable AI
Deloitte exec says redesigning work is key and explains how to do it without stoking job-loss fears -- but only after a rigorous goal-setting process that sets clear priorities.
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17 Apr 2026
Bank cyber teams on red alert as Anthropic promises them Mythos next week
Artificial intelligence supplier promises UK banks opportunity to review AI model, which has already revealed thousands of security flaws
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16 Apr 2026
UK’s Sovereign AI supports supercomputing and drug discovery AI startups
The UK government’s £500m Sovereign AI fund announces first cohort of startups backed to boost economic growth and national security
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16 Apr 2026
Finance regulators to address AI risks after MPs say they are ‘not doing enough’
After a Treasury committee stated that public and finance systems are ‘exposed to potential serious harm’ from AI because regulators are ‘not doing enough’ to manage risks, finance regulators say they will take action to address concerns
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16 Apr 2026
UK government’s £500m sovereign AI fund bids to commercialise research
The UK government is launching a £500m Sovereign AI Unit to boost artificial intelligence startups and drive economic growth through strategic and long-term investments
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16 Apr 2026
How the AI boom is reshaping tech cost management
FinOps practitioners are stepping up to manage AI expenses, optimise token usage and align cost-saving measures with sustainability goals to improve returns from AI investments
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15 Apr 2026
Salesforce releases Agentforce dev tools, updates Agent Fabric
Salesforce provides more observability, availability and some declarative control over AI agents.
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15 Apr 2026
TDX 2026: Salesforce depicts SaaS as an agentic evolution
Salesforce paints a picture of software as a service evolving in an agentic direction, at its developer conference in San Francisco, with AgentExchange as an ecosystem lubricant
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15 Apr 2026
OCBC rolls out generative AI training for wealth advisors
First programme of its kind allows wealth advisors to hone their pitches through realistic AI role play, resulting in double the client appointments and a 50% growth in revenue in three months
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14 Apr 2026
April Patch Tuesday brings zero-days in Defender, SharePoint Server
Microsoft’s latest Patch Tuesday update may be one of the largest in history, with more than 160 issues in scope
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14 Apr 2026
HubSpot builds answer engine optimization into its platform
HubSpot's AEO, designed to help marketers navigate the world of AI search, is the biggest of several spring product drops.
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14 Apr 2026
SES gains altitude for in-flight connectivity with Boeing, Japan Airlines
Satellite operator claims milestone towards line-fit offer for multi-orbit connectivity, with streamlined factory installation on Boeing craft and deal with Japanese carrier
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14 Apr 2026
Finance regulator outlines its open finance vision
Financial Conduct Authority wants small businesses and consumers to be able to use their data to get better finance deals
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13 Apr 2026
UK reliance on US big tech companies is ‘national security risk’, claims report
UK government urged to follow European countries by backing technology based on open standards
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13 Apr 2026
Lenovo deploys AI data agent for marketing, UX, e-commerce
Lenovo's global e-commerce chief operating officer outlines how agentic AI enables more employees to access crucial data stores for marketing and UX.
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13 Apr 2026
Qualcomm expands strategic advanced driver assistance systems, immersive eyewear collaborations
Mobile technology platform provider inks deal with Snap company to expand decade-long collaboration on XR services, and with Bosch to make ADAS offerings for enhanced safety and comfort
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13 Apr 2026
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
Moves in the past week at CirrusHQ, Alteryx, Creative ITC, Black & White Engineering and AlphaSense
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13 Apr 2026
Climb CEO sets sights on further M&A across Europe
Foray into Greece earlier this year will not be the last move made by distributor Climb, according to its CEO
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10 Apr 2026
Moscow champions digital sovereignty and AI-driven city management
By ensuring strategic technology capabilities are developed in-house, megacities can protect their critical infrastructure from cyber threats and global unpredictability, says Moscow government minister
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09 Apr 2026
Sitecore CEO: Marketing, content, experience AI prime focus
"Our product isn't a product without AI in it." But it's not the SaaSpocalypse, either.
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09 Apr 2026
Physical AI device shipments to reach 145 million units by 2035
Research finds rising demand for physical AI tech with autonomous vehicles set to be the largest market, while commercial drones will drive shipments growth and service units will lead robotics shipments
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09 Apr 2026
PC market enjoys growth in Q1
In what could be one of the last good quarters before shortages make their full impact, Omdia tracks an improvement in global shipments
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08 Apr 2026
Keir Starmer was warned about Post Office prosecution practices as director of public prosecutions
A Horizon scandal victim wrote to Keir Starmer in 2011, when he was director of public prosecutions for the CPS, alerting him to the Post Office’s controversial prosecution practices
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08 Apr 2026
XCOM RAN intros end-to-end private 5G for physical AI
Next-generation private 5G technology provider unveils plans to expands spectrum and partners for global reach of dedicated wireless network
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08 Apr 2026
Cisco: Network readiness a determining factor for AI success
Report reveals how firms are harnessing AI to drive progress and overcome industry challenges, with most expecting ‘significant’ increases in connectivity and reliability demands
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07 Apr 2026
How voice AI is transforming customer service
After years of steering customers away from phone calls to cut costs, businesses are warming to voice AI agents capable of managing thousands of conversations simultaneously and upselling services
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02 Apr 2026
How ‘Wikipedia of cyber’ helps SAP make sense of threat data
SAP runs enormous cloud environments for some of the world’s most heavily-regulated organisations, and in the hyperscale era, data security and compliance were becoming big challenges. It turned to cutting-edge agentic tools from Uptycs to cut through the noise
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02 Apr 2026
Box consolidates AI tools, adds 'super agent' for complex tasks
Box Enterprise Plus and Enterprise Advanced users can take new AI functionality for a spin.
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02 Apr 2026
Advania bolsters executive team
Managed services player adds fresh talent, while ERP specialist Syspro’s CRO is promoted to lead the business
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02 Apr 2026
What’s driving Oracle’s latest job cuts?
Thousands of job losses have been reported, affecting many roles at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, including those in software engineering and product compliance
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02 Apr 2026
How ANZ firms are driving automation and AIOps
Tech leaders from Westpac, NAB, Telstra and ACC New Zealand share their automation journeys, from overcoming cultural resistance to the cautious adoption of AI
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01 Apr 2026
Microsoft to invest $5.5b in Singapore’s AI and cloud infrastructure
The tech giant is spending over $5bn through 2029 to bolster its footprint in the city-state while rolling out programmes to equip students, educators and non-profit leaders with AI skills
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31 Mar 2026
Aussie AI health-tech Heidi aims to cure clinical burnout
Armed with over $100m in funding, Melbourne-based Heidi is building its own AI models and launching wearable hardware to automate documentation and reduce the administrative burden on doctors
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31 Mar 2026
Salesforce Agentforce head discusses future of AI agents
This is how agentic AI plays out in your Salesforce instance.
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31 Mar 2026
Agoda scales AI strategy, opens new APAC tech hub
The digital travel platform has set its sights on becoming an AI-powered travel companion as it changes how it builds software and moves its tech workforce into a new facility in Bangkok
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30 Mar 2026
Cambridge Mobile Telematics lands $350m strategic investment
Major investment in automotive telematics company, accompanied by new long-term commercial agreements, seeks to expand global road safety platform and real-time AI risk models
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30 Mar 2026
Interview: Thierry Martin, head of enterprise data and analytics, Toyota Motor Europe
A sketch artist by night, and a vehicle engineer by training, Toyota Europe’s data chief is bringing elements of both capabilities to bear in delivering better data insights and building a foundation for AI
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30 Mar 2026
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
Personnel moves of note at Exabeam, CirrusHQ, Version 1 and Cellnex
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30 Mar 2026
Stop Scams steps up to online fraud challenge
After years of putting the building blocks in place, Stop Scams is ready and able to react quickly to fight emerging fraud threats
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27 Mar 2026
Trust a key factor in customer buying decisions
Brother UK’s quizzing of both customers and resellers found that trusted partners and vendors could win business at a premium
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27 Mar 2026
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments of note this week at Insight, TD Synnex, Arrow Electronics, Bulletproof, Netrio and Cambridge Management Consulting
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27 Mar 2026
Second Post Office Capture conviction referred to appeal court
Conviction of 30 years has been referred to the Court of Appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission
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26 Mar 2026
Oracle opens Sydney customer excellence centre to boost AI adoption
Facility will help organisations across Australia and Oceania navigate technology challenges and turn AI experimentation into business value
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26 Mar 2026
Post Office still can’t find evidence for 1,400 scandal redress claimants, while people die waiting
Finding evidence for events that took place decades ago is a challenge for many subpostmasters seeking compensation through the Horizon Shortfall Scheme
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26 Mar 2026
Connectivity to the fore as Sunderland commits to 2035 digital strategy
North eastern English city expands its smart city commitments with 2035 strategy to ensure every resident can “thrive in an increasingly digital world”
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25 Mar 2026
Google targets 2029 for post-quantum cyber readiness
Google sets out a timeline for its migration to post-quantum cryptography, saying it will complete its migration before the end of the 2020s
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25 Mar 2026
Emergency Microsoft, Oracle patches point to wider cyber issues
Emergency out-of-band patches from Microsoft and Oracle signal underlying security issues around update cycles and patching, and identity security and zero-trust, says the community
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25 Mar 2026
Oracle applications chief sees enterprise AI agents as task-specific helpers
At Oracle AI Summit in London, Steve Miranda, executive vice-president of Oracle applications development, discussed Oracle’s Fusion Agentic Applications, including how should AI agents be used, how is it priced and what safeguards are being put in place
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25 Mar 2026
Google Cloud, Openreach expand connectivity collaboration
UK’s largest broadband operator implements AI to accelerate high-speed internet access and cut carbon, in an expanded collaboration to accelerate Openreach’s sustainability and connectivity goals
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25 Mar 2026
Why AI agents are one prompt away from ransomware
As AI adoption advances beyond chatbots, security leaders are up against rogue AI agents mirroring threat actors and a generational skills gap as security operations teams become overly dependent on AI
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25 Mar 2026
Why OpenClaw agents are the next big enterprise challenge
As users flock to deploy OpenClaw agents for everything from gig work to shopping, IT leaders warn that bringing these autonomous systems into the enterprise will require strict guardrails and a mix of AI models
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24 Mar 2026
Cyber pros must grasp the vibe coding nettle, says NCSC chief
At RSA in San Francisco, NCSC chief exec Richard Horne says security professionals have an opportunity and a responsibility to get in front of the security issues raised by the popularity of ‘vibe coding’
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24 Mar 2026
Salesforce adds Agentforce agentic AI to SMB packages
Salesforce sets up its SMB customers with Agentforce.
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24 Mar 2026
Oracle calls Fusion Agentic Applications next-level AI for ERP
Analysts concur that the 22 new applications represent a significant leap from narrowly focused AI to teams of agents that coordinate tasks to achieve business objectives.
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24 Mar 2026
Oracle endows Fusion applications with more AI autonomy
At its London AI World Tour event, Oracle unveils Fusion Agentic Apps, said to enable more autonomous decision-making and execution across ERP, HCM, SCM and CX
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24 Mar 2026
QuikBot and EFGH bring real-time insurance to physical AI
The two companies will embed insurance directly into the infrastructure governing autonomous robots, reducing claims processing and creating a trust layer for smart cities
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23 Mar 2026
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
Moves this last week of note at CloudClevr, MLL Telecom, Pure Data Centres, Neat and inferX
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23 Mar 2026
DWP finally seeks reviewer of its subpostmaster prosecutions
Months after announcing review, the government has advertised for a reviewer to look over more than 100 prosecutions of subpostmasters by the Department of Work and Pensions
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23 Mar 2026
Fire and rescue services implement shared comms command centre
Control room technology rolled out across three emergency services to make it possible to jointly manage emergency call handling, crew dispatch and incident coordination in mutual aid scenarios
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20 Mar 2026
Interview: Jem Walters, CTO, Vanquis
Having come into the company through the acquisition of his money-saving app, the IT chief is bringing an agile and startup culture to the 146-year-old financial services firm
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20 Mar 2026
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at Emerge Digital, GoTo, Exabeam and Nebula Global Services
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20 Mar 2026
Upwind founder talks benefits of going channel from the start
Cloud security player Upwind has been working with partners since it emerged three years ago
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19 Mar 2026
Questions raised about Instagram memorialisation in Noah Donohoe inquest
Court hears that a mother was frozen out of her son’s social media a day after he tragically died, potentially depriving a coroner investigating the case of a ‘huge’ amount of information
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19 Mar 2026
AI makes debut in Bridewell cyber security in CNI report
Regulation has superseded cyber threats as the main driver of cyber security spending, and AI has made its debut for attack and defence, according to a CNI-focused report from Bridewell
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19 Mar 2026
HSS ProService ‘Uber-ifies’ with functional programming and agentic AI
HSS’s pivot from 130-depot hire business to a digital-only marketplace to handle messy transactions and old-school processes in the construction sector
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19 Mar 2026
Government announces redress scheme for families of Post Office scandal victims
Government offers two routes to financial redress for the families of victims of the Post Office scandal
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19 Mar 2026
Interview: Huy Dao, director of data and machine learning platform, Booking.com
Effective use of technology has already delivered significant cost savings at the online travel giant, and greater use of AI and machine learning promises to bring even greater opportunities to improve
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19 Mar 2026
Infrastructure is back as Orange Business drives trusted agentic platforms
Annual customer gathering of enterprise arm of global telco sees launch of four key applications taking advantage of agentic AI capabilities and emphasising the need for robust and secure infrastructure
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19 Mar 2026
Apple issues first Background patch for WebKit browser flaw
Apple’s first ever Background Security Update fixes a WebKit browser engine bug that could enable threat actors to see and steal important data from their victims
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18 Mar 2026
RingCentral AIR Pro automates CX with agentic agents
RingCentral launched AIR Pro, an agentic AI platform to autonomously handle customer interactions with enterprise integrations, prebuilt agents and no-code tools.
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18 Mar 2026
Fast followers will fall behind in the AI race, warns ServiceNow
ServiceNow experts and customers highlight why acting at pace, deploying cross-system AI agents and governance are key in AI adoption
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18 Mar 2026
Qualtrics expands synthetic research marketing, testing tech
Qualtrics attempts to meld agentic AI and digital twins for A/B testing in marketing and product development, and to improve CX.
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18 Mar 2026
Channel shows resilience in face of challenges
The channel is wrestling with component shortages, ripples from war in the Middle East and ongoing conflict in Europe, but there is still some optimism
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18 Mar 2026
Nvidia workforce to be dominated by AI agents in a decade
Jensen Huang expects digital workers to vastly outnumber human employees at Nvidia, while also revealing plans to restart mainland China operations and declaring autonomous driving a solved problem
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17 Mar 2026
MPs ask Lloyds Bank for more information about ‘alarming’ breach
Treasury Committee chair requests more information about the IT problem experienced by Lloyds Bank
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17 Mar 2026
Contactless payment limit removal will happen overnight, but change won’t
Banks will be able to set their own contactless card payment limits from 19 March, following rule change by Financial Conduct Authority
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17 Mar 2026
Alibaba joins AI agent race with Wukong launch
Following the viral success of OpenClaw and product launches from Nvidia and Tencent, Alibaba has unveiled an agentic AI platform that integrates with DingTalk to orchestrate business workflows
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17 Mar 2026
TD Synnex arming Microsoft partners with greater data insights
Distributor rolls out tools to help CSPs keep track of licences and to identify additional sales opportunities
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17 Mar 2026
Workday's new (old) CEO reveals Sana agentic AI updates
Doing work in Workday could become simpler with agentic AI.
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17 Mar 2026
Health workers call for Palantir to be booted from NHS contracts
Health justice charity Medact warns that Palantir’s involvement in NHS data systems is a threat to patients and healthcare organisations
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17 Mar 2026
Lendi Group standardises on MongoDB for AI-ready data layer
Following a merger that left the Australian fintech with a fragmented data architecture, Lendi Group has consolidated its databases onto MongoDB Atlas to reduce microservices sprawl and power AI-driven broker tools
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17 Mar 2026
Lab for autonomous agents to drive boost in manufacturing in India
Frontier AI company launching Emergence India Labs (EIL) to accelerate the nation’s shift from IT services to autonomous systems and advanced process is use cases such as manufacturing