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20 Mar 2026
News brief: Stryker recovering after large-scale cyberattack
By Staff reportCheck out the latest security news from the Informa TechTarget team.
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19 Mar 2026
Dell Data Orchestration Engine joins AI data pipeline fray
By Beth PariseauDell jumps into the ring with NetApp and Vast Data, unveiling a new AI data orchestration product built on its Dataloop acquisition as Nvidia STX shakes up the storage industry.
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19 Mar 2026
ThoughtSpot domain-specific Spotter agents target AI success
By Eric AvidonWith many enterprises struggling to successfully develop AI tools, the vendor's latest capabilities help AI applications access the context they need to be production-ready.
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20 Mar 2026
Interview: Jem Walters, CTO, Vanquis
By Mark SamuelsHaving 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
By Simon QuickeDevelopments this week at Emerge Digital, GoTo, Exabeam, Nebula Global Services and NFON
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20 Mar 2026
Upwind founder talks benefits of going channel from the start
By Simon QuickeCloud 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
By Bill GoodwinCourt 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
By Brian McKennaRegulation has superseded cyber threats as the main driver of cyber security spending, and AI has made its debut for attack and defence, according to a CNI-focused report from Bridewell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
By Antony AdsheadHSS’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
By Karl FlindersGovernment 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
By Mark SamuelsEffective 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
By Joe O’HalloranAnnual 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
Infrastructure is back as Orange Business drives trusted agentic platforms
By Joe O’HalloranAnnual 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
By Alex ScroxtonApple’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
Fast followers will fall behind in the AI race, warns ServiceNow
By Stephen WithersServiceNow 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
Channel shows resilience in face of challenges
By Simon QuickeThe 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
By Aaron TanJensen 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
By Karl FlindersTreasury 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
By Karl FlindersBanks 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
By Aaron TanFollowing 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
By Simon QuickeDistributor rolls out tools to help CSPs keep track of licenses and to identify additional sales opportunities
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17 Mar 2026
Workday's new (old) CEO reveals Sana agentic AI updates
By Don FluckingerDoing 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
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonHealth 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
By Stephen WithersFollowing 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
By Joe O’HalloranFrontier 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
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16 Mar 2026
Nvidia expands Vera Rubin platform, details Groq integration
By Aaron TanNvidia CEO Jensen Huang talks up efforts by the AI technology giant to pave the way for self-evolving, multi-agent systems with the integration of Groq LPUs and a software stack for the OpenClaw agent platform
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16 Mar 2026
Channel facing profitability threat
By Simon QuickeResearch from Omdia reveals the impact geopolitical uncertainty and shortages are having on partner businesses
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16 Mar 2026
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
By Simon QuickePersonnel moves of note this last week at Genesys, Synyega, MLL Telecoms, Ping Identity and WSO2
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16 Mar 2026
C-suite execs flag core nature of edge AI to business strategy
By Joe O’HalloranResearch from edge computing provider observes enterprise edge AI is now an intrinsic part of core business infrastructure, driven by rapid uptake of agentic operations
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16 Mar 2026
Cyber flywheel aims to kick-start UK cyber security startups
By Bill GoodwinCompany founder rallies CISOs, venture capital funders and government leaders to back startups in cyber security
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13 Mar 2026
Unreliable fleet connectivity driving employee exodus
By Joe O’HalloranStudy finds fleets experience an average downtime of 25%, equating to three to four days of downtime per month, while a third of fleet operators still rely on hotspots from mobile devices to provide connectivity on the move
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12 Mar 2026
Why real-time data is key for enterprise AI
By Stephen WithersMoving AI from experiment to production requires high-quality, real-time data streaming. Australia tech leaders from Confluent, Bendigo Bank, Telstra, and Coles share how they are turning systems of record into systems of action
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12 Mar 2026
MP report calls for legislation to overturn Post Office Capture convictions
By Karl FlindersReport from MPs warns of unknown number of unsafe subpostmasters convictions based on multiple pre-Horizon systems
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12 Mar 2026
UK government ‘flying blind’ with poor data in charting regional growth
By Brian McKennaThe government is being impeded in its bid to stoke economic growth across the regions, according to the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee
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12 Mar 2026
Zoom expands enterprise agentic AI platform
By Joe O’HalloranAI-first work platform provider introduces new workflow capabilities across Workplace, phone and customer experience products, expanding its enterprise agentic AI platform
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12 Mar 2026
Stitch Fix's AI brand agent -- with human help -- nails the look
By Don FluckingerYou can't legislate good taste, but you can have agentic AI steer customers into it.
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12 Mar 2026
Agentforce Contact Center brings native CCaaS to Salesforce
By Katherine FinnellSalesforce launches Agentforce Contact Center, a native CCaaS platform that unifies voice, AI, CRM and digital channels to deliver personalized, proactive customer service.
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12 Mar 2026
Lloyds banking app ‘glitch’ shows transactions of strangers
By Karl FlindersCustomers of Halifax, Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Bank experienced a glitch this morning, where details of other customers’ transactions were displayed in their online banking apps
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11 Mar 2026
What it takes to succeed with AI
By Stephen WithersWith research showing the use of AI may temporarily reduce productivity, Cloudera’s Vini Cardoso urges businesses to adopt an organisation-wide platform approach driven by measurable value and trusted data
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11 Mar 2026
Ford accelerates fleet data capability with Pro AI
By Joe O’HalloranAuto manufacturing giant introduces fleet management software aiming to help organisations manage their fleet operations more effectively and get daily tasks done
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11 Mar 2026
Zendesk to acquire Forethought in major agentic AI play
By Aaron TanZendesk is acquiring Forethought to bolster its agentic AI chops with specialised and self-learning AI agents capable of managing complex customer service workflows
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10 Mar 2026
Microsoft patches zero-days in .NET and SQL Server
By Alex ScroxtonZero-days in .NET and SQL Server, and a handful of critical RCE bugs, form the nucleus of Microsoft’s March Patch Tuesday update
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10 Mar 2026
Ericsson, Future Technologies scale wireless infrastructure for industrial AI
By Joe O’HalloranConnectivity transformation systems integrator and comms tech giant expand collaboration to accelerate deployment of private 5G and enterprise wireless networks across North America
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10 Mar 2026
Microsoft Cowork: One data store for all your M365 assets
By Cliff SaranMIcrosoft has revealed the next stage of its plans to place its software at the heart of enterprise data, which is now powered by agentic AI
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10 Mar 2026
Open banking presents £43bn opportunity for UK economy if warnings are heeded
By Karl FlindersOpen banking has already delivered billions of pounds to the UK economy and has huge future potential, but industry leaders warn against complacency
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09 Mar 2026
UK to launch cyber fraud squad in April
By Alex ScroxtonThe UK’s Online Crime Centre, launching next month, will bring together government, police, intelligence agencies, banks, mobile networks and tech firms to take coordinated action against cyber fraud
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09 Mar 2026
IBM takes a second shot at Post Office contract to replace Horizon
By Karl FlindersThe US tech giant is bidding for a £323m contract to replace the Post Office’s flawed Horizon IT system, a decade after its previous attempt was abandoned due to complexities
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09 Mar 2026
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
By Simon QuickePersonnel moves of note in the past week at QBS Software, Smart Communications, Pax8, e2e-assur, Trellix, Basware and New Relic
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09 Mar 2026
Connectus continues M&A strategy with i7 Technologies
By Simon QuickeMSP continues to add geographical coverage to the business with the addition of Welsh security specialist
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09 Mar 2026
DBS rewires operating models for AI reasoning era
By Aaron TanThe bank expects AI tools to evolve from being a copilot to an autopilot as it undergoes organisational transformation to prepare its workforce for agentic AI
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06 Mar 2026
Pegasystems adds vibe coding to Blueprint app builder
By Don FluckingerPega Blueprint combines conversational code with drag-and-drop feature editing.
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06 Mar 2026
Stephen Lawrence detective calls for better checks after child’s Instagram account ‘memorialised’
By Bill GoodwinFormer detective Clive Driscoll, who secured convictions in the Stephen Lawrence case, calls for better checks after Instagram ‘memorialised’ the account of a child without the family’s knowledge
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06 Mar 2026
Channel catch-up: News in brief
By Simon QuickeThe past week has brought several noteworthy developments in the channel. We look at what’s been happening at Wasabi Technologies, LevelBlue, Phoenix Software, Alkira and Boom Collaboration
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06 Mar 2026
International Women’s Day 2026: Support must not stop after the hire is made
By Simon QuickeWomen in the tech industry emphasise the importance of maintaining a sustained commitment to diversity that extends beyond the initial recruitment stage
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06 Mar 2026
Enterprises warming to AI PCs amid growing cloud costs
By Aaron TanWhile global memory shortages will pose a threat to the broader PC market, AI PCs are gaining momentum across Asia as companies look to cut cloud costs, boost productivity and secure sensitive information
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05 Mar 2026
UK government departments not sold on shared services strategy, NAO report finds
By Lis EvenstadEight years on from the launch of the government’s shared services strategy, there is no clear ownership, funding remains uncertain and some departments are yet to fully commit
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05 Mar 2026
Spyware suppliers exploit more zero-days than nation states
By Alex ScroxtonExploitation of zero-days by commercial surveillance and spyware developers outpaced exploitation by nation-state actors last year, according to a report
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05 Mar 2026
Salesforce rolls out Agentforce Health AI agents
By Don FluckingerAgentforce Health updated to automate more processes.
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05 Mar 2026
Government wants to build digital ID system in-house
By Lis EvenstadThe Home Affairs Committee hearing on digital ID reveals consultation is due next week; there will be no central database; and while government wants to build the system in-house, it will not replace private digital ID providers
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05 Mar 2026
Celerity adds to board as it mulls over further M&A activity
By Simon QuickeManaged services player Celerity continues to add expertise to the brain power advising its strategy
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05 Mar 2026
Scandal victim gets leave to appeal decision to split case against Post Office and Fujitsu
By Karl FlindersProminent scandal victim given leave to appeal High Court decision in his legal action against the Post Office and Fujitsu
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04 Mar 2026
GTDC: Distribution key to expanding vendor reach
By Simon QuickeThe ability to react to challenges and master them has put disties across the globe in a key position to support partner enablement and sales
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04 Mar 2026
Stability talk in Spring Statement cautiously welcomed
By Simon QuickeUK chancellor’s declarations around improving inflation rates and delivering economic growth got a mixed response across the industry
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04 Mar 2026
AI workloads force a fundamental redesign of Middle East datacentres
By Andrea BenitoFrom hyperscale GPU clusters to sovereign AI ambitions, Huawei outlines how infrastructure must evolve to meet regional demand
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04 Mar 2026
Transnational AI regulation needed to protect human rights in the UK
By Charlotte LangTech companies have told MPs and Lords they would welcome greater harmonisation in regulatory standards at a global level
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03 Mar 2026
Scattered data, cloud transfers creating challenges in enterprise AI
By Stephen WithersThe cost, speed, and governance of moving petabytes of data across hybrid and multicloud environments is becoming a challenge for enterprises looking to harness the benefits of AI
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03 Mar 2026
SAP renames Emarsys SAP Engagement Cloud
By Don FluckingerThe legacy of SAP's Qualtrics acquisition is complete.
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03 Mar 2026
Interview: Wolf & Badger CEO George Graham on getting ‘hands-on’ with AI
By Ben SillitoeFrom continually exploring the potential of artificial intelligence to actually building and introducing AI-enabled systems for his company, George Graham is leaning into the age of agentic commerce
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03 Mar 2026
Santander and Mastercard complete test of AI-initiated payment
By Karl FlindersBank and payments giant complete first payment initiated by artificial intelligence in a controlled environment
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03 Mar 2026
Logicalis: Customers struggling with rapid AI deployments
By Simon QuickeThe channel player’s latest CIO report exposes a user base struggling to adopt artificial intelligence technology while continuing to remain compliant and secure
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03 Mar 2026
Synaxon boss charts path to increased growth
By Simon QuickeAfter a period of transformation, the channel organisation is looking to meet ambitious targets and continue to carve out a solid position in the hardware and services realms
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03 Mar 2026
Emerging markets prioritise top-line growth with agentic AI
By Aaron TanWhile firms in mature markets are using AI agents to automate routine tasks, those in emerging markets where the cost of the technology is higher than that of human labour are favouring revenue-generating use cases
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03 Mar 2026
NS&I seeks Bank of England counsel over project disaster
By Karl FlindersThe Bank of England’s successful IT transformation, praised by the National Audit Office, is being used as a model for government departments, including NS&I, which faces a failing IT project
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02 Mar 2026
Demand necessitates digital twin and data visualisation at National Grid
By Karl FlindersIn-house project replaces spreadsheet-based planning for future electricity network
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02 Mar 2026
Virtual twins and AI companions target enterprise war rooms
By Kim LoohuisDassault Systèmes claims platform can answer complex business questions in seconds, but approach requires rethinking enterprise data architecture
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02 Mar 2026
UK government consults on social media ban for under-16s
By Bill GoodwinA UK government consultation launched today asks whether under-16s should be banned from social media, and age restrictions introduced for VPNs and chatbots
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27 Feb 2026
UK has laid track for open banking, but failed to run trains
By Karl FlindersThe UK risks losing its fintech leadership, with open banking progress slow, as countries such as the UAE and India advance rapidly
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27 Feb 2026
Wildix looks to bring conversations under enterprise control with eSIM
By Joe O’HalloranAI-powered Fixed Mobile Convergence capability designed to connect native mobile calls to enterprise workflows, preserving identity, context and customer insight without requiring an app
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27 Feb 2026
Australia inks five-year deal with Microsoft to drive AI and cloud adoption
By Aaron TanThe Digital Transformation Agency’s new agreement promises cost certainty, improved discounts, and a skills fund to support the government’s digital transformation agenda
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26 Feb 2026
India AI Impact Summit: Open source gains ground, but sovereignty tensions persist
By Charlotte LangWhile open source artificial intelligence gained unprecedented recognition during the latest global AI summit, divisions over governance, market concentration and regulatory power cast doubt on whether the technology will benefit society as a whole
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26 Feb 2026
Shutters come down on Exertis AV
By Simon QuickeSpecialist distributor Exertis AV reveals that it is closing its doors at the start of next week
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26 Feb 2026
Santander pins €1bn business value gain on AI
By Karl FlindersBank said artificial intelligence will be fully embedded into the business, personalising customer experiences
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26 Feb 2026
Khazna’s NexOps shift signals new operating model for AI-scale infrastructure
By Andrea BenitoManaging director Bart Holsters explains why hybrid insourcing, competence assurance and sovereign readiness are becoming essential as artificial intelligence pushes datacentres to their limits
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26 Feb 2026
US artificial intelligence developers accuse Chinese firms of stealing their data
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonArtificial intelligence developers are accusing Chinese firms of stealing their intellectual property following a spate of ‘distillation attacks’, despite their own alleged theft of training data
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25 Feb 2026
Salesforce acquisition of Momentum to boost sales functions
By Don FluckingerSalesforce to add AI-powered revenue orchestration to sales features.
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25 Feb 2026
The UK’s proposed social media ban explained
By Charlotte LangThe UK government will use new legal powers to lay the groundwork for an under-16 social media ban after its consultation on children’s digital well-being, but opponents warn the measures being considered will only treat the symptoms of the problem if they ignore the structural power of big tech
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25 Feb 2026
How AI code generation is pushing DevSecOps to machine speed
By Stephen WithersOrganisations should adopt shared platforms and automated governance to keep pace with the growing use of generative AI tools that are helping developers produce code at unprecedented volumes
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25 Feb 2026
Institutionalised AI puts Visa top of ranking
By Karl FlindersThe payment card services giant leads the way in applying artificial intelligence in its sector, according to research
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24 Feb 2026
NUHS and GSMA Foundry team up on 5G and AI in healthcare
By Aaron TanSingapore’s National University Health System is working with GSMA Foundry, Ericsson and Singtel to drive the use of 5G-enabled robotics, ambient AI and holographic surgery in healthcare
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24 Feb 2026
Microsoft CEO opens London AI Tour with Copilot push
By Cliff SaranMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella used his event keynote to showcase how the artificial intelligence in M365 is a foundation for agentic AI in the enterprise
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24 Feb 2026
UAE CIOs feel AI heat as 85% fear role risk within two years
By Andrea BenitoTechnology leaders say careers, credibility and corporate resilience now hinge on delivering measurable artificial intelligence outcomes
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24 Feb 2026
Starling expands internationally as demand for banking as a service continues to rise
By Karl FlindersUK challenger bank has expanded its banking-as-a-service business with entry into New Zealand
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24 Feb 2026
Email from 1999 reveals Post Office ECCO+ system crash problems
By Karl FlindersECCO+ system experienced freezes during transactions, which could have left Post Office branch account discrepancies
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24 Feb 2026
Singtel, Nvidia to help scale enterprise AI deployments
By Aaron TanSingtel and Nvidia have teamed up on a multimillion-dollar facility to help organisations scale enterprise AI deployments, tackle extreme datacentre power densities, and prepare for the era of embodied AI
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23 Feb 2026
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
By Simon QuickePersonnel moves of note last week at Delinea, Red Helix, GTIA, Kong and CyberFOX
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20 Feb 2026
Oracle drops a truckload of CX-centric generative AI agents
By Don FluckingerOracle's tactical deployment of AI boosts Fusion Cloud Applications for sales, service and marketing.
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20 Feb 2026
Telefónica activates commercial Edge services in Spain
By Joe O’HalloranAs part of its Edge Plan in Europe, Spain-based global telco begins marketing business-to-business services in five of the 17 nodes planned for this year supported by FTTH, 5G network and Open Gateway APIs
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20 Feb 2026
What it takes to secure agentic commerce
By Aaron TanWith AI agents increasingly acting as digital concierges for shoppers, verifying bot identities, securing the APIs they rely on and detecting anomalous behaviour will be key to safeguarding automated transactions, according to Akamai
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19 Feb 2026
European politicians amplify disinformation about UN rapporteur
By Sebastian Klovig SkeltonGovernment officials from the US and Europe have condemned UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese for remarks about Israel she never made, based on a truncated clip circulating online that takes her statements out of context
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19 Feb 2026
Bank of Ireland UK fined for late security system implementation
By Karl FlindersThe payments regulator has fined the bank nearly £4m after it missed a deadline to implement a system to check payees
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19 Feb 2026
Minister wants ‘logical conclusion’ to review of digital evidence in light of Post Office scandal
By Karl FlindersHouse of Lords debate saw government minister make an ambiguous promise in regard to the treatment of computer evidence in court
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19 Feb 2026
India AI Impact Summit begins
By Charlotte LangThe summit aims to democratise AI and bridge the growing divide between countries, but critics warn that it risks becoming a mere spectacle if the technology only serves the interests of power and profit
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19 Feb 2026
Nvidia backs India’s sovereign AI push with gigawatt-scale infrastructure
By Aaron TanChip giant unveils compute expansion with L&T, Yotta and E2E Networks at the India AI Impact Summit, paving the way for domestic heavyweights to build AI agents and physical AI applications
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18 Feb 2026
Eradicating Fujitsu and Horizon from the Post Office, step by step
By Karl FlindersPost Office IT chief tells Computer Weekly about the challenges and progress in removing the controversial Horizon system from Post Office branches