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19 Oct 2026
Microsoft's Nscale exit exposes $103B AI contract pipeline risk
Microsoft terminated its Nscale data center contract after UK power delays. Nscale's $103B contract pipeline highlights the financing risks facing AI infrastructure developers.
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19 Oct 2026
The AI happy path is easy, but enterprise reality isn't
David Linthicum says the AI happy path ends where enterprise reality begins. CIOs must design for messy data, exceptions and failure before production.
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19 Oct 2026
AI can find IT problems faster, but fixing them is another matter
AI tools can be bossy and prescriptive. They are getting better at telling us what's wrong and how to fix it, but CIOs must decide who authorizes changes and verifies results.
Cloud Computing News from the past 365 days
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16 Oct 2026
Channel forum: AI the dominant theme
Artificial intelligence is affecting every aspect of the industry, with the topic dominating 2026’s Canalys Channels Forum
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16 Oct 2026
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at Barracuda Networks, Plasma Cloud, WWCS and Zyxel Networks
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16 Oct 2026
CMA to decide Microsoft strategic market status by February 2027
The CMA proposes to designate Microsoft’s business software ecosystem with strategic market status and sets out a roadmap on Copilot, Teams, cloud licensing and security
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15 Oct 2026
Waste-to-energy firm picks Stackable on Ionos for sovereignty
Munich plant builder Martin centralises 10GB of telemetry per line each day on open-source Stackable, hosted by Ionos, to dodge US hyperscaler lock-in and the US Cloud Act
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15 Oct 2026
AIforce World Tour: Salesforce promises free Slack access to UK students
Salesforce said it will give UK further and higher education students free Slack Enterprise, as part of a drive to close the digital skills gap
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15 Oct 2026
ORCA launches PT-3 quantum computer in London datacentre
ORCA Computing unveils PT-3 in London, a room-temperature quantum system paired with Nvidia GPUs to boost AI-driven drug discovery yield and complex energy grid scheduling
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14 Oct 2026
Softcat CEO talks of investing in future growth
As the channel player shares its FY26 numbers, it is a moment to reflect on a strategy that continues to deliver results
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14 Oct 2026
Softcat gets closer to customers
Firm shares full-year numbers that underline the benefits of being a trusted adviser that can provide a breadth of technology and services
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14 Oct 2026
Starling Bank claims first banking AI trained on UK sovereign cloud
Starling says ‘transactional foundation model’ will train on more than 15 billion anonymised transactions on Civo’s UK cloud – but the data tokenises in Google Cloud first
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14 Oct 2026
Starling Bank claims first banking AI trained on UK sovereign cloud
Starling says ‘transactional foundation model’ will train on more than 15 billion anonymised transactions on Civo’s UK cloud – but the data tokenises in Google Cloud first
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13 Oct 2026
Fast AI adoption needs ‘good brakes’, says former CSA chief
At his first Singapore International Cyber Week since leaving CSA, David Koh drew on the CrowdStrike outage and the UNC3886 attacks to make the case for building resilience into AI adoption from the start
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13 Oct 2026
Microsoft CVE volumes on relentless upward trajectory
Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday drop breaks yet another record, with over 1,400 flaws listed
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13 Oct 2026
Government could firm up pension insourcing position next month
A review of government pension schemes is considering insourcing and the digital options available
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13 Oct 2026
Infosys boss describes AI job fears as ‘hogwash’
Artificial intelligence will fuel demand for new skills, says chairman of Indian IT outsourcing giant
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13 Oct 2026
Data dive: The carbon bill for the UK’s datacentre boom
The UK’s existing datacentres emit about 1.5 million tonnes of CO2e a year. A 14.6GW committed pipeline would add about 12 million tonnes a year – or 38 million tonnes if it all runs on gas
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13 Oct 2026
Artificial intelligence is evolving the MSP model
Discussions at the Canalys Channel Forum included how the managed service provider community was reacting to adopting and selling more AI technology
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12 Oct 2026
DBS CEO warns against ‘AI lipstick’ as TikTok turns to agents for safety checks
DBS chief executive Tan Su Shan says firms have to rethink how work gets done to get real value from AI, while TikTok’s Shou Zi Chew sets out how the video platform is using agents and vision models in its safety work
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09 Oct 2026
Channel catch-up: News in brief
We recap developments this week at Arrow Electronics, Black & White Engineering, e92plus, Gridheart and Infinity Group
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09 Oct 2026
Mastercard commits to offline payment capability in uncertain world
Payment card provider will enable offline payments to be accepted in Europe in the event of power and network outages
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09 Oct 2026
ComfortDelGro to pull workloads back from public cloud
The Singapore transport operator can now host production Kubernetes workloads on its private cloud, and it wants most of its AI work there, too, as it tries to keep a lid on data exposure and token bills
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08 Oct 2026
Public sector risk and double standards over occupied Palestine
The UK bans cloud and software for Russia, but sanctions illegal Israeli settlements only narrowly – while AWS, Google and Microsoft run the IT infrastructure for the occupation
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08 Oct 2026
Broadcom targets 50% VCF 9 adoption by late 2027 as AI speeds vulnerability discovery
Broadcom infrastructure software chief Ram Velaga says AI models that can find software flaws quickly are pushing VMware customers to upgrade faster, and argues enterprises should own rather than rent their AI infrastructure
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07 Oct 2026
Channel forum: Challenges of navigating the AI world
Leading vendors have made mistakes and the placement of datacentres is causing political uproar – partners have to oversee that evolving environment
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06 Oct 2026
How Optus, Bupa and others are using Databricks
Optus has replaced its legacy data platforms, and Bupa’s marketers now get answers in minutes rather than weeks – two of the experiences shared at Databricks’ Data + AI World Tour in Sydney
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06 Oct 2026
Asos app users receive threatening messages after hack
A previously unknown hacking group sent threatening messages to customers of fashion website Asos after allegedly breaching its Snowflake data platform
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05 Oct 2026
Metropolitan Police awards Atos with £350m IT deal
IT firm will provide London police force with IT services for six years as part of new deal
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05 Oct 2026
Norwegian AI firm appeals to block Google gigacenter
Local councillors welcome the prospect of becoming one of the world’s largest centres for AI computing, but a spurned rival thinks they cheated and still got a bad deal
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05 Oct 2026
NAO to investigate what went wrong in Capita’s civil service pension takeover
The transfer of the Civil Service Pension Scheme to a new administrator has been a disaster, but why?
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05 Oct 2026
AI governance gap emerges as GCC’s biggest cyber security challenge
Cybergate CISO Srdjan Babic warns that organisations are adopting artificial intelligence faster than they are building the governance, oversight and workforce capabilities needed to manage it securely
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05 Oct 2026
Nucleus Network taps AI agent to screen clinical trial volunteers
The Australian clinical research organisation is using an AI agent built on Salesforce’s Agentforce to do early screening of trial volunteers, but its doctors still determine who can participate in a trial
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02 Oct 2026
Air IT offers SMEs a way through AI confusion
Channel player’s suite of services designed to take the headaches out of choosing which approach to take to AI technology
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01 Oct 2026
NetApp aims Novus storage at AI factory bottlenecks
NetApp Insight launches for new Novus storage that scales to 100TBps to keep AI factory GPUs fed, European data sovereignty controls and six months of free AI Data Engine
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01 Oct 2026
Everpure channel boss encouraging partners to seize AI-fuelled opportunities
Recently appointed EMEA and LatAm partner lead shares talks about the current areas of growth and his approach to the role
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30 Sep 2026
‘Inherent sovereignty is a fallacy’ says Beyond.pl AI factory exec
Beyond.pl built central Europe’s first sovereign AI factory on Everpure and Nvidia kit – now its CEO argues the real issue is operational sovereignty, not where the box sits
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30 Sep 2026
Trust Bank cuts incident triage time to two minutes with AI agents
The Singapore digital bank is running AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to work out the likely cause of an incident before engineers join the call, with humans still deciding on the fix
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30 Sep 2026
Sweden boosts cyber threat security defences amid AI advances
Sweden is strengthening its national security defences against cyber attacks
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30 Sep 2026
Everpure adds data management capabilities for production AI
Everpure’s data management updates for production AI feature native MCP support, GPU acceleration and token optimisation to break down enterprise data silos
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30 Sep 2026
Everpure survey: 88% of executives fear data sovereignty failures
An Everpure survey of 2,100 C-suite and IT leaders across eight countries finds 90% recognise the risk, yet 64% lack a formal strategy to close ‘the sovereignty gap’
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30 Sep 2026
Schneider Electric extends channel access to decarbonisation programme
Vendor working with Lenovo and Greenly to get its emissions reduction programme in front of more people
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29 Sep 2026
Cyber authorities issue alerts over exploitation of Citrix vulns
The latest vulnerabilities to be uncovered in the frequently targeted Citrix NetScaler product lines were being exploited well before disclosure, prompting disquiet
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29 Sep 2026
Only 30% of Metropolitan Police officers have completed mandatory data training
Metropolitan Police senior officers admit that only 30% of the force has completed mandatory data protection training following a series of high-profile data incidents
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29 Sep 2026
Service player Wemtech lands Peach PE backing
Channel player able to tap into expertise as well as looking to private equity player to support its next phase of growth
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29 Sep 2026
Dutch datacentre sector pitches itself as relief for an overloaded grid
European datacentre associations argue that building datacentres where renewable power is generated could ease grid congestion in the Netherlands and beyond
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28 Sep 2026
UiPath’s Cartographer agent interviews staff to map how businesses run
UiPath CEO Daniel Dines says the company’s Cartographer agent will capture the institutional knowledge AI agents lack by interviewing employees and learning from the corrections they make
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27 Sep 2026
Vast Data pitches confidential AI to APAC’s regulated industries
DataEnclave, due in the coming months, protects artificial intelligence models and sensitive data while they are processed on GPUs, with Australian neocloud Sharon AI among the cloud providers lined up to offer it
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25 Sep 2026
A bright future for distribution?
Where is the world heading for disties? Billy MacInnes canvases a range of opinions to find out
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25 Sep 2026
Dreamforce 2026: A question of trust
Salesforce’s Dreamforce 2026 event tried to focus on trust in AI development, amid current fears about autonomous AI risks. Is AI just the new cloud?
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25 Sep 2026
Cost a major barrier to wider AI adoption
The channel must not lose sight of the importance of demonstrating return on investment if artificial intelligence pilots are to be turned into full-scale projects
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25 Sep 2026
TD Synnex boss talks of widening AI impact
Talking about the distributor’s third-quarter numbers provides a chance to touch on the opportunities the firm is taping into now as well as ones emerging in the near future
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25 Sep 2026
Australia sets up taskforce after OpenAI agent breaches statistics portal
Prime minister Anthony Albanese says OpenAI did not alert the government until almost three months after one of its AI agents got around blocks on a Medicare statistics portal, and even then only by emailing a public mailbox
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24 Sep 2026
IBM extends consultancy depth with Logiq Consulting buy
Vendor continues to follow a pattern of using M&A to add more support options to put in front of public sector customers
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24 Sep 2026
US military confirms existence of orbital weapons
The US military has for the first time confirmed the existence of orbital weapons, but has not divulged details of their capabilities or whether they have been integrated with Space Force’s growing arsenal of AI systems
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24 Sep 2026
Interview: Frank Karlitschek is David to Microsoft’s Goliath
With 170 employees and European Commission endorsement, Nextcloud’s founder is building Europe’s open source answer to Microsoft 365
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24 Sep 2026
Netherlands designs sovereign cloud but concedes hardware dependency
A draft architecture published under the Dutch Digitalisation Strategy spells out what full software sovereignty requires and why full hardware sovereignty remains out of reach
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24 Sep 2026
Sea doubles down on full-stack AI with Nvidia Vera Rubin
The Singapore-founded company, set to be Southeast Asia’s first enterprise to adopt Nvidia’s latest AI platform, runs its own datacentre infrastructure and models while equipping frontline teams with tools to build AI agents
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23 Sep 2026
Phoenix47 grows as it plugs the channel’s services gap
Firm shares update on progress as it expands geographically and invests in its ability to support partners and customers
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23 Sep 2026
Informatica wants AI agents to stop making up the numbers
Informatica, owned by Salesforce, is making its catalogue metadata machine-readable, and adding trust indicators to answers in Claude so customers can see where a figure comes from before they act on it
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22 Sep 2026
Data dive: Mapping UK police forces’ hyperscale dependence
Computer Weekly used public DNS records to map which outside companies Britain’s 48 police forces connect to – and found a service that has quietly standardised on one US hyperscaler
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22 Sep 2026
Cisco: Partners can fill AI security capability gap
Vendor shares research indicating the areas where the channel can assist users with AI, as ISACA research warns that customers are struggling
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22 Sep 2026
NTU uses AI agents to uncover flaws in mobile networks
Nanyang Technological University’s agentic AI tool checks mobile core network code against 3GPP specifications and has found 84 vulnerabilities, including one that lets an attacker hijack a subscriber’s internet session
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21 Sep 2026
IBM enabling partners to deliver a consultative sell
Vendor increases investment in education to arm partners with the tools to deliver AI guidance to users
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21 Sep 2026
Barnet council bringing Capita IT work in-house after alternative contract ‘abandoned’
London Borough of Barnet’s extended IT service contract with Capita finally comes to an end
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21 Sep 2026
Bumrungrad turns to AI agents to clear patient email backlog
Bumrungrad International Hospital is using Salesforce’s Agentforce to summarise and route patient correspondence, with automated appointment booking and voice agents on the cards
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18 Sep 2026
Data dive: London and M4 the datacentre hotspot, but not for long
A fresh count of the UK’s existing datacentres finds 1.6GW, mostly in London and the M4, while a projected 14.6GW heads north to get on the grid
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18 Sep 2026
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at GTIA, Arrow, Bechtle, Westcon-Comstor and Inforcer
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18 Sep 2026
Softcat makes $1bn move for GDT
Acquisition of US business seen as delivering a host of benefits that will bring more growth options for the channel platter
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17 Sep 2026
Trustmarque Ultima ushers in TMU brand
Business unveils fresh look as it continues to integrate businesses that came together in a merger 10 months ago
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17 Sep 2026
Bytes talks of continued strong demand
Channel player shares trading update and indicates customers are continuing to invest in technology and services
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17 Sep 2026
MSPs reject datacentre moratorium but pause planning decisions
Government pledges planning guidance by Christmas and environmental impact assessments for schemes of more than 50MW, with Scotland’s committed pipeline at 14 schemes and 2.4GW
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17 Sep 2026
TechUK calls for 10-year digital infrastructure strategy
UK tech association warns that the country’s economic growth, productivity and national resilience depend on urgent action to strengthen its digital infrastructure foundations
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16 Sep 2026
Salesforce wants ASEAN customers to stop thinking in tokens
The region’s customers have stopped bankrolling open-ended AI pilots, and Salesforce is responding with action-based pricing, forward-deployed engineers and tools that hand simple tasks to cheaper models
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16 Sep 2026
Anthropic picks Singapore for fifth APAC office
The Claude developer has hired a former Google Cloud executive to run its ASEAN business, days after CEO Dario Amodei called on the AI industry to slow down
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15 Sep 2026
Capita doesn’t get to ‘walk away from’ civil service pension mess, says minister
UK government minister tells a packed-out Westminster debate that Capita must sort out Civil Service Pension Scheme problems before any decision on future of scheme
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15 Sep 2026
Splunk Conf 26: Splunk hopes to build confidence in agentic AI
With trust in AI agents close to rock bottom in the popular imagination, Splunk and Cisco unveiled a series of platform enhancements designed to enhance observability and confidence in agentic AI
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15 Sep 2026
Spor extends workplace proposition with Squaredot buy
Addition of design business will add depth to the solution the firm can pitch to customers
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15 Sep 2026
Salesforce puts Claude and Slack in front of its CRM
CRM giant productises the plumbing that lets its own and third-party AI agents operate on the Salesforce platform, and reveals Koa, a reasoning model built with Nvidia
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15 Sep 2026
Data dive: The revolving door between Whitehall and big tech
A Computer Weekly data analysis reveals a steady revolving door between Whitehall and major technology suppliers, mapping 63 moves by senior officials to AI and IT suppliers since 2010
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11 Sep 2026
US lawmakers call for UK court to lift secrecy over Apple ‘backdoor’ surveillance
Congress warns that the UK’s unprecedented secrecy over a ‘backdoor’ surveillance order against Apple is straining relations between the two countries
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11 Sep 2026
Civil service union welcomes pension scheme insourcing plan
PCS union chief met Cabinet Office minister to discuss troubled pension scheme run by Capita
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11 Sep 2026
AWS AI Symposium: Public sector must shape AI, use open source
As frontier models outpace cyber defences, two public sector voices set out different answers to the same security question – transparency and procurement leverage
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11 Sep 2026
Customers need to be guided through AI journey
The decision by Advania to bet big on AI and increase the support it can provide underlines the need for hand-holding if adoption dreams are going to become reality
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10 Sep 2026
Inside Google AI worker’s union drive to instil company ethics
‘Google is in the military kill chain’: Google DeepMind’s AI workers are attempting to unionise over ethical concerns around the provision of cloud and AI technologies to the US and Israeli militaries, but the company is pushing back
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10 Sep 2026
AWS AI Symposium: TeenTech alumni call for AI literacy in schools
Maggie Philbin charity urges public sector leaders to mentor and sponsor, as students demand education reform, soft-skill extracurriculars and a ‘mission in AI literacy’
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10 Sep 2026
Nationwide consolidates 19 data stores to one in the cloud
Building society creates a single company-wide data platform using Microsoft cloud technology
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10 Sep 2026
AWS AI Symposium: UHCW adds an operation a day with AI
UHCW added daily theatre capacity and got correct utilisation data using Proximie’s AI as part of what partners describe as the NHS’s largest surgical AI deployment
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10 Sep 2026
AWS AI Symposium: Public sector must move to full AI transformation
AWS says public sector AI adoption must move to ‘full transformation’ as it shows advanced workflow redesign yields 68% efficiency gains at its London symposium
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10 Sep 2026
Capita meeting self-imposed civil service pension targets ‘not sufficient’, says government
UK government views the outsourcer’s overall performance as ‘unacceptable’ after it reports meeting a self-imposed target
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10 Sep 2026
Qualcomm and Amazon team for next-gen AI datacentre infrastructure
Leading mobile platform provider collaborates with cloud giant across optical connectivity and customised silicon to support artificial intelligence infrastructure within datacentre networks
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09 Sep 2026
Dell touts platform play as AI demand goes beyond cloud suppliers
Enterprises and sovereign buyers are accounting for a growing share of Dell’s AI infrastructure business, and its chief strategy officer has some advice for buyers still waiting for the market to settle
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09 Sep 2026
Zayo advances network as a service with agentic networking
Digital network infrastructure provider claims first production Model Context Protocol server built specifically for networking
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08 Sep 2026
Patch Tuesday: Microsoft updates address almost 1,000 flaws
Microsoft has released another record-breaking Patch Tuesday update with almost 1,000 flaws in scope
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08 Sep 2026
UK committed datacentre pipeline grows to more than 14GW
Barbour ABI data show UK’s datacentre pipeline has grown to 173 projects and more than 14GW of capacity, driven by AI demand and large sites in Scotland and the North East
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08 Sep 2026
Computacenter delivers record-breaking H1
Channel player experiences growth across its offerings, as well as geographically in the first half
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08 Sep 2026
Interview: Huawei targets Saudi Arabia’s shift from AI experimentation to enterprise-scale adoption
As enterprises move beyond artificial intelligence pilots, Huawei is positioning its cloud, computing and partner ecosystem to help organisations build scalable AI platforms while maintaining control over data, models and infrastructure
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08 Sep 2026
Lendi Group taps agent swarm to reshape mortgage broking
The Australian mortgage group has built its own orchestration platform to run the specialised agents that now guide customers through the early stages of a loan application
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08 Sep 2026
Citi pulls data out of regional silos to pave the way for AI
The bank’s wealth arm has spent 18 months moving client and market data off five regional datacentres and onto one cloud platform, cutting reporting times from weeks to days
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07 Sep 2026
Advania welcomes fresh UK CEO
After a search that has lasted almost seven months, the channel player has settled on its preferred candidate to run the UK business
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04 Sep 2026
Data dive: Mapping NHS hyperscaler dependence
Mapping NHS DNS data reveals a heavy reliance on US hyperscalers, with Microsoft 365 routing email and infrastructure for the vast majority of trusts in a tangled web of connections
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04 Sep 2026
Billion-dollar AWS financial services investment builds on a decade of work
The US tech giant committed to the financial services sector a decade ago, which has seen its offering develop alongside the industry
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03 Sep 2026
Interview: Oracle accelerates Middle East cloud expansion as demand for sovereign AI rises
The company is expanding its regional cloud footprint, growing sovereign cloud deployments and investing in AI skills development as governments and enterprises seek control over data, compliance and artificial intelligence
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03 Sep 2026
CDW expands AI expertise
Distributor acquires more data and analytics expertise, while Genesys shares a momentum update on the positive impact of demand for AI tools