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23 Sep 2026
Hardcoded credentials in public MCP files open door to cyberattacks
New research reveals thousands of public Model Context Protocol files leak non-expiring credentials on GitHub -- leaving corporate data, private networks and costly AI token pools open to exploitation.
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23 Sep 2026
OpenAI takes AI price war to next level with GPT-6 Sol, Luna pricing
The vendor is reacting to U.S. rivals Google and Anthropic, as well as the growing popularity of open source models.
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23 Sep 2026
Gartner sees CIOs becoming AI 'evidence custodians'
A conventional log may not be enough. CIOs could need end-to-end evidence showing what AI did, why it was allowed and what changed as a result.
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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
With new context engine, Teradata aims to be an AI colleague
Teradata is introducing features that advance Tera beyond a natural-language interface, including vendor-neutral capabilities that work across existing data environments.
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22 Sep 2026
UK government defends ‘fundamentally flawed’ eVisa system
The government has rejected a suggestion from the Commons Home Affairs Committee that the electronic visa system should move to a more stable, token-based process, rather than the current error-prone system that relies on real-time database checks
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22 Sep 2026
Streamhouse: A new way to serve AI with real-time context
A group of vendors is joining forces to define an architecture for fueling AI with real-time context to aid enterprises struggling to feed agents the streaming data they need.
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22 Sep 2026
The Middle East’s AI race has a people problem
Middle East firms are quickly snapping up AI hardware, but finding the right people to put it to work effectively in everyday operations is proving a lot more difficult
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21 Sep 2026
Evolving Tableau touts tools to fuel AI-powered analytics
Proactive BI and a natural language-powered app development tool show progress toward an AI-powered platform, while tight integration with Salesforce provides differentiation.
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18 Sep 2026
Interview: François-Xavier Pierrel, chief data officer, TF1
As the French broadcaster looks to compete in a streaming-led world, its data strategy and use of AI agents will be fundamental to transforming the business
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17 Sep 2026
Interview: Stephen Wood, chief operating officer, Rathbones Asset Management
Data is so important for the financial services firm that its COO leads the strategy – and it’s enabling them to forge ahead with AI and agentic technologies
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17 Sep 2026
New features position Alation's AIOS as AI management layer
Lineage tracing in AI Governance and governed access to unstructured data advance the platform and keep the vendor in step with what competitors are offering.
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17 Sep 2026
New features position Alation's AIOS as AI management layer
Lineage tracing in AI Governance and governed access to unstructured data advance the platform and keep the vendor in step with what competitors are offering.
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16 Sep 2026
Dreamforce 2026: Marc Benioff beats customer data drum for business AI use
Salesforce launches AIforce, an artificial intelligence management layer for its CRM, integrating Anthropic’s Claude, focused on unlocking business value from ‘trapped data’
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16 Sep 2026
Neo4j intros graph-based suite for fighting financial crime
The vendor is adding tooling from its GraphAware acquisition to go beyond fraud detection and differentiate itself from those providing only part of the crime-stopping ecosystem.
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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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11 Sep 2026
Lakebase: Another vendor buzzword or a useful new technology?
Two vendors now offer lakebase platforms that blend data lakes and databases. Like the data lakehouse, it's a buzzy-sounding mashup with mainstream potential.
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11 Sep 2026
Eurocontrol extends critical European aviation network
UK’s leading comms provider extends its contract with European air traffic management firm to continue supporting and delivering resilient network services through to 2033
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11 Sep 2026
UK government to create team to validate Capita’s data on troubled pension scheme
Cabinet Office is setting up a function to check the civil service pension scheme data provided by Capita
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11 Sep 2026
Alteryx evolving to become connective tissue for AI
New features such as an MCP server and a studio for transforming datasets into agents aid the vendor's transformation and help distinguish itself from competing providers.
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10 Sep 2026
ANZ firms put data foundations before agentic AI
At Boomi World Tour Sydney, Brickworks, Bakers Delight and Cochlear explain how they are shoring up the integration, data and governance foundations that AI agents depend on
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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
IBM and NASA make Moon AI model available on Hugging Face
The foundation mdel can help scientists analyse petabytes of data collected over decades
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10 Sep 2026
Cloudera partners with Mistral to bring AI to users' data
The integration enables Cloudera customers to keep data secure when building and deploying agents and helps differentiate the vendor from some of its competitors.
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10 Sep 2026
Databricks launches model to boost data retrieval for AI
Adding sequential search to improve the speed and accuracy of responses to complex queries evolves existing capabilities and keeps Databricks in step with competitors.
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09 Sep 2026
Interview: Workday’s Joel Hellermark on making everyone a Leonardo
Joel Hellermark, chief AI officer at Workday, argues that artificial intelligence and large language models will transform enterprise work, building company memory through agents, empowering humans and increasing their value
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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
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
Interview: The tech stack helping ‘q-commerce’ scale at Tesco
Computer Weekly gets the lowdown on the tech stack supporting one of Tesco’s fastest-growing business areas from the man overseeing digital customer experience for grocery home shopping at the UK’s largest retailer
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02 Sep 2026
Boomi intros layer for controlling AI costs and connections
The Agent Control Plane combines previously disparate capabilities in one environment to help users better observe and command their fleets of agents.
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01 Sep 2026
Qdrant builds dataset to benchmark vector retrieval at scale
With AI tools requiring massive volumes of vectors to perform properly, the public dataset is designed to help organizations test their systems in real-world conditions.
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01 Sep 2026
Interview: Haleon’s tech chief delighted for AI agents to feed SAP ‘clean core’
Haleon, formed from the consumer health units of GSK, Pfizer and Novartis, makes familiar brands like Sensodyne and Advil. Its chief digital and technology officer, Claire Dickson, tells its IT transformation story
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01 Sep 2026
Snowflake: dashboard-era access controls won’t govern AI agents
The company’s chief data and AI officer talks up efforts to move access controls into the data layer, the cost of dynamic model routing and why governance cannot be baked into model weights
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31 Aug 2026
As AI evolves, Tableau talks direction ahead of Dreamforce
A knowledge layer and headless analytics capabilities show that the vendor is changing to meet the needs of its users as AI reduces the need for traditional BI.
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27 Aug 2026
Meta pays $18bn to settle US child safety lawsuit
As part of a legal settlement over its child safety measures, Meta will have to pay $18bn over a 10-year period, and implement a number of changes to its Facebook and Instagram platforms
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25 Aug 2026
Advania increases support to turn user AI dreams into reality
Channel player introduces service that delivers a secure and sovereign environment users can plan and deploy through
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25 Aug 2026
Argentina’s ‘techno-authoritarian’ turn expands state spying
The first two years of Javier Milei’s administration has served to expand surveillance capabilities, leading to profiling and reprisals across the country, and limiting rights to privacy and freedom of expression
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20 Aug 2026
Cloudera unveils Anywhere Cloud as enterprises pull AI back on-premises
The modular platform lets enterprises run data and AI services across public clouds, private datacentres and air-gapped sites, with early adopter ExxonMobil getting it up and running in just over an hour
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20 Aug 2026
PoliceAI outlines plans to test and assure AI for policing
Computer Weekly speaks with PoliceAI – a national body set up to build, test and assure artificial intelligence models for policing contexts – about how it plans to approach the development and implementation of automated policing tools
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19 Aug 2026
Data observability specialist Bigeye puts focus on AI spend
With agentic AI costing more than many organizations expected, the data observability specialist's latest alerts users when the expense of an agent suddenly changes.
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18 Aug 2026
Snowflake targets cost of AI with dynamic model routing
With spending on AI spiraling out of control for many organizations, the vendor's latest new feature automates model selection to balance cost and performance.
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17 Aug 2026
Natural History Museum’s ‘living laboratory’ logs 11 million environmental records in first year
More than 50 sensors feed temperature, humidity and acoustic readings into the Museum’s AWS Data Ecosystem, which found woodland soils stayed 10°C cooler in June’s heatwave
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16 Aug 2026
ACE Robotics takes aim at embodied AI’s data problem
The SenseTime-backed firm is pairing wearable data capture with an on-device world model to address the challenges holding back the wider use of robots in the enterprise
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14 Aug 2026
IPO inevitable for Databricks after adding $5B in funding
Experts note that the benefits of going public ultimately outweigh those of staying private, even with the vendor seemingly able to raise unlimited financing.
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13 Aug 2026
What AI-native analytics startups offer that BI vendors don't
Traditional BI vendors face challenges as they try to transition into the AI era -- and now they're being targeted by AI-native startups unencumbered by legacy software.
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13 Aug 2026
Databricks' Electric acquisition adds embeddable PostgreSQL
Flush with funding, the data management and AI vendor continues to make purchases that add capabilities aimed at aiding users building and deploying agents.
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13 Aug 2026
MongoDB intros latest features to fuel AI development
Unifying frequently disparate capabilities such as vector embedding, data retrieval and agent workflows helps distinguish the vendor amid a crowded field of data and AI providers.
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13 Aug 2026
Rimini Street bids to broaden CIO appeal with agentic AI move
Rimini Street made its name in third-party enterprise software maintenance but says it is now branching out to attract IT leaders bewildered by complexity
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13 Aug 2026
Middle East AI scaling: Five mistakes organisations must avoid
As AI investment surges across the UAE and Saudi Arabia, data readiness is emerging as the defining factor between successful enterprise adoption and stalled deployments
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13 Aug 2026
Ryanair signs five-year Google Cloud AI partnership
Ryanair adds Google Cloud to existing AWS estate, to deploy Gemini Enterprise and DeepMind models to 35,000 staff for crew scheduling and operational decision-making
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13 Aug 2026
At least six police forces have racked up contracts with Palantir worth £7.8m
A joint investigation by Computer Weekly and Good Law Project reveals six police forces have used Palantir’s data analytics software, while several other forces are believed to have access through regional taskforces
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12 Aug 2026
Ant Group debuts physician platform to support patient care
The AQ for Doctor platform is integrated with a patient-facing app to help doctors conduct online consultations, manage patient records and support clinical decision-making
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12 Aug 2026
Dubai ranks second globally in AI adoption as investment in digital infrastructure accelerates
BCG’s Intelligent Cities Index highlights how the emirate is translating artificial intelligence ambitions into large-scale deployment, supported by investments in datacentres, sovereign AI initiatives and digital infrastructure
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12 Aug 2026
Sovereignty beyond residency: Why Gulf governments must rethink AI control
Vast Data’s Haider Aziz argues that auditability, portability and governance will determine the success of sovereign artificial intelligence initiatives across the Middle East
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11 Aug 2026
Why the next AI race will be won at the inference layer
Growing adoption of agentic AI is exposing the limitations of single-stack infrastructure, prompting enterprises to rethink how models, hardware and sovereignty are managed
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05 Aug 2026
Munich Airport marshalls digital twin to improve operations
Munich Airport turns to Celonis process mining software to optimise operations and passenger experience through real-time digital twins, focusing on baggage handling efficiency
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05 Aug 2026
ECI snaps up Prima
ERP specialist acquired as Tracxn Technologies shines a light on the general state of European technology investments
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29 Jul 2026
OCBC taps agentic AI to cut private banking onboarding time
The bank’s Helios platform front-loads compliance checks to reduce account opening times and turn its compliance function into a source of quality leads for its private banking business
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29 Jul 2026
Nimble launches agents to cull relevant web data for AI
The vendor's Web Search Agents autonomously learn domain-specific use cases to help enterprises collect contextually relevant information for AI and analytics.
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29 Jul 2026
Potential consequences are severe when AI agents lack context
When connected with relevant context, agents can increase organizational efficiency and reduce spending. When left to guess, they can cause significant harm.
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29 Jul 2026
Interview: Fabrizio Pilotti, CIO, Aston Martin Formula One
Managing IT for a Formula One racing team is almost as much of a high-speed experience as the cars themselves – and tech is becoming more and more embedded into the sport
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29 Jul 2026
NUS builds AI assistant to ease research process
AI Sense Maker draws on 150,000 NUS research papers and digitised Southeast Asian materials to help students and researchers generate insights from trusted sources
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28 Jul 2026
Inside police plans to share intelligence and crime data across the UK
Computer Weekly examines how UK police will use Palantir’s AI tools to dramatically increase intelligence sharing between forces, enabling investigators to analyse mobile phone data and sensitive information at scale
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28 Jul 2026
Data management vendors race to connect AI with context
With agents requiring situational awareness to be accurate, connecting AI with relevant data and business logic has been an almost singular focus throughout 2026.
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27 Jul 2026
Context is king as agents evolve, but problems persist
Awareness enabled by appropriate data and business logic is one of the differences between agentic applications that properly perform and those that never reach production.
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23 Jul 2026
New Oracle AI database targets cost, data residency concerns
The tech giant's latest offering is a scaled-down version of its Exadata platform and helps differentiate its lineup of databases from those of competing providers.
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23 Jul 2026
Domo acquired for $400M, sells to Progress Software
Amid slow growth and a sliding stock price, the analytics provider is the latest specialist to join forces with a larger enterprise rather than remain independent.
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20 Jul 2026
Zilliz ups vector search results with Milvus database update
Native access to data lakes and a new data retrieval engine highlight the latest release as the vendor competes for market share amid a crowded field.
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20 Jul 2026
Burnham government to drop digital ID and tech department
Controversial ID Scheme and government technology department to be tossed on scrap heap as new prime minister enters 10 Downing Street
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20 Jul 2026
Singapore spells out how personal data can be used in GenAI
Advisory guidelines clarifying when organisations can scrape and reuse personal data to build GenAI models are among a raft of announcements at the inaugural Singapore Data Festival
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15 Jul 2026
Regatta Data launches unified base for AI with RegattaDB
The database vendor is entering a crowded market with the launch of a database purpose-built for agents by unifying disparate data workloads.
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14 Jul 2026
Alation launches OS for building, governing AI agents
While not the first AI governance suite, the vendor's Intelligence Operating System is somewhat unique by unifying data, context and agents in one environment.
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14 Jul 2026
Couchbase eyes APAC growth as enterprises confront data problem
Having been taken private by private equity firm Haveli Investments, the NoSQL database supplier is pitching its newly launched AI data plane as the fix for the fragmented data layers
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09 Jul 2026
NCS: Chinese open AI models gaining ground in Singapore
As American and Chinese AI worlds pull apart, the Singtel unit is courting both by putting OpenAI and Alibaba engineers on the same stage and folding Chinese models into its own products
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07 Jul 2026
Singapore Changi Airport’s 10-second border points to aviation’s AI future
As passenger volume heads towards 10 billion a year, airlines, airports and governments are leaning on AI, biometrics and real-time data to keep travellers moving
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03 Jul 2026
Interview: Oracle NetSuite’s Evan Goldberg – SaaSpocalypse averted
The executive vice-president of Oracle NetSuite discusses the evolution of AI in SaaS ERP, countering any SaaSpocalypse narrative, citing an ecosystem knowledge edge
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03 Jul 2026
SAESL turbocharges aircraft engine maintenance with data and AI
The world’s largest supplier of Rolls-Royce engine maintenance services is working with Kyndryl to modernise its IT infrastructure, build a single source of truth for data, and scale up the use of AI across its business
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02 Jul 2026
UKtech50 2026: The most influential people in UK technology
Computer Weekly has announced the 16th annual UKtech50 – our definitive list of the movers and shakers in the UK tech sector
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02 Jul 2026
Qlik launches data engineering tools to aid AI development
New capabilities, such as data quality agents and a feature that makes data products more reusable, support engineers to help organizations more easily achieve their AI goals.
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01 Jul 2026
Self-harm and cyberflashing added to online safety offences list
The Online Safety Act has been updated to include ‘self-harm’ and ‘cyberflashing’ as ‘priority offences’, meaning online service providers will need to update their risk assessments of both categories
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01 Jul 2026
OCBC rolls out AI avatars for wealth management
OCBC’s AI-native mobile app will serve as a digital financial companion for wealth customers as the Singapore bank commits over S$1bn a year to shore up its digital infrastructure and AI capabilities
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30 Jun 2026
Couchbase evolution continues with new data layer for AI
New capabilities including Agent Memory and extension to edge devices help the vendor compete for market share as it grows beyond its database roots.
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30 Jun 2026
Gartner declares ‘agentic AI’ the next step function
AI agents will transform complex data management, optimise cloud costs and overcome the limitations of standalone generative AI, according to Gartner
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30 Jun 2026
Latest MongoDB tools tackle top AI development hurdles
New capabilities address the data retrieval accuracy and regulatory compliance issues that often stall initiatives, and could help distinguish the vendor from competitors.
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26 Jun 2026
Komprise adds Iceberg for unstructured data management
Data storage vendor Komprise integrates Apache Iceberg to help enterprises analyze unstructured data without incurring data movement costs, addressing AI readiness.
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26 Jun 2026
Met Palantir pilot: The DPIA that raises more questions than answers
We examine the Data Protection Impact Assessment for the Metropolitan Police’s Palantir Foundry pilot, and the governance gaps it exposes around surveillance, transparency and staff consultation
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26 Jun 2026
Metropolitan Police chief warns against law updates amid substantial tech expansion
The Metropolitan Police is to significantly expand use of AI, drones and facial recognition to ‘regain the advantage’ over criminals, but warns progress could be held back by legislation and data integration issues
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25 Jun 2026
Tableau, Qlik in flux: What it means for BI users amid AI shift
Ongoing transitions at Tableau and Qlik highlight how the rise of AI-driven analytics is changing the roles and technology needs of data analysts -- and the BI market.
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25 Jun 2026
EU proposes tech-backed expansion of Europol policing agency
Enhanced powers to collect and share data are at the heart of EU plans to expand Europol, putting it at loggerheads with human rights groups
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24 Jun 2026
Agents are altering data security needs, Oracle responds
Traditional strategies that protect infrastructure systems are not enough with agents autonomously accessing data and threat actors using AI to discover new vulnerabilities.
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24 Jun 2026
Digital surveillance tech facilitates ‘arbitrary’ border abuses
Outsourcing migration processes to third countries via the transfer of powerful digital surveillance technologies is entrenching an ‘arbitrary and deterrent’ approach to border management that is hard to scrutinise and ultimately undermines the human rights of migrants
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24 Jun 2026
Met pushes ahead with major facial-recognition expansion
Metropolitan Police set to roll out live facial recognition (LFR) in the West End and Soho, but critics say police are ‘rushing ahead’ without regulation
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24 Jun 2026
CFIT is ‘shaking up business models’ with UK government backing
The Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology received further government backing in April
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23 Jun 2026
CData aims to simplify AI development with latest features
New capabilities that reduce data integration tasks and connect data with AI aid developers while helping the vendor carve out a niche amid a competitive landscape.
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23 Jun 2026
Latest EnterpriseDB features unify data for AI development
New capabilities address the data sprawl that sometimes stops enterprises from successfully building agents and could help differentiate the vendor from competitors.
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23 Jun 2026
Roundtable: UK tech chiefs on agentic AI, workforce culture and tokenomics
Tech leaders from THG Ingenuity, Kingfisher, Rightmove and Deloitte speak at the Google Summit London about the transition to agentic systems and the rising focus on token costs
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23 Jun 2026
Google’s Andi Gutmans on the shift to agent-scale data management
We talk to PHP pioneer and Google agentic data cloud vice-president about ensuring agentic quality, including having agents voting against each other, and the risk of LLM lock-in
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19 Jun 2026
Civil society: Police facial recognition must be strictly limited
Digital rights groups map out ‘minimum, necessary’ human rights protections to be included in UK government’s upcoming legal framework for police facial recognition
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19 Jun 2026
Chilling effects of surveillance threaten democracy, UN finds
United Nations study finds the chilling effects of pervasive digital surveillance in modern life undermines an entire web of interconnected and interdependent human rights, representing a systemic threat to democratic norms and political participation
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19 Jun 2026
Google Cloud boosts for enterprise agentic at London Summit
Hyperscaler prioritises process automation in UK showcase, with frontier models, agent platforms and development tools to the fore, with customers such as Unilever in the spotlight
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18 Jun 2026
Everpure grows into data management with Data Intelligence update
Everpure is shifting its strategy to become more data-centric, releasing new tools and features to better meet the data needs of AI workloads.
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18 Jun 2026
US suspension of Anthropic models prompts AI sovereignty calls
The US government’s control order to suspend access to Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models raises concerns about the UK’s over-reliance on American tech
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18 Jun 2026
Interview: Emmanuel Frenehard, chief digital officer, Sanofi
Leading technology in a quest to find life-changing answers to challenging scientific questions brings an extra level of motivation for the pharma giant’s digital chief
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18 Jun 2026
Gulf CIOs shift focus from recovery to cyber resilience as regional threats intensify
Commvault’s Yahya Kassab says organisations across the Gulf are reassessing recovery strategies, AI risks and cloud investments amid growing cyber threats