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20 Mar 2026
News brief: Stryker recovering after large-scale cyberattack
Check 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
Dell 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
With 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
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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19 Mar 2026
UK government puts brakes on opt-out copyright exemption for AI
The UK government has ruled out forcing creatives to opt out of their intellectual property being used by artificial intelligence developers as its preferred solution to the AI-copyright controversy, but may still implement copyright exemptions later
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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Regulation has superseded cyber threats as the main driver of cyber security spending, and AI has made its debut for attack and defence, according to a CNI-focused report from Bridewell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
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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18 Mar 2026
UK MoD awards more than two dozen contracts for AI targeting systems
The UK Ministry of Defence is ramping up its investment into military artificial intelligence in a bid to increase the ‘lethality’ of the British armed forces
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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
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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16 Mar 2026
Revealed: How HMRC has been quietly building surveillance capabilities
HMRC has bought phone scanning equipment and analysis software capable of extracting data from mobile devices as it steps up its electronic intelligence gathering capabilities, an investigation by Computer Weekly reveals
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16 Mar 2026
Revealed: How HMRC has been quietly building surveillance capabilities
HMRC has bought phone scanning equipment and analysis software capable of extracting data from mobile devices as it steps up its electronic intelligence gathering capabilities, an investigation by Computer Weekly reveals
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12 Mar 2026
Why real-time data is key for enterprise AI
Moving 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
UK government ‘flying blind’ with poor data in charting regional growth
The 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
Qdrant raises $50M in funding to fuel vector database growth
With VCs cautious about investing in data management providers, the financing, which will be used for R&D and go-to-market initiatives, serves as validation of the vendor's vision.
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12 Mar 2026
GoodData's Context Management aims to make AI trustworthy
The new context layer includes semantic modeling and governance to make data consistent and discoverable for AI and could help the vendor distinguish itself from some competitors.
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11 Mar 2026
Child rapist could have profiled victims through unaudited access to NHS databases
NHS analyst’s conviction for child sexual abuse offences raises concerns over unaudited access to patient data
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10 Mar 2026
Met Police to ‘trial’ handheld facial recognition tech
London Mayor Sadiq Khan reveals in a scrutiny session with London Assembly members that the Met is set to trial a facial recognition phone app for police officers
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10 Mar 2026
AI chooses nuclear escalation in 95% of simulated crises
With artificial intelligence increasingly deployed in analysis and decision-making in armed conflict, research shows AI systems will not naturally default to ‘safe’ outcomes in nuclear crises
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09 Mar 2026
Alation automates governance with latest AI-powered suite
Outcome-based governance, including the newly launched Curation Automation, turns time-consuming data management tasks over to agents and could be a differentiator for the vendor.
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09 Mar 2026
Teradata updates vector indexing suite to aid AI development
New capabilities including hybrid search and support for multi-modal embeddings are aimed at helping users access the data needed by agents and other cutting-edge applications.
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09 Mar 2026
CData targets development success with Connect AI update
The vendor's latest launch takes a three-pronged approach toward helping users move pilots into production and could be a competitive differentiator if it delivers on its promise.
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06 Mar 2026
House of Lords urges UK government to protect IP against AI misuse
Machine-readable indelible watermarking in content supply chain is among proposals that could protect copyrighted content
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05 Mar 2026
Biomemory's Catalog buy speeds DNA data storage development
Biomemory's acquisition of Catalog Technologies gives it key patents and infrastructure. Will it be enough to make DNA data storage commercially viable for enterprises?
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04 Mar 2026
Insightsoftware unifies semantic layer, governance to aid AI
With many enterprises struggling to develop AI tools, the vendor's Simba Intelligence feature set is designed to feed agents and other applications trustworthy, transparent data.
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04 Mar 2026
Landmark legal challenge against Home Office eVisa system heard
The UK High Court will examine whether the Home Office policy of refusing to issue alternative proof of immigration status outside of its electronic visa system is lawful
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03 Mar 2026
Scattered data, cloud transfers creating challenges in enterprise AI
The 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
Synaxon boss charts path to increased growth
After 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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26 Feb 2026
India AI Impact Summit: Open source gains ground, but sovereignty tensions persist
While 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
Confluent adds A2A support to fuel multi-agent AI networks
Including the open protocol enables users to build an orchestrated network of collaborative agents and could help the vendor distinguish itself from its closest competitors.
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26 Feb 2026
Yellowfin boosts analytics suite with new NLQ capabilities
The vendor's latest update adds features that bring it more in line with competitors that have been faster to move beyond traditional BI to power their platforms with AI.
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26 Feb 2026
US artificial intelligence developers accuse Chinese firms of stealing their data
Artificial 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
The UK’s proposed social media ban explained
The 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
RWS Global deploys Box’s AI tools to streamline contract workflow
Box Enterprise Advanced is being used to cut contract processing time from 20 minutes down to two
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24 Feb 2026
Web data search specialist Nimble raises $47M to fuel growth
By raising funding when AI developers are dominating VC interest, the startup shows that there is a need for agents and other AI tools to include context from external sources.
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23 Feb 2026
New Databricks tool targets streaming data cost, complexity
With Zerobus Ingest, the vendor is providing a service that differentiates it from competitors by reducing the tools required to ingest real-time data to its lakehouse platform.
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19 Feb 2026
India AI Impact Summit begins
The 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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18 Feb 2026
ThoughtSpot boosts agentic push with Analyst Studio update
A data prep agent and caching capabilities aimed at helping users control spending help the vendor stand out from its peers as it evolves toward becoming an agentic data platform.
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18 Feb 2026
Streaming specialist Redpanda adds governance to AI suite
New Agentic Data Plane features enable users to create a governance layer for agents and could help the vendor differentiate itself from its closest competitors.
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17 Feb 2026
Graphwise aims to boost AI accuracy with GraphRAG launch
With standard RAG pipelines proving unreliable, the vendor's new feature uses knowledge graphs to add needed context to the data retrieval process that fuels AI outputs.
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17 Feb 2026
SurrealDB raises $23M, launches update to fuel agentic AI
Though funding isn't flowing as freely into data management as it once was, the startup is attracting interest by focusing on enabling customers to unify data for AI development.
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17 Feb 2026
Government wages cyber campaign as half the UK’s SMEs are breached
UK government says half of all small businesses have been cyber breached in the recent past as it urges them to ‘lock the door’
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17 Feb 2026
British Transport Police start using live facial recognition
British Transport Police will deploy facial recognition for six months despite calls for the government to halt its rapid expansion of the technology
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16 Feb 2026
Pascal Brier, Capgemini: AI will prove its enterprise truth this year
Capgemini’s chief innovation officer says the 2025 rise and deployment of artificial intelligence agents put enterprise AI progress on hold, but laid the ground for acceleration to come
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15 Feb 2026
Wesfarmers to deploy agentic AI in retail operations
Retail conglomerate behind Kmart and Officeworks signs multi-year deal with Google Cloud to deploy AI agents for customer service and internal productivity
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12 Feb 2026
Large language models provide unreliable answers about public services, Open Data Institute finds
Research questions AI’s trustworthiness in giving people accurate information about government services
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11 Feb 2026
London Assembly member: Police should halt facial-recognition technology use
In lieu of a full-blown ban on the technology, Green London Assembly member Zoë Garbett has called for a number of new safeguards to be implemented that she feels would protect Londoners from ‘escalating’ biometric surveillance
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10 Feb 2026
Apple and Google pledge to improve app fairness
The CMA is seeking views on Apple and Google’s commitments to ensure fair app store practices to stoke the UK’s app economy, fintech and improve developer confidence
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10 Feb 2026
Second ever international AI safety report published
More than 100 artificial intelligence experts have produced the second international AI safety report ahead of a summit in India, outlining a high degree of uncertainty about the development and risks of AI
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10 Feb 2026
Qlik launches agentic experience to fuel AI-powered analysis
The vendor's latest capabilities, including an insight-generating agent and an MCP server, show that it is evolving to keep pace with current trends in data and analytics.
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09 Feb 2026
PII masking a differentiator for Aerospike's NoSQL database
By adding native protection of personally identifiable information, the vendor is simplifying system administration while simultaneously pushing the NoSQL market.
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09 Feb 2026
UAE’s TII challenges big tech dominance with open source Falcon AI models
Through its Falcon models and an open, efficiency-driven research strategy, the Technology Innovation Institute is positioning the UAE as a producer of foundational AI, not merely a consumer of global platforms
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06 Feb 2026
ANZ rolls out AI agents for business bankers
Australian lender claims to be the first in Asia-Pacific to deploy Salesforce Agentforce at scale, following a national roll-out of a CRM platform that consolidates data from different systems to ease administrative toil
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05 Feb 2026
Governance lags agentic AI adoption in the UK, says Salesforce
Salesforce's ‘2026 Connectivity benchmark report’ points to an increase in enterprise agentic AI deployment, but highlights governance gaps and a siloed system that requires better orchestration
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05 Feb 2026
Databricks launches PostgreSQL Lakebase to aid AI developers
Resulting from the $1B acquisition of Neon, the database built for AI workloads -- including separate compute and storage -- is now integrated with the vendor's broader platform.
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05 Feb 2026
DWP rejigs operating model for data transformation by 2030
The Department for Work and Pensions’ 2023-2030 data strategy aims to modernise systems, slash costs by 20%, promote data sharing, and embed a data culture in a hub and spoke model
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04 Feb 2026
LinkedIn touts agentic AI to slash recruitment time
LinkedIn’s head of engineering for talent solutions explains how fine-tuned LLMs and agentic AI architectures are replacing traditional search methods to save recruiters four hours per role
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04 Feb 2026
Pentaho update aids data integration, semantic modeling
The vendor's latest platform update aims to speed, simplify and better govern workloads to help customers build a trusted foundation for AI development.
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03 Feb 2026
Infosecurity Europe launches cyber security startups stream
Infosecurity Europe 2026 will feature a cyber security startup exhibition zone and a competition for business support, in conjunction with the UK Cyber Flywheel organisation
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03 Feb 2026
Kendall names Barnsley as UK’s first tech town
The UK government has named Barnsley as the nation’s first ‘tech town’, with initiatives to boost education, health and local businesses
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03 Feb 2026
Snowflake launches new AI tools, unveils OpenAI partnership
New features such as an agent-powered code generator and automated semantic modeling simplify developing cutting-edge applications and improve the vendor's competitive standing.
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02 Feb 2026
HMRC chooses cloud SAP S/4Hana for tax system overhaul
HM Revenue & Customs is bidding to modernise its tax systems by migrating from ECC6 to SAP’s cloud-based Rise with SAP programme, adopting S/4Hana and AI to enhance efficiency and taxpayer experience
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30 Jan 2026
Home Office announces sweeping police technology plans
The Home Office plans to ramp up its deployment of artificial intelligence and facial-recognition technologies under wide-ranging reforms to UK policing
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30 Jan 2026
South Korea debuts foundation model in sovereign AI push
A consortium led by SK Telecom has built a sovereign AI model designed to reduce reliance on foreign tech, lower costs for local industry and propel South Korea into the top ranks of AI powers
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29 Jan 2026
Metropolitan Police needs effective constraints on live facial recognition use, court hears
The Metropolitan Police has defended its use of live facial recognition against a legal challenge that claims there are no effective constraints on where it can deploy the technology
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29 Jan 2026
SAP overcomes rough start to post 8% growth
SAP reports €36.8bn for 2025, up 8%, despite what CEO Christian Klein called a ‘rough start to the year’ due to geopolitical unrest from tariff conflict between the US and the EU
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28 Jan 2026
Nvidia releases synthetic dataset to support Singapore’s AI ambitions
The AI chip giant has developed a synthetic dataset of personas to help developers build AI models that understand Singapore’s demographic and cultural nuances without using personally identifiable information
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28 Jan 2026
Alteryx launches in-warehouse data prep tool for BigQuery
Live Query for BigQuery eliminates the need to move data between systems, saving customers from spending on data egress and reducing the risk of security leaks.
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28 Jan 2026
Domo adds App Catalyst to platform to aid AI development
By combining natural language code generation with enterprise-grade security and governance, the vendor aims to help customers more successfully build cutting-edge applications.
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28 Jan 2026
Expect to use seven different providers for data management
A poll of data leaders has found that many anticipate using multiple providers to help them achieve their 2026 data management strategy
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27 Jan 2026
Transfer learning and governance help bridge healthcare AI divide
Singapore researchers show how adapting pre-trained AI models can solve data scarcity issues in countries with limited resources. Separately, they have proposed forming an international consortium to build consensus on AI governance in medicine
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27 Jan 2026
UK government’s National Data Library works up steam
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology finishes ‘discovery phase’ of £100m National Data Library programme, including pilot projects
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27 Jan 2026
Teradata's AgentStack aims to simplify building, managing AI
Featuring capabilities for developing, deploying and governing agents, the vendor's new suite addresses many of the problems enterprises face when trying to launch agentic systems.
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27 Jan 2026
New Snowflake suite simplifies data, AI for energy sector
Energy Solutions joins the vendor's spate of industry-specific offerings and includes partner-built applications and pre-modeled datasets that accelerate data-driven initiatives.
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27 Jan 2026
Three-quarters of UK IT teams beset by outages due to missing alerts
Splunk finds 75% of UK IT teams had outages from missed alerts in 2025, driven by alert fatigue and tool sprawl. Collaboration between cyber and observability teams can help
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26 Jan 2026
Spanish court acquits suspects denied access to ‘raw’ Sky ECC intercepts in landmark decision
Prosecutors have been told they cannot rely on intercept evidence from the Sky ECC encrypted phone network in the absence of other evidence, unless they disclose the raw intercept data to defendants in decision that could have a significant impact on future prosecutions
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23 Jan 2026
Ransomware, reputation, risk: Black Hat Europe in review, 2026 in view
Black Hat Europe made clear that cyber security can no longer be separated from politics, economics and behaviour, as ransomware, AI and long-standing security failures combine
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22 Jan 2026
Dell Technologies Forum Dubai highlights AI as the next great economic accelerator
At its flagship regional event, Dell Technologies set out how AI leadership, data readiness and skills development are shaping digital transformation across the UAE and the wider Middle East
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21 Jan 2026
GoodData launches MCP server to fuel AI-powered analysis
By connecting its platform and customers' AI tools, the vendor is enabling users to automate the analytics workflow and speed insight generation.
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21 Jan 2026
Interview: Barry Panayi, group chief data officer, Howden
The fast-growing insurance firm wants data insights and artificial intelligence to give customer-facing employees all the information they need at their fingertips through data-powered conversational interfaces
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21 Jan 2026
AI slop pushes data governance towards zero-trust models
Organisations are implementing zero-trust models for data governance thanks to the proliferation of poor quality AI-generated data, often known as AI slop
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20 Jan 2026
ScyllaDB adds vector search to managed database platform
The feature's direct integration in the X Cloud platform is aimed at simplifying AI development by eliminating the need for customers to add specialized databases.
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20 Jan 2026
Met claims success for permanent facial recognition in Croydon
Met Police boasts that its permanent deployment of live facial recognition cameras in Croydon has led to more than 100 arrests and prompted a double-digit reduction in local crime, ahead of an upcoming judicial review assessing the technology’s lawfulness
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19 Jan 2026
Davos 2026 attendees can navigate event with Salesforce AI ’concierge’
Visitors to the World Economic Forum will be able to use an AI personal assistant, EVA, built by Salesforce on WEF data, to navigate the event and get recommended actions
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19 Jan 2026
UK copyright law unfit for protecting creative workers from AI
As the UK government considers its approach to artificial intelligence and copyright, Computer Weekly explores the dynamics at play in copyright markets, and what measures can be taken to ensure that creatives are protected
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19 Jan 2026
Liverpool FC signs WasabiAiR for fast video tagging and search
Reds can tag video frame-by-frame with AI-based ML-as-a-service to get rapid search and ‘hyper-personalisation’ of footage for fan engagement and partner content
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15 Jan 2026
AI governance provides guardrails for faster innovation
Dataiku’s field chief data officer for Asia-Pacific and Japan discusses how implementing AI governance can accelerate innovation while mitigating the risks of shadow AI
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15 Jan 2026
PSNI resorted to pen and paper after issues with ControlWorks command and control software
Northern Ireland’s Policing Board has asked the Police Service of Northern Ireland for clarification after it emerged the PSNI has not reported IT issues that affected its ability to record reports from the public to the oversight body
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15 Jan 2026
ScyllaDB X Cloud update addresses database cost, performance
Features such as autoscaling and advanced compression are designed to help customers reduce spending on their data management, analytics and AI initiatives.
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15 Jan 2026
MongoDB launches latest Voyage models to aid AI development
With many enterprises struggling to build advanced applications, new embedding and reranking models improve data retrieval to make agents and other tools more effective.
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15 Jan 2026
Zoho opens its first UAE datacentres to boost cloud adoption
New Dubai and Abu Dhabi facilities support data sovereignty, providing CIOs with local access to more than 100 Zoho and ManageEngine cloud services
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13 Jan 2026
Berlin anarchists cite AI in attack on key energy infrastructure
Berlin anarchists have sabotaged key energy infrastructure in the city, claiming it as an act of ‘self-defence’ against the planet’s destruction by ‘energy-guzzling’ technologies and the wider fossil fuel economy that underpins their development
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13 Jan 2026
Sisense targets embedding AI with latest new features
Tools such as an MCP server and a natural language assistant demonstrate the vendor's evolution toward artificial intelligence as the interface for analytics.
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09 Jan 2026
Salesforce advocates AI fluency framework alongside customers
Salesforce has launched an ‘AI fluency playbook’ based on its own workforce’s experience, aimed at guiding customers on AI adoption, stressing what it sees as human-AI synergies
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08 Jan 2026
Snowflake storms into IT monitoring with Observe acquisition
Historically focused on data management and AI development, the vendor is adding infrastructure observability capabilities in a move that could differentiate it from competitors.
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08 Jan 2026
Campaigners urge UK to develop digital sovereignty strategy
UK digital rights campaigners have urged UK parliamentarians to implement a digital sovereignty strategy as part of the forthcoming Cyber Security and Resilience Bill to reduce reliance on technology subject to foreign interference
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08 Jan 2026
New Databricks tool aims to up agentic AI response accuracy
With enterprises struggling to successfully develop agents using traditional RAG pipelines, the vendor's new Instructed Retriever offers an alternative.
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07 Jan 2026
Interview: Diana Schildhouse, chief data and analytics officer, Colgate-Palmolive
The consumer goods giant is taking its advanced analytics approach and adding AI for greater value, but its data leader stresses the importance of getting the data foundations in place first
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07 Jan 2026
Snowflake boosts Google partnership, integrates Gemini 3
By making the tech giant's LLM natively available in Cortex AI, the data cloud vendor is adding yet another significant tool to its evolving development suite.
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07 Jan 2026
PC vendors put emphasis on AI, design and power
The annual CES event has indicated the investments in product design the hardware players have made to encourage customer upgrades
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07 Jan 2026
Accenture acquires UK AI firm linked to Vote Leave campaign
Faculty, the company that powered the data strategy of Boris Johnson’s former chief of staff, Dominic Cummings, is now part of Accenture
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06 Jan 2026
Lenovo taps AI and digital twins to power World Cup 2026
Technology partner for upcoming football tournament has built an artificial intelligence knowledge assistant for coaches, digital avatars to assist VAR decisions, and smart infrastructure for venue management
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06 Jan 2026
S/4Hana in 2026: Three ways to move off SAP ECC
We speak to three companies that have taken very different approaches to migrate off SAP Enterprise Core Components onto S/4Hana