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23 Jan 2026
DevSecOps AI agents add platform context, woo enterprises
GitLab and Harness rolled out new AI agents, drawing interest from IT organizations with platform context and pricing.
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23 Jan 2026
News brief: Email scams highlight need for employee vigilance
Check out the latest security news from the Informa TechTarget team.
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22 Jan 2026
Upstart cloud provider Railway turns heads with speed
Railway began as a PaaS provider but now looks to disrupt hyperscalers with a bespoke back-end hardware design and built-in infrastructure best practices for developers.
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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
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
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
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
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31 Dec 2025
Top 10 police technology stories of 2025
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 police technology stories of 2025
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31 Dec 2025
Top 10 business applications stories of 2025
There is no doubt what took centre stage in the theatre of business applications in 25: agentic AI, surpassing pre-2022 AI, and generative AI. C-level executives bang the AI drum while enterprises find value
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30 Dec 2025
Oldest victim of Post Office scandal awarded OBE in New Year Honours 2026
The New Year Honours List 2026 conferred an OBE on the oldest living victim of the Post Office scandal, as well as hailing members of the UK technology community
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30 Dec 2025
Top 10 information management stories of 2025
Artificial intelligence continued to have a big impact on information management in 2025. Also selected are case studies and interviews with data chiefs that show the enduring value of good data management
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30 Dec 2025
Top 10 technology ethics stories of 2025
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 tech ethics stories of 2025
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23 Dec 2025
Top 10 ANZ stories of 2025
The 2025 tech landscape in Australia and New Zealand was dotted with major data breaches even as organisations continue to press on with their digital transformation efforts in areas such as AI and automation
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22 Dec 2025
Top 10 ASEAN stories of 2025
Southeast Asia’s 2025 tech landscape saw financial institutions, healthcare researchers and government agencies moving decisively from technology pilots to large-scale AI deployments and infrastructure modernisation
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16 Dec 2025
Databricks adds $4B funding round; IPO could be next
With a valuation well over $100 billion and strong revenue growth from both data management and AI, the vendor could be preparing to go public.
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16 Dec 2025
EnterpriseDB updates WarehousePG with features that fuel AI
The PostgreSQL database specialist's data warehouse update targets AI development by adding predictable pricing, real-time data processing and improved governance capabilities.
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15 Dec 2025
Finance regulator wants mortgage brokers to use artificial intelligence
UK regulator is to encourage mortgage brokers to use artificial intelligence and other technology
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15 Dec 2025
Reinventing the Arabic newsroom: How Al-Masry Al-Youm is harnessing AI, data, and cloud to transform
Al-Masry Al-Youm CIO Omar Badr reveals how Egypt’s leading independent daily has navigated a decade of digital disruption, balancing editorial freedom with cutting-edge technology
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12 Dec 2025
University of York plumps for Workday to spruce up HR and finance
The University of York is replacing 57 HR and finance systems with a Workday platform, supported by KPMG, aiming for real-time insights and simpler processes
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12 Dec 2025
Interview: Erik Mayer, transformation chief clinical information officer, Imperial College
With both a clinical and a digital background, the healthcare tech leader is using data to improve collaboration across an NHS trust for the benefit of medical staff and patients
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12 Dec 2025
Digital Ethics Summit 2025: Open sourcing and assuring AI
Industry experts met to discuss the ethical challenges associated with assuring AI systems, and how open source approaches can challenge concentrations of capital and power
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11 Dec 2025
Salesforce adds Informatica to Data 360, MuleSoft fold
Informatica brings a potentially stronger data foundation to Data 360 and, by extension, Agentforce.
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11 Dec 2025
Oracle expects to increase OCI margins by 30-40%
Market analysts are concerned about the AI bubble bursting, but Oracle’s latest earnings call shows it is still expanding datacentre roll-outs
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10 Dec 2025
How digital twins are helping people with motor neurone disease speak
Tech companies, a charity and academics have collaborated to create AI-powered avatars that are helping people with motor neurone disease hold natural conversations
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10 Dec 2025
ThoughtSpot automates full platform with new Spotter agents
With agents for data modeling, dashboard development and embedding applications, the vendor is simplifying processes that have historically slowed analytics workflows.
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10 Dec 2025
Couchbase adds agentic AI development suite to Capella DBaaS
AI Services, which includes an integration with Nvidia and governance capabilities -- among other features -- represents the vendor's growth beyond its database roots.
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10 Dec 2025
Error-prone eVisa system a precursor of digital ID
Research highlights how the Home Office’s electronic visa system has used migrants as a ‘testing ground’ for the government’s wider digital ID ambitions
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09 Dec 2025
How Oracle Red Bull Racing is driving Formula 1 into the future with cloud, AI and data
Access to the F1 team’s garage in Abu Dhabi reveals how Monte Carlo simulations, artificial intelligence and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure power split-second decisions, strategy and championship-winning performance
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08 Dec 2025
IBM acquiring Confluent to boost AI development capabilities
The purchase of a streaming data platform complements the tech giant's existing tools by enabling developers to build agents using real-time information.
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08 Dec 2025
How police live facial recognition subtly reconfigures suspicion
A growing body of research suggests that the use of live facial recognition is reshaping police perceptions of suspicion in ways that undermine supposed human-in-the-loop protections
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08 Dec 2025
AI widening data analytics opportunities
Those in the channel with the skills to support customers keen to get real-time insights should find evolving technology makes data analytics offerings more attractive
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05 Dec 2025
Interview: Paul Neville, director of digital, data and technology, The Pensions Regulator
Data, automation and artificial intelligence are driving the regulator to take new approaches to its work and how it supports the pensions industry, leading to improved experiences for everyone in the UK who has a pension
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04 Dec 2025
Snowflake, Anthropic boost partnership with $200M commitment
After first partnering in 2024 to make Claude models available in Cortex AI, the companies plan to collaborate on agentic AI development and marketing strategies.
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04 Dec 2025
Home Office launches police facial recognition consultation
The Home Office has formally opened a 10-week consultation on a legal framework for police use of facial recognition technologies, and will consider extending any new rules to police deployments of other biometric and inferential technologies
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03 Dec 2025
Informatica tightens bond with AWS's AI development tools
New features optimized for joint customers include MCP servers to connect governed data with foundation models and a framework for developing agents on the tech giant's platform.
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03 Dec 2025
AWS CEO Garman pitches ‘billions of agents’ as enterprise AI future
At Amazon Web Services’ annual conference in Las Vegas, CEO Matt Garman projected an agentic AI future for enterprises, with models trained on customers’ own data
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02 Dec 2025
Latest AWS data management features target cost control
As the volume and complexity of enterprise data estates increase, and the size of data workloads grows due to AI development, the tech giant aims to help users reduce spending.
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01 Dec 2025
Mandatory digital ID paves way for surveillance and exclusion, MPs hear
It is currently unclear how the UK’s government’s proposed mandatory digital ID scheme will help with its stated goal of curbing illegal migration and working
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28 Nov 2025
Sea-Lion powering AI tools for migrant workers, local businesses
The inaugural Sea-Lion summit showcased real-world applications of Southeast Asia’s first homegrown large language model, which now supports multimodal inputs and can run on a standard laptop
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27 Nov 2025
Databricks predicts AI tipping point as ANZ firms fix data issues
As AI projects move from the realm of technologists to the business environment, major organisations including Telstra and Fonterra share how they are tackling legacy data issues to prepare for agentic AI
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26 Nov 2025
London councils endure wave of cyber attacks, shared IT services hit
Four London councils – Kensington and Chelsea; Hackney; Westminster; and Hammersmith and Fulham – have suffered cyber attacks, disrupting services and prompting NCSC-supported investigation
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25 Nov 2025
Antwerp court adjourns high-profile drugs case amid questions over Sky ECC intercept
Defence lawyers ask court to adjourn after unexplained changes found in evidence files containing intercepted messages from Sky ECC encrypted phone network infiltrated by French and Dutch police
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24 Nov 2025
Chief data officers hire for tech innovation
Once an organisation’s data maturity is sorted, CDOs need to show how strong data management can power tech initiatives
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24 Nov 2025
Interview: Ian Ruffle, head of data and insight, RAC
Real-time data insights and artificial intelligence are central to supporting the RAC’s motoring services and to getting drivers back on the road as quickly as possible
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20 Nov 2025
Swedish welfare authority suspends ‘discriminatory’ AI model
A machine learning model used by Sweden’s social security agency to flag benefit fraud has been discontinued following investigations by media outlets and the country’s data protection watchdog
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19 Nov 2025
Precisely intros AI capabilities to simplify data quality
The data integrity specialist's new features, including a conversational interface and a fabric for connecting governed assets, address the growing emphasis on high-quality data.
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19 Nov 2025
Snowflake integrates with Nvidia to speed AI/ML workloads
Adding data science libraries featuring GPUs to the vendor's development suite aims to exponentially improve the performance of application workloads.
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19 Nov 2025
Workday sets out to reinvent ERP with agentic AI platform
At Workday Rising EMEA, the HR and financial applications SaaS supplier signalled a new phase of development as an agentic AI platform provider that might disrupt traditional ERP
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19 Nov 2025
Inside the Middle East tech ambition: How A2RL is shaping the future of AI-driven mobility
Driverless cars push the boundaries of artificial intelligence, real-time decision-making and data-driven mobility at Yas Marina Circuit
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18 Nov 2025
New Microsoft tools connect AI agents with proper data
Semantic modeling to unite enterprise data and automated pipeline capabilities to feed applications with relevant information aim to give autonomous tools appropriate context.
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17 Nov 2025
Salesforce: CIOs closer to the bridge than ever due to agentic AI
Salesforce research finds CIOs closer than ever to steering the business, acting as strategic partners to their CEOs, thanks to the growth of agentic AI
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14 Nov 2025
Jaguar Land Rover cyber attack costs firm £485m in the quarter
Jaguar Land Rover’s quarterly financial statement discloses a £485m loss due to the late August cyber attack that halted production for six weeks, damaging the UK economy
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14 Nov 2025
MI5 made multiple applications for phone data to identify BBC journalist’s sources
MI5 discloses it made and authorised unlawful ‘sequential applications’ for Vincent Kearney’s phone data during his time at the BBC, but will neither confirm nor deny whether it undertook further ‘lawful’ surveillance of BBC journalists
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13 Nov 2025
Alation unveils agentic AI suite for governing critical data
CDE Manager includes agents that set standards and establish rules to help enterprises to connect data to key operations and govern such data to ensure it can be trusted.
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13 Nov 2025
Dremio Cloud: An autonomous lakehouse powered by AI agents
The new platform automates complex data preparation and pipeline management tasks that fuel AI development and could be a differentiator for the vendor.
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12 Nov 2025
Hungry for data: Inside Europol’s secretive AI programme
The EU’s law enforcement agency has been quietly amassing data to feed an ambitious but secretive artificial intelligence development programme that could have far-reaching privacy implications for people across the bloc
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12 Nov 2025
How Japanese banking giant MUFG is using AI
Japan’s largest bank aims to transform into an AI-native company by using agentic AI, changing how it handles data, and inking key partnerships with OpenAI and Sakana AI
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11 Nov 2025
National Highways to get more out of its data through single platform
Government-owned organisation National Highways will get more out of its data through extended working with IT service provider
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10 Nov 2025
Oxford launches Equinox to build innovation hub in region
Oxford University and its host city have launched Equinox as a regional organisation uniting academia, business and government to establish Oxfordshire as a global innovation hub
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10 Nov 2025
UK’s ‘deregulatory’ AI approach won’t protect human rights
Expert witnesses called before Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights have told MPs and Lords that the UK’s current approach to artificial intelligence regulation will fail to effectively protect people’s rights
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07 Nov 2025
SnapLogic Integreat: Preparing legacy IT for agentic AI
If replacing legacy was easy, IT leaders would be falling over backwards in the race to get onto the latest and greatest technology
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06 Nov 2025
Ataccama automates data quality with agentic AI-fueled suite
The new version of the vendor's platform automates tasks previously performed by humans to substantially reduce the time it takes to ensure that data can be trusted.
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06 Nov 2025
Interview: Filip Nekvinda on balancing IT stability with digital ambition at Abdul Latif Jameel
The chief information and digital officer discusses the challenges of transformation, the power of data, and how Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 is shaping the future of technology leadership
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05 Nov 2025
SAP TechEd 2025: Make AI real, grind in data
SAP TechEd in Berlin put an accent on building agentic and generative AI systems to create real business outcomes, beyond what its executives say is excessive hype
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04 Nov 2025
Ryt Bank taps agentic AI for conversational banking
Malaysia’s Ryt Bank is using its own LLM and agentic AI framework to allow customers to perform banking transactions in natural language, replacing traditional menus and buttons
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04 Nov 2025
At TechEd, SAP continues to lay down the AI data foundation
New tools to speed up agentic AI development, open SAP platforms and provide access to data products were also touted as helping companies get business value from their AI.
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04 Nov 2025
Snowflake delivers slew of AI tools, introduces new ones
The newly released tools simplify access to enterprise data and enable deeper analysis through natural language to address challenges in AI development and data utilization.
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03 Nov 2025
New Databricks tools target successful agentic AI development
With enterprises struggling to build agents, new Agent Bricks features address accuracy and governance to help move development projects from pilot to production.
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03 Nov 2025
CrowdStrike: Europe second only to North America for cyber attacks
Europe faces rising cyber threats from criminals and nation-states, according to CrowdStrike. Ransomware attacks now take just 24 hours, with 22% of global victims being European
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31 Oct 2025
Capgemini and Siemens combine to make AI industrial tech
Siemens and Capgemini are expanding their partnership to create AI-based industrial technologies, said to boost efficiency, sustainability and innovation in manufacturing sectors
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29 Oct 2025
Streaming specialist Confluent unveils AI development suite
In addition to a unified environment for building and deploying agents, the vendor launched a private cloud version of its platform and integrations that simplify data preparation.
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29 Oct 2025
Informatica launches agents, adds new AI development tools
Prebuilt agents for data quality and other data management tasks and a development framework featuring MCP support highlight the vendor's Fall 2025 platform update.
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28 Oct 2025
Amazon links planned mass layoff to AI
E-commerce giant Amazon has cited artificial intelligence as a key driver of its decision to lay off thousands of its corporate employees
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28 Oct 2025
Streaming vendor Redpanda buys SQL engine, unveils AI suite
With the Agent Data Plane, which features newly acquired SQL database capabilities, the specialist is expanding beyond its roots and adding tools to train and govern AI agents.
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28 Oct 2025
Cisco and Splunk plot multi-year data fabric journey
Company leaders talk up their vision for the Cisco Data Fabric that will allow enterprises to gain insights about their IT infrastructure and security posture from machine data wherever it resides, from the network edge to the cloud
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21 Oct 2025
Immuta adds provisioning prowess to speed insight generation
Featuring automation capabilities, the new tools dramatically reduce the time it takes to operationalize governed data and could help differentiate the vendor from its peers.
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21 Oct 2025
Couchbase ups database vector search, indexing capabilities
The vendor's update takes a three-pronged approach to storing and searching vectorized data to make building AI tools trained on massive amounts of relevant information faster.
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20 Oct 2025
Microsoft admonished for role in facilitating Gaza genocide
Following credible allegations that Microsoft Azure was being used to facilitate mass surveillance and lethal force against Palestinians, which prompted the company to suspend services to the Israeli military unit responsible, human rights organisations are calling for further action
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17 Oct 2025
UK Salesforce execs: Agentforce begins to stoke new business forms
Salesforce UK CEO Zahra Bahrololoumi and CTO Paul O’Sullivan put Dreamforce 2025 discourse about agentic AI into a UK context
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16 Oct 2025
Snowflake, Palantir team to simplify AI, insight generation
Native integration between the vendors' platforms aims to simplify and speed development of AI and analytics tools for current joint customers -- and to attract new ones.
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15 Oct 2025
Dreamforce 2025: Benioff vaunts Slack as interface to agentic enterprise
Salesforce has launched Agentforce 360, a platform for agentic AI, integrating Slack as its interface
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14 Oct 2025
Oracle launches new platform to streamline AI development
The suite, which combines capabilities from OCI and other platforms, will help Oracle compete with rivals providing similar feature sets for building agents and other AI tools.