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12 Dec 2025
News brief: Future of security holds bigger budgets, new threats
Check out the latest security news from the Informa TechTarget team.
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12 Dec 2025
Geek gifts 2025: nostalgia and a human touch
Believe it or not, even tech geeks can use a break from technology sometimes. This year, authentic gifts that bring back memories are a gift giver's best bet.
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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.
Information Management News from the past 365 days
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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
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
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
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 authorities suspend ‘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.
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14 Oct 2025
DBT Labs targets costs with data engine, adds AI agents
The new capabilities, revealed amid news that the vendor is merging with Fivetran, include an updated engine that lowers data transformation expenses and task-specific agents.
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13 Oct 2025
Fivetran, DBT Labs merge to add complementary capabilities
The deal brings together data movement and data transformation platforms that help developers build AI and analytics applications.
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13 Oct 2025
UK police to upgrade illicit asset recovery system
A new system is being developed by the Police Digital Service and NEC Software Solutions to help manage the recovery of criminal assets, replacing 20-year-old legacy infrastructure
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09 Oct 2025
Cloudera Evolve London: 91% of organisations say data unfit for AI purposes
Cloudera research finds only 9% of organisations have fully AI-ready data, with siloed data and security major barriers to enterprise AI success, as well as gender bias in AI development
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09 Oct 2025
Starburst's latest targets agentic AI development
The data lakehouse vendor continues to expand beyond its roots in data mesh, adding features such as an MCP server and access to vector stores that enable users to build agents.
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08 Oct 2025
Interview: Fausto Fleites, vice-president of data intelligence, ScottsMiracle-Gro
The data leader’s hands-on experience with machine learning has helped to build a three-part strategy to maximise the benefits of AI at the gardening specialist
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08 Oct 2025
Interview: Change management for digitisation and agentic AI
We speak to Thomas Bodé, chief digital transformation officer at European energy company Met Group, about delivering successful digital initiatives
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08 Oct 2025
TalkTalk undoes customer experience stack complexity to boost contact centre agents
TalkTalk chief operating officer Neil Smith describes the firm’s journey out of CX stack complexity towards more empowered contact centre agents
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07 Oct 2025
New AI-powered suite boosts Teradata's CX capabilities
Autonomous Customer Intelligence features agents and other tools aimed at enabling the vendor's users to gain greater insight into their own customers to improve business outcomes.
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07 Oct 2025
Nato chooses Oracle to secure battlefield communications
Nato has chosen Oracle and Druid to secure private 5G networks for cyber defence, war gaming and research, using Oracle Cloud and edge technology
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06 Oct 2025
Police facial recognition trials show little evidence of benefits
In-the-wild testing of police facial recognition systems has failed to generate clear evidence of the technology’s benefits, or to assess the full range of socio-technical impacts
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06 Oct 2025
Data sovereignty demand pushes Herabit to get S3 storage
Italian service provider gets Cubbit DS3 distributed S3 storage to provide up to 2PB of cloud services to customers demanding data sovereignty, while cutting costs by up to 50%
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02 Oct 2025
Interview: Chris Belasco, chief data officer, City of Pittsburgh
Building data pipelines – the ‘connective tissue’ – is helping to improve operations and deliver better public services in the City of Pittsburgh
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01 Oct 2025
Mooncake acquisition boosts Databricks database capabilities
Five months after purchasing PostgreSQL specialist Neon and turning its tech into Lakebase, the data platform vendor is adding new database capabilities to aid AI development.
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01 Oct 2025
Databricks boosts data security with AI-powered suite
With cyberattacks becoming more sophisticated, the vendor's new set of features includes agents, AI-powered dashboards and integrations with specialists.
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01 Oct 2025
Development suite continues Alation's foray into agentic AI
Once a metadata management specialist, the vendor is keeping up with the competition by adding an environment for developing agents.
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01 Oct 2025
Interview: Wayne Barlow, head of terminal products, Bloomberg
Techie turned business leader Wayne Barlow heads up the development of Bloomberg’s customer-touching terminal software
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01 Oct 2025
Why AI agent projects are stalling in production
A Confluent technology strategist explains why multi-agent workflows become brittle monoliths and how access to real-time, streaming data is key to the success of agentic AI deployments
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30 Sep 2025
Cloud provider publishes ‘tech sovereignty’ plan for UK
In the face of mounting data sovereignty concerns across Europe, UK cloud provider Civo lays out high-level plan for how the government can retain control and access of its data should the geopolitical situation sour
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29 Sep 2025
JLR tentatively restarts production, following £1.5bn government backing
Jaguar Land Rover is to resume car production after a £1.5bn government loan guarantee amid its cyber attack fallout. Debate is growing over the bailout and insurance
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29 Sep 2025
Women’s Rugby World Cup premiered GenAI for broadcast match analysis
England’s triumph at the Women’s Rugby World Cup also saw the debut of generative AI for real-time broadcast rugby match analysis
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26 Sep 2025
Microsoft hides key data flow information in plain sight
Microsoft’s own documentation confirms that data hosted in its hyperscale cloud architecture routinely traverses the globe, but the tech giant is actively obfuscating this vital information from its UK law enforcement customers
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25 Sep 2025
Databricks partners with OpenAI to boost AI development
GPT-5 is now the primary model for the data platform vendor's users. In addition, the partners will collaborate to improve model performance for real-world applications.
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25 Sep 2025
Government might support Jaguar Land Rover supply chain to mitigate cyber attack impact
The government is considering buying car parts from JLR’s supply chain to sell them on to the company once it recovers from the August cyber attack
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25 Sep 2025
Co-op declares cyber attack damage cost £206m
Co-op reveals £206m costs from April cyber attack, with revenues hit, member data stolen and shelves emptied, exposing major retail supply chain vulnerabilities
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24 Sep 2025
Internet shutdowns in Africa on upward trajectory
A comparative analysis of internet shutdowns in African countries highlights how the tactic is increasingly used to repress dissent and political opposition, depriving millions of people and businesses access to vital digital tools that sustain their social, economic and political life
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24 Sep 2025
NCA arrests man following cyber attack that disrupted air travel
The NCA has arrested a man in West Sussex over the cyber attack on Collins Aerospace that disrupted Heathrow and other EU airports. He has been released on conditional bail
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24 Sep 2025
Incorta unveils features as part of new focus on AI
The vendor's new AI-focused features include a Model Context Protocol layer for developing agents and prebuilt agentic AI capabilities to assist with specific tasks.
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23 Sep 2025
New consortium to aid AI by standardizing semantic modeling
An open standard for defining data would simplify data integration and discovery to reduce one of the barriers preventing organizations from successfully developing AI tools.
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23 Sep 2025
Podcast: How to get value from unstructured data
In this podcast, we talk to Nasuni founder and CTO Andres Rodriguez about the obstacles to getting the most value from enterprise unstructured data, especially via metadata
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23 Sep 2025
Jaguar Land Rover extends cyber attack-induced shutdown to October
Jaguar Land Rover is extending its production shutdown caused by the 31 August cyber attack into next month, as government ministers drop by and supply chain workers lose wages
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23 Sep 2025
Teradata unveils AgentBuilder to aid agentic AI development
Like many of its competitors, the longtime data management and analytics vendor is adding tools, such as an MCP server, to help customers build advanced applications.
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23 Sep 2025
EU to shut door on Big Tech in financial data sharing
US tech giants to be excluded from EU’s Financial Data Access initiative, which enables the sharing of certain customer financial data
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17 Sep 2025
Techcombank wields data and AI to drive customer engagement
By unifying data on the Databricks platform, the Vietnam bank has built AI capabilities to deliver hyper-personalised offers to 15 million customers and expand its footprint beyond its traditional affluent base
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17 Sep 2025
MongoDB adds MCP server, expands AI development capabilities
While the database vendor isn't breaking new ground with its updated features, they combine to provide customers with valuable tools that will help to build modern applications.
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16 Sep 2025
Microsoft adds new AI development, OneLake tools to Fabric
New features such as MCP support and simplified access to data stored across multiple clouds simplify developing agents and keep the tech giant's platform competitive.
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15 Sep 2025
Amnesty: AI surveillance risks ‘supercharging’ US deportations
Amnesty International says AI-driven platforms from Palantir and Babel Street are being used by US authorities to track migrants and revoke visas, raising fears of unlawful detentions and mass deportations
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12 Sep 2025
EU Data Act comes into force amid fears of regulation fatigue
The EU Data Act will potentially give users control of device data, and boost data sharing, cloud switching and competition while raising compliance demands