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28 Aug 2025
CDC Director fired as FDA restricts COVID-19 vaccine use
CDC Director Susan Monarez was fired the same day the FDA rescinded emergency use authorizations for COVID-19 vaccines, restricting use for seniors and high-risk younger people.
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28 Aug 2025
Salesforce Agentforce for Public Sector woos government users
Salesforce sets up MCP servers and testing environments for AI agents, and customizes Agentforce for the government vertical.
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28 Aug 2025
Most providers not ready for telehealth flexibilities to expire
In a new survey, healthcare providers cited technology gaps and privacy concerns as major challenges for a potential rollback of telehealth flexibilities at the end of the month.
Information Management News from the past 365 days
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29 Aug 2025
ICO publishes summary of police facial recognition audit
The UK data regulator has released a summary of its facial recognition audit of two police forces
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29 Aug 2025
Home Office ‘backdoor’ seeks worldwide access to Apple iCloud users’ data, court documents confirm
A court filing states that a government order against Apple would give it the capability to access communications and metadata of customers using the iCloud service anywhere in the world
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28 Aug 2025
Microsoft refuses to divulge data flows to Police Scotland
Tech giant Microsoft is declining to share key information with Police Scotland about where the sensitive data it uploads to Office 365 will be processed, leaving the force unable to comply with UK-wide data protection laws
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21 Aug 2025
UK equality watchdog: Met Police facial recognition unlawful
The UK’s equality watchdog has been granted permission to intervene in a judicial review of the Met Police’s live facial-recognition (LFR) technology use, which it claims is being deployed unlawfully
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21 Aug 2025
Latest from Vast Data aims to simplify, speed AI development
SyncEngine has the potential to be a differentiator for the vendor, combining capabilities usually performed by specialized tools to provide pipelines with relevant information.
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21 Aug 2025
Judge throws out NHS whistleblower’s challenge to ruling on deletion of 90,000 emails
Appeal tribunal dismisses doctor’s bid to quash decision that cleared London hospital trust of concealing evidence through attempted destruction of electronic documents during live court proceedings
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21 Aug 2025
Reserve Bank of India proposes framework for AI adoption in India’s finance sector
India’s central bank has proposed a framework to guide artificial intelligence adoption in the financial sector, along with recommendations to build shared infrastructure, implement safeguards and promote financial inclusion
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21 Aug 2025
Interview: Simon Goodyear, chief information and technology officer, Redwood Bank
Redwood Bank’s new IT boss is a problem solver who wants to eradicate every unnecessary Excel spreadsheet
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20 Aug 2025
Interview: David Walmsley, chief digital and technology officer, Pandora
The jewellery retailer is building on a four-year digital transformation by adding agentic AI alongside a major overhaul of its back-end ERP infrastructure
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20 Aug 2025
Interview: David Walmsley, chief digital and technology officer, Pandora
The jewellery retailer is building on a four-year digital transformation by adding agentic AI alongside a major overhaul of its back-end ERP infrastructure
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20 Aug 2025
Without a data strategy, AI will just scale your chaos
Snowflake’s chief data analytics officer, Anahita Tafvizi, explains why a data strategy focused on governance, consistency and accuracy is the only way to build artificial intelligence that users will trust
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19 Aug 2025
Alation unveils agentic AI-powered query capabilities
By accessing a knowledge layer consisting of curated data products and metadata, Chat with Your Data provides more accurate responses than the vendor's previous capabilities.
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19 Aug 2025
Confluent joins agentic AI fray with Streaming Agents
The vendor's new environment for developing agents includes tool calling via model context protocol and connections with key sources such as LLMs and vector databases.
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18 Aug 2025
Okta: AI adoption fuels problems for identity management
Okta research indicates the emergence and growth of novel security problems, connected with the spread of AI agents and non-human identities
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18 Aug 2025
Docusign moves beyond e-signatures with AI-powered contract platform
Docusign CEO Allan Thygesen explains how the company is leveraging its brand recognition and GenAI capabilities to solve decades-old problems in how businesses create, negotiate and manage contracts
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15 Aug 2025
Modern architecture, high-quality data key to AI development
An expert explains how components such as a shared foundation and protocols that ensure quality help foster real-time insights and AI-driven analysis.
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15 Aug 2025
Zendesk CTO on the new era of customer experience
Zendesk once pushed its AI vision, but now customers are leading the charge. Its CTO, Jason Maynard, explains how this reversal is creating roles like the ‘bot manager’ and shaping the future of customer experience
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13 Aug 2025
MongoDB launches enterprise-focused AI models
The vendor's new models enhance document context capture and enable developers to guide the reranking process with instructions, while improving accuracy.
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13 Aug 2025
SAP touts Business Suite as key to enterprise AI
The German software giant pitched its Business Suite set of integrated applications for the AI era, along with the SAP Joule copilot as the future orchestrator of business workflows, at its customer conference in Melbourne
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13 Aug 2025
ODI tells EU to balance AI safeguards with innovation promotion
The Open Data Institute has published a manifesto to guide European Union data and artificial intelligence policy formation
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12 Aug 2025
Aerospike update aims to improve database performance
With the addition of expression indexes that enable users to streamline the data discovery process, the vendor is providing capabilities that could force competitors to respond.
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12 Aug 2025
Workday research: 75% of employees will work with artificial intelligence, but not for it
Workday research finds 75% of workers like AI as a teammate, but only 30% want it to be the boss. Trust in the technology may grow with use, but human focus, clear roles and governance are key
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12 Aug 2025
Salesforce research: CFOs zealous for agentic AI
A Salesforce study says chief financial officers have shifted from agentic artificial intelligence caution to putting the technology front and centre of their business strategies
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12 Aug 2025
Ola’s Krutrim builds ‘AI-first’ sovereign cloud for India
Krutrim is building a vertically integrated technology stack to make AI affordable, scalable and sovereign for Indian businesses while catering to the country’s linguistic needs
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11 Aug 2025
Watching the watchers: Is the Technical Advisory Panel a match for MI5, MI6 and GCHQ?
Dame Muffy Calder is chair of the Technical Advisory Panel (TAP), a small group of experts that advises the Investigatory Powers Commissioner on surveillance technology. Do they have what it takes to oversee the intelligence community?
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08 Aug 2025
Cloudera touts hybrid data platform to power enterprise AI boom
At its Evolve APAC 2025 conference in Singapore, Cloudera promises to end the compromise between on-premise data control and public cloud convenience with its hybrid data platform
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07 Aug 2025
Interview: Kirsty Roth, chief operations and technology officer, Thomson Reuters
As a technologist who also runs corporate operations, Thomson Reuters’ CTO believes her tech background gives her a unique edge as the business information group looks to transform its products with AI
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07 Aug 2025
DeepSeek shows enterprises model distillation opportunity
DeepSeek showed how it is possible to run an AI model using far less compute than existing models. AI model distillation is now becoming mainstream
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06 Aug 2025
Government looks at tech to tackle peak electricity demand
Forecasting, AI, smart meters and electrical vehicle batteries are part of an ambitious project to reduce the use of fossil fuels on the UK's energy grid
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06 Aug 2025
Maybank inks RM1bn deal with Microsoft
The five-year deal will see Malaysia’s largest bank accelerate its digital transformation efforts, building on its current strategy to embed AI across the organisation and enhance its technological capabilities
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05 Aug 2025
Google intros array of technical AI agents across its apps
The tech giant’s latest GenAI offerings arrive amid surging interest in agentic AI technology.
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05 Aug 2025
How Australian firms are using graph databases
Banks, miners and police forces in Australia are among those using graph databases to provide the context and data relationships needed for more accurate and trustworthy AI, moving projects from experimentation to production
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05 Aug 2025
How StanChart balances AI-powered innovation with security
Alvaro Garrido, Standard Chartered’s technology and security chief, explains how multi-layered defences and its approach to data protection allows the bank to embrace artificial intelligence without compromising on security
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04 Aug 2025
Agentic AI a target-rich zone for cyber attackers in 2025
At Black Hat USA 2025, CrowdStrike warns that cyber criminals and nation-states are weaponising GenAI to scale attacks and target AI agents, turning autonomous systems against their makers
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04 Aug 2025
Integrated platforms offer lifeline to Singapore’s F&B sector
A partnership between payments firm Adyen and restaurant operating system provider Atlas is helping merchants to streamline operations, slashing errors by up to 80% and boosting sales as the sector faces record closures
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01 Aug 2025
Microsoft, DISG launch AI agent accelerator programme
Microsoft and DISG’s programme will provide cloud credits, training and tools to local businesses as part of a national push to create ‘frontier firms’ where humans work alongside autonomous AI agents
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31 Jul 2025
Informatica adds MCP support, spate of AI-fueled features
With Model Context Protocol helping standardize how enterprises develop and deploy agents, support for the open standard is valuable for customers building advanced applications.
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31 Jul 2025
ServiceNow targets ‘data hell’, eyes BI play
The workflow giant is building a data foundation for agentic AI and eyeing a slice of the business intelligence and analytics market
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30 Jul 2025
Be wary of enterprise software providers’ AI
IT leaders need to assess lock-in risk, data silos, a lack of openness, removal of discounts and product bundling in AI offerings
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29 Jul 2025
European Commission ignores calls to reassess Israel data adequacy
The European Commission is ignoring calls to reassess Israel’s data adequacy status in spite of concerns raised about its data protection framework and use of personal data in ‘repressive practices’
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25 Jul 2025
Interview: Cambridge Consultants CEO Monty Barlow scans for tech surprises
Cambridge Consultants is a technology and consulting business unit of Capgemini. Its chief executive, Monty Barlow, talks about its heritage and vision for the future of digital technology
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24 Jul 2025
SAP Q2 2025: 9% revenue growth to €9bn, with steady pace in cloud ERP
Amid what SAP CEO Klein has called this year’s ‘economic uncertainty’, the supplier posted 9% revenue growth for Q2 2025, with cloud revenue up 24%
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24 Jul 2025
Collibra's acquisition of Deasy targets unstructured data
With AI development on the rise, the vendor's latest purchase better enables customers to combine the complete array of relevant data to inform advanced applications.
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24 Jul 2025
ServiceNow tackles ‘sidecar AI’ chaos with agentic workforce strategy
ServiceNow unveils agentic workforce strategy to orchestrate autonomous AI agents across business processes to help organisations avoid the complexity and problems with managing disconnected applications
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23 Jul 2025
Judge questions HP’s ‘exaggerated’ Autonomy loss claim
Did HP pay 10% more than it needed to for Mike Lynch’s company?
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23 Jul 2025
StarTree adding Iceberg support to simplify, speed analysis
With open table data storage formats gaining popularity, the vendor's pending support for Apache Iceberg promotes flexibility while also making analysis more efficient.
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23 Jul 2025
StarTree adding Iceberg support to simplify, speed analysis
With open table data storage formats gaining popularity, the vendor's pending support for Apache Iceberg promotes flexibility while also making analysis more efficient.
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22 Jul 2025
UK government signs partnership with OpenAI
Deal sees firm behind ChatGPT collaborate with government on AI security research to explore investment opportunities
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22 Jul 2025
Hitachi Vantara claims Hitachi iQ the most complete AI stack
Hitachi Vantara says its approach to storage and AI offers the most comprehensive solutions, based on its industrial heritage and RAG-like functionality it claims others don’t have
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22 Jul 2025
Fresh allegations of ‘sustained’ police and MI5 surveillance against BBC reporters
The Investigatory Powers Tribunal is investigating claims that police spied on the phone of investigative journalist Chris Moore amid further claims of a sustained monitoring operation against BBC reporters in Northern Ireland between 2006 and 2022
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21 Jul 2025
Oracle adds MCP support to advance agentic AI development
Given that the open standard simplifies the complex process of connecting systems during agentic AI development, the tech giant's integration with MCP stands to benefit users.
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21 Jul 2025
Interview: Alexandra Willis, director of digital media and audience development, The Premier League
Digital media is core to engaging nearly two billion fans of Premier League football around the world, with data analytics and AI playing an ever-more important role
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18 Jul 2025
DWP accused of shielding AI deployments from public scrutiny
Amnesty International and Big Brother Watch say Department for Work and Pensions’ ‘unchecked’ and opaque use of AI in the UK benefits system treats claimants as suspicious and is shielded from public scrutiny
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17 Jul 2025
Estimated 96% of EMEA financial services sector not ready for DORA
Research from data backup provider Veeam indicates that vast majority of European financial services firms do not feel ready to meet the resiliency requirements of the EU’s DORA act
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17 Jul 2025
Ataccama targets business users with latest AI capabilities
The vendor's latest update makes data lineage accessible to business users, enabling them to trust their data and make decisions without consulting trained experts for assistance.
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17 Jul 2025
Terrorist potential of generative AI ‘purely theoretical’
UK terror legislation advisor takes stock of the potential for generative artificial intelligence systems to be adopted by terrorists, particularly for propaganda and attack planning purposes, but acknowledges the impact may be limited
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16 Jul 2025
Securonix tackles security data deluge with AI-driven platform
As security data volumes grow and security budgets tighten, Securonix is betting on its AI-driven platform to help businesses manage threats cost-effectively, says its CEO
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15 Jul 2025
Microsoft, Databricks simplify synchronizing, sharing data
A new integration designed by the tech giant and data platform vendor eliminates the need for users to move or copy data to join it across platforms for better-informed analysis.
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15 Jul 2025
SnapLogic adds MCP support to aid agentic AI deployment
Following the launch of AgentCreator in 2024, the data integration vendor is adding support for the open standard to better enable customers to build and manage agentic tools.
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15 Jul 2025
Qdrant lowers vector database complexity to aid development
The vendor now provides an integrated environment for operationalizing unstructured data to aid enterprises struggling with a profusion of tools to generate and manage vectors.
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15 Jul 2025
Ada Lovelace: using market forces to professionalise AI assurance
The Ada Lovelace Institute examines how ‘market forces’ can be used to drive the professionalisation of artificial intelligence assurance in the context of a wider political shift towards deregulation
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14 Jul 2025
Technology fuels successful FCA fight against unauthorised financial services
The UK finance regulator is using data and technology to identify websites and apps that could cause financial harm
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14 Jul 2025
AI adoption grows amid falling trust in AI outputs
As organisations move from AI hype to reality, a decline in trust for AI outputs is not a sign of failure, but a signal of market maturity, according to Bhavya Kapoor, Avanade's Asia-Pacific president
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11 Jul 2025
UK to create ‘governance framework’ for police facial recognition
Home secretary Yvette Cooper has confirmed UK will regulate police facial recognition, citing police reticence to deploy systems without proper governance, but declined to say if any new framework will be statutory
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11 Jul 2025
UK online safety regime ineffective on misinformation, MPs say
A report from the Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee outlines how the Online Safety Act fails to deal with the algorithmic amplification of ‘legal but harmful’ misinformation
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10 Jul 2025
Oracle, AWS partner for cloud database boost
Oracle Database@AWS combines the companies' tools to eliminate costly and complex data pipeline buildouts while adding to its collection of agreements with hyperscalers.
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09 Jul 2025
NAO says government should employ data analytics to tackle fraud
The National Audit Office recommends public bodies share and manage data in a way that prevents fraud and saves taxpayers’ money
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08 Jul 2025
Knime updates framework for agentic AI development
The open source analytics vendor is keeping up with competitors by providing features aimed at enabling users to create cutting-edge applications capable of autonomous action.
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08 Jul 2025
Denodo unveils DeepQuery to provide AI-powered deep analysis
The data virtualization specialist's new GenAI feature lets users dig deep into their data to discover the reasons underlying what's happening within their organization.
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08 Jul 2025
Interview: Steve Riley, head of IT operations and service management, Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1
As the British Grand Prix rolled into Silverstone for the annual jamboree of Formula One motor racing, we caught up with the Mercedes F1 team to find out how technology has advanced in the year since the last race
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08 Jul 2025
Interview: Vivek Bharadwaj, CIO, Happy Socks
The clothing manufacturer’s IT chief has a foot in every aspect of the tech stack – and is placing data and AI at the centre of future digital strategy
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08 Jul 2025
NHS trust accused of ‘at best cavalier, at worst deceitful’ behaviour after deleting emails
A London hospital trust faces allegations it withheld key evidence from a tribunal hearing after one of its directors attempted to destroy more than 90,000 emails
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07 Jul 2025
Interview: Antony Hausdoerfer, group CIO, The AA
The vehicle recovery specialist is looking to artificial intelligence and connected vehicle technology to enhance customer experience and get drivers back on the road in the shortest possible time
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07 Jul 2025
Tech firms complicit in ‘economy of genocide’, says UN rapporteur
A UN special rapporteur has called for technology firms operating in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories to immediately halt their activities, in wider report about the role corporate entities have played in the Israeli state’s ongoing ‘crimes of apartheid and genocide’
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07 Jul 2025
Interview: Data processing for particle physics at Cern
We speak to Cern principal scientist Archana Sharma about pattern recognition, machine learning and quantum technology
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07 Jul 2025
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
Moves this past week at BCS, 8x8, Leaseweb, Alteryx, CyberArk and TrafficGuard
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04 Jul 2025
Medow Health AI debuts AI scribe tool in Singapore
The Australian health technology company has launched its AI-powered scribe platform in Singapore to help healthcare professionals automatically capture and structure clinical notes, reports and referral letters
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03 Jul 2025
How GoTo’s high-stakes cloud shift is powering its AI future
The Indonesian tech giant has migrated half its infrastructure to Alibaba Cloud, paving the way for AI initiatives to solve real-world business problems and support local languages
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02 Jul 2025
Qlik adds trust score to aid data prep for AI development
By measuring dimensions such as diversity and timeliness, the vendor's new tool helps users understand if their data is properly prepared to inform advanced applications.
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02 Jul 2025
DDN targets enterprise-shaped hole in its AI storage offer
Specialist in AI and HPC storage DDN has oriented towards higher performance array products more suited to the enterprise as it aims at $1bn in turnover for 2025
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30 Jun 2025
Gartner: Build trust in data before betting the business on AI
At its Data & Analytics Summit in Sydney, Gartner analysts advised businesses to prioritise data trust over artificial intelligence hype and outlined the coming era of autonomous business processes guided by AI agents
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27 Jun 2025
Ciaran Martin: AI might disturb attacker-defender security balance
The founder of the National Cyber Security Centre spoke with Computer Weekly at Infosecurity Europe 2025 about how artificial intelligence might disturb the attacker-defender security equilibrium
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27 Jun 2025
MPs propose ban on predictive policing
MPs are attempting to amend the UK government’s forthcoming Crime and Policing Bill so that it prohibits the use of controversial predictive policing systems
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25 Jun 2025
Confluent platform update targets performance, simplicity
The vendor's latest release replaces its coordinating technology to make its tools easier to use and updates its Control Center for more efficient streaming data workloads.
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24 Jun 2025
New Actian features target data discoverability, reliability
Automatically embedded data governance, data product registration on a data marketplace platform and a natural language interface aim to make trusted data easier to discover.
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24 Jun 2025
Teradata extends AI development to on-premises environments
For enterprises concerned about cloud cost control and data sovereignty, the longtime vendor's new platform enables users to build advanced AI tools in their own systems.
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20 Jun 2025
As Ocient matures, vendor names new CEO to drive growth
As the vendor moves from its startup to growth phase, John Morris, who has significant experience leading companies as they mature, is taking over to guide its evolution.
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20 Jun 2025
Election workers’ data stolen in cyber breach of Oxford City Council
Oxford City Council election workers had personal information stolen by cyber attackers in an attack over the weekend of 7-8 June. The council has stated that most disrupted systems are back online
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20 Jun 2025
UK data reforms become law
UK passes wide-ranging data protection reforms to ‘simplify’ organisations’ sharing and processing of data, but questions remain whether changes will be accepted by European Commission when renewing UK data adequacy
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20 Jun 2025
Pure CEO Charlie Giancarlo on data management, all-flash and tariffs
We spoke to the Pure CEO about Enterprise Data Cloud and how it can offer insight and management across all its storage, plus a catch-up on the death of the HDD and tariff uncertainty
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18 Jun 2025
Workday UK head Dan Pell: Managing AI agents requires system of record
Speaking with Computer Weekly at Workday’s Elevate 2025 event in London, its UK and Ireland general manager discussed what it will mean to manage digital labour
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17 Jun 2025
EnterpriseDB targets AI development with latest update
A low-code/no-code interface and data observability across hybrid environments address the challenges enterprises face moving AI projects beyond development and into production.
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17 Jun 2025
SingleStore boosts database performance to meet AI needs
With AI development and deployment imposing greater workload demands on data management systems than traditional analytics, the vendor's latest update targets efficiency at scale.
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15 Jun 2025
Qualtrics targets ‘action gap’ with AI copilot
The company’s Assist for CX tool aims to help organisations act on customer feedback, with one Australian airline already using it to slash insight times from months to hours
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13 Jun 2025
CIOs baffled by ‘buzzwords, hype and confusion’ around AI
Alan Trefler, CEO of Pegasystems, is scathing about big tech companies that are pushing the use of AI agents and large language models for business-critical applications
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13 Jun 2025
ThoughtSpot evolving as BI becomes driven by AI
Recent releases, including the Agentic Analytics Platform and Agentic Semantic Layer, demonstrate that the vendor continues to be creative amid the changing analytics industry.
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12 Jun 2025
Agentforce London: 78% of UK companies use agentic AI, says Salesforce
Salesforce released Digital Labour Trends survey data to coincide with its Agentforce London 2025 event that found 78% of UK organisations are using agentic AI
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11 Jun 2025
Latest Databricks tools use AI to simplify AI development
Fueled by user feedback, the vendor's newest features include a framework that automates building agents and a no-code interface for creating the pipelines that feed applications.
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06 Jun 2025
More reasoning, interoperability key to future of agentic AI
As agents evolve from hype to reality, research and industry must collaborate to improve agents' recall and ability to work together so that they can realize their full potential.
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06 Jun 2025
UK ICO publishes AI and biometrics strategy
The UK data regulator has outlined how it will approach the regulation of artificial intelligence and biometric technologies, which will focus in particular on automated decision-making systems and police facial recognition
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05 Jun 2025
FairPrice taps Google Cloud for AI-powered store
The supermarket chain will leverage generative AI and cloud technologies to enhance customer experience and streamline in-store operations, starting with its upcoming Punggol Digital District outlet