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22 May 2026
Weekly tech news: Musk lawsuit verdict, Anthropic acquisition, Meta layoffs and billions for quantum
Stay up to date with the latest U.S. tech news, IPOs and executive moves shaping the industry each week.
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22 May 2026
Beautiful insanity: AI buildouts lead to long lead times
As hyperscalers build out their AI infrastructure, enterprises are seeing the effects in long waits for equipment and a shift to distributed architecture.
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21 May 2026
The AI war IBM isn't fighting -- and the one it thinks it can win
IBM wants to differentiate itself in the market by targeting enterprises with the most complex environments, such as those that are hybrid and in regulated industries.
Information Management News from the past 365 days
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22 May 2026
Google AI engineer claims dismissal for opposing tech sales to Israel
‘Our work on AI was sold to facilitate genocide’: Artificial intelligence engineer claims Google unfairly sacked them for internally criticising the company’s decision to continue supplying technology to the Israeli military, despite credible claims of war crimes committed in Gaza
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20 May 2026
Informatica update aims to provide trust foundation for AI
Agents that continuously perform master data management tasks and a headless architecture for data management improve access to data that can be trusted to inform outputs.
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20 May 2026
Latest Alteryx features aim to boost AI-powered automation
Capabilities include an MCP server and a tool that helps transform trusted data and logic into agents, with potential differentiation lying in the empowerment of business users.
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19 May 2026
Home Office sitting on data about scale of eVisa errors
The Home Office holds data on the scale of errors and software issues with its electronic visa system, but is yet to release the information
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19 May 2026
Latest from Confluent streamlines use of streaming for AI
A fully managed MCP server and machine learning-powered data privacy capabilities aid customers attempting to move real-time AI applications into production.
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18 May 2026
UK employees using AI regularly lose more than seven hours a week
A Workday survey of 2,400 UK professionals reveals they are stuck in a ‘copy-paste economy’ working across disconnected AI systems
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18 May 2026
Nick Clegg-backed company using AI to fill global education gaps
Backed by former UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, Efekta is rolling out AI language lessons to state schools around the world
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15 May 2026
Fibre flourishes across Europe but performance focus shifts
Research finds that European fibre broadband is evolving out of rapid roll-out phase and into activation, but faster, more symmetrical speeds are not translating into better overall service experience
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14 May 2026
Ahead expands across Europe with acquisition and senior hire
Firm invests in more facilities and expertise, and seals deal to expand reach across the continent
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14 May 2026
Ahead expands across Europe with acquisition and senior hire
Firm invests in more facilities and expertise, and seals deal to expand reach across the continent
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13 May 2026
Via Africa subsea cable project to strengthen European, African connectivity
Europe-Africa submarine cable project backed by consortium model designed to connect Europe to Africa along the Atlantic coast, enhancing the resilience and diversity of West Africa’s international connectivity
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13 May 2026
Sapphire 2026: SAP heralds dawn of ‘autonomous enterprise’
SAP CEO Christian Klein and his top team trumpeted the advent of the ‘autonomous enterprise‘ during the opening keynote at the supplier’s global Sapphire event in Orlando
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12 May 2026
Celonis acquires MIT-linked decision intelligence firm Ikigai
Celonis has acquired MIT-linked Ikigai to aid in its drive to eliminate artificial intelligence blind spots from enterprise IT, and launched a ‘context model’ digital twin, said to give AI operational clarity
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11 May 2026
Alation intros AI governance suite to ensure compliance
As enterprises launch agents and other cutting-edge applications into production, remaining compliant with evolving regulations is challenging.
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11 May 2026
Core42 partners with Solutions+ on Mubadala sovereign AI
Agreement announced at Make it in the Emirates will see Core42 provide sovereign cloud and AI infrastructure while Solutions+ delivers implementation services and enterprise AI applications across Mubadala portfolio companies and government entities
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08 May 2026
MongoDB adds new vector, performance capabilities to aid AI
With enterprise data workloads feeding AI pipelines, the longtime database vendor is evolving -- along with competitors -- by building capabilities for cutting-edge development.
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07 May 2026
Data residency becomes the GCC’s next AI battleground
As sovereign AI strategies accelerate across the Gulf, organisations are shifting their focus from ‘how do we use AI?’ to ‘where does the data live?’, turning data residency into a strategic differentiator rather than a compliance exercise
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07 May 2026
Technology innovations should improve life for partners
Innovations coming from WatchGuard, Inforcer and CrowdStrike indicate a growing trend among the vendor community to use the latest tools to work with their channel bases
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07 May 2026
Teradata's latest targets putting agentic AI into production
As many enterprises prepare to move past experimenting with agents, the vendor's new platform is purpose-built to help users move pilots into production.
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06 May 2026
UK High Court dismisses facial-recognition judicial review case
The Metropolitan Police has won a judicial review case that argued its live facial-recognition policy was unlawful
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06 May 2026
How Singapore firms are scaling AI initiatives
At AWS Summit Singapore, Certis and Grab showed how they are embedding AI in their business, such as automating finance operations and deploying robots in public safety and security patrols
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06 May 2026
Opaque acquires Abu Dhabi cryptographic AI tech from TII
The announcement was made at Make it in the Emirates as UAE-developed post-quantum and confidential AI technologies move from Abu Dhabi research labs to global enterprise deployment
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05 May 2026
Tableau repositions for AI, unveils new knowledge layer
The Agentic Analytics Platform is designed to help users operationalize contextually relevant data for agents and demonstrates the vendor's ongoing evolution.
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05 May 2026
IBM: Enterprise AI to shift from ‘light bulb’ to ‘electric motor’ era
Enterprises are set to make productivity gains as business shifts from point use cases for artificial intelligence to orchestrated, policy-driven deployment of agentic AI, says IBM CEO
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05 May 2026
Google’s Agentic Data Cloud to power ‘systems of action’
As enterprises move from reactive analytics to AI agents, Google Cloud’s data chief details new metadata, cross-cloud and database tools to help them govern and scale AI agents
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04 May 2026
SAP acquisitions of Dremio, Prior Labs target AI development
The tech giant's latest purchases add a data lakehouse that enables users to access data across systems and tabular foundation models that fuel predictive AI.
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04 May 2026
ANZ enterprises turn to AI for customer and employee insights
At Qualtrics Experience Live in Sydney, leaders from Zip Co, Fonterra, Swyftx and Commonwealth Bank shared how AI is accelerating research, breaking down data silos and turning feedback into measurable business value
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30 Apr 2026
Qlik's Capone departs after eight years as CEO
With AI the dominant trend in data and analytics, the vendor's leader leaves after guiding it through its cloud transition and additions of data integration and AI capabilities.
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29 Apr 2026
Qdrant boosts performance, reliability to meet AI needs
As customers look to move past experimentation and put pilots into production, the vendor's new features better prepare its platform for modern enterprise workloads.
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29 Apr 2026
IT workers say AI is making their jobs more demanding
As workflows adapt to a shifting technological landscape, IT professionals risk being overwhelmed by ‘AI brain-fry’
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28 Apr 2026
Latest SAS capabilities focus on fostering reliable AI
Features including an MCP server and a framework for developing agents aim to enable trustworthy AI-powered analysis while also helping the vendor catch up to its competition.
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28 Apr 2026
UK data watchdog accused of dragging feet on eVisa investigation
Despite longstanding data protection issues with the Home Office’s electronic visa system being flagged five months ago, the UK’s data regulator is yet to take any action
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28 Apr 2026
Actian targets secure, compliant AI with new vector database
The vendor's portable database enables organizations in heavily regulated industries to build AI tools without risking accidental data exposure or regulatory violations.
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27 Apr 2026
GoodData joins agentic AI development mix with Agent Builder
Automatic connections to relevant data through a context layer and a no-code development interface aim to simplify building context-aware, cutting-edge applications.
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26 Apr 2026
UKtech50 2026 – help us find the most influential people in UK IT
Computer Weekly’s annual search for the 50 most influential people in UK technology is on – let us know who you would like to nominate for this year's list
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24 Apr 2026
Science, Innovation and Technology committee chair questions UK’s tech sovereignty approach
House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee chair Chi Onwurah questions the UK’s approach to tech sovereignty
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24 Apr 2026
UAE targets agentic AI to power half of government operations
With a two-year target to move 50% of government sectors, services and operations to agentic artificial intelligence, the UAE is positioning autonomous systems as the next phase of digital government
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23 Apr 2026
Using AI to manage insider risk amid Middle East conflict
As geopolitical tensions reshape the cyber threat landscape across the region, organisations are turning to artificial intelligence-driven behaviour analytics, investigative automation and monitoring of AI agents to detect insider risk faster and strengthen operational resilience
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22 Apr 2026
Bunnings shows off AI shopping agent at Google showcase
The Australian hardware chain has gone from digital laggard to e-commerce pioneer, teaming up with Google Cloud to launch a conversational AI assistant that turns simple queries into DIY project plans
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22 Apr 2026
Google unveils data cloud purpose built for agentic AI
Features including a Knowledge Catalog and cross-cloud lakehouse are aimed at enabling customers to deploy multi-agent systems and could be a competitive edge for the tech giant.
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22 Apr 2026
Google launches Gemini Agent Platform, eighth-generation TPUs
With more AI agents moving to production, Google Cloud is targeting governance, multi-cloud data architecture and purpose-built silicon to help enterprises orchestrate agentic workflows
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22 Apr 2026
Three-quarters of UK IT leaders without strong AI governance plans
Almost one in nine British IT leaders say their organisations use agentic AI, but with few putting in place strong governance plans, according to a Red Hat survey
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21 Apr 2026
Snowflake updates further goal of being control pane for AI
Agentic capabilities that execute workloads based on natural language prompts and access to new data sources facilitate the vendor's ambition to become a hub for agentic systems.
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20 Apr 2026
Singapore pushes for global standard to test generative AI
The proposed standard aims to ensure trustworthy AI by standardising benchmarking and red teaming methodologies, as IMDA’s chief urges faster action on global rules
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20 Apr 2026
Redis unveils Feature Form to improve AI, ML workloads
Unified batch and streaming pipelines and multi-tenant capabilities that allow teams to isolate work in shared database instances highlight new ML management environment.
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20 Apr 2026
Scientists map coral reefs off northern Australia
Researchers have mapped a previously uncharted network of coral and rocky reefs hidden in the murky coastal waters of Australia’s north, without ever setting foot on a boat
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16 Apr 2026
UK’s Sovereign AI supports supercomputing and drug discovery AI startups
The UK government’s £500m Sovereign AI fund announces first cohort of startups backed to boost economic growth and national security
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16 Apr 2026
Interview: Bernhard Seiser, vice-president of digital, data and IT, AOP Health
With long experience of tech in the life sciences sector, AOP’s digital leader is building a foundation for further data insights in all areas of the business
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16 Apr 2026
UK government’s £500m sovereign AI fund bids to commercialise research
The UK government is launching a £500m Sovereign AI Unit to boost artificial intelligence startups and drive economic growth through strategic and long-term investments
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15 Apr 2026
Ordnance Survey works with Snowflake to tackle flood risk
AI-based tool developed with Snowflake improves policymakers’ understanding of properties at risk of flooding
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15 Apr 2026
TDX 2026: Salesforce depicts SaaS as an agentic evolution
Salesforce paints a picture of software as a service evolving in an agentic direction, at its developer conference in San Francisco, with AgentExchange as an ecosystem lubricant
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15 Apr 2026
SMRT taps AI and analytics to predict rail faults and speed up maintenance
The Singapore rail operator has developed an intelligent analytics platform to support predictive maintenance and pinpoint track issues, maximising its three-hour nightly maintenance window
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14 Apr 2026
Latest Qlik tools target helping users achieve AI goals
New analytics, data engineering and governance capabilities are aimed at enabling customers to successfully build and deploy agents and other advanced applications.
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14 Apr 2026
Starburst intros AI assistant to boost analysis, exploration
Built with capabilities that enable it to reason, act and observe, AIDA improves on text-to-SQL translation tools to provide contextually aware query responses.
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14 Apr 2026
Finance regulator outlines its open finance vision
Financial Conduct Authority wants small businesses and consumers to be able to use their data to get better finance deals
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14 Apr 2026
Novo Nordisk partners with OpenAI to AI-power drug development
The Danish pharmaceutical company has a strategic plan to use AI across its business. OpenAI is helping it to achieve this objective
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10 Apr 2026
Nutanix expands flexibility by building out external storage
Nutanix is releasing integrations and a new platform to enable customer choice in storage.
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08 Apr 2026
Snowflake broadens open-source embrace, ups Iceberg support
To make data more interoperable across systems and usable for AI, the vendor is participating in projects that address data quality, integration, governance and discovery.
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02 Apr 2026
What’s driving Oracle’s latest job cuts?
Thousands of job losses have been reported, affecting many roles at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, including those in software engineering and product compliance
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31 Mar 2026
Redpanda launches streaming engine optimized for AI
By integrating workload types, the vendor is simplifying data streams for AI while also differentiating itself from its closest competitors.
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31 Mar 2026
High Court dismisses judicial review against eVisa system
The High Court rules that the Home Office is acting lawfully in refusing to issue alterative proof of immigration status outside of its electronic visa system, but both the judge and the department accepts that those affected by data quality and integrity issues are facing ‘real difficulties’ in their day-to-day lives
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30 Mar 2026
Interview: Thierry Martin, head of enterprise data and analytics, Toyota Motor Europe
A sketch artist by night, and a vehicle engineer by training, Toyota Europe’s data chief is bringing elements of both capabilities to bear in delivering better data insights and building a foundation for AI
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26 Mar 2026
Oracle opens Sydney customer excellence centre to boost AI adoption
Facility will help organisations across Australia and Oceania navigate technology challenges and turn AI experimentation into business value
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26 Mar 2026
Komprise storage tiering service pledges flash savings
Komprise releases the Flash Stretch tool with an aim to reduce costs and optimize primary storage through analyzing storage tiering opportunities.
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26 Mar 2026
Domo adds new governance tools to improve data access
With AI applications taking on more business workflows, new capabilities are aimed at enabling system administrators to ensure the appropriate use of data.
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25 Mar 2026
Domo doubles down on AI with latest platform additions
New features such as an AI Library, a framework for building agents and an MCP server are all aimed at better enabling customers to operationalize their AI initiatives.
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24 Mar 2026
Oracle AI Database update aims to ease developing agents
New vector indexing capabilities and prebuilt agents are designed to simplify building cutting-edge applications and could help differentiate the tech giant from competitors.
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24 Mar 2026
Oracle endows Fusion applications with more AI autonomy
At its London AI World Tour event, Oracle unveils Fusion Agentic Apps, said to enable more autonomous decision-making and execution across ERP, HCM, SCM and CX
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20 Mar 2026
Interview: Jem Walters, CTO, Vanquis
Having come into the company through the acquisition of his money-saving app, the IT chief is bringing an agile and startup culture to the 146-year-old financial services firm
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19 Mar 2026
UK government puts brakes on opt-out copyright exemption for AI
The UK government has ruled out forcing creatives to opt out of their intellectual property being used by artificial intelligence developers as its preferred solution to the AI-copyright controversy, but may still implement copyright exemptions later
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19 Mar 2026
AI makes debut in Bridewell cyber security in CNI report
Regulation has superseded cyber threats as the main driver of cyber security spending, and AI has made its debut for attack and defence, according to a CNI-focused report from Bridewell
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19 Mar 2026
ThoughtSpot domain-specific Spotter agents target AI success
With many enterprises struggling to successfully develop AI tools, the vendor's latest capabilities help AI applications access the context they need to be production-ready.
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19 Mar 2026
Interview: Huy Dao, director of data and machine learning platform, Booking.com
Effective use of technology has already delivered significant cost savings at the online travel giant, and greater use of AI and machine learning promises to bring even greater opportunities to improve
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18 Mar 2026
UK MoD awards more than two dozen contracts for AI targeting systems
The UK Ministry of Defence is ramping up its investment into military artificial intelligence in a bid to increase the ‘lethality’ of the British armed forces
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18 Mar 2026
Snowflake intros SnowWork to automate tasks with AI
The platform, which is now in research preview, is designed to provide users with agent-powered collaboration capabilities that can automate actions and workflows.
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17 Mar 2026
Alibaba joins AI agent race with Wukong launch
Following the viral success of OpenClaw and product launches from Nvidia and Tencent, Alibaba has unveiled an agentic AI platform that integrates with DingTalk to orchestrate business workflows
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17 Mar 2026
Health workers call for Palantir to be booted from NHS contracts
Health justice charity Medact warns that Palantir’s involvement in NHS data systems is a threat to patients and healthcare organisations
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17 Mar 2026
Lendi Group standardises on MongoDB for AI-ready data layer
Following a merger that left the Australian fintech with a fragmented data architecture, Lendi Group has consolidated its databases onto MongoDB Atlas to reduce microservices sprawl and power AI-driven broker tools
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16 Mar 2026
Revealed: How HMRC has been quietly building surveillance capabilities
HMRC has bought phone scanning equipment and analysis software capable of extracting data from mobile devices as it steps up its electronic intelligence gathering capabilities, an investigation by Computer Weekly reveals
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12 Mar 2026
Why real-time data is key for enterprise AI
Moving AI from experiment to production requires high-quality, real-time data streaming. Australia tech leaders from Confluent, Bendigo Bank, Telstra, and Coles share how they are turning systems of record into systems of action
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12 Mar 2026
UK government ‘flying blind’ with poor data in charting regional growth
The government is being impeded in its bid to stoke economic growth across the regions, according to the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee
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12 Mar 2026
Qdrant raises $50M in funding to fuel vector database growth
With VCs cautious about investing in data management providers, the financing, which will be used for R&D and go-to-market initiatives, serves as validation of the vendor's vision.
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12 Mar 2026
GoodData's Context Management aims to make AI trustworthy
The new context layer includes semantic modeling and governance to make data consistent and discoverable for AI and could help the vendor distinguish itself from some competitors.
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11 Mar 2026
Child rapist could have profiled victims through unaudited access to NHS databases
NHS analyst’s conviction for child sexual abuse offences raises concerns over unaudited access to patient data
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10 Mar 2026
Met Police to ‘trial’ handheld facial recognition tech
London Mayor Sadiq Khan reveals in a scrutiny session with London Assembly members that the Met is set to trial a facial recognition phone app for police officers
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10 Mar 2026
AI chooses nuclear escalation in 95% of simulated crises
With artificial intelligence increasingly deployed in analysis and decision-making in armed conflict, research shows AI systems will not naturally default to ‘safe’ outcomes in nuclear crises
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09 Mar 2026
Alation automates governance with latest AI-powered suite
Outcome-based governance, including the newly launched Curation Automation, turns time-consuming data management tasks over to agents and could be a differentiator for the vendor.
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09 Mar 2026
Teradata updates vector indexing suite to aid AI development
New capabilities including hybrid search and support for multi-modal embeddings are aimed at helping users access the data needed by agents and other cutting-edge applications.
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09 Mar 2026
CData targets development success with Connect AI update
The vendor's latest launch takes a three-pronged approach toward helping users move pilots into production and could be a competitive differentiator if it delivers on its promise.
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06 Mar 2026
House of Lords urges UK government to protect IP against AI misuse
Machine-readable indelible watermarking in content supply chain is among proposals that could protect copyrighted content
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05 Mar 2026
Biomemory's Catalog buy speeds DNA data storage development
Biomemory's acquisition of Catalog Technologies gives it key patents and infrastructure. Will it be enough to make DNA data storage commercially viable for enterprises?
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04 Mar 2026
Insightsoftware unifies semantic layer, governance to aid AI
With many enterprises struggling to develop AI tools, the vendor's Simba Intelligence feature set is designed to feed agents and other applications trustworthy, transparent data.
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04 Mar 2026
Landmark legal challenge against Home Office eVisa system heard
The UK High Court will examine whether the Home Office policy of refusing to issue alternative proof of immigration status outside of its electronic visa system is lawful
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03 Mar 2026
Scattered data, cloud transfers creating challenges in enterprise AI
The cost, speed, and governance of moving petabytes of data across hybrid and multicloud environments is becoming a challenge for enterprises looking to harness the benefits of AI
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03 Mar 2026
Synaxon boss charts path to increased growth
After a period of transformation, the channel organisation is looking to meet ambitious targets and continue to carve out a solid position in the hardware and services realms
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26 Feb 2026
India AI Impact Summit: Open source gains ground, but sovereignty tensions persist
While open source artificial intelligence gained unprecedented recognition during the latest global AI summit, divisions over governance, market concentration and regulatory power cast doubt on whether the technology will benefit society as a whole
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26 Feb 2026
Yellowfin boosts analytics suite with new NLQ capabilities
The vendor's latest update adds features that bring it more in line with competitors that have been faster to move beyond traditional BI to power their platforms with AI.
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26 Feb 2026
Confluent adds A2A support to fuel multi-agent AI networks
Including the open protocol enables users to build an orchestrated network of collaborative agents and could help the vendor distinguish itself from its closest competitors.
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26 Feb 2026
US artificial intelligence developers accuse Chinese firms of stealing their data
Artificial intelligence developers are accusing Chinese firms of stealing their intellectual property following a spate of ‘distillation attacks’, despite their own alleged theft of training data
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25 Feb 2026
The UK’s proposed social media ban explained
The UK government will use new legal powers to lay the groundwork for an under-16 social media ban after its consultation on children’s digital well-being, but opponents warn the measures being considered will only treat the symptoms of the problem if they ignore the structural power of big tech
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25 Feb 2026
RWS Global deploys Box’s AI tools to streamline contract workflow
Box Enterprise Advanced is being used to cut contract processing time from 20 minutes down to two