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01 May 2026
News brief: Critical infrastructure, OT cybersecurity attacks
Check out the latest security news from TechTarget SearchSecurity's sister sites, Cybersecurity Dive and Dark Reading.
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01 May 2026
Amazon Connect Talent: AWS enters AI interviewing market
AWS tosses its hat into a somewhat mature -- and crowded -- enterprise tech ring.
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01 May 2026
Weekly news roundup: Musk vs. Altman, Google’s Pentagon AI deal, China and EU hit Meta
Stay up to date with the latest U.S. tech news, IPOs and executive moves shaping the industry each week.
Information Management News from the past 365 days
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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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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 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
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
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
Confluent adds A2A support to fuel multi-agent AI networks
Including the open protocol enables users to build an orchestrated network of collaborative agents and could help the vendor distinguish itself from its closest competitors.
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26 Feb 2026
Yellowfin boosts analytics suite with new NLQ capabilities
The vendor's latest update adds features that bring it more in line with competitors that have been faster to move beyond traditional BI to power their platforms with AI.
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26 Feb 2026
US artificial intelligence developers accuse Chinese firms of stealing their data
Artificial intelligence developers are accusing Chinese firms of stealing their intellectual property following a spate of ‘distillation attacks’, despite their own alleged theft of training data
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25 Feb 2026
The UK’s proposed social media ban explained
The UK government will use new legal powers to lay the groundwork for an under-16 social media ban after its consultation on children’s digital well-being, but opponents warn the measures being considered will only treat the symptoms of the problem if they ignore the structural power of big tech
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25 Feb 2026
RWS Global deploys Box’s AI tools to streamline contract workflow
Box Enterprise Advanced is being used to cut contract processing time from 20 minutes down to two
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24 Feb 2026
Web data search specialist Nimble raises $47M to fuel growth
By raising funding when AI developers are dominating VC interest, the startup shows that there is a need for agents and other AI tools to include context from external sources.
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23 Feb 2026
New Databricks tool targets streaming data cost, complexity
With Zerobus Ingest, the vendor is providing a service that differentiates it from competitors by reducing the tools required to ingest real-time data to its lakehouse platform.
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19 Feb 2026
India AI Impact Summit begins
The summit aims to democratise AI and bridge the growing divide between countries, but critics warn that it risks becoming a mere spectacle if the technology only serves the interests of power and profit
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18 Feb 2026
ThoughtSpot boosts agentic push with Analyst Studio update
A data prep agent and caching capabilities aimed at helping users control spending help the vendor stand out from its peers as it evolves toward becoming an agentic data platform.
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18 Feb 2026
Streaming specialist Redpanda adds governance to AI suite
New Agentic Data Plane features enable users to create a governance layer for agents and could help the vendor differentiate itself from its closest competitors.
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17 Feb 2026
Graphwise aims to boost AI accuracy with GraphRAG launch
With standard RAG pipelines proving unreliable, the vendor's new feature uses knowledge graphs to add needed context to the data retrieval process that fuels AI outputs.
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17 Feb 2026
SurrealDB raises $23M, launches update to fuel agentic AI
Though funding isn't flowing as freely into data management as it once was, the startup is attracting interest by focusing on enabling customers to unify data for AI development.
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17 Feb 2026
Government wages cyber campaign as half the UK’s SMEs are breached
UK government says half of all small businesses have been cyber breached in the recent past as it urges them to ‘lock the door’
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17 Feb 2026
British Transport Police start using live facial recognition
British Transport Police will deploy facial recognition for six months despite calls for the government to halt its rapid expansion of the technology
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16 Feb 2026
Pascal Brier, Capgemini: AI will prove its enterprise truth this year
Capgemini’s chief innovation officer says the 2025 rise and deployment of artificial intelligence agents put enterprise AI progress on hold, but laid the ground for acceleration to come
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15 Feb 2026
Wesfarmers to deploy agentic AI in retail operations
Retail conglomerate behind Kmart and Officeworks signs multi-year deal with Google Cloud to deploy AI agents for customer service and internal productivity
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12 Feb 2026
Large language models provide unreliable answers about public services, Open Data Institute finds
Research questions AI’s trustworthiness in giving people accurate information about government services
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11 Feb 2026
London Assembly member: Police should halt facial-recognition technology use
In lieu of a full-blown ban on the technology, Green London Assembly member Zoë Garbett has called for a number of new safeguards to be implemented that she feels would protect Londoners from ‘escalating’ biometric surveillance
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10 Feb 2026
Apple and Google pledge to improve app fairness
The CMA is seeking views on Apple and Google’s commitments to ensure fair app store practices to stoke the UK’s app economy, fintech and improve developer confidence
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10 Feb 2026
Second ever international AI safety report published
More than 100 artificial intelligence experts have produced the second international AI safety report ahead of a summit in India, outlining a high degree of uncertainty about the development and risks of AI
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10 Feb 2026
Qlik launches agentic experience to fuel AI-powered analysis
The vendor's latest capabilities, including an insight-generating agent and an MCP server, show that it is evolving to keep pace with current trends in data and analytics.
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09 Feb 2026
PII masking a differentiator for Aerospike's NoSQL database
By adding native protection of personally identifiable information, the vendor is simplifying system administration while simultaneously pushing the NoSQL market.
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09 Feb 2026
UAE’s TII challenges big tech dominance with open source Falcon AI models
Through its Falcon models and an open, efficiency-driven research strategy, the Technology Innovation Institute is positioning the UAE as a producer of foundational AI, not merely a consumer of global platforms
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06 Feb 2026
ANZ rolls out AI agents for business bankers
Australian lender claims to be the first in Asia-Pacific to deploy Salesforce Agentforce at scale, following a national roll-out of a CRM platform that consolidates data from different systems to ease administrative toil
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05 Feb 2026
Governance lags agentic AI adoption in the UK, says Salesforce
Salesforce's ‘2026 Connectivity benchmark report’ points to an increase in enterprise agentic AI deployment, but highlights governance gaps and a siloed system that requires better orchestration
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05 Feb 2026
Databricks launches PostgreSQL Lakebase to aid AI developers
Resulting from the $1B acquisition of Neon, the database built for AI workloads -- including separate compute and storage -- is now integrated with the vendor's broader platform.
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05 Feb 2026
DWP rejigs operating model for data transformation by 2030
The Department for Work and Pensions’ 2023-2030 data strategy aims to modernise systems, slash costs by 20%, promote data sharing, and embed a data culture in a hub and spoke model
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04 Feb 2026
LinkedIn touts agentic AI to slash recruitment time
LinkedIn’s head of engineering for talent solutions explains how fine-tuned LLMs and agentic AI architectures are replacing traditional search methods to save recruiters four hours per role
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04 Feb 2026
Pentaho update aids data integration, semantic modeling
The vendor's latest platform update aims to speed, simplify and better govern workloads to help customers build a trusted foundation for AI development.
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03 Feb 2026
Infosecurity Europe launches cyber security startups stream
Infosecurity Europe 2026 will feature a cyber security startup exhibition zone and a competition for business support, in conjunction with the UK Cyber Flywheel organisation
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03 Feb 2026
Kendall names Barnsley as UK’s first tech town
The UK government has named Barnsley as the nation’s first ‘tech town’, with initiatives to boost education, health and local businesses
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03 Feb 2026
Snowflake launches new AI tools, unveils OpenAI partnership
New features such as an agent-powered code generator and automated semantic modeling simplify developing cutting-edge applications and improve the vendor's competitive standing.
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02 Feb 2026
HMRC chooses cloud SAP S/4Hana for tax system overhaul
HM Revenue & Customs is bidding to modernise its tax systems by migrating from ECC6 to SAP’s cloud-based Rise with SAP programme, adopting S/4Hana and AI to enhance efficiency and taxpayer experience