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25 Sep 2025
Databricks partners with OpenAI to boost AI development
GPT-5 is now the primary model for the data platform vendor's users. In addition, the partners will collaborate to improve model performance for real-world applications.
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25 Sep 2025
Which SDOH do seniors want health plan benefits to address?
Aging in place, access to healthcare and economic insecurity are leading SDOH affecting senior health and wellbeing.
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24 Sep 2025
Incorta unveils features as part of new focus on AI
The vendor's new AI-focused features include a Model Context Protocol layer for developing agents and prebuilt agentic AI capabilities to assist with specific tasks.
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25 Sep 2025
Government might support Jaguar Land Rover supply chain to mitigate cyber attack impact
The government is considering buying car parts from JLR’s supply chain to sell them on to the company once it recovers from the August cyber attack
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25 Sep 2025
Co-op declares cyber attack damage cost £206m
Co-op reveals £206m costs from April cyber attack, with revenues hit, member data stolen and shelves emptied, exposing major retail supply chain vulnerabilities
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24 Sep 2025
Internet shutdowns in Africa on upward trajectory
A comparative analysis of internet shutdowns in African countries highlights how the tactic is increasingly used to repress dissent and political opposition, depriving millions of people and businesses access to vital digital tools that sustain their social, economic and political life
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24 Sep 2025
NCA arrests man following cyber attack that disrupted air travel
The NCA has arrested a man in West Sussex over the cyber attack on Collins Aerospace that disrupted Heathrow and other EU airports. He has been released on conditional bail
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23 Sep 2025
New consortium to aid AI by standardizing semantic modeling
An open standard for defining data would simplify data integration and discovery to reduce one of the barriers preventing organizations from successfully developing AI tools.
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23 Sep 2025
Podcast: How to get value from unstructured data
In this podcast, we talk to Nasuni founder and CTO Andres Rodriguez about the obstacles to getting the most value from enterprise unstructured data, especially via metadata
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23 Sep 2025
Jaguar Land Rover extends cyber attack-induced shutdown to October
Jaguar Land Rover is extending its production shutdown caused by the 31 August cyber attack into next month, as government ministers drop by and supply chain workers lose wages
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23 Sep 2025
Teradata unveils AgentBuilder to aid agentic AI development
Like many of its competitors, the longtime data management and analytics vendor is adding tools, such as an MCP server, to help customers build advanced applications.
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23 Sep 2025
EU to shut door on Big Tech in financial data sharing
US tech giants to be excluded from EU’s Financial Data Access initiative, which enables the sharing of certain customer financial data
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23 Sep 2025
EU to shut door on Big Tech in financial data sharing
US tech giants to be excluded from EU’s Financial Data Access initiative, which enables the sharing of certain customer financial data
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17 Sep 2025
Techcombank wields data and AI to drive customer engagement
By unifying data on the Databricks platform, the Vietnam bank has built AI capabilities to deliver hyper-personalised offers to 15 million customers and expand its footprint beyond its traditional affluent base
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17 Sep 2025
MongoDB adds MCP server, expands AI development capabilities
While the database vendor isn't breaking new ground with its updated features, they combine to provide customers with valuable tools that will help to build modern applications.
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16 Sep 2025
Microsoft adds new AI development, OneLake tools to Fabric
New features such as MCP support and simplified access to data stored across multiple clouds simplify developing agents and keep the tech giant's platform competitive.
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15 Sep 2025
Amnesty: AI surveillance risks ‘supercharging’ US deportations
Amnesty International says AI-driven platforms from Palantir and Babel Street are being used by US authorities to track migrants and revoke visas, raising fears of unlawful detentions and mass deportations
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12 Sep 2025
EU Data Act comes into force amid fears of regulation fatigue
The EU Data Act will potentially give users control of device data, and boost data sharing, cloud switching and competition while raising compliance demands
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11 Sep 2025
Sigma Computing intros array of new AI, analytics tools
The new features, most of which are not yet generally available, are aimed at enabling more nontechnical employees within enterprises to work with data to inform decisions.
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10 Sep 2025
SingleStore agrees to growth buyout by private equity firm
The database specialist's management team will remain, with the investment from Vector Capital Management potentially enabling growth beyond what was previously possible.
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10 Sep 2025
Jaguar Land Rover admits data has been compromised in cyber attack
The car maker revealed that data was stolen in the cyber attack that began on 31 August, as its production line continues to be affected
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10 Sep 2025
ThoughtSpot Embedded update boosts agentic AI capabilities
The new release lets customers, including ISVs, embed the latest version of the analytics vendor's Spotter agent, which now enables access to unstructured data.
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09 Sep 2025
UK AI sector balloons by 85% to 5,800 companies from 2023 to 2025
A Perspective Economics study commissioned by DSIT sizes the UK AI sector at 5,800 companies, an increase of 85% over two years
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09 Sep 2025
Monte Carlo's Agent Observability targets reliability of AI
The vendor's new feature enables users to define acceptable AI outputs and trace outputs that don't meet organizational standards back to source data so they can be addressed.
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08 Sep 2025
Splunk.conf: Splunk and Cisco showcase unified platform
With 18 months having elapsed since Cisco closed its acquisition of Splunk, joint platform capabilities and developments are being showcased at the annual Splunk.conf fair
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08 Sep 2025
Dell AI server revenues leap but storage waits on Project Lightning
During the past quarter, Dell’s datacentre sales went through the roof due to new server and networking products for AI – but storage has not shared the same dynamic
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05 Sep 2025
Fivetran's Tobiko Data acquisition aids data transformation
The purchase provides the data integration vendor with its own data transformation framework to augment capabilities it provides through integrations with third-party specialists.
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05 Sep 2025
Jaguar Land Rover cyber attack keeps workers at home
The recent cyber attack on Jaguar Land Rover is keeping workers out of the plants as possible attack group identity becomes public
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04 Sep 2025
Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 team chooses SAP Cloud ERP to gain edge
Formula 1 team Mercedes-AMG Petronas has chosen SAP Cloud ERP to help it comply with upcoming regulatory changes from the FIA
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04 Sep 2025
Neo4j's latest targets graph database performance at scale
Infinigraph enables the vendor's platform to handle the scale of hybrid transactional/analytical processing workloads used to help inform AI and analytics applications.
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03 Sep 2025
Fastly CEO plots course through AI and security
Chief exec Kip Compton explains how Fastly’s unified platform is solving the web’s biggest challenges, from content scrapping by AI bots to distributed denial-of-service attacks
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02 Sep 2025
Cyber attackers damage Jaguar Land Rover production
Jaguar Land Rover reports a cyber attack has ‘severely disrupted’ its vehicle production and retail operations, recalling similar attacks on other prominent British brands this year
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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
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
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
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
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