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03 Sep 2026
Genesys banks on AI customer service agents -- and their orchestration
The agentic SaaS playbook is emerging: Throw open your platform to agents of all stripes, and provide a harness or orchestration layer to manage it all.
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02 Sep 2026
Enterprises make strides with private AI on-premises
Discussions at VMware Explore show that private AI usage is growing as smaller models gain power, but the tug-of-war with public cloud isn't necessarily a zero-sum game.
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02 Sep 2026
AI security, VKS boost VCF 9.1 appeal as support deadline looms
Stick, meet carrot: With the clock ticking on VCF 8, recent Broadcom AI security and Kubernetes updates are enticing VMware shops to move forward.
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03 Sep 2026
New York City to ban children’s use of GenAI tools in school
New York mayor Zohran Mamdani has moved to restrict children's use of AI tools in the city's public school system.
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03 Sep 2026
Interview: Oracle accelerates Middle East cloud expansion as demand for sovereign AI rises
The company is expanding its regional cloud footprint, growing sovereign cloud deployments and investing in AI skills development as governments and enterprises seek control over data, compliance and artificial intelligence
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03 Sep 2026
Oracle executive chairman Larry Ellison called to testify over US health system overspend
The executive chair of Oracle and its CEO will be asked to justify why a project budgeted at $10bn is costing taxpayers $17bn more
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03 Sep 2026
CDW expands AI expertise
Distributor acquires more data and analytics expertise, while Genesys shares a momentum update on the positive impact of demand for AI tools
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03 Sep 2026
Singapore’s digital infrastructure bill leaves cross-border data to contract
Proposed licensing regime for datacentre and cloud providers tightens security and resilience obligations, but organisations using capacity in Johor and Batam will still rely on privacy law and contracts to protect data stored overseas
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02 Sep 2026
UK airport hackers leak stolen customer data
The cyber gang that attacked Manchester Airports Group has leaked data on 8.7 million travellers after its victim refused to pay a ransom
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02 Sep 2026
Mythos helps bug bounty firm find critical hidden RCE
HackerOne used Anthropic’s controversial Claude Mythos 5 model on its codebase and found a critical hidden flaw
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02 Sep 2026
Distology talks of expansion after Foresight backing
The security distributor has welcomed a fresh private equity backer as it looks to grow the business through M&A
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02 Sep 2026
AWS sets 2026 opening date for Saudi cloud region
New cloud region, AI partnerships and skills programmes underscore AWS’s growing role in supporting Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030
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02 Sep 2026
AWS sets 2026 opening date for Saudi cloud region
New cloud region, AI partnerships and skills programmes underscore AWS’s growing role in supporting Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030
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02 Sep 2026
Microsoft sets November launch for Saudi cloud region
Announcement at Leap 2026 highlights Saudi Arabia’s push to expand local cloud and AI infrastructure in support of Vision 2030
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02 Sep 2026
Rising token bills force rethink of AI cost management
APAC enterprises are consuming more tokens even as unit prices fall, and the advice on what to do about it runs from smarter caching and gated model access to renting their own infrastructure
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01 Sep 2026
Digital ID challenges remain despite government U-turn, says NAO
While the government may have cancelled its digital ID scheme, challenges such as fragmented data, digital access to public services and public trust remain
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01 Sep 2026
Chancellor unveils plans to entice UK tech startups
The UK government aims to build out home-grown research and development in artificial intelligence and cyber security
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01 Sep 2026
CloudClevr bolsters services options with Flow AI buy
Acquired outfit will form the basis of a fresh digital transformation practice that will add AI, data and automation options
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01 Sep 2026
The Security Interviews: Abby Kearns, ActiveState
ActiveState CEO Abby Kearns discusses open source’s ‘existential crisis’, how AI is changing the secure software playbook, and why it’s time to have a different conversation about open source security
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01 Sep 2026
Pay more, check nothing: Councils buy Microsoft but don’t test
A Computer Weekly analysis of FOI responses from 37 English councils found 32 have never run a competitive procurement in which an alternative to Microsoft could have won
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01 Sep 2026
Snowflake: dashboard-era access controls won’t govern AI agents
The company’s chief data and AI officer talks up efforts to move access controls into the data layer, the cost of dynamic model routing and why governance cannot be baked into model weights
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31 Aug 2026
Why AI may need fewer datacentre GPUs than you think
The focus on inferencing, allied to smaller models, purpose-built silicon and on-device processing, is loosening the grip of hyperscale GPU clusters on enterprise AI workloads
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28 Aug 2026
Wide misconception that AI investment information is regulated and that users are protected
With many using information generated by artificial intelligence to support their investments, the Financial Conduct Authority spells out the risks
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28 Aug 2026
When AI agents fail, companies can’t play the blame game
Singapore Academy of Law’s Yeong Zee Kin, who helped shape Singapore’s model AI governance framework, sets out who answers when AI causes harm – and why the trail usually leads back to a human decision
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27 Aug 2026
Passenger data stolen from major UK airports
Identifying data on passengers who flew from East Midlands, Stansted and Manchester airports has been stolen by an unnamed threat actor
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27 Aug 2026
Meta pays $18bn to settle US child safety lawsuit
As part of a legal settlement over its child safety measures, Meta will have to pay $18bn over a 10-year period, and implement a number of changes to its Facebook and Instagram platforms
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27 Aug 2026
Peers propose report into Computer Misuse Act reform
After previous proposals were brushed aside, Computer Misuse Act reform may be back on the agenda under a new amendment to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill
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27 Aug 2026
Public wary of UK government ‘backdoor’ surveillance following Apple row, poll reveals
A poll of 2,000 UK citizens taken after the government issued a secret order seeking access to Apple users’ encrypted data finds that the public is sceptical of government surveillance powers
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27 Aug 2026
Nvidia results highlight 30% gap in order fulfilment
While the chipmaker posts record-breaking revenue for the quarter, its CEO admits it can only meet 70% of the supply it needs
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27 Aug 2026
Post Office Horizon replacement ‘screw-up’ ends in challenge, more cost and delay
IT supplier Escher challenged the award of the Horizon EPOS replacement contract, leading to months of delay and additional costs
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27 Aug 2026
Deutsche Bank selects Thought Machine to support core system reduction
Thought Machine’s Google-inspired banking technology has now been adopted by 20 global Tier 1 banks
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27 Aug 2026
AI agents will try every door – and find the ones left unlocked
Enterprises are working out how to give AI agents identities of their own, says Ping Identity CEO Andre Durand, just as frontier models start finding vulnerabilities faster than anyone can patch them
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26 Aug 2026
UK government set to adjudicate on ‘risky’ tech purchases
Proposals for amendments to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill would enable the UK government to clamp down on purchases of technology from suppliers linked to hostile foreign countries
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26 Aug 2026
Ransomware attack volumes hit ‘high-water mark’ in July
The number of ransomware attacks hit the highest level seen so far this year in July, according to a report
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26 Aug 2026
Most Influential Women in UK Tech: Computer Weekly’s Hall of Fame
Computer Weekly’s Hall of Fame showcases the great women who have made a lifetime contribution to the technology sector
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26 Aug 2026
Research ‘challenges assumption’ that older generation is less confident with fintech
Older people are more confident managing money online, despite the perception that young tech-savvy people have an advantage
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26 Aug 2026
Vote: Who should be named the 2026 most influential woman in UK tech?
Each year, we ask our audience who should be named the most influential woman in UK technology. Tell us what you think – the deadline for voting is 21 September
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26 Aug 2026
Gartner: Deploy sandboxes to rein in AI agents
A string of mishaps is making sandboxing a priority for organisations deploying AI agents, but Gartner’s Manjunath Bhat warns that sandboxes are just one layer of defence
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25 Aug 2026
US Treasury sets up quantum readiness unit
The US Treasury has established a quantum readiness task force to help financial services institutions through the transition to post-quantum cryptography
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25 Aug 2026
Advania increases support to turn user AI dreams into reality
Channel player introduces service that delivers a secure and sovereign environment users can plan and deploy through
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25 Aug 2026
Networks must be upgraded to unlock AI benefits
Global survey of the CSP community from Ciena underlines the importance of getting infrastructure into a position to support demanding technologies
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25 Aug 2026
UK fintech investment plummets over past six months
Lowest level of fintech investment since 2016 after ‘challenging’ start to 2026, according to KPMG
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25 Aug 2026
More than 100 apply to review DWP subpostmaster prosecutions as process drags on
The government is seeking to appoint a person tasked with reviewing department’s prosecutions of subpostmasters
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25 Aug 2026
Argentina’s ‘techno-authoritarian’ turn expands state spying
The first two years of Javier Milei’s administration has served to expand surveillance capabilities, leading to profiling and reprisals across the country, and limiting rights to privacy and freedom of expression
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24 Aug 2026
How AI has improved customer support for Aussie firms
Support leaders for carsales at Catapult Sports and Sealy of Australia explain how Zendesk’s AI tools have changed their service operations, from providing round-the-clock support to ticket triage in over 60 languages
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24 Aug 2026
UK power plant shutdown highlights CNI cyber challenges
An alleged Iranian attack on a small reserve ‘peaker’ power plant went largely unnoticed despite causing four days of downtime. Cyber experts say the incident raises serious questions about CNI resilience
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24 Aug 2026
What the latest UAE cyber attacks reveal about threats to critical sectors
ThreatLocker CEO Danny Jenkins explains why aviation, energy and education organisations remain attractive targets, and why prevention should take precedence over detection
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24 Aug 2026
UK broadband firms ‘failing’ low‑income homes on social tariffs
Research notes that millions of low‑income UK households are being let down by major broadband providers as regard to how well they are promoting and signposting social tariffs
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24 Aug 2026
Post Office finally signs off Horizon replacement deal after three-month delay
The Post Office has finally put pen to paper on its contract with an electronic point of sale system supplier after a three-month holdup
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24 Aug 2026
Mimecast CEO on why AI risk starts with the user
Ranjan Singh talks up the security supplier’s focus on human risk management, the behavioural data he believes rivals can’t match, and why having a local datacentre is a condition of doing business in APAC
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21 Aug 2026
NCSC tells organisations to have AI kill switches at the ready
In the wake of a series of cyber incidents involving AI agents, the NCSC has published interim guidance for operators of agentic systems, advising organisations retain the ability to pull the plug on AI systems entirely
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21 Aug 2026
‘AI Resist List’ launched to challenge tech industry narratives
A coalition of journalists, scholars and researchers has launched a database to document the increasing grassroots pushback against artificial intelligence technologies
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20 Aug 2026
Cloudera unveils Anywhere Cloud as enterprises pull AI back on-premises
The modular platform lets enterprises run data and AI services across public clouds, private datacentres and air-gapped sites, with early adopter ExxonMobil getting it up and running in just over an hour
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20 Aug 2026
ICO police facial recognition audits reveal ‘mixed’ bag
The use of facial recognition technologies by UK police forces requires ‘significant improvements’ to ensure accountability and public trust, says data regulator
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20 Aug 2026
Will Scottish datacentre ruling nudge spec builds into the open?
Scotland forces councils to flag 50MW-plus datacentre bids to ministers within seven days, as mooted gigawatt campuses prove to be vapour or stall on grid connections
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20 Aug 2026
Starling Bank adds AI-powered skills to customer-facing chatbot
The bank plans to introduce AI skills on a regular basis to build out the capabilities of the Starling Assistant
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20 Aug 2026
Number of girls choosing GCSE computing drops for second year in a row
For a few years, the number of girls choosing computing at GCSE was on the rise, but it has since seen a two-year drop
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20 Aug 2026
PoliceAI outlines plans to test and assure AI for policing
Computer Weekly speaks with PoliceAI – a national body set up to build, test and assure artificial intelligence models for policing contexts – about how it plans to approach the development and implementation of automated policing tools
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19 Aug 2026
Premier League to phase in cyber compliance regime
The Premier League is introducing mandatory cyber compliance rules, but they won’t be fully enforced until the end of the decade
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19 Aug 2026
Proofpoint launches AI security engineering centre in India
The security supplier is hiring over 200 engineers in Hyderabad to develop models that can interpret the intent behind the actions of AI agents, Proofpoint’s latest investment in a market where its business has tripled in a year
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19 Aug 2026
Interview: How a poker strategy scores in business
Computer Weekly speaks to Jo Living of Aces High about the game of poker and how it relates to personal and business life
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19 Aug 2026
Gartner: Agentic AI won’t benefit from economies of scale
The cost of AI inference varies greatly depending on the model and how much thinking and planning agentic AI systems need to do
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19 Aug 2026
How AI is changing the economics of customer service
Jon Aniano, Zendesk's senior vice-president and general manager of customer experience, talks up the rise of voice AI agents, the limits of average handle time and why automated resolution frees human agents for the calls that matter
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18 Aug 2026
Alibaba Cloud opens third South Korea datacentre
The Chinese cloud supplier has expanded its Korean footprint with its third datacentre as it looks to capture a bigger slice of a crowded market dominated by Western and local players
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18 Aug 2026
Apple addresses multiple WebKit vulnerabilities
Apple’s latest security updates address a swathe of WebKit vulnerabilities, many of them apparently discovered using OpenAI tools
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18 Aug 2026
UK police to launch £1.4m AI call system
The system, developed by the Home Office and National Police Chiefs’ Council, will use AI software to assess why someone is calling the 101 non-emergency police line
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18 Aug 2026
SIT and IBM to build quantum security hub in Singapore
Facility will help enterprises audit their cryptographic vulnerabilities and test defences before quantum computers can crack current encryption standards
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17 Aug 2026
Lanarkshire gets £300m to fund AI growth zone
DataVita set to expand datacentre capacity while Dell Scotland relocates main office to Lanarkshire
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17 Aug 2026
Multiple organisations investigating fresh wave of Cl0p breaches
Multinational giants such as Philips and Shell may have been affected after the Cl0p cyber extortion gang hacked a popular piece of PLM software
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17 Aug 2026
Natural History Museum’s ‘living laboratory’ logs 11 million environmental records in first year
More than 50 sensors feed temperature, humidity and acoustic readings into the Museum’s AWS Data Ecosystem, which found woodland soils stayed 10°C cooler in June’s heatwave
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17 Aug 2026
TalkTalk Business, ARO merge to boost business connectivity
Enterprise arm of comms provider and tech services provider unite to create one of the UK’s largest independent providers of connectivity and managed technology services
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17 Aug 2026
Revealed: Cyber spies used malware from GitHub to hack EncroChat cryptophone network
Computer Weekly reveals for the first time how French cyber spies hacked EncroChat phones used by organised crime groups
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16 Aug 2026
ACE Robotics takes aim at embodied AI’s data problem
The SenseTime-backed firm is pairing wearable data capture with an on-device world model to address the challenges holding back the wider use of robots in the enterprise
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14 Aug 2026
Supplier challenge delays Post Office Horizon replacement
Losing bidder challenges the Post Office’s decision to award Horizon replacement contract to OneView Commerce
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14 Aug 2026
Quintas Energy deploys AI through Box to power workflows
The company is using artificial intelligence with Box to help it classify and understand documentation
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14 Aug 2026
Most Influential Women in UK Tech: The 2026 longlist
In Computer Weekly’s search for this year’s top 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech, hundreds of women have been put forward for consideration. Here, we look at a list of everyone nominated in 2026
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14 Aug 2026
STT GDC secures up to $1.37bn in green financing for Johor datacentre campus
The facility, arranged by a consortium led by UOB Malaysia, will support the development of STT GDC’s flagship Malaysia campus in Johor
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13 Aug 2026
A-level computing on the rise as more girls choose to code
The number of students choosing to study computing at A-level has increased slightly this year, and the number of girls taking the subject has grown for the seventh year running
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13 Aug 2026
Ahead Foundry to increase support for UK and European customers
Firm opens facility to help users looking to design and deploy high-performance AI computing solutions
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13 Aug 2026
Middle East AI scaling: Five mistakes organisations must avoid
As AI investment surges across the UAE and Saudi Arabia, data readiness is emerging as the defining factor between successful enterprise adoption and stalled deployments
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13 Aug 2026
Everpure lands second hyperscaler design win for DirectFlash
A second top-five hyperscaler is set to take Everpure’s high-capacity flash modules, looking to displace HDDs in a specific price-performance tier of the storage stack
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13 Aug 2026
Ryanair signs five-year Google Cloud AI partnership
Ryanair adds Google Cloud to existing AWS estate, to deploy Gemini Enterprise and DeepMind models to 35,000 staff for crew scheduling and operational decision-making
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13 Aug 2026
At least six police forces have racked up contracts with Palantir worth £7.8m
A joint investigation by Computer Weekly and Good Law Project reveals six police forces have used Palantir’s data analytics software, while several other forces are believed to have access through regional taskforces
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13 Aug 2026
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure gets hybrid quantum capabilities
Oracle has partnered with Quantinuum to bring the company’s Helios system to OCI customers
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12 Aug 2026
Ant Group debuts physician platform to support patient care
The AQ for Doctor platform is integrated with a patient-facing app to help doctors conduct online consultations, manage patient records and support clinical decision-making
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12 Aug 2026
Dubai ranks second globally in AI adoption as investment in digital infrastructure accelerates
BCG’s Intelligent Cities Index highlights how the emirate is translating artificial intelligence ambitions into large-scale deployment, supported by investments in datacentres, sovereign AI initiatives and digital infrastructure
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12 Aug 2026
NBN Co passes fibre tipping point as speed uplift carries FY26 growth
Australia’s wholesale broadband operator met or beat its full-year guidance as copper-to-fibre migration hit record levels
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12 Aug 2026
Horizon3 backs channel with multimillion-dollar investment
Security player outlines how it intends to bolster its operations and the support it can provide partners
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12 Aug 2026
MPs want clarification on DSIT breakup
Science, Innovation and Technology Committee asks for clearer details on what the disbandment of the DSIT means for tech policy
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12 Aug 2026
Sovereignty beyond residency: Why Gulf governments must rethink AI control
Vast Data’s Haider Aziz argues that auditability, portability and governance will determine the success of sovereign artificial intelligence initiatives across the Middle East
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12 Aug 2026
Keppel lays groundwork for Kruger cable system with IMDA licence
The infrastructure asset manager and operator secures regulatory approval for a subsea cable that will run west to the Middle East, with a final investment decision expected by the end of 2026
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12 Aug 2026
AI impact seen in Q2 numbers at Insight and CDW
Channel players share quarterly numbers that show growth across the board and benefit from UK operations
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12 Aug 2026
Why sexualisation of women by Grok’s GenAI is a data privacy issue
MP Jess Asato discusses her landmark legal case against xAI, explaining why she believes AI companies must be held accountable for privacy violations
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11 Aug 2026
Nearly 60% of people regretted taking social media financial advice
TSB survey of 2,000 people found that one in four have used artificial intelligence for financial advice
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11 Aug 2026
Why the next AI race will be won at the inference layer
Growing adoption of agentic AI is exposing the limitations of single-stack infrastructure, prompting enterprises to rethink how models, hardware and sovereignty are managed
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06 Aug 2026
Capita CEO receives scathing rebuttal from employee over botched contract
Capita CEO criticised after making Civil Service Pension Scheme claims in a message to staff
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06 Aug 2026
South Korea's government overtakes telcos as top cyber attack target
Kaspersky researcher Sojun Ryu says ransomware crews have joined nation-state groups in going after South Korean organisations, as traces of LLM output start turning up inside malware
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05 Aug 2026
Power scarcity pushes APAC datacentre pipeline to record 26.5GW
Asia-Pacific’s datacentre development pipeline grew by 7.1GW in the first half of 2026, with Southeast Asia now accounting for half of all capacity under construction
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05 Aug 2026
Mythos ran real-life supply chain attack in AI safety body test
Anthropic’s Mythos 5 has been caught orchestrating a real-world open source supply chain attack using social engineering techniques during a test run by the UK’s AI Security Institute
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05 Aug 2026
Chi Onwurah pushes to curb digital twins of real people
The chair of the science, technology and innovation committee says digital twins of people should be covered by data protection law
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05 Aug 2026
ECI snaps up Prima
ERP specialist acquired as Tracxn Technologies shines a light on the general state of European technology investments
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04 Aug 2026
Government gives regulatory boost to support AI in legal sector
Legal firms have been invited to participate in the new Legal Services AI Growth Lab to reduce barriers to the use of artificial intelligence in legal services
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04 Aug 2026
ADNOC shifts AI strategy from isolated pilots to enterprise-wide operations
UAE energy giant embeds artificial intelligence across its value chain as it moves from experimentation to operational scale
