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15 Jul 2026
Atlassian Jira Planner joins spec-driven development AI coding trend
As enterprises grapple with tokenomics, Atlassian emphasizes upfront planning to improve downstream efficiency. But optimizing AI coding costs and quality remains complex.
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15 Jul 2026
World leaders confront AI layoffs; more in store for contact centers
Apprenticeship may solve the problem of training new contact center hires after AI vacuums up all the entry-level jobs humans now perform.
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15 Jul 2026
Regatta Data launches unified base for AI with RegattaDB
The database vendor is entering a crowded market with the launch of a database purpose-built for agents by unifying disparate data workloads.
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15 Jul 2026
Chaotic July Patch Tuesday threatens to overwhelm defenders
Another mammoth Patch Tuesday update, likely topping 600 flaws in total, sends defenders into the weeds.
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15 Jul 2026
Home Office proposes AI tooling to accelerate digital disclosure
PoliceAI will be used to pilot artificial intelligence tools that are capable of automatically generating summaries of digital material, saving ‘countless’ admin hours
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15 Jul 2026
Reeves speaks up about UK sovereign AI
The UK government has ambitions to build out its own AI capabilities, but its plans are stumped by high datacentre power costs
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15 Jul 2026
Digital Dubai and Emirates Group deepen collaboration on shared digital platforms
Agreement will give Emirates Group access to Dubai’s expanding ecosystem of digital services, data capabilities and shared platforms as the emirate pushes towards a more integrated, AI-enabled digital economy
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15 Jul 2026
Australia launches Office of AI to drive world-first national framework
Prime minister Anthony Albanese establishes Office of AI to coordinate binding standards for the technology, promising the world's first single national AI framework
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15 Jul 2026
Inside AWS’s $1bn forward-deployed engineering initiative
The cloud giant is embedding cross-functional teams of engineers, scientists and strategists with customers, with Commonwealth Bank of Australia among those already seeing results
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14 Jul 2026
AI impacting stress levels among cyber professionals
AI is affecting the day-to-day careers of cyber security pros in regard to stress levels, but respondents to an ISC2 data-gathering exercise are split over whether or not their stress levels are going up or down
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14 Jul 2026
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AI skills fund launches in Barnsley
The government is looking for ideas on how to deliver AI training to Barnsley residents as part of the government’s AI Upskilling Challenge Fund
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14 Jul 2026
Scottish Building Society subscribes to embedded AI to begin a new journey
Oldest remaining building society becomes first customer to sign up to embedded AI offering from current supplier SBS
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13 Jul 2026
Cyber body Crest launches AI security charter
Crest’s industry-backed AI charter commits signatories to supporting responsible AI adoption and aims to foster trust in AI-enabled security services.
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13 Jul 2026
Microsoft admits datacentre greenhouse gas emissions hike
Growth in carbon emissions for 2024-25 matches total emissions over the previous four years, as Microsoft focuses on datacentre power
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13 Jul 2026
Singtel and Thales launch multi-operator IoT eSIM network
Bridge Alliance service will allow enterprises to provision and manage connected devices across four Asia-Pacific mobile operators through a single platform
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12 Jul 2026
Singapore investors embrace AI but still lean on human advisers
Singapore’s affluent investors are among the world’s keenest adopters of AI for investment research, but most still want a professional adviser to validate machine-generated insights
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10 Jul 2026
AI is making the mainframe harder to retire, not easier
Once dismissed as legacy tech on the way out, the mainframe is being reframed as the trusted anchor of hybrid, AI-era architectures
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09 Jul 2026
MPs call on NHS to scrap Palantir and its Federated Data Platform
Health and Social Care Committee urges health minister to get rid of US firm Palantir and its Federated Data Platform amid ‘mistrust’ and ‘contested benefits’
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09 Jul 2026
Cyber field doubts promise of Cyber Shield
The NCSC has shared more details of its national AI Cyber Shield initiative, but experts say the project faces serious delivery challenges
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09 Jul 2026
Capita to lose money on pension debacle but ‘has government’s private parts in its grip’
Joint select committee grilling reveals that the tech Capita planned to use to increase process automation did not work
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09 Jul 2026
Insurer Unum aims to deliver benefits of $20m using AI to re-write old Cobol code
We speak to Shelia Anderson, chief information and digital officer of insurance company Unum, about its project to ‘reimagine’ mainframe software
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09 Jul 2026
R&A drives AI critical networking infrastructure refresh at Open
Golf governing body partners with networking and comms giant to deliver critical networking infrastructure to major championships and new global headquarters bringing AI-based next-gen connectivity
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09 Jul 2026
The FDP debate is looking in the rear-view mirror – what’s around the next bend?
The question is no longer whether the Federated Data Platform has delivered enough, but whether the NHS will have the data infrastructure to deploy AI before the workforce crisis forces the issue
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09 Jul 2026
NCS: Chinese open AI models gaining ground in Singapore
As American and Chinese AI worlds pull apart, the Singtel unit is courting both by putting OpenAI and Alibaba engineers on the same stage and folding Chinese models into its own products
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08 Jul 2026
NTT Data and HYMH claim physical AI breakthrough
Collaboration embeds AI‑driven quality assurance directly into production, helping validate assembly process in real time to support quality assurance, improve efficiency and enable smarter manufacturing
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08 Jul 2026
Lumen completes Alkira acquisition to boost enterprise networking
Acquisition designed to bring together network and digital services with intelligent networking software and simplify enterprise connections across cloud, AI and hybrid environments
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08 Jul 2026
The AI handshake: More MCP interoperability for Salesforce's Slackbot
MCP is now table stakes, just like APIs had to be back in the early era of microservices.
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08 Jul 2026
European Central Bank demands AI security ‘action plan’
European Central Bank gives banks deadline to outline their plans to defend against artificial intelligence-based security threats
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08 Jul 2026
Road to higher vehicle automation accelerates
Research reveals how vehicle autonomy systems are advancing steadily, with as many as eight million new passenger cars sold globally in 2025 equipped with L2+ advanced driver assistance systems capabilities
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07 Jul 2026
AI workloads to test mobile network capability
Research across 22 markets finds which 5G network metrics emerging AI use cases will place under stress, relative to standard internet traffic
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07 Jul 2026
Can Oman become the Gulf’s third AI infrastructure hub?
The Sultanate is leveraging subsea cables, lower costs and regulatory stability to position itself alongside regional AI giants, but a large ecosystem scale gap remains
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07 Jul 2026
Singtel’s AI push could lift its digital business to a third of earnings
Singtel’s group CEO, Yuen Kuan Moon, says the telco is investing in datacentres, GPUs and AI services while staying focused on shareholder returns
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07 Jul 2026
Singapore Changi Airport’s 10-second border points to aviation’s AI future
As passenger volume heads towards 10 billion a year, airlines, airports and governments are leaning on AI, biometrics and real-time data to keep travellers moving
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06 Jul 2026
US Anthropic restrictions dent UK tech sovereignty ambition
The UK government cannot rely on allies. Instead, it must sort out startup funding and do more to build out a full tech stack
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06 Jul 2026
UK regulator publishes ‘landmark’ AI review
FCA review of the use of artificial intelligence in retail finance follows MPs’ criticism of regulators
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05 Jul 2026
How Zoho’s full-stack strategy keeps it in control of cost and sovereignty
Zoho’s ANZ lead Rakesh Prabhakar explains how building its own infrastructure keeps the SaaS firm in control of cost, pricing and data sovereignty
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03 Jul 2026
Interview: Oracle NetSuite’s Evan Goldberg – SaaSpocalypse averted
The executive vice-president of Oracle NetSuite discusses the evolution of AI in SaaS ERP, countering any SaaSpocalypse narrative, citing an ecosystem knowledge edge
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03 Jul 2026
SAESL turbocharges aircraft engine maintenance with data and AI
The world’s largest supplier of Rolls-Royce engine maintenance services is working with Kyndryl to modernise its IT infrastructure, build a single source of truth for data, and scale up the use of AI across its business
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02 Jul 2026
UKtech50 2026: The most influential people in UK technology
Computer Weekly has announced the 16th annual UKtech50 – our definitive list of the movers and shakers in the UK tech sector
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02 Jul 2026
UKtech50 2026 winner: Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO, DeepMind
Third-time UKtech50 winner Demis Hassabis has shown what homegrown UK tech talent can do, and the importance of tech for good
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02 Jul 2026
Qlik launches data engineering tools to aid AI development
New capabilities, such as data quality agents and a feature that makes data products more reusable, support engineers to help organizations more easily achieve their AI goals.
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02 Jul 2026
Bank of England explores trading ‘kill switches’ to contain AI meltdowns
UK central bank’s deputy governor outlines challenges facing regulators as artificial intelligence reshapes the finance sector
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01 Jul 2026
Japan revises AI strategy amid frontier AI threats
Just six months after releasing its national AI framework, Tokyo is updating its guidelines to address the weaponisation of frontier AI models capable of finding and exploiting unknown vulnerabilities
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01 Jul 2026
Danske Bank extends AWS agreement for next phase of transformation
Danish multinational bank and cloud service giant will work together on GenAI initiatives as part of the bank’s transformation strategy
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30 Jun 2026
Finland bets industrial recovery on health AI, maths and quantum
The ‘world’s first’ national AI model leads Finnish plan to concentrate national resources on industrial revival
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30 Jun 2026
Genesys acquires Pinkfish to speed up contact center AI deployments
Genesys jump-starts its agentic toolkit.
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30 Jun 2026
Vodafone looks to serve 5G+ ace at Wimbledon
UK operator claims world-first 5G+ Serve experience as official connectivity partner of tennis championships uses network slicing to make shots from robotic arm
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30 Jun 2026
Couchbase evolution continues with new data layer for AI
New capabilities including Agent Memory and extension to edge devices help the vendor compete for market share as it grows beyond its database roots.
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30 Jun 2026
HPE Discover 2026: Powering Siemens Healthineers’ life-saving vision
Siemens Healthineers’ head of clinical marketing discusses the technology behind the firm’s advances in medical imaging
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30 Jun 2026
Interview: How the CIO of Unilever delivers business empathy
Reema Jain, who recently became CIO of Unilever, says IT leaders should build a culture where IT people can ‘play’ with new tech
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30 Jun 2026
Gartner declares ‘agentic AI’ the next step function
AI agents will transform complex data management, optimise cloud costs and overcome the limitations of standalone generative AI, according to Gartner
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30 Jun 2026
Latest MongoDB tools tackle top AI development hurdles
New capabilities address the data retrieval accuracy and regulatory compliance issues that often stall initiatives, and could help distinguish the vendor from competitors.
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29 Jun 2026
Martha Lane Fox and other experts see AI arms race as damaging
A compilation of essays penned by digital experts illustrates the risks of AI dominance and what lessons can be learned from history
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29 Jun 2026
India’s Hexaware to add 1,200 UK tech staff
Indian heritage IT supplier plans to have 1,200 UK staff across multiple sites, with research and development centres to open this year
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29 Jun 2026
Tencent Cloud powers cloud migration for Indonesian telco
Using AI agents to replace months of manual labour, Tencent Cloud consolidated XLSmart’s fragmented, multicloud IT estate into a unified platform and migrated over 15TB of core data assets in record time
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26 Jun 2026
Met Palantir pilot: The DPIA that raises more questions than answers
We examine the Data Protection Impact Assessment for the Metropolitan Police’s Palantir Foundry pilot, and the governance gaps it exposes around surveillance, transparency and staff consultation
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26 Jun 2026
AI surge sees fibre become nervous system of thinking economy
Study shows how fibre broadband and AI infrastructure are becoming increasingly interdependent – from datacentre interconnection and middle-mile capacity to edge connectivity, resilient transport and real-time applications
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26 Jun 2026
Metropolitan Police chief warns against law updates amid substantial tech expansion
The Metropolitan Police is to significantly expand use of AI, drones and facial recognition to ‘regain the advantage’ over criminals, but warns progress could be held back by legislation and data integration issues
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26 Jun 2026
Secure Code Warrior CEO on surviving the AI ‘vulnerability apocalypse’
As enterprises embrace agentic AI and vibe coding, Secure Code Warrior CEO and co-founder Pieter Danhieux warns that code-generating models are still producing critical security flaws
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25 Jun 2026
CVS Health tackles tactical agentic AI rollouts for healthcare
With Salesforce Agentforce Health, CVS Health plans to stitch together provider, insurance and pharmacy data to make processes more efficient for customers.
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25 Jun 2026
Red Hat and IBM, Chainguard take on OSS security risk
Industry players are using a clearinghouse model to triage the AI-fueled surge in OSS vulnerabilities -- and, in some cases, act as maintainers of last resort.
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25 Jun 2026
Six companies selected as AI tutoring development partners
Six UK companies have been selected as part as UK government’s plans to introduce AI tutoring tools in schools
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25 Jun 2026
Nokia accelerates AI for networking drive
Spate of activity sees global comms tech provider announce expanded collaboration with hyperscaler, as well as a joint proof of concept with data and AI company to support autonomous networks for the AI era
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25 Jun 2026
Boomi CEO shares vision of AI cost management
Steve Lucas, CEO of Boomi, believes the answer is prompt routing, which sends queries to the LLM with the lowest token cost and caches responses
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25 Jun 2026
Salesforce productizes its own customer service AI agent for users
Salesforce also becomes the latest CX tech vendor to try its hand at outcomes-based pricing.
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25 Jun 2026
Qualcomm gains AI edge with Modular acquisition
Connected comms tech platform provider makes strategic buyout to accelerate adoption of edge-to-cloud AI platforms by developers, OEMs, ODMs, cloud service providers and model creators
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25 Jun 2026
Finland drives AI growth amid low take-up concerns
Survey reveals concerns over the take-up of artificial intelligence technology in Finland
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25 Jun 2026
EU proposes tech-backed expansion of Europol policing agency
Enhanced powers to collect and share data are at the heart of EU plans to expand Europol, putting it at loggerheads with human rights groups
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25 Jun 2026
MWC 2026 Shanghai: Huawei bets on token economy as telecoms seeks new AI revenues
AI-native networks, intelligent computing and token-based business models are emerging as the next frontier of digital infrastructure
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24 Jun 2026
Gartner warns AI model advantage is shrinking
As foundational artificial intelligence capabilities converge, Gartner analysts urge IT leaders to focus on data quality, AI literacy and process integration, among other areas, rather than chasing the latest models
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24 Jun 2026
Agents are altering data security needs, Oracle responds
Traditional strategies that protect infrastructure systems are not enough with agents autonomously accessing data and threat actors using AI to discover new vulnerabilities.
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24 Jun 2026
Digital surveillance tech facilitates ‘arbitrary’ border abuses
Outsourcing migration processes to third countries via the transfer of powerful digital surveillance technologies is entrenching an ‘arbitrary and deterrent’ approach to border management that is hard to scrutinise and ultimately undermines the human rights of migrants
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24 Jun 2026
Met pushes ahead with major facial-recognition expansion
Metropolitan Police set to roll out live facial recognition (LFR) in the West End and Soho, but critics say police are ‘rushing ahead’ without regulation
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24 Jun 2026
Pegasystems CEO and founder Alan Trefler on AI agent ‘madness’
Pegasystems boss criticises big software suppliers for pushing enterprises to deploy unpredictable AI agents
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24 Jun 2026
Overwhelming support for Microsoft SMS designation in CMA responses
Some 25 organisations back Strategic Market Status for Microsoft’s business software ecosystem, while the Open Cloud Coalition estimates £60m in annual public sector costs
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24 Jun 2026
The £1,100 lock-in: CMA Microsoft probe exposes software ecosystem at a crossroads
A parish council, a £60m public sector bill, and the AI question that could define UK digital competition for a generation in responses to the CMA’s Strategic Market Status investigation
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24 Jun 2026
Gartner: AI coding agents will cost more than real developers
As organisations ramp up the use of AI coding agents in software development, they may find costs increase significantly if such tools are overused
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24 Jun 2026
Cisco: Legacy networks can no longer support the new AI workforce
At Cisco Connect 2026 Singapore, tech leaders and policymakers warn that businesses must modernise their IT infrastructure and governance frameworks to pave the way for agentic AI
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23 Jun 2026
Gartner: Prioritise governance to beat AI hype
Gartner analysts call for IT leaders to prioritise foundational investments in governance, change management and talent to realise the benefits of AI
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23 Jun 2026
CData aims to simplify AI development with latest features
New capabilities that reduce data integration tasks and connect data with AI aid developers while helping the vendor carve out a niche amid a competitive landscape.
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23 Jun 2026
Oxford and UCL labs receive £60m AI funding boost
Recognising it cannot compete with big tech just by throwing large amounts of cash and compute at AI, the UK’s funding is more grassroots-based
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23 Jun 2026
Latest EnterpriseDB features unify data for AI development
New capabilities address the data sprawl that sometimes stops enterprises from successfully building agents and could help differentiate the vendor from competitors.
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23 Jun 2026
Roundtable: UK tech chiefs on agentic AI, workforce culture and tokenomics
Tech leaders from THG Ingenuity, Kingfisher, Rightmove and Deloitte speak at the Google Summit London about the transition to agentic systems and the rising focus on token costs
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23 Jun 2026
Google’s Andi Gutmans on the shift to agent-scale data management
We talk to PHP pioneer and Google agentic data cloud vice-president about ensuring agentic quality, including having agents voting against each other, and the risk of LLM lock-in
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23 Jun 2026
Philippine government taps Google Cloud to deploy AI agents
The Filipino government will equip public servants with Gemini Enterprise AI tools, launch a cross-agency cyber defence alliance and upgrade subsea network infrastructure
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23 Jun 2026
Australian government cloud mandate sparks migration warnings
As Australia prepares to enforce its whole-of-government cloud policy, industry experts warn agencies against rushed migrations, supplier lock-in and treating AI readiness as an afterthought
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22 Jun 2026
Artificial intelligence-based law firm wins in court
AI-based law firm received Solicitors Regulation Authority approval in June last year in a landmark decision
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22 Jun 2026
Lloyds Bank staff have taken 400,000 AI courses since January
UK bank staff have already taken artificial intelligence-related training courses as part of AI Academy
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22 Jun 2026
Santander extends staff access to AI as first quarter delivers €35m value
Spanish bank expects artificial intelligence use to add €200m in value this year through cost savings and extra revenues
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22 Jun 2026
Interview: How a startup mentality helps keep pace with AI
The pace of change in artificial intelligence can be overwhelming. We speak to Thomson Reuters CTO Joel Hron about how to innovate at pace
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22 Jun 2026
GitLab CIO rejects ‘tokenmaxxing’ as it rebuilds work around agentic AI
Manu Narayan tells Computer Weekly why he’s steering clear of vanity metrics such as ‘tokenmaxxing’, why reports of SaaS’s death are overblown, and why the biggest pressure is simply keeping pace
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22 Jun 2026
Wimbledon’s ‘hidden court 19’ uses IBM Bob to complete 10 years’ work in months
IBM unleashed its artificial intelligence-driven software development technology in preparation for the latest Wimbledon tennis tournament
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19 Jun 2026
Civil society: Police facial recognition must be strictly limited
Digital rights groups map out ‘minimum, necessary’ human rights protections to be included in UK government’s upcoming legal framework for police facial recognition
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19 Jun 2026
Chilling effects of surveillance threaten democracy, UN finds
United Nations study finds the chilling effects of pervasive digital surveillance in modern life undermines an entire web of interconnected and interdependent human rights, representing a systemic threat to democratic norms and political participation
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19 Jun 2026
Google Cloud boosts for enterprise agentic at London Summit
Hyperscaler prioritises process automation in UK showcase, with frontier models, agent platforms and development tools to the fore, with customers such as Unilever in the spotlight
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19 Jun 2026
Keysight’s chief technologist on the path to 6G
Balaji Raghothaman, Keysight’s chief technologist for 6G, discusses what it takes for the telecoms industry to move to 6G, from supporting AI workloads to integrating with satellites connectivity and driving enterprise use cases
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18 Jun 2026
SHRM CEO gives HR needed pep talk amid bad rap, AI challenges
Keynote urging emphasis on work as well as people comes a day after HR association released a worker survey showing low AI adoption and an alarming incidence of prohibited AI use.
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18 Jun 2026
US suspension of Anthropic models prompts AI sovereignty calls
The US government’s control order to suspend access to Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models raises concerns about the UK’s over-reliance on American tech
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18 Jun 2026
IBM execs: AI storage and common implementation oversights
IBM storage leaders Sam Werner and Christopher Vollmar share insights on AI implementation oversights, including data governance, vector database vulnerabilities and zero trust.
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18 Jun 2026
Interview: Emmanuel Frenehard, chief digital officer, Sanofi
Leading technology in a quest to find life-changing answers to challenging scientific questions brings an extra level of motivation for the pharma giant’s digital chief
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18 Jun 2026
Adobe previews answer engine optimization, agentic AI creative tools
Semrush integration with LLM Optimizer is quickly productized; Creative Agent propagates Adobe app functionality and AI chat interfaces such as ChatGPT, Copilot and Claude.
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18 Jun 2026
Emerging tech is top growth priority for UK finance firms
Increasing numbers of banks see emerging technology as a priority of growth with artificial intelligence top of the list