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Lab for autonomous agents to drive boost in manufacturing

Frontier AI company launching Emergence India Labs (EIL) to accelerate the nation’s shift from IT services to autonomous systems and advanced process is use cases such as manufacturing
Companies House restarts online services following cyber breach

Companies House was forced to pull its WebFiling service offline at the weekend after it emerged that a flawed update was putting data at risk of exposure
UK government unveils gigabit broadband upgrade tracker

As full-fibre broadband deployments maintain steady pace across the nation, UK government introduces tool to allow businesses across England and Wales to discover if they are due a government-backed broadband upgrade
Whitehall struggles to reduce consultancy spend

Digital transformation projects rely heavily on external consultants, and while government aims to reduce costs, it holds no accurate data on how much it spends on consultancy services
UKAEA readies fusion simulation AI supercomputer

The AMD Epyc and Instinct-powered Dell hardware will deliver 6.74 exaflops to power digital twins to support nuclear fusion research
There is no such thing as an IT project, says CIO Paul Coby

The veteran CIO shares lessons from his 25-year career as an IT leader at some of the UK’s top FTSE 100 companies, emphasising business alignment, trust-building, visibility and AI's transformative potential

Do neoclouds mean a world where anything is possible?

A small group of companies have dominated cloud compute infrastructure. Neoclouds are able to boost AI workloads. Should you consider them?
This rise of the splinternet? Data sovereignty risks and responses

We look at the political, legal and economic risks around data sovereignty, the fears for digital dependency and massive hyperscaler penetration in the UK public sector
CES 2026: AI gets physical

Continuing our round-up of this year’s CES, we look at key use cases and how the generation of artificial intelligence and connected devices will evolve

Photonics - Xscape: Building the eight-wavelength laser for AI data - CW Developer Network

Xscape Photonics develops custom photonic platform products designed for ultra-high bandwidth connections inside datacentres to power AI systems. The company's proprietary ChromX platform targets ... Continue Reading
Photonics - Salience Labs: Plugging into 32-port all-optical silicon photonic switching- CW Developer Network

Photonics has many aspects, functions and roles when applied to the modern enterprise software stack. One of its primary first touchpoints is its ability to transform the networking layer of AI ... Continue Reading
NTT DATA: GreenOps & FinOps: From cost discipline to cloud sustainability strategy- CW Developer Network

This is a guest post written by Joe Cupano, global CTO, strategy & innovation, NTT DATA Inc. Cupano writes in full as follows... Today’s enterprises are faced with a dual challenge – balancing ... Continue Reading
Confluent dials into the millisecond economy: AI-native telecoms in the IQ era- CW Developer Network

Every great technological revolution is based on solid foundations and sound innovation techniques that result in robust products that stand up to hard-wearing use. Whether it’s on the ... Continue Reading

Azure Local Disconnected looks the part for sovereignty. It isn’t

Despite fanfare, Microsoft’s air-gapped cloud offer is far from GA-ready, can’t run Azure Kubernetes Service, maxes out workload clusters, and at scale can’t be truly disconnected
How to build a truly unified and resilient security platform

The Security Think Tank looks at platformisation, considering questions such as how CISOs can distinguish between a truly integrated platform and 'integration theater, and how to protect unified platforms.
Is AI our agent, or are our governments becoming agents for AI?

Yet more billions are being spent on agentic AI, despite warnings of its potentially extreme fallibility. Just who are governments serving when they spout the messaging of Big Tech companies?