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Data residency becomes the GCC’s next AI battleground

As sovereign AI strategies accelerate across the Gulf, organisations are shifting their focus from ‘how do we use AI?’ to ‘where does the data live?’, turning data residency into a strategic differentiator rather than a compliance exercise
Financial security experts participate in sector hackathon

Teams of security pros from UK financial services organisations came together at the end of April to participate in a hackathon exercise
Solicitor who had phone seized wrongly identified as Hamas member

A police officer wrongly described a solicitor acting for Hamas in an appeal against its proscribed status in the UK as a Hamas member during Schedule 7 phone seizure
UK High Court dismisses facial-recognition judicial review case

The Metropolitan Police has won a judicial review case that argued its live facial-recognition policy was unlawful
Broadcom updates VCF to address on-premise AI

VMware is being repositioned as a platform to lower the total cost of hosting artificial intelligence workloads in private clouds
Netherlands moves GPT-NL from lab to live: first pilots under way

Dutch national language model enters real-world testing with a €13.5m public budget and a project-claimed world-first licensing deal with national news publishers

Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill prompts ethical concerns

The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill is intended to improve school standards, child safety and social care. However, recent amendments to the proposal have led to ethical concerns regarding personal data
Beyond telesurgery: How Proximie uses AI to optimise surgery logistics

AWS customer Proximie delivers AI-driven operating theatre logistics and tele-surgery. We spoke to its engineering vice-president about the challenges of cloud in a life or death environment
Is cloud data sovereignty all just a case of ‘Trust me, bro’?

Hyperscaler cloud is inherently global. Does that make data sovereignty unattainable – especially given the powers US courts hold? We grilled the hyperscalers in an attempt to find out

Atlassian introduces Product Collection for AI developer decisions- CW Developer Network

Atlassian used its Team 26 user conference in Anaheim this week to detail tools designed to work with the fact that, today, software development prototypes can be built in hours due to the arrival ... Continue Reading
BlueRock open sources MCP Python Hooks- Open Source Insider

Headquartered in San Mateo, BlueRock provides observability, guardrails and control for agentic AI systems operating in production environments. The company has this month announced the open source ... Continue Reading
Return of the Luddites- Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog

Are we 21st century Luddites? As we progress to a world where artificial intelligence (AI) and technological advances lead to major changes in working practices, we can and should draw analogies ... Continue Reading
Atlassian builds enriched AI‑native engineering with new functions in DX- CW Developer Network

Atlassian acquired DX around eight months ago. DX is used by enterprises to analyse the productivity levels of their software engineering teams are and identify bottlenecks slowing them down. The ... Continue Reading

Realising Britain’s AI ambitions rests on digital inclusion

AI is increasingly being woven into every aspect of our lives - but the technology's full potential cannot be delivered without addressing shortcomings in digital inclusion
Inside FDP – part 2: Delivering on the NHS vision for data

In the second of an exclusive series of articles by the former deputy director of data engineering at NHS England, we examine the key elements of the data architecture that supports the Federated Data Platform programme
The illusion of digital sovereignty and the reality of control

Digital sovereignty is hugely important to IT leaders but in most cases systems have been built on foundations they don’t control. Open standards are key to organisational agility