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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
Nutanix CEO maps out agentic AI strategy, eyes VMware defectors

Rajiv Ramaswami talks up Nutanix’s agentic AI play, the growing demand for sovereign cloud capabilities, and why decoupling storage from HCI is hastening migrations from VMware
Extreme Connect 26:Wi-Fi 7 line aims to address needs of 6GHz era

Wi-Fi 7 access points designed to provide reliable, high-speed connectivity and key deployment made at University of Florida arena
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

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

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
Atlassian Rovo makes AI-native teamwork ‘real’, really- CW Developer Network

There’s a lot of debate out there in terms of when, what, how (and possibly even why) agentic functions are now going to augment human workers in real work workflows and real world working ... 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
AI to help mainframes remain business critical in 2026

Mainframes are very much still vital for performance- and security-conscious use cases. To optimise TCO, AI and hybrid cloud can help them retain their advantages