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April 10, 2026 10 Apr'26
Moscow champions digital sovereignty and AI-driven city management

By ensuring strategic technology capabilities are developed in-house, megacities can protect their critical infrastructure from cyber threats and global unpredictability, says Moscow government minister
April 08, 2026 08 Apr'26
Keir Starmer was warned about Post Office prosecution practices as director of public prosecutions

A Horizon scandal victim wrote to Keir Starmer in 2011, when he was director of public prosecutions for the CPS, alerting him to the Post Office’s controversial prosecution practices
April 07, 2026 07 Apr'26
How voice AI is transforming customer service

After years of steering customers away from phone calls to cut costs, businesses are warming to voice AI agents capable of managing thousands of conversations simultaneously and upselling services
April 02, 2026 02 Apr'26
What’s driving Oracle’s latest job cuts?

Thousands of job losses have been reported, affecting many roles at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, including those in software engineering and product compliance

April 02, 2026 02 Apr'26
How ANZ firms are driving automation and AIOps

Tech leaders from Westpac, NAB, Telstra and ACC New Zealand share their automation journeys, from overcoming cultural resistance to the cautious adoption of AI
April 01, 2026 01 Apr'26
Microsoft to invest $5.5b in Singapore’s AI and cloud infrastructure

The tech giant is spending over $5bn through 2029 to bolster its footprint in the city-state while rolling out programmes to equip students, educators and non-profit leaders with AI skills
March 31, 2026 31 Mar'26
Aussie AI health-tech Heidi aims to cure clinical burnout

Armed with over $100m in funding, Melbourne-based Heidi is building its own AI models and launching wearable hardware to automate documentation and reduce the administrative burden on doctors
March 31, 2026 31 Mar'26
Agoda scales AI strategy, opens new APAC tech hub

The digital travel platform has set its sights on becoming an AI-powered travel companion as it changes how it builds software and moves its tech workforce into a new facility in Bangkok
March 27, 2026 27 Mar'26
Second Post Office Capture conviction referred to appeal court

Conviction of 30 years has been referred to the Court of Appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission
March 26, 2026 26 Mar'26
Oracle opens Sydney customer excellence centre to boost AI adoption

Facility will help organisations across Australia and Oceania navigate technology challenges and turn AI experimentation into business value

March 26, 2026 26 Mar'26
Post Office still can’t find evidence for 1,400 scandal redress claimants, while people die waiting

Finding evidence for events that took place decades ago is a challenge for many subpostmasters seeking compensation through the Horizon Shortfall Scheme
March 25, 2026 25 Mar'26
Oracle applications chief sees enterprise AI agents as task-specific helpers

At Oracle AI Summit in London, Steve Miranda, executive vice-president of Oracle applications development, discussed Oracle’s Fusion Agentic Applications, including how should AI agents be used, how is it priced and what safeguards are being put in ...
March 25, 2026 25 Mar'26
Why AI agents are one prompt away from ransomware

As AI adoption advances beyond chatbots, security leaders are up against rogue AI agents mirroring threat actors and a generational skills gap as security operations teams become overly dependent on AI
March 25, 2026 25 Mar'26
Why OpenClaw agents are the next big enterprise challenge

As users flock to deploy OpenClaw agents for everything from gig work to shopping, IT leaders warn that bringing these autonomous systems into the enterprise will require strict guardrails and a mix of AI models
March 24, 2026 24 Mar'26
Cyber pros must grasp the vibe coding nettle, says NCSC chief

At RSA in San Francisco, NCSC chief exec Richard Horne says security professionals have an opportunity and a responsibility to get in front of the security issues raised by the popularity of ‘vibe coding’
March 24, 2026 24 Mar'26
Oracle endows Fusion applications with more AI autonomy

At its London AI World Tour event, Oracle unveils Fusion Agentic Apps, said to enable more autonomous decision-making and execution across ERP, HCM, SCM and CX
March 24, 2026 24 Mar'26
QuikBot and EFGH bring real-time insurance to physical AI

The two companies will embed insurance directly into the infrastructure governing autonomous robots, reducing claims processing and creating a trust layer for smart cities
March 23, 2026 23 Mar'26
DWP finally seeks reviewer of its subpostmaster prosecutions

Months after announcing review, the government has advertised for a reviewer to look over more than 100 prosecutions of subpostmasters by the Department of Work and Pensions
March 19, 2026 19 Mar'26
AI makes debut in Bridewell cyber security in CNI report

Regulation has superseded cyber threats as the main driver of cyber security spending, and AI has made its debut for attack and defence, according to a CNI-focused report from Bridewell
March 19, 2026 19 Mar'26
HSS ProService ‘Uber-ifies’ with functional programming and agentic AI

HSS’s pivot from 130-depot hire business to a digital-only marketplace to handle messy transactions and old-school processes in the construction sector
March 19, 2026 19 Mar'26
Government announces redress scheme for families of Post Office scandal victims

Government offers two routes to financial redress for the families of victims of the Post Office scandal
March 18, 2026 18 Mar'26
Fast followers will fall behind in the AI race, warns ServiceNow

ServiceNow experts and customers highlight why acting at pace, deploying cross-system AI agents and governance are key in AI adoption
March 18, 2026 18 Mar'26
Nvidia workforce to be dominated by AI agents in a decade

Jensen Huang expects digital workers to vastly outnumber human employees at Nvidia, while also revealing plans to restart mainland China operations and declaring autonomous driving a solved problem
March 17, 2026 17 Mar'26
Alibaba joins AI agent race with Wukong launch

Following the viral success of OpenClaw and product launches from Nvidia and Tencent, Alibaba has unveiled an agentic AI platform that integrates with DingTalk to orchestrate business workflows
March 17, 2026 17 Mar'26
Health workers call for Palantir to be booted from NHS contracts

Health justice charity Medact warns that Palantir’s involvement in NHS data systems is a threat to patients and healthcare organisations
March 17, 2026 17 Mar'26
Lendi Group standardises on MongoDB for AI-ready data layer

Following a merger that left the Australian fintech with a fragmented data architecture, Lendi Group has consolidated its databases onto MongoDB Atlas to reduce microservices sprawl and power AI-driven broker tools
March 16, 2026 16 Mar'26
Nvidia expands Vera Rubin platform, details Groq integration

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang talks up efforts by the AI technology giant to pave the way for self-evolving, multi-agent systems with the integration of Groq LPUs and a software stack for the OpenClaw agent platform
March 16, 2026 16 Mar'26
Cyber flywheel aims to kick-start UK cyber security startups

Company founder rallies CISOs, venture capital funders and government leaders to back startups in cyber security
March 12, 2026 12 Mar'26
Why real-time data is key for enterprise AI

Moving AI from experiment to production requires high-quality, real-time data streaming. Australia tech leaders from Confluent, Bendigo Bank, Telstra, and Coles share how they are turning systems of record into systems of action
March 12, 2026 12 Mar'26
MP report calls for legislation to overturn Post Office Capture convictions

Report from MPs warns of unknown number of unsafe subpostmasters convictions based on multiple pre-Horizon systems
March 12, 2026 12 Mar'26
UK government ‘flying blind’ with poor data in charting regional growth

The government is being impeded in its bid to stoke economic growth across the regions, according to the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee
March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26
What it takes to succeed with AI

With research showing the use of AI may temporarily reduce productivity, Cloudera’s Vini Cardoso urges businesses to adopt an organisation-wide platform approach driven by measurable value and trusted data
March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26
Zendesk to acquire Forethought in major agentic AI play

Zendesk is acquiring Forethought to bolster its agentic AI chops with specialised and self-learning AI agents capable of managing complex customer service workflows
March 09, 2026 09 Mar'26
IBM takes a second shot at Post Office contract to replace Horizon

The US tech giant is bidding for a £323m contract to replace the Post Office’s flawed Horizon IT system, a decade after its previous attempt was abandoned due to complexities
March 09, 2026 09 Mar'26
DBS rewires operating models for AI reasoning era

The bank expects AI tools to evolve from being a copilot to an autopilot as it undergoes organisational transformation to prepare its workforce for agentic AI
March 05, 2026 05 Mar'26
Spyware suppliers exploit more zero-days than nation states

Exploitation of zero-days by commercial surveillance and spyware developers outpaced exploitation by nation-state actors last year, according to a report
March 04, 2026 04 Mar'26
Transnational AI regulation needed to protect human rights in the UK

Tech companies have told MPs and Lords they would welcome greater harmonisation in regulatory standards at a global level
March 03, 2026 03 Mar'26
Scattered data, cloud transfers creating challenges in enterprise AI

The cost, speed, and governance of moving petabytes of data across hybrid and multicloud environments is becoming a challenge for enterprises looking to harness the benefits of AI
March 03, 2026 03 Mar'26
Emerging markets prioritise top-line growth with agentic AI

While firms in mature markets are using AI agents to automate routine tasks, those in emerging markets where the cost of the technology is higher than that of human labour are favouring revenue-generating use cases
March 03, 2026 03 Mar'26
NS&I seeks Bank of England counsel over project disaster

The Bank of England’s successful IT transformation, praised by the National Audit Office, is being used as a model for government departments, including NS&I, which faces a failing IT project
March 02, 2026 02 Mar'26
Virtual twins and AI companions target enterprise war rooms

Dassault Systèmes claims platform can answer complex business questions in seconds, but approach requires rethinking enterprise data architecture
February 27, 2026 27 Feb'26
Australia inks five-year deal with Microsoft to drive AI and cloud adoption

The Digital Transformation Agency’s new agreement promises cost certainty, improved discounts, and a skills fund to support the government’s digital transformation agenda
February 26, 2026 26 Feb'26
India AI Impact Summit: Open source gains ground, but sovereignty tensions persist

While open source artificial intelligence gained unprecedented recognition during the latest global AI summit, divisions over governance, market concentration and regulatory power cast doubt on whether the technology will benefit society as a whole
February 26, 2026 26 Feb'26
Khazna’s NexOps shift signals new operating model for AI-scale infrastructure

Managing director Bart Holsters explains why hybrid insourcing, competence assurance and sovereign readiness are becoming essential as artificial intelligence pushes datacentres to their limits
February 26, 2026 26 Feb'26
US artificial intelligence developers accuse Chinese firms of stealing their data

Artificial intelligence developers are accusing Chinese firms of stealing their intellectual property following a spate of ‘distillation attacks’, despite their own alleged theft of training data
February 25, 2026 25 Feb'26
How AI code generation is pushing DevSecOps to machine speed

Organisations should adopt shared platforms and automated governance to keep pace with the growing use of generative AI tools that are helping developers produce code at unprecedented volumes
February 24, 2026 24 Feb'26
NUHS and GSMA Foundry team up on 5G and AI in healthcare

Singapore’s National University Health System is working with GSMA Foundry, Ericsson and Singtel to drive the use of 5G-enabled robotics, ambient AI and holographic surgery in healthcare
February 24, 2026 24 Feb'26
Microsoft CEO opens London AI Tour with Copilot push

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella used his event keynote to showcase how the artificial intelligence in M365 is a foundation for agentic AI in the enterprise
February 24, 2026 24 Feb'26
UAE CIOs feel AI heat as 85% fear role risk within two years

Technology leaders say careers, credibility and corporate resilience now hinge on delivering measurable artificial intelligence outcomes
February 24, 2026 24 Feb'26
Starling expands internationally as demand for banking as a service continues to rise

UK challenger bank has expanded its banking-as-a-service business with entry into New Zealand