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Meta quizzed over facial-recognition plans for smart glasses

Democratic senators warn that Meta’s plans to introduce facial-recognition technology into smart glasses could lead to normalisation of mass surveillance and breach citizens’ rights
UK MoD awards over two dozen contracts for AI targeting systems

The UK Ministry of Defence is ramping up its investment into military artificial intelligence in a bid to increase the ‘lethality’ of the British armed forces
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
Ofcom sets out plans to push UK gigabit to ‘final phase’

UK communications regulator lays down regulation required to drive full-fibre roll-out through its end phase to universal access across the country, aiming to allow businesses to unlock economic gains
AI tools offer ‘near-real-time’ analysis of mobile phone data

Cellebrite demonstrates how AI tools are able to analyse the contents of mobile phones and computers during crime investigations
Digital IDs edge closer to practical reality for UK businesses

Industries and policymakers are strongly aligned on the need for digital company IDs for UK businesses, as progress is made towards the implementation of a practical standard

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

UK Digital Identity Policy - Issues, Choices and Questions in 850 words- When IT Meets Politics

How do we ensure that UK ID policy is effective and meaningful? 850 words, with 14 key actions and 12 foundational questions that need to be answered before moving forward on the introduction of a ... Continue Reading
Pathway builds truly native reasoning model to solve LLM Sudoku stumbling blocks- CW Developer Network

Pathway is a post-transformer AI lab that claims to be delivering a faster path to AGI through true continuous learning and long-horizon reasoning. First set out in a scientific paper last ... Continue Reading
Chainguard tightens lid on software artefacts with ‘the’ Guardener- CW Developer Network

Not all products, places, people or things get to enjoy a ‘the’ prefix and bask in the glory of being a definite article. English language hangovers from the French Mandate of Le Liban meant that, ... Continue Reading
Nutanix Agentic AI bids to stoke up enterprise AI factories- CW Developer Network

Nutanix is positioning its agentic AI solution as a full software stack, purpose-built for real-world enterprise deployments. The company thinks we have now hit a tipping point where the barrier to ... Continue Reading

The upcoming King’s Speech - where are the words on AI?

Despite past promises of regulation on AI, there is no indication the Labour government is planning any legislation in the next session of Parliament - and that's an economic and social mistake
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
Why AI Is shifting power left

Business leaders will need to re-think how they influence their organisations as work becomes more decentralised