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Wesfarmers to deploy agentic AI in retail operations

Retail conglomerate behind Kmart and Officeworks signs multi-year deal with Google Cloud to deploy AI agents for customer service and internal productivity
UK government calls for review into mobile market

UK government creates programme to anticipate how the mobile market, and technologies that underpin it, will evolve over the next decade
UK NCA seeks CDIO, offering more than £100k for the role

The chief digital and information officer will be expected to set the National Crime Agency’s digital, data and technology sourcing strategy, secure multi-year investment and manage a £100m budget
Openreach appoints new chief executive

UK’s leading broadband provider announces that its deputy CEO will succeed incumbent chief executive from 1 April 2026, and that the company looks to maintain pace of full-fibre deployment
Singapore to form AI council to steer national AI agenda

Singapore government unveils plans to spur AI adoption through fiscal incentives, implementation guidance and workforce skilling in a concerted effort to drive the nation’s AI agenda
Government bank project a ‘full-spectrum disaster’

National Savings and Investments is unable to tell Public Accounts Committee the cost of its modernisation programme

Urban digital twins – missing pieces and emerging divides

The versatility of digital twins is substantial, but hurdles exist that prevent them to reach their full potential – and while AI can reduce existing limitations, its deployment can create its own problematic issues
AI enters its ‘grassroots backlash’ era

As artificial intelligence permeates aspects of the economy and society, individuals and civic groups are devising creative ways to rebel - but any impact on AI’s development, adoption and regulation is unclear
From chaos to clarity: How AI is redefining construction at scale

Klemensas Mecejus from ai71 explains why predictive, agent-based AI could finally crack construction’s productivity and cost overrun problem, and why the Middle East is poised to leap ahead

Virtue AI: New programming paradigms command AI-native security - CW Developer Network

Software application development is code-native, cloud-native… sometimes mobile-native and now AI-native, especially given the fact that code assistants and agentic programming functions have been ... Continue Reading
Clockwork VP: Neocloud revolution, what AI/ML engineers need to know - CW Developer Network

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Anita Pandey, vice president of growth at Clockwork. Clockwork is known for its software-driven fabric service designed to ... Continue Reading
Legacy IT? No problem- Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog

Maybe it’s time to press the pause button on artificial intelligence (AI). While the industry is dead set on promoting the benefits of multi-agent AI systems, the CIOs in many organisations ... Continue Reading
Kubernetes infrastructure now saved from 'minor repair bulldozer'- Open Source Insider

The Kubernetes community has released the latest version of Cluster API at version number 1.12 and it is described as a "significant update" for developers. A Kubernetes “sub-project” focused on ... Continue Reading

Microsoft Office is becoming a national security liability

The rapid exploitation of a bug in Office by Russian cyber attackers shows that the current system of patching - for a software application that is practically ubiquitous in enterprise IT - has become a security risk for everyone
Without governance, agentic AI could destroy social media

If organisations using agentic and generative AI don’t codify ethics and oversight now, the future may be filled with AI agents using generative AI to communicate with other agents, destroying trust in social media
How GenAI is breaking cyber security awareness tactics

With threat actors exploiting the growing use of generative AI tools and the prevalence of shadow AI, organisations must strengthen their security programmes and culture to manage the rising risk