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UK gov looking for collaborators for AI tutoring tools

To build on plans to introduce AI tutoring tools in schools, the UK government is searching for companies to develop educational resources
Capita lacked ‘detail and thoroughness’ in botched takeover

CEO of former civil service pension administrator claims Capita’s pre-takeover processes were inadequate
UK’s Sovereign AI fund unveils first tranche of startups backed

The UK government’s £500m Sovereign AI fund announces first cohort of startups backed to boost economic growth and national security
CYBERUK ’26: UK lagging on legal protections for cyber pros

Ahead of next week's CYBERUK conference, the CyberUp Campaign for reform of the UK's hacking laws urges the government to keep focus, and proposes a four-pillar framework that would protect cyber professionals from prosecution
Interview: Bernard Seiser, VP of digital, data and IT, AOP Health

With long experience of tech in the life sciences sector, AOP’s digital leader is building a foundation for further data insights in all areas of the business
Finance regulators to address AI risks after MP criticism

After a Treasury committee stated that public and finance systems are ‘exposed to potential serious harm’ from AI because regulators are ‘not doing enough’ to manage risks, finance regulators say they will take action to address concerns

Oslo’s robots aren’t yet taking over, but are already punching above their weight

The Norwegian capital’s leading innovators have got the ecosystem up and running, and are now calling for greater access to risk capital to take it to the next level
One year on from the M&S cyber attack: What did we learn?

A year on from the Marks & Spencer cyber attack, we look back at the incident, consider the lessons learned and ask if the retail sector is any more secure today
Finnish quantum computing champion IQM determined to make ‘impossible’ engineering breakthrough

As US defence research agency Darpa starts a programme to upend the dominant quantum computing architecture it says will fail, the CEO of Finland’s IQM speaks to Computer Weekly about why his firm is aiming to succeed

Using Augmented Intelligence to restore confidence in the On-line World- When IT Meets Politics

As predicted twenty years ago (paper for the 50th Anniversary of the LEO computer) trust in the on-line world has collapsed under a landslide of falsehood and misinformation. But at the time that ... Continue Reading
ABBYY, IBM & Red Hat announce DocLang, open source universal document format- Open Source Insider

ABBYY (hereafter written as Abbyy) used its annual user & practitioner, partner and customer event this year to lay down a weighty open source development. The company’s Abbyy Ascend convention ... Continue Reading
ABBYY Ascend highlights user excellence to define data process blueprints- CW Developer Network

Document AI was on full show this year at ABBYY Ascend 2026, held in Nashville this April. ABBYY (hereafter Abbyy) used its annual data science, developer and tech project team leadership summit to ... Continue Reading
A modern approach to technical debt reduction- Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog

While it may have been conceived as an elegant way to host microservices, containerisation is seeping into mainstream enterprise IT. When asked about their IT strategy, IT leaders will often say ... Continue Reading

AI, energy, and the new rules of cloud sustainability competition

AI has made cloud infrastructure core to enterprise architecture – more valuable, strategic, and resource-intensive. It has also made vague sustainability claims less defensible
Welcome to agentic AI. Welcome to per-agent licensing

Microsoft seems to have a new wheeze: Charging per-agent. Having made Copilot pervasive in the Microsoft stack, it looks like customers may face per-agent billing
Privacy, power, and encryption: why end-to-end security matters

Governments may continue to look for ways to restrict end-to-end encryption, but the greater danger lies in demanding insecurity by design that would undermining trust, resilience, and the security of the global communications ecosystem.