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Motive offers vision of new era of physical AI operations

New products aim to shift operational burden from people to technology, automating ‘busy work’ so fleets can prioritise strategic safety, productivity and profitability
UK has ‘narrowing window’ to stay ahead of threats

UK needs to treat cyber security 10 times more urgently in the wake of threats from Russia, China and other adversaries, says GCHQ director Anne Keast-Butler
Datacentre dive: AI factory power draw changes the grid calculus

We look at energy as the key driver – and bottleneck – in development, and why water use is less of an issue now datacentres use liquid cooling over air cooling
Datacentre dive: Do AI datacentre physics make on-prem unviable?

Does substantial GPU power draw and liquid cooling mean the end of the on-premise datacentre? We look at the AI factory revolution and find that a hybrid path for enterprises will likely still exist
Datacentre dive: From rust belt to megawatt AI factory

We visited Terawulf’s Lake Ontario 750MW datacentre development. Photos and recordings weren't allowed, so we took notes and wrote them up in more traditional ways
Datacentre dive: ‘Chinese levels’ at TeraWulf 750MW AI factory

We see the latest in artificial intelligence factory technology and construction at TeraWulf’s Lake Ontario datacentre, where a former coal-fired power station is the site of a rapid transformation

What VTEX’s AI push really means for European retailers

Brazilian platform provider VTEX is pushing hard into Europe with bold claims around artificial intelligence, but how relevant is that pitch for European CIOs?
Kazakhstan: The Freedom to tap into data reserves

Continuing our round-up of the IT communications industry in Kazakhstan, we look at who could be the country’s and the region’s main player in driving digital transformation
Putting AI to work in network management

We explore how artificial intelligence is being integrated into network management tools, and the challenges it presents

Panther pounces on push to position agents as primary workers in the SOC- CW Developer Network

CEO and founder of closed-loop AI security architecture Panther Jack Naglieri thinks that security teams should be reorganising themselves around AI agents in the security operations centre (SOC). ... Continue Reading
Airbyte Agents fly in to fix the data breaks- Open Source Insider

Open data movement platform creator Airbyte has this month detailed Airbyte Agents, a context layer designed to gives production-grade agents access to a unified, search-optimised index of a ... Continue Reading
Confluent drives ‘production-ready’ AI apps with agent-powered workflows- CW Developer Network

Data streaming company Confluent (now an IBM company) has laid down new capabilities in Confluent Intelligence and Confluent Cloud. The updates are designed to streamline how real-time AI apps are ... Continue Reading
Acceldata xLake architecture offers compute, governance, observability (and quality)- CW Developer Network

Agentic data management company Acceldata this week announced the general availability of its autonomous data & AI platform. The concept is simple enough… bring governed compute to wherever ... Continue Reading

When your biggest security risk has never signed a contract

The Computer Weekly Security Think Tank considers the intersection of AI and IAM. In this article we explore how the frontiers of identity are expanding in the agentic era, and why this requires new approaches to governance.
Agentic AI: Trading one lock-in for another

IT and business execs are being encouraged to move quickly to benefit from what IT providers are offering in terms of agentic AI
The Isle of Wight can settle more than the digital ID argument

The unique circumstances of the island and its residents offer a compelling location for testing out digital government initiatives in the real world - and to help avoid future IT failures