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Banks reduce reliance on OpenAI as strategies mature

Banks are increasingly using alternative AI providers as Anthropic and Google eat into OpenAI’s dominance
Broadcom claims enterprise Wi-Fi 8 first

Unified, wireless-first architecture based on latest wireless standard designed to address rising demand for hybrid work, and deliver performance, efficiency and security for next-gen enterprise networking
Infosecurity Europe launches cyber security startups stream

Infosecurity Europe 2026 will feature a cyber security startup exhibition zone and a competition for business support, in conjunction with the UK Cyber Flywheel organisation
Gigabit accelerates across metro, rural UK

Rapid onset of gigabit broadband access across all parts of the UK bears fruit as country’s largest rural full-fibre provider marks milestone for Project Gigabit, while London-based ISP posts landmark revenues
AI boss knows his job title won’t exist for long

IT service provider is using AI to increase throughput while applying it to ‘big ticket’ challenges externally
Banks on the hook for £173m in APP fraud reimbursement

Banks paid 88% losses claimed by customers that fell victim to authorised push payment fraud last year

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
Why the UK needs to rethink the Investigatory Powers Act and allow intercept evidence in court

The UK needs clear and unambiguous laws around the use of digital evidence in court. The law has become tangled following rulings in the country’s EncroChat prosecutions. It’s time to allow intercept data to be used as evidence in legal cases
Answers to key questions about AI in IT security

Forrester examines the key factors security leaders and IT decision-makers need to evaluate when considering AI-enabled IT security

Sitecore codifies best (code) practice with MVP class of 2026- CW Developer Network

Oh no, another overlong (typically US-originated) job title, right? You get an email from the (CAPS used for extra effect) impressive-sounding Senior Vice President of Corporate Product Field Sales ... Continue Reading
Suse delivers EU cloud sovereignty framework self-assessment- Open Source Insider

SUSE (hereafter Suse) has launched a Cloud Sovereignty Framework Self Assessment. According to Forrester, digital and AI sovereignty will drive a private cloud renaissance with doubled ... Continue Reading
GreenOps - Digitate: AI agents set to work on cloud carbon wastage billions- CW Developer Network

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Efrain Ruh in his capacity as field CTO at Digitate. Digitate provides ignio™, an AI-driven platform that automates ... Continue Reading
Platform Engineering Labs expands open source ‘formae’ Infra-as-Code- Open Source Insider

In a world where every try-hard company is registering a “domain hack” name in Anguilla and adding .AI to its company moniker, it might be important to think about how newer firms are presenting ... Continue Reading

Is banking IT and business relationship still ‘them and us’?

As the UK government appoints senior IT executives at two banks to help it guide artificial intelligence deployment in the sector, Computer Weekly asks one IT professional in banking what he thinks
The European Offensive Against Encrypted Phone Evidence

Defendants and lawyers are demanding transparency about digital evidence from police hacking operations used in criminal prosecutions across Europe following a series of critical court judgments.
2026 is the year we must get serious about being a data nation

While the UK has the data assets and the expertise to deliver real public benefit with artificial intelligence, a lack of consistency, completeness and interoperability in its data foundations risks missing these opportunities