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BT looks to strengthen network defences with Project Glasswing

Comms provider becomes the first UK company to confirm it has joined AI provider’s Project Glasswing scheme
CityFibre breaks one million connections barrier

UK’s largest independent full-fibre platform announces significant landmark with the number of premises connected to its UK-wide broadband network now hitting seven figures
UK government launches AI Assurance Stakeholder Consortium

The consortium, launched in partnership with BCS, aims to build trust in artificial intelligence and help the UK economy grow through responsible AI adoption
Talabat Kitchens combines AI, data and partnerships to scale

Awais Malik, general manager for Kitchens MENA at Talabat, explains how the company’s technology-driven cloud kitchen strategy is helping restaurant partners scale faster, reduce costs and unlock growth opportunities across the region
UK government pumps £200m into AI skills and adoption

Partnering with businesses, trade unions and workers, the UK government want to upskill workers and spread artificial intelligence adoption
‘Reimagining’ business processes key to deploying AI agents

Study of IT leaders finds businesses that succeed in deploying agentic artificial intelligence start by rethinking their business processes

Scandinavia’s Kitron leans into AI but depends on ERP and local links to keep electronics production

Norway-headquartered Kitron Group is on a growth path and relies on local-market nous and partners
Sweden’s Hexagon takes a measuring tape to the industrial world… and its virtual counterpart

Stockholm-headquartered company is applying precision observability and digital twins to make a safer, more sustainable and efficient world
The great datacentre backlash: The campaigners

In part one of a series looking at attitudes to datacentres, we look at the organisations that oppose new builds, concerns and motivations, what the industry thinks and what solutions might resolve the various impasses

Encoding the agentic carbon layer: IFS Zero evolves greentech with Emissions Operating System - CW Developer Network

Industrial AI software company IFS this month detailed the workings of its new IFS Zero offering. This is an agentic Emissions Operating System designed for the world’s most asset-intensive ... Continue Reading
Pega targets token tax on agentic application development- CW Developer Network

Pegasystems Inc. (commonly known as Pega) used its PegaWorld conference in Las Vegas this week to explain how developers can design, build and run agentic workflows across Pega Infinity 26 without ... Continue Reading
Pushing pilots-to-production: NTT DATA expands collaboration with Google Cloud - CW Developer Network

NTT DATA (hereafter NTT Data) wants software application developers to be able to go from pilot to production (not a branded or de facto industry term, but it should be) in the most fluid, ... Continue Reading
How the UK should take AI from sandboxes to scale- Data Matters

This is a guest blogpost by Rupal Karia, SVP & GM – UKI, Northern Europe & MEA at Celonis. As we enter London Tech Week, many conversations will be focused on how to make the UK a key ... Continue Reading

The unstoppable rise of the Chief AI Officer

Chief AI Officers are proliferating as organisations look to deploy agentic AI, make a return on investment, and meet their governance obligations.
Tech bros beware - Erin Brockovich is coming for you

The campaigning heroine of the eponymous movie has AI datacentres in her sights - just as Big Tech spending on memory chips sends PC and mobile prices spiralling up
Navigating culture to govern AI successfully

Data governance is critical for scaling AI safely, but the biggest hurdles are people, not technology. Here’s why moving governance out of IT and securing executive buy-in are key for AI success