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G42 expands global AI ambitions with sovereign cloud partnership

UAE artificial intelligence champion takes its sovereignty-first model to Southeast Asia
HPE goes for gold with Winter Olympics network performance

Networking firm reveals role played by its legacy business and that of acquired companies as the official network equipment hardware partner for Milano Cortina 2026, connecting venues, athletes, media and operational systems
Artificial intelligence now finance sector’s ‘connective tissue’

Major study finds debate over AI adoption is over as almost every finance firm in the world is already using the technology
Singapore mounts largest ever cyber operation to oust APT actor

Operation Cyber Guardian mobilised over 100 defenders to neutralise UNC3886, which infiltrated Singtel, StarHub, M1 and Simba networks, operators issue joint pledge on defence-in-depth
Fractile expansion demonstrates UK growth opportunity

AI chip firm’s £100m expansion and facility in Bristol is being used to showcase the government’s AI opportunity plan in action
Russia’s cyber attacks on Polish utilities draws NCSC alert

A series of Russian cyber attacks targeting Poland’s energy infrastructure has prompted a warning from the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre

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

Cloudera offers AI inferencing progression & unified data access - CW Developer Network

Cloudera has this month developed its expansion to Cloudera AI Inference and Cloudera Data Warehouse with Trino to on-premises environments. The company says this move will empower customers to ... Continue Reading
Salience Labs goes all-in on all-optical networking with photonics switches for AI infrastructure- CW Developer Network

Oxfordshire-headquartered Salience Labs is hoping to tap into a market that some analysts say could represent as much of a leap in computing power as the emerging field of quantum itself does. The ... Continue Reading
Salesforce analysis: the road to multi-agents is paved with connected orchestration- CW Developer Network

Developers are set for acceleration… the new wave of agentic AI services will, in and of themselves, create a supercharged programming landscape that sees software engineers propelled forward into ... Continue Reading
GreenOps – Astronomer: Workflow orchestration is the hygiene layer a data team needs- CW Developer Network

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Carter Page in his capacity as EVP of R&D at Astronomer. Astronomer is the company behind Astro, the modern data ... Continue Reading

Smaller, safer AI models may be key to unlocking business value

While AI presents a significant opportunity to further the way we do business, what if it’s time to consider a new direction? What if the safest and most effective path for AI isn’t to go larger, but smaller instead?
AGI? Business leaders are still trying to make AI work

Artificial general intelligence made headlines at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos but business leaders chatting in the corridors are much more interested in how they can make AI work in real business process.
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