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Dubai rolls out AI training for 50,000 government staff

An initiative under Digital Dubai, in partnership with government HR and AI bodies, reflects the wider UAE strategy to embed artificial intelligence across public services, workforce development and economic diversification plans
UK government’s £500m AI fund bids to commercialise research

The UK government is launching a £500m Sovereign AI Unit to boost artificial intelligence startups and drive economic growth through strategic and long-term investments
UAE education builds digital resilience

Ankabut CEO Tarek Jundi outlines how national infrastructure, AI-driven platforms and distance-learning capabilities are helping schools and universities maintain continuity amid geopolitical uncertainty
UK businesses must face up to AI threat, says government

Technology secretary Liz Kendall urges Britain’s business community to sit up and pay attention to emerging AI threats, following the debut of Anthropic’s new frontier model, Mythos
Ordnance Survey works with Snowflake to tackle flood risk

AI-based tool developed with Snowflake improves policymakers’ understanding of properties at risk of flooding
Danske Bank error exposed 20,000 customer addresses

Danish bank revealed details of a customer data leak last year which affected thousands of customers

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
Pure/AVK self-powered Dublin datacentre dodges grid constraints

With grid connectivity denied, Pure Data Centres Group got creative, partnering with AVK on a microgrid to beat power constraints versus a tide of rising demand
If we can’t kick the habit, how do we manage AI’s energy needs?

One can only hope that OpenAI’s Sam Altman was joking when he sought to justify the immense energy consumption of artificial intelligence

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
NTT Research enters its 2.0 era: Creates ‘Scale Academy’ & quantum-safe security- CW Developer Network

NTT Research, Inc., a division of NTT, has detailed and described the launch of Scale Academy, a startup incubator designed to market products and services based upon technologies studied within ... Continue Reading
SmartBear fills honeypot of AI-ready API governance- CW Developer Network

Software quality and visibility company SmartBear has detailed new Swagger capabilities. SmartBear Swagger is a suite of tools for designing, building, documenting and testing RESTful APIs ... Continue Reading
Government opens up a gateway to an alternative future for digital identity- Computer Weekly Editors Blog

Yesterday, the UK government slipped out a seemingly minor, technical announcement, published on what is likely to be a minimally read blog, that could have significant implications for Keir ... Continue Reading

Drone strikes show why military principles apply to cloud data

One key thing every soldier knows is that bunching up under fire is a very bad idea. Here, a retired French general says CIOs need to apply the same principle to data in the cloud
Flood warning: How citizens’ AI agents will swamp public services

While governments eagerly look to implement AI to cut costs, they are less prepared for an incoming wave as people begin to use AI agents to drive applications to public services
AI’s dumb genius problem

Organisations don’t need more powerful AI models they need AI that can understand context of problems