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Artificial intelligence, automation and robotics

• October 15, 2025 15 Oct'25

  AI World: Oracle brings agents to bear on world of finance

  Oracle AI World has seen a host of new introductions, among them agentic capabilities for customer finance teams.

• October 15, 2025 15 Oct'25

  AI-ready companies turning network pilots into profit

  Research finds ‘pacesetter’ companies significantly more likely to move network AI pilots into production, and 50% more likely to report measurable value from AI

• October 15, 2025 15 Oct'25

  Real-time analytics tops priorities for 82% of IoT enterprise

  Research finds IoT is evolving from simple data collection to process automation, with enterprises starting to layer additional services like AI and machine learning to process data from IoT deployment

• October 15, 2025 15 Oct'25

  Why the future of work is agentic

  Organisations are starting to look at where artificial intelligence fits into business workflows

• October 15, 2025 15 Oct'25

  Dreamforce 2025: Benioff vaunts Slack as interface to agentic enterprise

  Salesforce has launched Agentforce 360, a platform for agentic AI, integrating Slack as its interface

• October 15, 2025 15 Oct'25

  Infor doubles down on APAC with cloud and AI

  The enterprise software firm is targeting the region’s vast manufacturing sector by easing the move to the cloud and rolling out industry-specific AI agents, says CEO Kevin Samuelson

• October 15, 2025 15 Oct'25

  AI will create a better world, says Oracle’s Ellison

  Oracle ramped up its plans to lead in all things AI on the opening day of its renamed customer event, AI World, with founder Larry Ellison emphasising AI’s transformative potential

• October 15, 2025 15 Oct'25

  AI becomes major accelerator for IoT

  Survey reveals ‘soaring’ enthusiasm for IoT, with multiple emerging technologies acting as catalysts, and efficiency and productivity gains demonstrating return on investment

• October 14, 2025 14 Oct'25

  Vox pop: Digital transformation across the Arab world

  We asked exhibitors at UAE startup event Expand North Star about the challenges – from lack of fundamental infrastructure to first-world problems – faced by startups and digital businesses in the Middle East

• October 13, 2025 13 Oct'25

  Nvidia scores Meta and Oracle for networking fabric

  Nvidia lands hyperscalers Meta and Oracle for its Spectrum-X networking fabric and is leading an industry coalition to adopt an 800-volt DC power standard for datacentres

• October 13, 2025 13 Oct'25

  Interview: Shaping the future of AI in the UAE

  At Gitex 2025 in Dubai, the largest tech show in the Middle East, Chiara Marcati, chief AI advisory and business officer at AI71, discusses the UAE’s ambition to become a global leader in artificial intelligence

• October 13, 2025 13 Oct'25

  Microsoft and the UAE: Driving AI from strategy to real impact

  Exploring how Microsoft and the UAE are turning AI ambition into practical solutions, empowering talent, and guiding CIOs to adopt AI at scale

• October 13, 2025 13 Oct'25

  Thales: Trust in AI for critical systems needs to be engineered

  Confidence in artificial intelligence capabilities that power critical systems must go beyond words and be built on a hybrid model that combines data with physics and logic to prove reliability, according to Thales’s chief scientist

• October 13, 2025 13 Oct'25

  UAE AI minister: ‘We’ll have 10,000 AI companies in five years’

  Gulf state AI minister sets out plans to encourage artificial intelligence companies with certification and ranking based on AI competence and UAE presence at startup event in Dubai this week

• October 09, 2025 09 Oct'25

  Forget training, find your killer apps during AI inference

  Pure Storage executives talk about why most artificial intelligence projects are about inference, during production, and why that means storage must respond to capacity needs and help optimise data management

• October 09, 2025 09 Oct'25

  Cloudera Evolve London: 91% of organisations say data unfit for AI purposes

  Cloudera research finds only 9% of organisations have fully AI-ready data, with siloed data and security major barriers to enterprise AI success, as well as gender bias in AI development

• October 09, 2025 09 Oct'25

  Infor debuts AI agents to tackle industry-specific tasks

  Infor unveils role-based AI agents to automate workflows in niche sectors from dairy to automotive, as well as a new cloud migration programme to ease the transition to cloud

• October 08, 2025 08 Oct'25

  Interview: Fausto Fleites, vice-president of data intelligence, ScottsMiracle-Gro

  The data leader’s hands-on experience with machine learning has helped to build a three-part strategy to maximise the benefits of AI at the gardening specialist

• October 08, 2025 08 Oct'25

  Forrester Technology & Innovation Summit: Prepare for AI failures

  The AI bandwagon is about to be derailed, and CIOs are going to have to pick up the pieces

• October 08, 2025 08 Oct'25

  Interview: Change management for digitisation and agentic AI

  We speak to Thomas Bodé, chief digital transformation officer at European energy company Met Group, about delivering successful digital initiatives

• October 08, 2025 08 Oct'25

  FairPrice deploys autonomous vehicles for supply chain operations

  The supermarket giant has teamed up with tech firm Zelos to deploy a fleet of electric autonomous vehicles to bolster supply chain efficiency and cut carbon emissions

• October 08, 2025 08 Oct'25

  TalkTalk undoes customer experience stack complexity to boost contact centre agents

  TalkTalk chief operating officer Neil Smith describes the firm’s journey out of CX stack complexity towards more empowered contact centre agents

• October 08, 2025 08 Oct'25

  SuiteWorld 2025: NetSuite Next aims to transform business through AI

  Next generation of leading Cloud ERP system embeds conversational artificial intelligence and agentic workflows across the suite to show how AI, in particular Chat GPT, can take businesses to a new level

• October 08, 2025 08 Oct'25

  How OpenAI’s AMD bet raises the stakes in GPU dominance

  The OpenAI partnership with AMD gives it the option to invest directly in the chipmaker

• October 08, 2025 08 Oct'25

  SuiteWorld 2025: NetSuite unveils AI innovations for future business

  AI cloud ERP provider lifts lid on GenAI-based ecommerce tools and presents how embedded AI is enabling customers, partners and developers to integrate models, design custom agents, and compose next-gen workflows and experiences

• October 08, 2025 08 Oct'25

  How the UAE is using AI to transform healthcare

  The UAE’s decision to appoint AI leaders in every ministry signals a shift - in healthcare, success is measured not only in cost savings, but in efficiency, sustainability, and better patient outcomes

• October 08, 2025 08 Oct'25

  AI and big data: Driving the UAE’s smart transport revolution

  From real-time passenger insights to predictive maintenance, the UAE is leveraging AI and advanced data platforms to transform mobility, enhance efficiency, and set a global benchmark in intelligent transport.

• October 07, 2025 07 Oct'25

  Nato chooses Oracle to secure battlefield communications

  Nato has chosen Oracle and Druid to secure private 5G networks for cyber defence, war gaming and research, using Oracle Cloud and edge technology

• October 07, 2025 07 Oct'25

  The Security Interviews: David Bradbury, CSO, Okta

  Okta’s chief security officer talks security by default and explains why he thinks time is running out for the shared responsibility model

• October 07, 2025 07 Oct'25

  AI halves clinical trial approval times

  Use of artificial intelligence to flag up potential issues with clinical trial applications means assessors can approve new treatments faster

• October 07, 2025 07 Oct'25

  Vibe coding: A question of chicken feed or food

  If used correctly, large language models promise to revolutionise software development – but they do not easily fit some obvious corporate IT use cases

• October 06, 2025 06 Oct'25

  Police facial recognition trials show little evidence of benefits

  In-the-wild testing of police facial recognition systems has failed to generate clear evidence of the technology’s benefits, or to assess the full range of socio-technical impacts

• October 06, 2025 06 Oct'25

  Gartner: IT leaders need to prepare for GenAI legal issues

  GenAI is being embedded into enterprise software. This has implications for governance and regulatory compliance

• October 06, 2025 06 Oct'25

  SAP: AI is commoditising business applications

  Business applications are at risk of being commoditised with artificial intelligence increasingly becoming the new interface that lets businesses execute tasks across different systems, according to a senior SAP leader

• October 06, 2025 06 Oct'25

  Enterprise software sales through cloud hyperscale marketplaces set to hit $163bn by 2030

  Research from IT market watcher Omdia suggests enterprise IT buyers are getting increasingly comfortable with making purchases through the Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google Cloud marketplaces

• October 06, 2025 06 Oct'25

  Cisco unveils agentic capabilities for next-generation collaboration

  IT and networking giant claims ‘major’ steps forward in collaboration and customer experience, both powered by AI, and designed to help enterprises work and serve smarter

• October 06, 2025 06 Oct'25

  UK government to consult on police live facial recognition use

  The UK’s policing minister has confirmed the government will consult on the use of live facial recognition by law enforcement before expanding its use throughout England, but so far, the technology has been deployed with minimal public debate or ...

• October 03, 2025 03 Oct'25

  Software engineering limited by lack of full automation

  The continuous deployment part of the software development lifecycle appears to be velocity-limiting

• October 02, 2025 02 Oct'25

  Aston University partners Capgemini for AI centre of excellence

  University works with IT services giant to open artificial intelligence centre of excellence in London campus

• October 02, 2025 02 Oct'25

  Singtel debuts low-code platform to ease AI deployment

  Singtel’s AI Studio, part of its CUBΣ network-as-a-service offering, aims to simplify AI development and deployment while addressing enterprise concerns around security and data sovereignty

• October 01, 2025 01 Oct'25

  E-commerce platform eBay offers free ChatGPT training and tools

  Through eBay Activate, small businesses selling on the online marketplace will gain access to GPT-powered productivity and e-commerce tools

• October 01, 2025 01 Oct'25

  Why AI agent projects are stalling in production

  A Confluent technology strategist explains why multi-agent workflows become brittle monoliths and how access to real-time, streaming data is key to the success of agentic AI deployments

• September 30, 2025 30 Sep'25

  Cloud provider publishes ‘tech sovereignty’ plan for UK

  In the face of mounting data sovereignty concerns across Europe, UK cloud provider Civo lays out high-level plan for how the government can retain control and access of its data should the geopolitical situation sour

• September 30, 2025 30 Sep'25

  Bank of America builds GenAI assistant for instant answers for customers

  Queries that would take an employee an hour to answer are completed almost instantaneously with the Bank of America’s generative AI assistant

• September 30, 2025 30 Sep'25

  Companies reap the rewards of being AI-first

  Few companies are seeing a return on their AI investment, but those that do tend to be laser-focused on artificial intelligence, with established training and IT growth plans

• September 29, 2025 29 Sep'25

  JLR tentatively restarts production, following £1.5bn government backing

  Jaguar Land Rover is to resume car production after a £1.5bn government loan guarantee amid its cyber attack fallout. Debate is growing over the bailout and insurance

• September 29, 2025 29 Sep'25

  Women’s Rugby World Cup premiered GenAI for broadcast match analysis

  England’s triumph at the Women’s Rugby World Cup also saw the debut of generative AI for real-time broadcast rugby match analysis

• September 29, 2025 29 Sep'25

  Interview: GitLab CTO on freeing developers for innovation with AI

  Sabrina Farmer explains how GitLab’s platform for the software development lifecycle is using artificial intelligence to help eliminate developer toil and drive innovation

• September 26, 2025 26 Sep'25

  Okta CEO: AI security and identity security are one and the same

  At Oktane 2025 in Las Vegas, Okta CEO Todd McKinnon describes AI security and identity security as inseparable as he tees up a series of agentic security innovations

• September 26, 2025 26 Sep'25

  How Mediacorp stops livestreams from freezing at key moments

  Singapore’s national broadcaster has achieved a 99.5% crash-free rate for its mobile apps by using observability tools to find and fix issues in real time, ensuring a smoother experience for users