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Artificial intelligence, automation and robotics

• April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26

  Bunnings shows off AI shopping agent at Google showcase

  The Australian hardware chain has gone from digital laggard to e-commerce pioneer, teaming up with Google Cloud to launch a conversational AI assistant that turns simple queries into DIY project plans

• April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26

  UK to build ‘national cyber shield’ to protect against AI cyber threats

  Security minister Dan Jarvis calls for artificial intelligence companies to work with government to develop AI-driven cyber defences

• April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26

  Lloyds Register evaluates AI-based nautical navigation

  Lloyds Register assessment used a computer vision system to identify and categorise complex navigation scenarios, working in conjunction with human crew

• April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26

  Google launches Gemini Agent Platform, eighth-generation TPUs

  With more AI agents moving to production, Google Cloud is targeting governance, multi-cloud data architecture and purpose-built silicon to help enterprises orchestrate agentic workflows

• April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26

  A tsunami of flaws: When frontier AI and Patch Tuesday collide

  Microsoft’s April Patch Tuesday drop was the second-largest in history, falling just shy of an October 2025 record. What is behind the spike in vulnerability disclosures, and is there a connection to Anthropic’s bug-hunting Claude Mythos AI model?

• April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26

  Three-quarters of UK IT leaders without strong AI governance plans

  Almost one in nine British IT leaders say their organisations use agentic AI, but with few putting in place strong governance plans, according to a Red Hat survey

• April 21, 2026 21 Apr'26

  More finance firms join FCA’s AI testing initiative

  Barclays, Experian and UBS join the FCA’s live AI testing initiative, exploring cutting-edge technologies like agentic AI and SLMs to ensure safe, responsible innovation in UK financial markets

• April 21, 2026 21 Apr'26

  Danish logistics giant under pressure to rush world’s largest IT integration

  The emergence of AI-driven competition has lit a fire beneath global logistics firm DSV, while it is distracted with integrating the global IT systems of a €14bn merger and trying to get its finances back to full health

• April 20, 2026 20 Apr'26

  Singapore pushes for global standard to test generative AI

  The proposed standard aims to ensure trustworthy AI by standardising benchmarking and red teaming methodologies, as IMDA’s chief urges faster action on global rules

• April 20, 2026 20 Apr'26

  Business leaders marked down on AI workforce strategy

  Research from Accenture has found that while workers feel their jobs will change, employers are less likely to invest in workforce transition

• April 20, 2026 20 Apr'26

  Scottish Labour’s 2026 manifesto vows to upskill and invest in tech

  Ahead of the 2026 Scottish Parliament Election, Labour promises digital and tech NHS funding worth £680m, ‘digital playgrounds’ and to create a digital skills passport

• April 20, 2026 20 Apr'26

  Scientists map coral reefs off northern Australia

  Researchers have mapped a previously uncharted network of coral and rocky reefs hidden in the murky coastal waters of Australia’s north, without ever setting foot on a boat

• April 17, 2026 17 Apr'26

  Surging CVE disclosures force NIST to shake up workflows

  NIST announces big changes to the way it categorises and manages CVEs, which are set to have a big impact on how organisations manage patching and remediation

• April 17, 2026 17 Apr'26

  Bank cyber teams on red alert as Anthropic promises them Mythos next week

  Artificial intelligence supplier promises UK banks opportunity to review AI model, which has already revealed thousands of security flaws

• April 17, 2026 17 Apr'26

  UK government seeks collaborators for AI tutoring tools for schools

  To build on plans to introduce AI tutoring tools in schools, the UK government is searching for companies to develop educational resources

• April 16, 2026 16 Apr'26

  UK’s Sovereign AI supports supercomputing and drug discovery AI startups

  The UK government’s £500m Sovereign AI fund announces first cohort of startups backed to boost economic growth and national security

• April 16, 2026 16 Apr'26

  Interview: Bernhard Seiser, vice-president of digital, data and IT, AOP Health

  With long experience of tech in the life sciences sector, AOP’s digital leader is building a foundation for further data insights in all areas of the business

• April 16, 2026 16 Apr'26

  Finance regulators to address AI risks after MPs say they are ‘not doing enough’

  After a Treasury committee stated that public and finance systems are ‘exposed to potential serious harm’ from AI because regulators are ‘not doing enough’ to manage risks, finance regulators say they will take action to address concerns

• April 16, 2026 16 Apr'26

  UK government’s £500m sovereign 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

• April 16, 2026 16 Apr'26

  How the AI boom is reshaping tech cost management

  FinOps practitioners are stepping up to manage AI expenses, optimise token usage and align cost-saving measures with sustainability goals to improve returns from AI investments

• April 15, 2026 15 Apr'26

  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

• April 15, 2026 15 Apr'26

  Ordnance Survey works with Snowflake to tackle flood risk

  AI-based tool developed with Snowflake improves policymakers’ understanding of properties at risk of flooding

• April 15, 2026 15 Apr'26

  TDX 2026: Salesforce depicts SaaS as an agentic evolution

  Salesforce paints a picture of software as a service evolving in an agentic direction, at its developer conference in San Francisco, with AgentExchange as an ecosystem lubricant

• April 15, 2026 15 Apr'26

  OCBC rolls out generative AI training for wealth advisors

  First programme of its kind allows wealth advisors to hone their pitches through realistic AI role play, resulting in double the client appointments and a 50% growth in revenue in three months

• April 15, 2026 15 Apr'26

  SMRT taps AI and analytics to predict rail faults and speed up maintenance

  The Singapore rail operator has developed an intelligent analytics platform to support predictive maintenance and pinpoint track issues, maximising its three-hour nightly maintenance window

• April 14, 2026 14 Apr'26

  UK government accelerates autonomous vehicle development funding

  Projects exploring how autonomous vehicles could benefit businesses and communities across the UK receive government backing as part of £150m CAM Pathfinder programme

• April 14, 2026 14 Apr'26

  Department for Transport shows how its AI system avoids bias

  A report looking at a system to extract themes from public consultations highlights human and LLM-based checks

• April 14, 2026 14 Apr'26

  UK financial regulators rush to assess risks of Anthropic AI model

  Banks called in by regulators as latest artificial intelligence model identifies thousands of software vulnerabilities

• April 14, 2026 14 Apr'26

  Novo Nordisk partners with OpenAI to AI-power drug development

  The Danish pharmaceutical company has a strategic plan to use AI across its business. OpenAI is helping it to achieve this objective

• April 13, 2026 13 Apr'26

  UK reliance on US big tech companies is ‘national security risk’, claims report

  UK government urged to follow European countries by backing technology based on open standards

• April 13, 2026 13 Apr'26

  Qualcomm expands strategic advanced driver assistance systems, immersive eyewear collaborations

  Mobile technology platform provider inks deal with Snap company to expand decade-long collaboration on XR services, and with Bosch to make ADAS offerings for enhanced safety and comfort

• April 13, 2026 13 Apr'26

  In the AI race, a global bank bets on the human touch

  Standard Chartered’s technology and security chief, Alvaro Garrido, says AI will transform finance, but the industry’s biggest vulnerabilities lie outside its own walls

• April 13, 2026 13 Apr'26

  India’s push for sovereign AI to lift Asia’s tech ecosystem

  A landmark AI infrastructure deal between Yotta and Gorilla Technology aims to deploy up to 36,000 GPUs in India, creating a blueprint for commercially viable AI at scale across the region

• April 10, 2026 10 Apr'26

  OpenAI ‘pauses’ Stargate UK: Sudden setback or calculated move?

  OpenAI’s decision to pause Stargate UK, much vaunted and based on a memorandum of understanding with government, cites energy costs and regulation, but may be driven by wider uncertainties

• April 10, 2026 10 Apr'26

  Moscow champions digital sovereignty and AI-driven city management

  By ensuring strategic technology capabilities are developed in-house, megacities can protect their critical infrastructure from cyber threats and global unpredictability, says Moscow government minister

• April 09, 2026 09 Apr'26

  Singapore Cyber Security Agency chief: Cyber stability a necessity, not a luxury

  With state-linked attacks rising and international rules unravelling, Singapore’s cyber security commissioner calls for global cooperation to prevent catastrophic conflict in cyber space

• April 09, 2026 09 Apr'26

  Physical AI device shipments to reach 145 million units by 2035

  Research finds rising demand for physical AI tech with autonomous vehicles set to be the largest market, while commercial drones will drive shipments growth and service units will lead robotics shipments

• April 09, 2026 09 Apr'26

  Treon lands €6.8m to accelerate industrial AI innovation

  AI-native smart industry tech firm claims funding will aid its mission as it enters a new era of AI-native industrial operations, strengthening its ability to scale industrial AI technologies globally

• April 08, 2026 08 Apr'26

  XCOM RAN intros end-to-end private 5G for physical AI

  Next-generation private 5G technology provider unveils plans to expands spectrum and partners for global reach of dedicated wireless network

• April 08, 2026 08 Apr'26

  Cisco: Network readiness a determining factor for AI success

  Report reveals how firms are harnessing AI to drive progress and overcome industry challenges, with most expecting ‘significant’ increases in connectivity and reliability demands

• April 08, 2026 08 Apr'26

  Optical networks to bridge the AI compute-consumption gap

  With AI spurring gigawatt-scale datacentre builds across APAC, Ciena is deploying ultra-fast, energy-efficient optical networking and AI-driven automation to ensure AI services can reach consumers

• April 07, 2026 07 Apr'26

  How voice AI is transforming customer service

  After years of steering customers away from phone calls to cut costs, businesses are warming to voice AI agents capable of managing thousands of conversations simultaneously and upselling services

• April 06, 2026 06 Apr'26

  Digital Realty CTO on AI tokenomics and datacentre infrastructure

  Chris Sharp talks up the pace of AI silicon innovation, the growth of inferencing workloads, and why boasting about datacentre megawatts misses the point

• April 02, 2026 02 Apr'26

  Marvell scales up networking to extend Nvidia AI ecosystem

  AI GPU leader sees extension of AI infrastructure through collaboration with infrastructure technology to deliver more choice and flexibility for customers with fully compatible systems

• April 02, 2026 02 Apr'26

  How ‘Wikipedia of cyber’ helps SAP make sense of threat data

  SAP runs enormous cloud environments for some of the world’s most heavily-regulated organisations, and in the hyperscale era, data security and compliance were becoming big challenges. It turned to cutting-edge agentic tools from Uptycs to cut ...

• April 02, 2026 02 Apr'26

  Net Insight introduces programmable video production network

  Capability designed to make large-scale IP-based live production infrastructures more predictable and controllable, enabling secure and automated IP interconnection without reverting to SDI gateways

• April 02, 2026 02 Apr'26

  Wireless AI paradox emerges as Wi-Fi evolves into strategic growth engine

  Research finds businesses must adapt to diverse connectivity needs, and support a growing spectrum of users and devices including employees, contractors, robots, sensors and AI applications

• April 02, 2026 02 Apr'26

  What’s driving Oracle’s latest job cuts?

  Thousands of job losses have been reported, affecting many roles at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, including those in software engineering and product compliance

• April 02, 2026 02 Apr'26

  How ANZ firms are driving automation and AIOps

  Tech leaders from Westpac, NAB, Telstra and ACC New Zealand share their automation journeys, from overcoming cultural resistance to the cautious adoption of AI

• April 01, 2026 01 Apr'26

  AI driving changes in Nordic financial services

  Traditional Nordic financial services businesses are reshaping to take on a new breed of competition