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Artificial intelligence, automation and robotics

• June 11, 2025 11 Jun'25

  Cisco Live 2025: The network critical for the future of the AI era

  Network giant unveils simplification of network operations, delivers exponential performance with next-generation devices and fuses security into the network

• June 11, 2025 11 Jun'25

  London Tech Week: More funding, fellowships and skills

  The government wants to make the UK the best place for tech and AI, opening pathways for global talent and venture capital funding

• June 10, 2025 10 Jun'25

  UK finance regulator tie-up with Nvidia allows firms to experiment with AI

  FCA wants to support organisations in testing their ideas for the use of artificial intelligence

• June 10, 2025 10 Jun'25

  Cisco reimagines infrastructure for the AI era

  Cisco is betting on an AI-driven, agent-based future for infrastructure management with AI Canvas and a raft of network security capabilities at its Cisco Live 2025 conference

• June 10, 2025 10 Jun'25

  Open source a ‘force multiplier’ for AI innovation

  From powerful large language models to the next wave of AI agents, the open-source community is driving innovation and setting the agenda for the entire field, according to leaders at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China

• June 09, 2025 09 Jun'25

  Labour commits £17.2m to support Spärck AI scholarships

  The government has put up money to help drive the UK’s expertise in artificial intelligence

• June 09, 2025 09 Jun'25

  Starmer opens London Tech Week with £1bn AI boost

  Prime Minister unveiled plans to boost UK’s high-performance compute capacity 20-fold, along with funding to bolster skills

• June 09, 2025 09 Jun'25

  Barclays rolls out Microsoft Copilot to 100,000 employees as AI adoption gathers pace

  Barclays is doubling down on its adoption of artificial intelligence tools by moving to embrace Microsoft Copilot with a large-scale roll-out of the technology to 100,000 staff

• June 06, 2025 06 Jun'25

  CSC, Surf and Nokia achieve 1.2 Tbps data transfer in supercomputer trial

  Trial designed to help research networks prep for high-performance computing clusters and AI factories handling high-intensity workloads, confirming feasibility of multi-domain, high-capacity data transfers across multiple domains

• June 06, 2025 06 Jun'25

  UK ICO publishes AI and biometrics strategy

  The UK data regulator has outlined how it will approach the regulation of artificial intelligence and biometric technologies, which will focus in particular on automated decision-making systems and police facial recognition

• June 06, 2025 06 Jun'25

  ‘Severe’ network outages costing $160bn globally

  Research reveals costly impact of outages and spotlights a critical turning point in enterprise network architecture changing how IT leaders think about the network, such as what it is, what it enables and how it protects organisations

• June 05, 2025 05 Jun'25

  FairPrice taps Google Cloud for AI-powered store

  The supermarket chain will leverage generative AI and cloud technologies to enhance customer experience and streamline in-store operations, starting with its upcoming Punggol Digital District outlet

• June 05, 2025 05 Jun'25

  Whitehall fails to recognise digital procurement challenge, says PAC

  Committee concerned that Government Commercial Function doesn’t understand the scale of reform needed to address long-standing digital procurement issues, including lack of skills and leadership

• June 05, 2025 05 Jun'25

  SXSW: An immersive experience is the future of AI

  OpenAI’s recent acquisition heralds a new direction for generative AI, away from the screen-based user experience

• June 05, 2025 05 Jun'25

  Australia’s CommBank completes migration of data to AWS in AI drive

  Putting all of its data in AWS cloud will support bank’s use of artificial intelligence to offer customers more personalised services

• June 05, 2025 05 Jun'25

  Real AI use cases emerge for SDVs but readiness gaps persist

  Research finds nearly two-thirds of global automakers believe artificial intelligence use cases – such as predictive maintenance, over-the-air optimisation and personalisation – will drive software-defined vehicle adoption

• June 05, 2025 05 Jun'25

  How GitLab is tapping AI in DevSecOps

  GitLab CISO Josh Lemos explains how the company is weaving AI, through its Duo tool, into the entire software development lifecycle to enhance efficiency and automate incident response

• June 05, 2025 05 Jun'25

  Istres deploys private 5G network to bolster smart city safety

  Southern French city establishes dedicated mobile infrastructure to improve coordination and emergency rapid response capabilities, and support fixed and mobile video surveillance and encrypted communications

• June 04, 2025 04 Jun'25

  Investigatory powers: Guidelines for police and spies could also help businesses with AI

  Computer Weekly talks to Muffy Calder, technology advisor to the UK’s investigatory powers commissioner, about privacy, intrusion and artificial intelligence

• June 04, 2025 04 Jun'25

  SXSW London: Risk of AI removing choice

  The modern era, where AI speeds up day-to-day chores, is undermining creativity and the ability to make choices

• June 04, 2025 04 Jun'25

  Artificial intelligence to initiate and manage litigations after ‘landmark’ approval

  The Garfield Project created an artificial intelligence-based litigation service for small claims, but how far can the technology reach in the legal sector

• June 04, 2025 04 Jun'25

  European Commission should rescind UK data adequacy

  Civil society organisations have urged the European Commissioner to not renew the UK’s data adequacy, given the country’s growing divergence from European data protection standards

• June 04, 2025 04 Jun'25

  Interview: Manish Jethwa, chief technology officer, Ordnance Survey

  The UK mapping service has moved on a long way from paper maps as it now looks to use artificial intelligence to understand, interpret and derive insights from geographical data

• June 04, 2025 04 Jun'25

  Interview: Pega’s ‘Blueprint’ for breaking the curse of legacy IT

  Legacy IT is a drag on profits and innovation, but AI agents will help companies rebuild their processes better than before, claims Pegasystems CTO Don Schuerman

• June 04, 2025 04 Jun'25

  Open source adoption faces reality checks

  Industry leaders lauded the power of open source to drive innovation but warned that its adoption requires significant effort, due diligence and a clear understanding of inherent complexities and licensing challenges

• June 04, 2025 04 Jun'25

  Infosecurity 2025: SMEs feel on their own in the face of cyber attacks

  Project findings to be presented at Infosecurity Europe 2025 highlight vulnerability of SMEs to cyber attack

• June 03, 2025 03 Jun'25

  Fintech growth three times that of finance sector as a whole

  Global fintech revenues reached £280bn in 2024, according to Boston Consulting Group report

• June 03, 2025 03 Jun'25

  HMRC aims to improve customer service with £1.5bn IT investment

  The department is on the hunt for customer relationship management system and contact centre as a service suppliers, following criticism of its customer service

• June 03, 2025 03 Jun'25

  SailPoint charts course for AI-driven identity security

  SailPoint is driving the use of agentic AI in identity security with its Harbor Pilot offering while preparing to help enterprises govern and secure AI agents

• June 03, 2025 03 Jun'25

  Analysis of job vacancies shows earnings boost for AI skills

  Even when parts of a job are being automated, those who know how to work with artificial intelligence tools can expect higher salaries

• June 02, 2025 02 Jun'25

  Microsoft Copilot AI saves civil service hours of admin work

  Over a third of Microsoft 365 users who took part in trials across government departments claimed they saved more than half an hour in productivity a day

• June 02, 2025 02 Jun'25

  Agentic AI set to handle 68% of customer service interactions by 2028

  Research reveals that advanced artificial intelligence will drive more personalised, proactive and predictive support to transform customer experience delivery

• June 02, 2025 02 Jun'25

  AI in IT services and the diminishing correlation between people and growth

  While non-IT business professionals in the middle of their careers face the most disruption from generative AI, professionals in the IT services sector and their employers are prepared for change

• June 02, 2025 02 Jun'25

  Roig Arena to open with 6GHz Wi-Fi network and advanced analytics

  State-of-the-art sports and events arena set to open in Valencia in September 2025 reveals connectivity set up to guarantee expected fan experience with high-speed connectivity plus optimised venue operations

• June 02, 2025 02 Jun'25

  NPCC calls for better tech investment

  The National Police Chiefs’ Council sets out a series of digital ambitions and asks for £220m per year in the upcoming spending review to scale up science and technology capabilities

• June 02, 2025 02 Jun'25

  AI should be used to improve boardroom efficiency

  Artificial intelligence is not just for business efficiency. Company boards should deploy the technology to support their own processes

• June 02, 2025 02 Jun'25

  Infosecurity 2025: NCA cyber intelligence head spells out trends

  Will Lyne, head of cyber intelligence at the National Crime Agency, sketches out cyber criminal trends as ransomware and other attack varieties become democratised beyond Russophone, skilled software developers

• June 02, 2025 02 Jun'25

  How Mistral is driving growth through open source and enterprise AI

  Company CEO Arthur Mensch details how the French startup is balancing its open source ethos with a strong enterprise focus and delivering efficient, customisable AI to solve business problems and expand its global reach

• May 29, 2025 29 May'25

  Wildix rolls out embedded agentic AI for UCaaS

  UCaaS provider offers real-time, codeless automation with shared memory, native privacy controls and ‘proven’ return on investment, live across more than 1,000 environments

• May 29, 2025 29 May'25

  Sapphire 2025: BASF evolves business with move to SAP S/4Hana

  Germany-based global chemical giant BASF has elected to move its SAP IT estate to S/4Hana private cloud to evolve its business in uncertain times

• May 29, 2025 29 May'25

  CEOs and IT chiefs misaligned on AI readiness

  A report from Kyndryl shows a significant gap in how business leaders perceive the AI infrastructure of their organisations compared with IT chiefs

• May 29, 2025 29 May'25

  Nvidia takes $4.5bn hit due to export restrictions

  Nvidia warns it could miss out on $50bn market opportunity as China ramps up its AI capabilities

• May 28, 2025 28 May'25

  UK biometric surveillance exists in ‘legal grey area’

  The rapid proliferation of ‘biometric mass surveillance technologies’ throughout the UK’s public and private sectors is taking place without legal certainty or adequate safeguards for the public

• May 28, 2025 28 May'25

  ANZ firms spending more on data management

  Nearly nine in 10 organisations in Australia and New Zealand increased their overall spend on data management last year to cope with higher data volumes and growing use of artificial intelligence, study finds

• May 28, 2025 28 May'25

  Infor bets on ‘micro-verticalisation’, sees uptick from SAP customers

  Infor’s head honcho in Asia-Pacific and Japan details how the company's deep industry focus and cloud-native business applications are driving growth and attracting customers, including those rethinking their SAP roadmaps

• May 27, 2025 27 May'25

  Salesforce pays $8bn for Informatica to underpin agentic AI play

  Salesforce is to pay approximately $8bn for cloud data management specialist Informatica as it looks to shore up the foundations of its developing agentic AI strategy

• May 27, 2025 27 May'25

  Government launches search to link UK to European supercomputers

  As part of Horizon 2020, the UK recently signed up to an EU initiative to support the expansion of high-performance computing for AI

• May 27, 2025 27 May'25

  Interview: Richard Masters, vice-president of data and AI, Virgin Atlantic

  The airline’s data chief is applying his expertise as a PhD in astrophysics to the nitty-gritty details of using artificial intelligence to improve customer experience

• May 27, 2025 27 May'25

  Imec ITF World 2025: The hardware horizon for AI

  At its recent ITF World 2025 conference in Antwerp, Belgian research institute Imec delivered a pointed message: as AI accelerates, the world needs new thinking – not just in software, but in the hardware ecosystems underpinning it

• May 27, 2025 27 May'25

  Norway’s autonomous bus moves into the fast lane

  In a small but ambitious project in Stavanger, Norway, autonomous buses are proving they might one day solve a critical problem: the chronic shortage of bus drivers