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Artificial intelligence, automation and robotics

• October 21, 2025 21 Oct'25

  Government to launch AI sandbox scheme

  The proposed AI Growth Lab aims to cut red tape and allow companies to test artificial intelligence products in a safe environment

• October 21, 2025 21 Oct'25

  Startup law firm wants to ‘live and breathe technology’

  Law firm will use artificial intelligence in its business from the word go, cutting the cost of managing large business contracts

• October 21, 2025 21 Oct'25

  AWS and e& launch AI and cloud training programme to build UAE’s future-ready workforce

  The ‘AI Nation – Afaaq’ initiative will train 30,000 individuals in AI and machine learning, addressing critical skills gaps and supporting the UAE’s digital transformation ambitions

• October 21, 2025 21 Oct'25

  Dell Technologies accelerates AI and digital transformation across the Middle East

  Through strategic partnerships and innovations unveiled at Gitex 2025, Dell is helping UAE organisations harness AI, multi-cloud, and edge computing to drive faster, smarter business transformation

• October 20, 2025 20 Oct'25

  From Whitehall to WhatsApp: The rise of conversational government

  Chatbots and secure messaging are reshaping citizen access to public services, offering speed and simplicity, but raising questions of trust and inclusion

• October 20, 2025 20 Oct'25

  Companion.energy intros cost- and carbon-aware networking

  Belgian energy company turns to comms tech provider to fulfil mission to allow enterprises to turn energy from a cost centre into a strategic advantage through sustainable networking

• October 20, 2025 20 Oct'25

  EU regulation sharpens fear of Norwegian AI exodus

  Norway’s government wants fast-track adoption of EU AI Act as pressure mounts for the EU to ease regulation on high-tech sectors

• October 20, 2025 20 Oct'25

  Microsoft admonished for role in facilitating Gaza genocide

  Following credible allegations that Microsoft Azure was being used to facilitate mass surveillance and lethal force against Palestinians, which prompted the company to suspend services to the Israeli military unit responsible, human rights ...

• October 17, 2025 17 Oct'25

  HMRC rolls out Microsoft Copilot AI

  HM Revenue and Customs has begun to roll out Microsoft 365 Copilot to its staff, with the aim of making productivity savings

• October 17, 2025 17 Oct'25

  UK Salesforce execs: Agentforce begins to stoke new business forms

  Salesforce UK CEO Zahra Bahrololoumi and CTO Paul O’Sullivan put Dreamforce 2025 discourse about agentic AI into a UK context

• October 16, 2025 16 Oct'25

  Pet insurers fuel AI take up in veterinary sector

  Through tech startups, insurers are offering artificial intelligence-based veterinary services as part of pet insurance contracts

• October 16, 2025 16 Oct'25

  UK banks must be more like Big Tech to catch the US on AI, which comes with a high price

  Evident research into artificial intelligence adoption in banking reveals US banks dominate when it comes to making AI work for the business

• October 16, 2025 16 Oct'25

  AI market is ‘frothy not bubbly’, says Cloudian CEO

  To meet the growth in demand for on-premise AI inferencing, Cloudian has developed an AI platform to help enterprises apply large language models to their private data and address security and sovereignty concerns

• 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

  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

  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

  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 ...