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Artificial intelligence, automation and robotics

• February 17, 2026 17 Feb'26

  Lumen targets AI bottlenecks with cloud gateway and metro expansion

  AI network provider introduces enterprise capabilities designed to accelerate data movement across distributed artificial intelligence environments while aiming to lower complexity and cost

• February 17, 2026 17 Feb'26

  Artificial intelligence ‘creeping into’ high-risk stock trading

  Growing reliance on artificial intelligence is encroaching into the stock market, finds research

• February 17, 2026 17 Feb'26

  House of Lords committee concerned over digital forensics backlog

  Lords’ Science and Technology Committee warns policing and justice system is unequipped to make use of technologies such as AI, and calls on government to handle digital forensics backlog

• February 17, 2026 17 Feb'26

  Government pumps £20m into using tech to fight addiction

  Funding grants from Innovate UK will be used for medical technologies and digital tools such as artificial intelligence and wearables to reduce substance misuse and addiction

• February 17, 2026 17 Feb'26

  Government wages cyber campaign as half the UK’s SMEs are breached

  UK government says half of all small businesses have been cyber breached in the recent past as it urges them to ‘lock the door’

• February 17, 2026 17 Feb'26

  Google Cloud supplants Azure as Unilever cloud of choice

  Microsoft Azure provided ‘the bulk’ of provision when Unilever went all-in on cloud in 2023, but now Google will be the ‘destination’ for the multinational’s cloud and data platform

• February 17, 2026 17 Feb'26

  British Transport Police start using live facial recognition

  British Transport Police will deploy facial recognition for six months despite calls for the government to halt its rapid expansion of the technology

• February 16, 2026 16 Feb'26

  Pascal Brier, Capgemini: AI will prove its enterprise truth this year

  Capgemini’s chief innovation officer says the 2025 rise and deployment of artificial intelligence agents put enterprise AI progress on hold, but laid the ground for acceleration to come

• February 16, 2026 16 Feb'26

  NatWest hails progress after £1.2bn spent on tech last year, but true AI transformation to come

  NatWest Bank describes the past 12 months of its tech transformation as ‘the year of [AI] deployment at scale’

• February 16, 2026 16 Feb'26

  Oracle readies AI note-taker for NHS

  The AI tool drafts structured notes from patient-clinician interactions, helping to reduce administrative work

• February 15, 2026 15 Feb'26

  Wesfarmers to deploy agentic AI in retail operations

  Retail conglomerate behind Kmart and Officeworks signs multi-year deal with Google Cloud to deploy AI agents for customer service and internal productivity

• February 13, 2026 13 Feb'26

  Singapore to form National AI Council, expands tax breaks to ease AI adoption

  Singapore government unveils plans to spur AI adoption through fiscal incentives, implementation guidance and workforce skilling in a concerted effort to drive the nation’s AI agenda

• February 12, 2026 12 Feb'26

  Thousands of unread emails and 20 million database errors cause civil service pension hardship

  Capita is to ‘fast-track’ any technology, including artificial intelligence, that can help it clear a backlog in civil service pension work

• February 12, 2026 12 Feb'26

  Large language models provide unreliable answers about public services, Open Data Institute finds

  Research questions AI’s trustworthiness in giving people accurate information about government services

• February 11, 2026 11 Feb'26

  The Security Interviews: Mick Baccio, Splunk

  Mick Baccio, global security advisor at Splunk SURGe and Cisco Foundation AI, reveals how the experience of running cyber on a dime for a US presidential campaign has informed how he does security, and why the basics still matter

• February 11, 2026 11 Feb'26

  APAC firms ditch Oracle Java to cut costs amid AI demands

  Rising Oracle Java licensing fees and the massive infrastructure requirements of AI workloads are driving the region’s businesses to migrate to OpenJDK distributions

• February 11, 2026 11 Feb'26

  Lack of resources greatest hurdle for regulating AI, MPs told

  Regulators warned that statutory powers alone cannot address the ethical harms of artificial intelligence

• February 11, 2026 11 Feb'26

  Cisco shapes up for delivery of critical infrastructure in the AI era

  Annual European expo reveals what IT and networking behemoth claims will be a leap forward in AI adoption, with new products encompassing switches, optics, agentic operations and SASE

• February 10, 2026 10 Feb'26

  Apple and Google pledge to improve app fairness

  The CMA is seeking views on Apple and Google’s commitments to ensure fair app store practices to stoke the UK’s app economy, fintech and improve developer confidence

• February 10, 2026 10 Feb'26

  Second ever international AI safety report published

  More than 100 artificial intelligence experts have produced the second international AI safety report ahead of a summit in India, outlining a high degree of uncertainty about the development and risks of AI

• February 10, 2026 10 Feb'26

  Artificial intelligence now finance sector’s ‘connective tissue’

  Major study finds debate over AI adoption is over as almost every finance firm in the world is already using the technology

• February 09, 2026 09 Feb'26

  Fractile expansion demonstrates UK growth opportunity

  AI chip firm’s £100m expansion and facility in Bristol is being used to showcase the government’s AI opportunity plan in action

• February 09, 2026 09 Feb'26

  UAE’s TII challenges big tech dominance with open source Falcon AI models

  Through its Falcon models and an open, efficiency-driven research strategy, the Technology Innovation Institute is positioning the UAE as a producer of foundational AI, not merely a consumer of global platforms

• February 06, 2026 06 Feb'26

  NHS publishes tech-laden cancer plan

  The 10-year plan promises to transform cancer care through use of artificial intelligence, robotic surgeries and access to genomic testing, all wrapped up in the NHS App as the front door

• February 06, 2026 06 Feb'26

  Australia’s CommBank partners business school to research artificial intelligence

  CommBank wants to better understand how its customers perceive, use and trust artificial intelligence, as the technology is set to reach every corner of the finance sector

• February 06, 2026 06 Feb'26

  ANZ rolls out AI agents for business bankers

  Australian lender claims to be the first in Asia-Pacific to deploy Salesforce Agentforce at scale, following a national roll-out of a CRM platform that consolidates data from different systems to ease administrative toil

• February 05, 2026 05 Feb'26

  Why traditional automation is key to avoid the AI solution trap

  Boards are pushing for AI, but Nintex CTO Niranjan Vijayaragavan warns that AI projects are destined to fail without a foundation of traditional automation and clean data

• February 05, 2026 05 Feb'26

  Governance lags agentic AI adoption in the UK, says Salesforce

  Salesforce's ‘2026 Connectivity benchmark report’ points to an increase in enterprise agentic AI deployment, but highlights governance gaps and a siloed system that requires better orchestration

• February 05, 2026 05 Feb'26

  ISE 2026: Maxhub unveils partnerships, products to enrich unified collaboration

  Provider of integrated commercial display and unified communications takes advantage of enterprise AV expo to announce further collaborations with tech leaders to create enhanced multimedia experiences

• February 05, 2026 05 Feb'26

  Why sovereign and agentic AI will define next phase of Middle East’s digital transformation

  Organisations shift from artificial intelligence pilots to operational deployment as governments prioritise digital sovereignty and infrastructure control

• February 05, 2026 05 Feb'26

  Half of Google’s software development now AI-generated

  In a bid to free up budget to spend on artificial intelligence infrastructure, Google parent Alphabet is using AI to improve operational efficiency

• February 05, 2026 05 Feb'26

  DWP rejigs operating model for data transformation by 2030

  The Department for Work and Pensions’ 2023-2030 data strategy aims to modernise systems, slash costs by 20%, promote data sharing, and embed a data culture in a hub and spoke model

• February 04, 2026 04 Feb'26

  LinkedIn touts agentic AI to slash recruitment time

  LinkedIn’s head of engineering for talent solutions explains how fine-tuned LLMs and agentic AI architectures are replacing traditional search methods to save recruiters four hours per role

• February 04, 2026 04 Feb'26

  Banks reduce reliance on OpenAI as strategies mature

  Banks are increasingly using alternative AI providers as Anthropic and Google eat into OpenAI’s dominance

• February 03, 2026 03 Feb'26

  Gartner: AI and datacentre spending ramps up

  Hyperscalers are increasing AI capacity but IT buyers are now looking at their return on investment for this much-hyped technology

• February 03, 2026 03 Feb'26

  Infosecurity Europe launches cyber security startups stream

  Infosecurity Europe 2026 will feature a cyber security startup exhibition zone and a competition for business support, in conjunction with the UK Cyber Flywheel organisation

• February 03, 2026 03 Feb'26

  CGI’s artificial intelligence boss knows his job title won’t exist for long

  IT service provider is using AI to increase throughput while applying it to ‘big ticket’ challenges externally

• February 03, 2026 03 Feb'26

  Kendall names Barnsley as UK’s first tech town

  The UK government has named Barnsley as the nation’s first ‘tech town’, with initiatives to boost education, health and local businesses

• February 02, 2026 02 Feb'26

  HMRC chooses cloud SAP S/4Hana for tax system overhaul

  HM Revenue & Customs is bidding to modernise its tax systems by migrating from ECC6 to SAP’s cloud-based Rise with SAP programme, adopting S/4Hana and AI to enhance efficiency and taxpayer experience

• February 02, 2026 02 Feb'26

  Interview: Why identity is the nucleus for cyber security

  Amid a wave of market consolidation, Computer Weekly speaks to Keeper Security’s leadership on how identity and access management systems are becoming unified identity platforms capable of securing both human and machine identities

• January 30, 2026 30 Jan'26

  Home Office announces sweeping police technology plans

  The Home Office plans to ramp up its deployment of artificial intelligence and facial-recognition technologies under wide-ranging reforms to UK policing

• January 30, 2026 30 Jan'26

  South Korea debuts foundation model in sovereign AI push

  A consortium led by SK Telecom has built a sovereign AI model designed to reduce reliance on foreign tech, lower costs for local industry and propel South Korea into the top ranks of AI powers

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  Metropolitan Police needs effective constraints on live facial recognition use, court hears

  The Metropolitan Police has defended its use of live facial recognition against a legal challenge that claims there are no effective constraints on where it can deploy the technology

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  Forward Networks claims first network digital twin for enterprises

  Network operations platform capability pairs agentic AI operations with network digital twin to enable NetOps and SecOps teams to ask complex questions, understand network behaviour and validate outcomes

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  Skills key to successful AI adoption, says IBM

  Research from IBM states that employees will need AI skills in the near future for organisations to benefit from the technology

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  SAP overcomes rough start to post 8% growth

  SAP reports €36.8bn for 2025, up 8%, despite what CEO Christian Klein called a ‘rough start to the year’ due to geopolitical unrest from tariff conflict between the US and the EU

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  UK government signs more partners to boost AI skills across the country

  The government is seeking to educate 10 million adults in the UK on how to use artificial intelligence tools to streamline their work

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  Meta’s latest results show diversification of datacentre capacity strategy

  The social media giant is facing increased datacentre costs due to rising server, memory and storage prices

• January 28, 2026 28 Jan'26

  Nvidia releases synthetic dataset to support Singapore’s AI ambitions

  The AI chip giant has developed a synthetic dataset of personas to help developers build AI models that understand Singapore’s demographic and cultural nuances without using personally identifiable information

• January 28, 2026 28 Jan'26

  Scotland gets AI growth zone boost in Lanarkshire

  CoreWeave is building a 500MW AI cloud, providing the region with 800 high-paid jobs in artificial intelligence