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Artificial intelligence, automation and robotics
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April 22, 2025
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Apr'25
Fujitsu targets private AI with Japanese LLM on Nutanix
Fujitsu’s Takane large language model, optimised for Japanese language and business use, is aimed at supporting private AI deployments
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April 22, 2025
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Apr'25
HyperFiber scales with Render to boost broadband efficiency
Network workflow automation and productivity optimisation firm’s services deployed to scale fibre deployment across multiple expanding markets in key areas across US
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April 22, 2025
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Apr'25
Government tests experimental AI for housing
The AI tool will be used to turn handwritten notes and scanned documents into high-quality data, aiming to improve efficiency in planning decisions for housing
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April 22, 2025
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Apr'25
AI-powered APIs proving highly vulnerable to attack
The growth of AI is proving a double-edged sword for API security, presenting opportunities for defenders to enhance their resilience, but also more risks from AI-powered attacks, according to report
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April 21, 2025
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Apr'25
Top APAC firms recognised at innovation awards
Citic Telecom, CapitaLand Investment and DBS Bank were among the region’s top industry innovators recognised for their digital transformation efforts at the Computer Weekly Innovation Awards APAC 2025
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April 21, 2025
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Apr'25
CW Innovation Awards: Finding revenue gains from parked cars
Singapore real estate investment firm CapitaLand Investment taps machine learning models to optimise space utilisation across 23 commercial buildings and business parks
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April 21, 2025
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Apr'25
CW Innovation Awards: Transforming cyber security with AI
Facing rising cyber threats and a shortage of experts, Citic Telecom International CPC developed an AI-powered penetration testing tool to automate security audits and reduce costs
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April 21, 2025
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Apr'25
CW Innovation Awards: DBS AI assistant slashes call times and boosts productivity
The bank’s in-house generative AI tool is streamlining customer service, reducing manual work and speeding up response times, improving both employee and customer experience
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April 17, 2025
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Apr'25
Standard Chartered grounds AI ambitions in data governance
The bank’s group chief data officer, Mohammed Rahim, outlines how the bank is modernising its data infrastructure and governance practices to support its AI initiatives
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April 16, 2025
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Apr'25
Kraft Group enlists NWN for New England Patriots network upgrades
North America’s largest AI-powered technology services provider to power fan experiences across entire sports enterprise business portfolio, including Gillette Stadium, New England Patriots and New England Revolution
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April 16, 2025
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Apr'25
Interview: Markus Schümmelfeder, CIO, Boehringer Ingelheim
The pharmaceutical giant has built a digital and data platform based on cloud and standardisation, from which it is exploring technology opportunities in AI and quantum computing
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April 16, 2025
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Apr'25
AI chip restrictions limit Nvidia H20 China exports
The US government’s export controls have come into effect, limiting Nvidia’s ability to sell its H20 chip in China
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April 16, 2025
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Apr'25
Saudi Arabia struggling to reach global leadership in deeptech
Petrostate monarchy trying to build surrogate industry made of foreign startups because own ecosystem is too immature
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April 16, 2025
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Apr'25
Security leaders grapple with AI-driven threats
Experts warn of AI’s dual role in both empowering and challenging cyber defences, and called for intelligence sharing and the need to strike a balance between AI-driven innovation and existing security practices
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April 15, 2025
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Apr'25
Alibaba Cloud bolsters AI offerings
The Chinese hyperscaler has launched new models, tools and infrastructure upgrades for international customers following plans to advance its cloud computing and AI infrastructure
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April 14, 2025
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Apr'25
Nokia networking backbone firms up ResetData AI factory
Deployment of networking backbone to support immediate roll-out of Australia’s first sovereign and sustainable liquid immersion-cooled data centres looks to gain 75% reduction in energy consumption over previous generations
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April 14, 2025
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Apr'25
BT stretches Fabric further through Google Cloud partnership
UK’s leading telco announces step forward in partnership with IT giant, deepening collaboration to offer customers cloud WAN routes via its Global Fabric network platform
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April 11, 2025
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Apr'25
AI surveillance towers place migrants in ‘even greater jeopardy’
The use of autonomous surveillance towers throughout the English coast forces migrants into increasingly dangerous routes and contributes to their criminalisation
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April 11, 2025
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Apr'25
Google Cloud, Juniper Networks accelerate enterprise campus deployment
AI-native networking platform to use Google’s Cloud WAN service to help accelerate new branch deployments, and offer simplified branch operations with security and agility
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April 11, 2025
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Apr'25
Met Police to deploy permanent facial recognition tech in Croydon
The Met Police is set deploy permanent live facial recognition cameras on street furniture in Croydon from summer 2025, but local councillors say the decision – which has taken place with no community input – will further contribute the ...
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April 10, 2025
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Apr'25
Google bets on unifying security tools to ease CISO pain
At Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas, Google launches its Unified Security platform with the goal of bringing together disparate security solutions to help cyber leaders and practitioners address their most keenly felt pain points
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April 10, 2025
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Apr'25
Ericsson unveils AI-led enterprise wireless-first branch architecture
Global comms tech provider launches wireless-first branch architecture to deliver secure, reliable and scalable connectivity to support higher-bandwidth, business-critical AI-based operations across multiple industries
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April 10, 2025
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Apr'25
Google offers open protocol for AI agent connectivity
The idea of having AI agents coordinate activities to achieve a task requires a standard protocol for sharing queries, answers and admin tasks
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April 10, 2025
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Apr'25
Lloyds Bank moves AI work onto Google Cloud platform
Banking group is cutting its emissions and accelerating the development of AI platforms by moving work onto Google Cloud
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April 10, 2025
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Apr'25
NetSuite bets big on built-in AI
At its customer event in Sydney, Oracle NetSuite unveiled a suite of AI-powered features integrated directly into its platform at no extra cost in a bid to make AI more accessible to customers
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April 09, 2025
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Apr'25
Microsoft’s April 2025 bumper Patch Tuesday corrects 124 bugs
Microsoft is correcting 124 vulnerabilities in its March Patch Tuesday, one of which is being actively exploited in the wild, and 11 of which are ‘critical’
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April 08, 2025
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Apr'25
IBM boosts AI mainframe capabilities with Z17
IBM continues to try to break out of the mindset that mainframes are just for transaction processing. The latest server offers greater AI capabilities
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April 08, 2025
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Apr'25
Global law firm Freshfields embarks on AI-led digital transformation with Google Cloud
Freshfields has enlisted the help of Google Cloud and its artificial intelligence portfolio to help streamline its processes, as its global chief innovation officer sets about empowering staff to confidently use AI in their everyday work
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April 08, 2025
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Apr'25
Government punts cyber governance code of practice for UK businesses
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology’s cyber security minister Feryal Clark announces a cyber security code of governance for UK businesses to follow
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April 07, 2025
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Apr'25
KubeCon London: Prepare for a shake-up
Developer overload, inadequate fault tolerance and regional fractionalisation are among the issues the Linux Foundation needs to address
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April 07, 2025
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Apr'25
India’s tech talent adapts to AI era
IT professionals in India need to unlearn old skills and embrace artificial intelligence, automation and specialised domains as the country cements its position as a global tech hub
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April 04, 2025
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Apr'25
UN warns of economic productivity crash due to AI job losses
Artificial intelligence can improve productivity, but a report from the United Nations warns of potential job losses disrupting economies
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April 03, 2025
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Apr'25
Oxa and Applied EV drive for first in industrial mobility automation
Partnership empowers businesses to tackle industry challenges through the deployment of safe, secure and efficient autonomous fleets
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April 03, 2025
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Apr'25
Danish supercomputer to drive innovation
Supercomputer project will add a competitive edge to drive innovation and growth among Denmark’s enterprises and research organisations
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April 03, 2025
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Apr'25
Are LLM firewalls the future of AI security?
As large language models permeate industries, experts at Black Hat Asia 2025 debate the need for LLM firewalls and explore their role in fending off emerging AI threats
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April 02, 2025
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Apr'25
UKtech50 2025 – help us find the most influential people in UK IT
Computer Weekly’s annual search for the 50 most influential people in UK IT is on – let us know who you would like to nominate for this year's list
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April 02, 2025
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Apr'25
Keysight introduces AI network architecture validation, optimisation tool
Tool designed to validate the network performance of AI workloads and system infrastructure by adjusting and optimising parameters
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April 02, 2025
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Apr'25
Interview: Tomer Cohen, chief product officer, LinkedIn
The professional social network’s product chief is leading the introduction of artificial intelligence for the firm’s in-house development processes and to enhance services for users
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April 01, 2025
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Apr'25
Nvidia tackles graphics processing unit hogging
People may try to lock up GPU resources even if they don’t need them all day – but not anymore, thanks to Nvidia KAI Scheduler
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April 01, 2025
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Apr'25
How Singapore researchers are using AI to fight Parkinson’s disease
Singapore researchers are using Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold to understand the intricate protein interactions at play in Parkinson's disease, paving the way for potential diagnostics and treatments
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March 28, 2025
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Mar'25
Government sends data scientists to AI school
Public sector data scientists will learn how to become artificial intelligence (AI) engineers as part of government scheme to upskill civil servants
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March 27, 2025
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Mar'25
UK public expresses strong support for AI regulation
Most of the UK public have experienced an AI-related harm and say they want laws introduced to regulate the technology, according to national survey by the Ada Lovelace and Alan Turing Institutes
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March 27, 2025
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Mar'25
Ericsson, SoftBank team to seek out 6G, XR, AI potential
Leading comms tech and service provider forges strategic partnership with telco and IT conglomerate to drive innovation in technologies towards 2030
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March 27, 2025
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Mar'25
Selangor teams up with Google Cloud on AI
The Teraju AI Selangor initiative will provide state agencies with access to Google Cloud’s AI tools and training to build AI applications in areas such as education and healthcare
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March 26, 2025
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Mar'25
Chancellor Rachel Reeves to use AI to catch wealthy tax dodgers
HMRC’s use of artificial intelligence is one of many initiatives outlined in Chancellor’s Spring Statement
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March 26, 2025
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Mar'25
More than 200 Lloyds Bank bosses to receive artificial intelligence training
Lloyds Banking Group is running a six-month training programme with the aim of building AI skills among its senior leadership
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March 26, 2025
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Mar'25
4 Day Week Foundation launches tech sector pilot
UK tech firms are being invited to join a pilot programme run by the 4 Day Week Foundation, which aims to help prepare them for implementing shorter working weeks
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March 26, 2025
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Mar'25
Military AI caught in tension between speed and control
The use of artificial intelligence in military contexts can unlock a range of benefits for defence organisations, but also highlights a clear tension between speed and control baked into the technology
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March 26, 2025
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Mar'25
Oracle bets big on AI, drives Australian business transformation
At the Oracle CloudWorld Tour in Sydney, Oracle executives talked up the company’s strategy to integrate AI across its entire technology stack, empowering Australian businesses to move beyond experimentation and into practical AI-driven solutions
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March 25, 2025
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Mar'25
Scottish police hold almost no data on facial recognition use
It is currently impossible to assess Police Scotland’s use of retrospective facial recognition for efficacy and fairness because the force does not collect meaningful information that would enable a proper evaluation