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Artificial intelligence, automation and robotics
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March 24, 2025
24
Mar'25
APIs key to unlocking AI agent potential, says MuleSoft
Most Asia-Pacific IT leaders have either implemented or intend to deploy agentic AI in the next two years, but success will hinge on the implementation of APIs that AI agents rely on
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March 23, 2025
23
Mar'25
How Jetstar is tapping data analytics
Low-cost carrier Jetstar is using the Snowflake data platform to optimise the number of meals to carry onboard and to generate flight schedules, among other data analytics initiatives to improve its operations
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March 21, 2025
21
Mar'25
Dutch workforce faces radical transformation as AI adoption accelerates
While the Netherlands leads Europe in AI adoption, a deeper analysis of the labour market reveals a more nuanced narrative than the apocalyptic predictions of job losses
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March 20, 2025
20
Mar'25
Oxa taps Nvidia to accelerate industrial mobility automation
Self-driving vehicle software provider announces deepened collaboration with AI processor leader to accelerate plans in IMA sector, through the support of physical AI, generating photoreal virtual world states to enhance its own training tools
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March 20, 2025
20
Mar'25
IDC: global edge computing spending to approach $380bn by 2028
Leading analyst predicts robust spending on edge computing services to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 13.8% over next three years, with AI workloads fuelling massive hardware investments, particularly in AI-accelerated processors
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March 19, 2025
19
Mar'25
Air New Zealand takes off with digital transformation deal
The airline aims to become a digital leader with TCS’s help to improve fleet management, crew scheduling and ground services through the use of artificial intelligence
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March 19, 2025
19
Mar'25
Zoom debuts new agentic AI skills and agents for Zoom AI Companion
AI-first work platform provider expands agentic skills across the entire portfolio using reasoning and memory to take action and orchestrate task execution, conversational self-service and custom agent creation
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March 19, 2025
19
Mar'25
HPE teams up with Nvidia for enterprise AI solutions
Leading networking tech firm latest to get on board agentic AI road in partnership with GPU leader focusing on customer transformation with new enterprise AI solutions and enhancements encompassing data management and storage.
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March 19, 2025
19
Mar'25
DeepMind founder warns of compounding AI agent errors
Artificial general intelligence may be years away, but in the meantime, organisations are being urged to adopt agent technology
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March 18, 2025
18
Mar'25
Formula 1 accelerates decision response with team content delivery
AI services and digital transformation specialist claims to have halved crucial response times in Formula 1, redefining how teams analyse race data in real time
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March 18, 2025
18
Mar'25
Cisco unveils Webex agentic AI systems to automate CX, EX
Mission to transform contact centres into customer experience centres sees systems for core collaboration platform designed to predict and automate customer and employee experiences
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March 18, 2025
18
Mar'25
Interconnect infrastructure set for sixfold increase in bandwidth demand
Global survey explores networking needs for artificial intelligence era as more than half of IT professional believe AI workloads will place the biggest demand on datacentre interconnect infrastructure over the next three years
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March 18, 2025
18
Mar'25
AI pushes data storage need but UK firms struggle to manage it
The rise of AI means potentially almost any corporate data could be useful, but has led to ballooning data volumes and organisations spending more on storage and energy
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March 18, 2025
18
Mar'25
Seaco charts course for unified security strategy
Shipping container leasing giant consolidates security tools onto a single platform, leveraging AI and extended detection and response to improve security operations
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March 17, 2025
17
Mar'25
How Oracle is using AI to combat financial crime
The tech giant is leveraging artificial intelligence to surface fraudulent financial transactions and improve the efficiency of financial crime investigations, offering relief to banks battling high costs and alert fatigue
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March 14, 2025
14
Mar'25
AI Action Summit review: Differing views cast doubt on AI’s ability to benefit whole of society
Governments, companies and civil society groups gathered at the third global AI summit to discuss how the technology can work for the benefit of everyone in society, but experts say competing imperatives mean there is no guarantee these visions will...
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March 14, 2025
14
Mar'25
Will Whitehall withstand Starmer’s AI revolution?
As the prime minister sets out plans for the use of artificial intelligence to take over civil service tasks, Computer Weekly looks at potential challenges and concerns around the decision
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March 14, 2025
14
Mar'25
Qualcomm and Palantir extend AI to the edge for industrial IoT
Qualcomm Technologies teams with Palantir to run artificial intelligence capabilities on advanced edge computing platforms enabling real-time insights and data-driven decisions in industrial use cases
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March 13, 2025
13
Mar'25
Starmer to send AI tech teams into government departments
In his plans to reform the state, the prime minister is pushing for artificial intelligence to take on tasks for civil servants and calling time on NHS England
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March 13, 2025
13
Mar'25
Driving licence data could be used for police facial recognition
The government’s Crime and Policing Bill could allow police to access the UK driving licence database for use in facial recognition watchlists, but the Home Office denies biometric data would be repurposed in this way
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March 13, 2025
13
Mar'25
WBBA: AI, Net5.5G pivotal to achieving next-generation broadband networks
Whitepaper from broadband trade association WBBA outlines uses of AI during the pre-deployment phases of broadband networks and how this can assist in network planning and expansion decisions
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March 12, 2025
12
Mar'25
Salesforce execs at TDX 25: Agentforce a whole system AI play
Salesforce executives present its Agentforce agentic AI technology as a ‘whole system’ approach not hung up on large language models. They say it is a ‘holy trinity’ of data, apps and agents
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March 11, 2025
11
Mar'25
Singapore Airlines to roll out Salesforce Agentforce
Singapore’s flagship carrier is deploying Salesforce’s Agentforce AI agent platform to improve customer interactions and personalise experiences
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March 11, 2025
11
Mar'25
UK government under-prepared for catastrophic cyber attack, hears PAC
The Commons Public Accounts Committee heard government IT leaders respond to recent National Audit Office findings that the government’s cyber resilience is under par
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March 11, 2025
11
Mar'25
Government to create pathfinder programme for digital spend
Changes to government digital spending will include staged funding with regular review and a pathfinder programme to test new funding models suitable for digital projects
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March 11, 2025
11
Mar'25
Pure aims at AI beyond the enterprise with FlashBlade//Exa
FlashBlade//Exa targets use cases between the enterprise and hyperscalers with a disaggregated architecture and its DFM flash modules to be available separately for the first time
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March 11, 2025
11
Mar'25
Singapore IT leaders boost AI security defences
Study reveals a surge in perceived importance of artificial intelligence for cyber security in Singapore, but declining investment in traditional measures raises concerns as sophisticated cyber attacks intensify
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March 10, 2025
10
Mar'25
Peter Kyle sets stage for making tech work
During his speech at the Tech Policy conference, Kyle announced a number of initiatives to support AI and other new technologies
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March 10, 2025
10
Mar'25
Goverment overhauls AI funding to drive agility
A startup mindset is at the heart of a Labour’s approach to how it wants to speed up AI innovation in the public sector
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March 09, 2025
09
Mar'25
David Willetts to chair Regulatory Innovation Office
The former science minister will lead the Regulatory Innovation Office, which aims to remove barriers and outdated regulations to speed up the road to market for innovative products and services
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March 07, 2025
07
Mar'25
Latest Alibaba AI model demos AI improvements
The latest model from Chinese public cloud provider Alibaba shows how reinforced learning is driving AI efficiency
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March 07, 2025
07
Mar'25
Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison claims AI-RAN first for Southeast Asia
Collaboration between operator, tech provider and artificial intelligence leader looks to accelerate innovation and commercialisation across the globe with AI in radio access network
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March 07, 2025
07
Mar'25
Extreme Networks scores next-gen Wi-Fi deal with United Soccer League
AI-powered networking automation firm gets result in emerging football league for enhanced wireless connectivity and network insights to elevate fan experiences and streamline league operations
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March 07, 2025
07
Mar'25
Managing security in the AI age
Gartner experts offer guidance on harnessing AI’s power while mitigating its risks, from managing shadow AI to implementing security controls and policies
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March 06, 2025
06
Mar'25
Going beyond search: Elastic’s observability and security play
Elastic’s chief product officer Ken Exner talks up the company’s expansion into observability and security and how it balances innovation with community contributions and monetisation
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March 06, 2025
06
Mar'25
TDX 2025: Salesforce vaunts Agentforce 2dx as evolved agentic AI platform
Salesforce unveils Agentforce 2DX as further development of its autonomously agentic AI platform at its developer conference in San Francisco
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March 05, 2025
05
Mar'25
MWC 2025: Smartphone users upgrade devices faster as AI cranks up
Latest quarterly analysis from business services company finds decreasing age of trade-in devices in second half of 2024 coincides with launch of next-gen AI-enabled devices
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March 05, 2025
05
Mar'25
Few UK organisations ready to seize agentic AI opportunity
Agentic AI promises to automate manually intensive tasks intelligently, yet few business leaders feel their organisation is ready to deploy it
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March 04, 2025
04
Mar'25
Jio, AMD, Cisco and Nokia to build telecom AI platform
India’s Jio Platforms, AMD, Cisco and Nokia have teamed up to develop an Open Telecom AI Platform aimed at improving the efficiency and security of telco networks through artificial intelligence and automation
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March 04, 2025
04
Mar'25
NHS rolls out AI app to predict and prevent falls that could land patients in hospital
Healthtech company Cera's artificial intelligence app can also predict the onset of winter viruses, and is being keenly adopted across the NHS
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March 04, 2025
04
Mar'25
Aussie businesses ramp up security spending
Australian organisations are set to spend A$6.2bn on security and risk management in 2025, a 14.4% jump from the previous year, driven by the rise of AI and a growing threat landscape
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March 02, 2025
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Mar'25
AWS boosts telco cloud offerings with new Outposts
Amazon Web Services debuts new Outposts racks and servers that extend its infrastructure to the edge to support network intensive workloads and cloud radio access applications
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February 27, 2025
27
Feb'25
Nvidia CEO claims reasoning models will boost GPU demand
The availability of the DeepSeek-R1 model resulted in a big drop in Nvidia’s share price, but CEO Jensen Huang believes this is just a blip
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February 26, 2025
26
Feb'25
Alibaba Cloud open sources video foundation models
The Chinese tech giant releases Tongyi Wanxiang 2.1 family of video foundation models as open source, including a smaller version enabling video creation on standard laptops
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February 26, 2025
26
Feb'25
Lord Holmes warns of increasingly ‘urgent’ need to regulate AI
The real-world negative impacts of artificial intelligence will only get worse if the UK does not move to regulate the technology in a way that centres on accountability, trust and public participation, says Lord Holmes
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February 24, 2025
24
Feb'25
Zendesk to acquire Local Measure, boosting AI-powered voice capabilities
The acquisition will strengthen Zendesk’s contact centre offering and integration with Amazon Connect, targeting larger enterprise clients
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February 24, 2025
24
Feb'25
Alibaba bets $53bn on cloud and AI
Chinese tech giant Alibaba unveils massive three-year investment in a move to capitalise on the AI opportunity and position its cloud infrastructure as the backbone for future growth
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February 21, 2025
21
Feb'25
Auditor: 2026 till Birmingham recovers from botched Oracle project
Grant Thornton’s report into a botched Oracle Fusion implementation at Birmingham City Council finds governance and risk comprehension failures to be at the heart of the fiasco
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February 21, 2025
21
Feb'25
UK police forces ‘supercharging racism’ with predictive policing
Amnesty International says predictive policing systems are ‘supercharging racism’ in the UK by taking historically biased data to further target poor and racialised communities
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February 20, 2025
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Feb'25
Volvo to roll out second software-defined electric car
Nvidia hardware accelerates AI-powered safety features, built using its Superset tech stack