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• January 02, 2026 02 Jan'26

  ServiceNow predicts more than one million new AI-driven jobs in UAE by 2030

  Enterprise AI adoption, national strategy and large-scale digital transformation programmes are set to reshape the UAE labour market and technology landscape, according to ServiceNow research

• December 31, 2025 31 Dec'25

  Top 10 business applications stories of 2025

  There is no doubt what took centre stage in the theatre of business applications in 25: agentic AI, surpassing pre-2022 AI, and generative AI. C-level executives bang the AI drum while enterprises find value

• December 30, 2025 30 Dec'25

  Oldest victim of Post Office scandal awarded OBE in New Year Honours 2026

  The New Year Honours List 2026 conferred an OBE on the oldest living victim of the Post Office scandal, as well as hailing members of the UK technology community

• December 30, 2025 30 Dec'25

  PwC: AI, cloud and next-generation networks redefine the Middle East’s TMT future

  From sovereign cloud and AI compute to gaming and quantum, PwC research shows how the region is reshaping growth, competitiveness and digital sovereignty

• December 30, 2025 30 Dec'25

  Top 10 information management stories of 2025

  Artificial intelligence continued to have a big impact on information management in 2025. Also selected are case studies and interviews with data chiefs that show the enduring value of good data management

• December 30, 2025 30 Dec'25

  Top 10 technology ethics stories of 2025

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 tech ethics stories of 2025

• December 29, 2025 29 Dec'25

  Top 10 Post Office scandal stories of 2025

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 Post Office scandal stories of 2025

• December 28, 2025 28 Dec'25

  Middle East tech trends 2026: AI, cyber security and sovereign infrastructure take centre stage

  As artificial intelligence moves from experimentation to production and cyber threats escalate, the Middle East is entering a decisive phase of digital transformation, says Omdia chief analyst Trevor Clarke

• December 23, 2025 23 Dec'25

  Top 10 ANZ stories of 2025

  The 2025 tech landscape in Australia and New Zealand was dotted with major data breaches even as organisations continue to press on with their digital transformation efforts in areas such as AI and automation

• December 16, 2025 16 Dec'25

  Singlife taps Salesforce Agentforce to drive agentic AI strategy

  The Singapore insurer has begun rolling out Salesforce Agentforce to assist customer service teams, with plans to extend the use of the technology to financial advisers and direct customer interactions

• December 15, 2025 15 Dec'25

  Top IT predictions in APAC in 2026

  Enterprises across the Asia-Pacific region are expected to prioritise sovereign architectures, double down on securing agentic systems and rewrite their infrastructure playbooks, among other tech trends

• December 15, 2025 15 Dec'25

  Microsoft taps Indian IT giants for agentic AI rollout

  The partnership with Cognizant, Infosys, TCS and Wipro follows a $17.5bn pledge by the tech giant to bolster India’s cloud and AI infrastructure

• December 12, 2025 12 Dec'25

  University of York plumps for Workday to spruce up HR and finance

  The University of York is replacing 57 HR and finance systems with a Workday platform, supported by KPMG, aiming for real-time insights and simpler processes

• December 12, 2025 12 Dec'25

  Digital Ethics Summit 2025: Open sourcing and assuring AI

  Industry experts met to discuss the ethical challenges associated with assuring AI systems, and how open source approaches can challenge concentrations of capital and power

• December 11, 2025 11 Dec'25

  Microsoft expands bug bounty scheme to include third-party software

  The company is to offer bug bounty awards for people who report security vulnerabilities in third-party and open source software impacting Microsoft services

• December 11, 2025 11 Dec'25

  Qatar launches Qai to accelerate national and regional AI ambitions

  State-backed company Qai aims to build secure AI infrastructure and position Qatar as a leading Gulf innovation hub

• December 11, 2025 11 Dec'25

  UAE’s e& enterprise brings Amdocs and Nvidia AI into live telco operations

  The Emirati operator moves beyond pilots, using AI agents to streamline customer care and network operations

• December 09, 2025 09 Dec'25

  How Oracle Red Bull Racing is driving Formula 1 into the future with cloud, AI and data

  Access to the F1 team’s garage in Abu Dhabi reveals how Monte Carlo simulations, artificial intelligence and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure power split-second decisions, strategy and championship-winning performance

• December 09, 2025 09 Dec'25

  Cloudera CEO on the Middle East’s hybrid AI future: ‘Workload portability is the foundation’

  Charles Sansbury explains how Gulf enterprises are driving demand for private AI, data sovereignty and hybrid architectures as hyperscalers compete for their workloads

• December 09, 2025 09 Dec'25

  Fujitsu underestimated Post Office scandal backlash

  Troubled IT supplier loses UK government megadeal despite internal confidence, as political pressure mounts

• December 09, 2025 09 Dec'25

  Tricentis looks to agentic AI as firms risk losses from untested code

  With 42% growth in the Asia-Pacific region, the software testing firm is pushing autonomous AI agents to help enterprises balance the pressure for speed against the high cost of software failures

• December 08, 2025 08 Dec'25

  Amazon CTO on the dawn of the renaissance developer

  While AI is commoditising programming, it is creating a demand for modern polymath engineers who understand systems, business context and the human condition, says Amazon CTO Werner Vogels

• December 03, 2025 03 Dec'25

  AWS CEO Garman pitches ‘billions of agents’ as enterprise AI future

  At Amazon Web Services’ annual conference in Las Vegas, CEO Matt Garman projected an agentic AI future for enterprises, with models trained on customers’ own data

• December 02, 2025 02 Dec'25

  AWS targets vulnerable code with security agent

  At AWS re:Invent 2025, the cloud giant unveiled a security agent designed to bridge the gap between development speed and security validation, along with the general availability of Security Hub analytics

• December 02, 2025 02 Dec'25

  Post Office scandal could widen to thousands more branches after third system appeal

  Post Office scandal campaigner reveals she had her suspicions over a third Post Office system, as review of convictions based on APS/APT looks likely to bring thousands more subpostmasters into scope

• December 02, 2025 02 Dec'25

  ASEAN enterprises moving from ‘AI-first’ to ‘AI-native’

  Organisations across Southeast Asia are reimagining business processes, going beyond the experimentation phase of AI adoption, according to AWS’s head of the region

• November 28, 2025 28 Nov'25

  Sea-Lion powering AI tools for migrant workers, local businesses

  The inaugural Sea-Lion summit showcased real-world applications of Southeast Asia’s first homegrown large language model, which now supports multimodal inputs and can run on a standard laptop

• November 27, 2025 27 Nov'25

  Databricks predicts AI tipping point as ANZ firms fix data issues

  As AI projects move from the realm of technologists to the business environment, major organisations including Telstra and Fonterra share how they are tackling legacy data issues to prepare for agentic AI

• November 27, 2025 27 Nov'25

  Google Cloud launches ‘PanyaThAI’ to spur AI adoption in Thailand

  The cloud supplier is offering training and its AI technology stack to unlock an estimated 730bn baht in economic value for Thai businesses such as Thai Wacoal and SE-Education

• November 26, 2025 26 Nov'25

  London councils endure wave of cyber attacks, shared IT services hit

  Four London councils – Kensington and Chelsea; Hackney; Westminster; and Hammersmith and Fulham – have suffered cyber attacks, disrupting services and prompting NCSC-supported investigation

• November 25, 2025 25 Nov'25

  Emirates Group partners with OpenAI to accelerate enterprise-wide AI transformation

  The airline will deploy ChatGPT Enterprise and build an AI Centre of Excellence as it accelerates digital transformation across operations, customer experience and future air mobility

• November 24, 2025 24 Nov'25

  Monday.com touts AI as cure for productivity slump

  At its Elevate conference in Sydney, the workflow management supplier showed off new artificial intelligence capabilities to tackle burnout, while showcasing customer wins from Tennis Australia, Ray White and Freedom

• November 24, 2025 24 Nov'25

  UAE’s e& enterprise drives growth with AI and sovereign cloud

  Acting chief revenue officer Majd Coussa outlines how the digital transformation company is turning innovation into measurable business outcomes for 2025

• November 24, 2025 24 Nov'25

  MWC25 Doha debut marks a new chapter for MENA mobile innovation

  GSMA’s Jawad Jalal Abbassi outlines how Qatar’s first Mobile World Congress will accelerate digital transformation, 5G adoption and AI integration across the region

• November 21, 2025 21 Nov'25

  Subpostmaster was told no jury would believe Post Office had ‘dodgy computer’

  Academic research says the wrongful prosecution of subpostmasters casts doubt on ‘golden thread’ of British justice, that people are innocent until proven guilty

• November 20, 2025 20 Nov'25

  Fujitsu milks £110m from HMRC in six months with hardly a public stir

  IT giant Fujitsu pockets £110m from deals with HMRC in six months since the end of March this year

• November 20, 2025 20 Nov'25

  Qualcomm and Humain launch AI engineering centre in Riyadh

  Saudi Arabia strengthens its artificial intelligence ambitions under Vision 2030 with a new Qualcomm-powered datacentre hub, as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman highlights tech innovation during his US visit

• November 19, 2025 19 Nov'25

  Workday sets out to reinvent ERP with agentic AI platform

  At Workday Rising EMEA, the HR and financial applications SaaS supplier signalled a new phase of development as an agentic AI platform provider that might disrupt traditional ERP

• November 19, 2025 19 Nov'25

  Dubai Airshow 2025: AI and technology transforming air mobility

  Leaders reveal how AI, automation and data-driven innovation are reshaping airports, airlines and passenger experiences

• November 19, 2025 19 Nov'25

  Inside the Middle East tech ambition: How A2RL is shaping the future of AI-driven mobility

  Driverless cars push the boundaries of artificial intelligence, real-time decision-making and data-driven mobility at Yas Marina Circuit

• November 19, 2025 19 Nov'25

  UAE to launch first space-to-ground quantum communication network

  Technology Innovation Institute and Space42 unveil a collaboration at the Dubai Airshow to deliver the UAE’s first space-enabled quantum communication network, strengthening national cyber resilience and advancing sovereign leadership in ...

• November 17, 2025 17 Nov'25

  Technology innovation drives accountancy job changes

  IT has often driven changes in bookkeeping. Now, joined-up data and conversational AI is helping accountants revisit a previous era

• November 17, 2025 17 Nov'25

  Salesforce: CIOs closer to the bridge than ever due to agentic AI

  Salesforce research finds CIOs closer than ever to steering the business, acting as strategic partners to their CEOs, thanks to the growth of agentic AI

• November 16, 2025 16 Nov'25

  Australia lags regional peers in AI adoption

  Report finds governance gaps, a lack of training and fear of risks as key reasons for the nation’s slow uptake of artificial intelligence compared with regional peers

• November 16, 2025 16 Nov'25

  AI’s hidden sting: A threat to millions of bees

  The energy demands of artificial intelligence could have a devastating impact on Australia’s honeybee population, study warns

• November 14, 2025 14 Nov'25

  Jaguar Land Rover cyber attack costs firm £485m in the quarter

  Jaguar Land Rover’s quarterly financial statement discloses a £485m loss due to the late August cyber attack that halted production for six weeks, damaging the UK economy

• November 14, 2025 14 Nov'25

  Singapore Sports Hub to get Wi-Fi 7 network

  The upgrade will provide faster, more reliable connections for visitors during concerts and sporting events, and will help manage crowds and improve services

• November 14, 2025 14 Nov'25

  Lenovo to power FIFA World Cup 2026

  Lenovo will provide its consumer and enterprise technology capabilities to power the upcoming FIFA World Cup, which has been deemed the most technologically advanced tournament in the game’s history

• November 13, 2025 13 Nov'25

  Post Office contract with Fujitsu has option to extend into 2028

  Extension agreement for controversial Horizon contract with Fujitsu has option that could take the relationship well into 2028

• November 12, 2025 12 Nov'25

  How Japanese banking giant MUFG is using AI

  Japan’s largest bank aims to transform into an AI-native company by using agentic AI, changing how it handles data, and inking key partnerships with OpenAI and Sakana AI