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• March 17, 2026 17 Mar'26

  Alibaba joins AI agent race with Wukong launch

  Following the viral success of OpenClaw and product launches from Nvidia and Tencent, Alibaba has unveiled an agentic AI platform that integrates with DingTalk to orchestrate business workflows

• March 17, 2026 17 Mar'26

  Lendi Group standardises on MongoDB for AI-ready data layer

  Following a merger that left the Australian fintech with a fragmented data architecture, Lendi Group has consolidated its databases onto MongoDB Atlas to reduce microservices sprawl and power AI-driven broker tools

• March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  Met Office ‘supercomputing as a service’ one year old

  Artificial intelligence is not key to the weather picture, as the forecasting and climate prediction agency lauds the benefits of moving from on-site supercomputers to cloud computing for scientific modelling

• March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  Zendesk to acquire Forethought in major agentic AI play

  Zendesk is acquiring Forethought to bolster its agentic AI chops with specialised and self-learning AI agents capable of managing complex customer service workflows

• March 09, 2026 09 Mar'26

  IBM takes a second shot at Post Office contract to replace Horizon

  The US tech giant is bidding for a £323m contract to replace the Post Office’s flawed Horizon IT system, a decade after its previous attempt was abandoned due to complexities

• March 06, 2026 06 Mar'26

  Regulate AWS and Microsoft, says UK cloud provider survey

  Open Cloud Coalition survey, commissioned ahead of the CMA’s decision on measures against the two hyperscale giants, finds competing cloud providers demand regulation

• March 06, 2026 06 Mar'26

  Enterprises warming to AI PCs amid growing cloud costs

  While global memory shortages will pose a threat to the broader PC market, AI PCs are gaining momentum across Asia as companies look to cut cloud costs, boost productivity and secure sensitive information

• March 05, 2026 05 Mar'26

  Capita secures decade-long government contract amid failure in public sight

  Outsourcing firm has won 10-year contract to supply government departments with tech-enabled business services

• March 03, 2026 03 Mar'26

  Emerging markets prioritise top-line growth with agentic AI

  While firms in mature markets are using AI agents to automate routine tasks, those in emerging markets where the cost of the technology is higher than that of human labour are favouring revenue-generating use cases

• February 27, 2026 27 Feb'26

  Australia inks five-year deal with Microsoft to drive AI and cloud adoption

  The Digital Transformation Agency’s new agreement promises cost certainty, improved discounts, and a skills fund to support the government’s digital transformation agenda

• February 26, 2026 26 Feb'26

  UK to see weekend protests against ‘dirty datacentres’

  Environmental charity Global Action Plan UK is coordinating a campaign effort to bring attention to wider concerns about datacentre electricity demand, water use and environmental impacts

• February 24, 2026 24 Feb'26

  Microsoft CEO opens London AI Tour with Copilot push

  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella used his event keynote to showcase how the artificial intelligence in M365 is a foundation for agentic AI in the enterprise

• February 24, 2026 24 Feb'26

  Starling expands internationally as demand for banking as a service continues to rise

  UK challenger bank has expanded its banking-as-a-service business with entry into New Zealand

• 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 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

  US bid for Dutch ID infrastructure raises sovereignty concerns

  Kyndryl’s proposed takeover shows how critical systems become exposed to foreign control without an overarching policy decision

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  Troubleshooter steps in as Capita and civil service bosses apologise for pension scheme problems

  High volumes of customer calls, backlogs and complex requests blamed for shaky start to life on civil service pension scheme for Capita

• January 29, 2026 29 Jan'26

  Fujitsu boss ‘falls on his sword’ before settling with Post Office scandal victims

  Fujitsu's European chief Paul Patterson is stepping down from his role amid the troubles brought on by the supplier’s central role in the Post Office scandal

• January 28, 2026 28 Jan'26

  Nationwide expands Amazon Web Services partnership to delve deeper into AI

  Nationwide will have access to artificial intelligence-powered tools to help staff in their everyday interactions with its members

• January 20, 2026 20 Jan'26

  Google Cloud opens Bangkok region to support Thailand’s AI economy

  The hyperscaler’s Thai cloud region is part of a $1bn investment to meet the growing demand for cloud services in the kingdom

• January 20, 2026 20 Jan'26

  Sovereign and edge AI drive return to on-premise Kubernetes

  While public cloud services remain popular, the need to control sensitive data and maximise GPU performance is pushing enterprises to deploy Kubernetes in their own datacentres

• January 20, 2026 20 Jan'26

  Digital Realty enters Malaysia with acquisition of Cyberjaya datacentre

  The datacentre provider expands Southeast Asian footprint beyond Singapore and Jakarta, acquiring a connectivity hub in Cyberjaya with plans for a 14MW campus to support regional AI and cloud workloads

• January 19, 2026 19 Jan'26

  Liverpool FC signs WasabiAiR for fast video tagging and search

  Reds can tag video frame-by-frame with AI-based ML-as-a-service to get rapid search and ‘hyper-personalisation’ of footage for fan engagement and partner content

• January 18, 2026 18 Jan'26

  APAC enterprises to boost AI spend by 15% in 2026

  Lenovo’s CIO Playbook 2026 reveals that 96% of APAC organisations are planning to invest more in AI, with a growing reliance on hybrid infrastructure to manage rising inference costs

• January 13, 2026 13 Jan'26

  Berlin anarchists cite AI in attack on key energy infrastructure

  Berlin anarchists have sabotaged key energy infrastructure in the city, claiming it as an act of ‘self-defence’ against the planet’s destruction by ‘energy-guzzling’ technologies and the wider fossil fuel economy that underpins their development

• January 13, 2026 13 Jan'26

  AI to handle four in 10 customer queries in Singapore by 2027

  As companies turn to AI agents to solve manpower constraints, more than nine in 10 APAC consumers say they want clear explanations for AI-driven decisions

• January 12, 2026 12 Jan'26

  Woolworths to power Olive digital assistant with agentic AI

  The Australian retail giant is the first in the Asia-Pacific region to use Google’s Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience to turn its chatbot into a proactive shopping partner

• January 08, 2026 08 Jan'26

  Campaigners urge UK to develop digital sovereignty strategy

  UK digital rights campaigners have urged UK parliamentarians to implement a digital sovereignty strategy as part of the forthcoming Cyber Security and Resilience Bill to reduce reliance on technology subject to foreign interference

• January 07, 2026 07 Jan'26

  All England Tennis Club extends 36-year IBM deal with AI at core of plans

  Deal will see IBM continue to develop digital experience for fans of the Wimbledon tennis tournament

• January 05, 2026 05 Jan'26

  How Bahrain is building a region-leading digital economy

  From hyperscale cloud and fintech regulation to AI skills and smart manufacturing, Bahrain is positioning technology at the heart of its economic diversification strategy, says Bahrain EDB’s Musab Abdullah

• January 05, 2026 05 Jan'26

  Global cloud infrastructure spending hits $102.6bn in Q3 2025

  The cloud infrastructure market grew 25% year on year, driven by enterprises moving from AI experimentation to scaled deployment, according to research from Omdia

• January 05, 2026 05 Jan'26

  Singtel trials 50Gbps fibre to support future AI and cloud workloads

  Singtel kicks off technical pilot for ultra-high-speed broadband, targeting the bandwidth requirements of immersive media, remote enterprise workflows and AI-driven systems

• December 31, 2025 31 Dec'25

  Top 10 police technology stories of 2025

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 police technology 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 24, 2025 24 Dec'25

  Top 10 India stories of 2025

  From infrastructure expansion and sovereign AI innovation to regulatory maturity, Computer Weekly recaps the key developments that kept CIOs and technology suppliers across India busy in 2025

• December 22, 2025 22 Dec'25

  Top 10 ASEAN stories of 2025

  Southeast Asia’s 2025 tech landscape saw financial institutions, healthcare researchers and government agencies moving decisively from technology pilots to large-scale AI deployments and infrastructure modernisation

• 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

  Reinventing the Arabic newsroom: How Al-Masry Al-Youm is harnessing AI, data, and cloud to transform

  Al-Masry Al-Youm CIO Omar Badr reveals how Egypt’s leading independent daily has navigated a decade of digital disruption, balancing editorial freedom with cutting-edge technology

• 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 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 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 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

  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

• December 01, 2025 01 Dec'25

  Interview: Mariano Albera, CTO, Checkout.com

  Checkout.com’s chief technology officer has spent most of his career in the e-commerce industry, and now he is applying what he learned to the finance sector that serves it

• 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 27, 2025 27 Nov'25

  SAP selects Tata Consultancy Services to transform its IT operations

  Software firm agrees five-year IT transformation project with Indian outsourcing giant, taking relationship up to 20 years

• November 25, 2025 25 Nov'25

  AI Singapore taps Alibaba Cloud to power Sea-Lion model

  The fourth iteration of the regional LLM leverages Alibaba’s Qwen foundation model to improve multilingual accuracy and performance on consumer-grade hardware

• 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