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• November 28, 2025 28 Nov'25

  CCRC refers case based on third faulty Post Office system

  The latest Post Office prosecution to be sent to the Court of Appeal involves a third IT system in a 2001 case, after previous referrals for people convicted due to flaws in Horizon and Capture software

• 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 27, 2025 27 Nov'25

  Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 revs up testing with augmented reality

  Formula 1 team switches from paper guides to incorporate AR designs into its workflow and see quickly how parts form car assemblies resulting in gains in team’s operations that add up to improved performance on the racetrack

• November 26, 2025 26 Nov'25

  Organisations facing sustainability challenge amid AI ambitions

  Cisco and NTT Data executives warn that while business leaders drive AI adoption, both legacy infrastructure and rising energy costs are creating a sustainability bottleneck that requires urgent attention

• 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 26, 2025 26 Nov'25

  Budget 2025: £300m extra for NHS IT and a £1.8bn budget for digital ID cards

  The Autumn Budget contained little by the way of new policies in digital and technology, but handed out some cash to help progress in digitising public services and to support growing tech businesses

• November 26, 2025 26 Nov'25

  AMD pushes for open ecosystem to challenge Cuda dominance

  AMD’s head of AI software discusses the company’s plans to make its ROCm platform ubiquitous, and how it is leveraging open source to democratise access to AI capabilities

• November 25, 2025 25 Nov'25

  Paw Patrol: How AI and IoT are driving preventative pet care

  With vet bills skyrocketing, could preventative pet care using advances in AI and IoT help pet parents understand their furry friends better?

• November 25, 2025 25 Nov'25

  Antwerp court adjourns high-profile drugs case amid questions over Sky ECC intercept

  Defence lawyers ask court to adjourn after unexplained changes found in evidence files containing intercepted messages from Sky ECC encrypted phone network infiltrated by French and Dutch police

• November 25, 2025 25 Nov'25

  Tech central to swingeing job cuts at ABN Amro

  Simplification enabled by the use of the latest technologies underpins Dutch bank’s plan to cut thousands of jobs

• November 25, 2025 25 Nov'25

  Big tech backers put Nordic AI bid into perspective

  Nordic countries declare plan to become world leaders in artificial intelligence by joining forces

• 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 25, 2025 25 Nov'25

  Oracle deploys the Middle East’s first AI supercluster to power sovereign AI in Abu Dhabi

  Oracle expands its Abu Dhabi cloud region with the Middle East’s first NVIDIA Blackwell–powered AI supercluster, accelerating sovereign AI and supporting the UAE’s ambition to build the world’s first fully AI-native government

• 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 25, 2025 25 Nov'25

  Interview: IBM on breaking hyperscaler lock-in

  Big Blue’s general manager for Asia-Pacific Hans Dekkers talks up why APAC enterprises are rethinking their reliance on public cloud, the resurgence of the mainframe via LinuxOne, and how it used its own AI tools to cut internal costs

• November 24, 2025 24 Nov'25

  Monday.com touts AI as cure for productivity slump

  The workflow management supplier showed off new AI capabilities to tackle burnout at its Elevate conference in Sydney 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

  Chief data officers hire for tech innovation

  Once an organisation’s data maturity is sorted, CDOs need to show how strong data management can power tech initiatives

• 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 24, 2025 24 Nov'25

  Scotland digital strategy promises government app in 2026

  Joint local and central government digital strategy includes plans for a personalised public services app, ethical AI framework and increased public sector data sharing

• November 24, 2025 24 Nov'25

  UK digital bank Revolut sees value jump £23bn in a year

  UK-headquartered fintech firm sees its valuation increase dramatically with its latest share sale

• November 24, 2025 24 Nov'25

  Interview: Ian Ruffle, head of data and insight, RAC

  Real-time data insights and artificial intelligence are central to supporting the RAC’s motoring services and to getting drivers back on the road as quickly as possible

• 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

  Nvidia prepares for exponential growth in AI inference

  The company, famous for its datacentre AI acceleration, is focused on delivering better performance per watt to fuel the AI boom

• November 20, 2025 20 Nov'25

  Swedish welfare authorities suspend ‘discriminatory’ AI model

  A machine learning model used by Sweden’s social security agency to flag benefit fraud has been discontinued following investigations by media outlets and the country’s data protection watchdog

• 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

  Management reboot essential for agentic AI strategy

  Agentic AI is not just an investment in technology with a fixed term replacement cycle, it can also be an employee that improves over time, says report

• 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

  Artificial intelligence helps Klarna double revenues with half the staff

  Swedish fintech has gradually replaced half of its staff with artificial intelligence and doubled its revenues

• 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 18, 2025 18 Nov'25

  Microsoft unveils AI agents to automate security operations

  Tech giant bakes AI agents into its security products to democratise advanced security capabilities, automate repetitive tasks and provide context-aware intelligence for cyber defenders

• November 18, 2025 18 Nov'25

  NHS signs another major IT deal with the Indian IT sector

  Five-year NHS deal sees Tata Consultancy Services continue to grow its UK public sector business

• November 18, 2025 18 Nov'25

  Groq commits up to $300m in Australia expansion

  US chip startup Groq plans to invest up to $300m to provide Australian businesses with compute capacity for AI inferencing and help solve issues around data sovereignty for major users like Quantium

• November 18, 2025 18 Nov'25

  Fintech leaders call for united front against AI-driven cyber crime

  As AI makes financial scams more personalised and convincing, fintech experts have called for deeper collaboration and the use of behavioural analytics and other technologies to protect consumers

• 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

  UK investment bank IT outages cost £600k an hour

  Survey respondents say there are barriers to resilience for UK investment banks, including a skills shortage and internal resistance

• 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

  Zayo builds backbone for Western US AI growth

  Route connects two of the US’s fastest-growing AI, cloud hubs through first direct inland path, offering a resilient, diverse alternative to the existing corridor while expanding critical access to underserved communities

• 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

  Two-thirds of finance firms use suppliers for AI agent development

  Survey finds more banks and insurers are working with suppliers rather than going it alone when developing artificial intelligence agents

• 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