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IT efficiency and sustainability

• March 06, 2026 06 Mar'26

  Lloyds Bank to sell more customer data and cut costs by 35%

  High street giant will increase proportion of total staff that work in technology and data

• 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

• March 02, 2026 02 Mar'26

  Virtual twins and AI companions target enterprise war rooms

  Dassault Systèmes claims platform can answer complex business questions in seconds, but approach requires rethinking enterprise data architecture

• February 25, 2026 25 Feb'26

  Atos ‘IT services staff of the future’ begin apprenticeships

  Atos has taken on its first cohort of apprentices who will become an ‘artificial intelligence-ready’ workforce

• February 24, 2026 24 Feb'26

  Aviva prepares for life after CIO retirement with early announcement

  Aviva has named the replacement for its outgoing technology chief, with former BT IT executive joining in the summer

• February 23, 2026 23 Feb'26

  €126bn in Dutch tech projects blocked by permits and grid limits

  Ex-ASML chief Peter Wennink’s deregulation solution triggers warnings from academics and government advisors

• February 19, 2026 19 Feb'26

  Bank of Ireland UK fined for late security system implementation

  The payments regulator has fined the bank nearly £4m after it missed a deadline to implement a system to check payees

• February 17, 2026 17 Feb'26

  Banks to discuss UK alternative to Visa and Mastercard

  Banks prepare to discuss a new payments infrastructure that would remove heavy reliance on US firms

• February 10, 2026 10 Feb'26

  Second ever international AI safety report published

  More than 100 artificial intelligence experts have produced the second international AI safety report ahead of a summit in India, outlining a high degree of uncertainty about the development and risks of AI

• January 30, 2026 30 Jan'26

  Home Office announces sweeping police technology plans

  The Home Office plans to ramp up its deployment of artificial intelligence and facial-recognition technologies under wide-ranging reforms to UK policing

• January 28, 2026 28 Jan'26

  FCA launches review as ‘non-human intelligence’ surpassing human reasoning is plausible

  The Financial Conduct Authority will consider the impact of emerging artificial intelligence adoption in the financial services sector

• January 26, 2026 26 Jan'26

  STT GDC launches HVDC testbed to address AI’s power demands

  The FutureGrid Accelerator on Jurong Island will test the use of high-voltage direct current power systems, as traditional alternating current power systems can no longer address the growing energy needs of AI datacentres

• 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 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 financial services stories of 2025

  AI and data breaches both caused major disruption in banking this year as the industry faced increased challenges and a seismic shift thanks to emerging tech. Find out more in Computer Weekly’s top 10 financial services stories of 2025

• 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

• 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

  Interview: Bridgette McAdoo of Genesys on steering sustainability goals to success

  How resolving to ‘leave society better than you found it’ can open up solid opportunities at the intersection of science-based initiatives and business objectives

• 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 20, 2025 20 Nov'25

  Firstsource ditches labour arbitrage for AI-driven outcomes

  The business process services firm argues that the days of simple labour arbitrage are gone as it pushes an ‘un-BPO’ strategy led by AI and automation

• 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 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 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 11, 2025 11 Nov'25

  Most Singapore SMEs yet to start their sustainability journey

  Lack of funds, skills and time are the barriers faced by Singapore’s small and medium-sized enterprises in the green transition, according to a study by Gprnt and PwC

• November 11, 2025 11 Nov'25

  National Highways to get more out of its data through single platform

  Government-owned organisation National Highways will get more out of its data through extended working with IT service provider

• October 28, 2025 28 Oct'25

  Amazon links planned mass layoff to AI

  E-commerce giant Amazon has cited artificial intelligence as a key driver of its decision to lay off thousands of its corporate employees

• October 24, 2025 24 Oct'25

  AI chip challenger Groq eyes APAC expansion

  Groq’s novel chip architecture that speeds up AI inferencing has attracted a fast-growing developer base as it plans its first datacentre in the Asia-Pacific region

• October 24, 2025 24 Oct'25

  Canva to save 30,000 work hours with agentic AI

  The graphic design giant is training hundreds of staff on a low-code AI platform and agentic AI tools that are set to save around 30,000 person-hours this year and generate financial returns

• October 22, 2025 22 Oct'25

  Container storage: Five key things you need to know

  We look at container storage and backup, diving deep into how storage works in containers, container storage interface, container-native storage, and the management platforms storage suppliers offer

• October 15, 2025 15 Oct'25

  Infor doubles down on APAC with cloud and AI

  The enterprise software firm is targeting the region’s vast manufacturing sector by easing the move to the cloud and rolling out industry-specific AI agents, says CEO Kevin Samuelson

• October 08, 2025 08 Oct'25

  FairPrice deploys autonomous vehicles for supply chain operations

  The supermarket giant has teamed up with tech firm Zelos to deploy a fleet of electric autonomous vehicles to bolster supply chain efficiency and cut carbon emissions

• October 07, 2025 07 Oct'25

  Middle East cloud ambitions get boost from IBM-AWS partnership

  With demand for AI, datacentres, and smart city tech rising, Riyadh Innovation Hub promises tailored solutions for the region

• October 06, 2025 06 Oct'25

  Police facial recognition trials show little evidence of benefits

  In-the-wild testing of police facial recognition systems has failed to generate clear evidence of the technology’s benefits, or to assess the full range of socio-technical impacts

• September 30, 2025 30 Sep'25

  Bank of America builds GenAI assistant for instant answers for customers

  Queries that would take an employee an hour to answer are completed almost instantaneously with the Bank of America’s generative AI assistant

• September 29, 2025 29 Sep'25

  Interview: GitLab CTO on freeing developers for innovation with AI

  Sabrina Farmer explains how GitLab’s platform for the software development lifecycle is using artificial intelligence to help eliminate developer toil and drive innovation

• September 16, 2025 16 Sep'25

  Waltham Cross to get heating from Google datacentre

  There is potential to attract talent to the region as Google pushes out its renewables-powered datacentre strategy

• September 10, 2025 10 Sep'25

  Could an environmental legal challenge derail government’s fast-tracked datacentre builds?

  The UK government is under fire after details emerged that it has waved through three large-scale datacentre planning applications without conducting an environmental impact assessment first

• August 28, 2025 28 Aug'25

  UK cyber security centre helps expose China-based cyber campaign

  GCHQ cyber security centre and its international partners release details of malicious cyber activity linked to Chinese businesses

• August 21, 2025 21 Aug'25

  Interview: Simon Goodyear, chief information and technology officer, Redwood Bank

  Redwood Bank’s new IT boss is a problem solver who wants to eradicate every unnecessary Excel spreadsheet

• July 25, 2025 25 Jul'25

  Post Office will not compensate subpostmasters for IT outage

  Subpostmasters were unable to trade for nearly two hours last week when a problem at a Fujitsu datacentre put the Horizon system offline, but they will receive no payment for lost business

• July 24, 2025 24 Jul'25

  US seeks ‘unquestioned’ AI dominance

  US AI action plan sets out aims to expand American dominance in the world of artificial intelligence

• July 22, 2025 22 Jul'25

  The Bank of England’s quiet ‘Big Bang’

  The Bank of England has completed its generational project to replace part of the UK’s critical infrastructure, which went unnoticed beyond the sector it underpins

• July 09, 2025 09 Jul'25

  CIOs will use AI and low-code to combat SaaS sprawl

  Nintex CEO Amit Mathradas explains why the proliferation of software-as-a-service tools is unsustainable and how CIOs are reclaiming control by building their own applications using artificial intelligence and automation

• July 04, 2025 04 Jul'25

  Medow Health AI debuts AI scribe tool in Singapore

  The Australian health technology company has launched its AI-powered scribe platform in Singapore to help healthcare professionals automatically capture and structure clinical notes, reports and referral letters

• July 02, 2025 02 Jul'25

  Dutch study uncovers cognitive biases undermining cyber security board decisions

  Dutch research reveals how cognitive biases can lead to catastrophic security decisions

• July 02, 2025 02 Jul'25

  Digital workers at US bank to get their own email accounts

  The financial services sector is leading the way when it comes to using AI across operations – and it’s not afraid to talk about it

• July 02, 2025 02 Jul'25

  DDN targets enterprise-shaped hole in its AI storage offer

  Specialist in AI and HPC storage DDN has oriented towards higher performance array products more suited to the enterprise as it aims at $1bn in turnover for 2025

• June 30, 2025 30 Jun'25

  Second AI Energy Council meeting looks to forecast future demand

  Given Labour’s ambition to use AI to drive economic growth, questions need to be answered on how the nation’s energy grid will cope

• June 30, 2025 30 Jun'25

  How modular design is reshaping India’s datacentre landscape

  Modular datacentre infrastructure can help Indian enterprises build faster, greener and more flexible datacentres to cope with the demand for local data storage and growing use of AI and edge computing

• June 20, 2025 20 Jun'25

  UK data reforms become law

  UK passes wide-ranging data protection reforms to ‘simplify’ organisations’ sharing and processing of data, but questions remain whether changes will be accepted by European Commission when renewing UK data adequacy