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• July 14, 2025 14 Jul'25

  UK sets sights on humanoid robot future

  AI and robots are part of Labour’s plans to build out a high-tech economy, but a robot workforce is a long way off

• July 11, 2025 11 Jul'25

  Meta and Alan Turing Institute back open source AI fellowship

  Labour’s AI fellowship will see experts use open source AI tools in a bid deliver better public services at lower cost

• July 11, 2025 11 Jul'25

  UK online safety regime ineffective on misinformation, MPs say

  A report from the Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee outlines how the Online Safety Act fails to deal with the algorithmic amplification of ‘legal but harmful’ misinformation

• July 11, 2025 11 Jul'25

  European Commission accused of rigging data watchdog appointment

  The European Commission has been accused of rigging the selection process for the next European Data Protection supervisor

• July 10, 2025 10 Jul'25

  Government funding to help SMEs protect their IP

  Scheme will see SMEs and innovative startups working in sensitive sectors receive advice on enhancing cyber and physical security measures to protect their valuable intellectual property

• July 10, 2025 10 Jul'25

  UK and France forge closer cyber, tech research ties

  The navigation and timing systems used by power suppliers and emergency services to run their operations will fall in scope of an Anglo-French research pact that will also foster development in AI and supercomputing

• 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 08, 2025 08 Jul'25

  Interview: Steve Riley, head of IT operations and service management, Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1

  As the British Grand Prix rolled into Silverstone for the annual jamboree of Formula One motor racing, we caught up with the Mercedes F1 team to find out how technology has advanced in the year since the last race

• July 08, 2025 08 Jul'25

  Liverpool launches community AI charter

  The charter, which was created by a residents’ assembly, outlines public data sharing principles and supports the use of AI for public benefit

• July 04, 2025 04 Jul'25

  NHS to be ‘digital by default’

  Single Patient Records, a digitally enabled neighbourhood health service, and the NHS App becoming a ‘doctor in your pocket’ are all part of the government’s 10-year plan for the NHS

• 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 03, 2025 03 Jul'25

  How GoTo’s high-stakes cloud shift is powering its AI future

  The Indonesian tech giant has migrated half its infrastructure to Alibaba Cloud, paving the way for AI initiatives to solve real-world business problems and support local languages

• 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 01, 2025 01 Jul'25

  Cloudflare to let customers block AI web crawlers

  Publishers and other providers of creative content now have the option to block AI crawlers from accessing and scraping their intellectual property with new tools from Cloudflare.

• July 01, 2025 01 Jul'25

  The road to quantum datacentres goes beyond logical qubits

  Industry experts gathered in London to explore the missing pieces needed to deploy quantum computing at scale in datacentres

• June 27, 2025 27 Jun'25

  Interview: Developing a CIO strategy for artificial intelligence

  We speak to Chris Loake, group CIO at Hiscox, about the roll-out of Microsoft Copilot and how to succeed with AI projects

• June 27, 2025 27 Jun'25

  UK joins global health regulator network for safe use of AI

  The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has become a founding member of the HealthAI Global Regulatory Network, aiming to get trustworthy artificial intelligence tools into the NHS

• June 27, 2025 27 Jun'25

  Silicon Valley execs sworn in to US Army reserves specialist unit

  Four technology executives are brought into the military to make the armed forces ‘more lethal’, reflecting softening attitudes throughout the sector towards ‘the business of inflicting violence’

• June 24, 2025 24 Jun'25

  Interview: Pure Storage on the AI data challenge beyond hardware

  We talk to Pure Storage’s vice-president of AI infrastructure about data quality for artificial intelligence and the need for data engineering to ensure the integrity, completeness and appropriateness of data for AI training

• June 23, 2025 23 Jun'25

  Europe’s semiconductor leaders are racing to meet energy demands

  Innovative ideas are discussed at Leti Innovation Days, as datacentres swell under the weight of AI workloads

• 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

• June 20, 2025 20 Jun'25

  Richer people look forward to cutting-edge tech to help save time

  Research for Lloyds Banking Group has found high-paid workers are looking forward to tech like robotic vacuum cleaners, autonomous cars and drone deliveries

• June 19, 2025 19 Jun'25

  Interview: Tech innovation at Bet365

  Alan Reed, head of platform innovation at Bet365’s Hillside Technology platform, discusses the role of generative AI in tech innovation

• June 17, 2025 17 Jun'25

  Microsoft declares era of logical qubits

  The tech giant is moving past the noisy, intermediate-scale quantum era, focusing on building a fault-tolerant supercomputer as it looks to democratise quantum computing and speed up scientific discovery

• June 17, 2025 17 Jun'25

  Cyber action plan kicks off to ‘supercharge’ UK security sector

  UK government says its cyber growth action plan will provide a large boost to Britain’s security industry as it sets out to create a roadmap for future growth

• June 17, 2025 17 Jun'25

  UKtech50: Vote for the most influential person in UK technology

  Our judges have selected the top 50 leaders from a shortlist of nearly 500 people – now it’s your chance to tell us who you think is the most influential person in UK technology

• June 16, 2025 16 Jun'25

  CNCF eyes open source Cuda alternative as AI’s influence grows

  Open source leaders highlight breakthroughs in projects like OpenTelemetry and discuss the open source community’s role in shaping the future of artificial intelligence workloads and fostering global collaboration amid geopolitical tensions

• June 13, 2025 13 Jun'25

  Innovation culture is in our DNA, says Alibaba chairman

  Alibaba chair Joe Tsai on why the company is open sourcing its large language model, how it dealt with the DeepSeek crisis, and plans for the future

• June 13, 2025 13 Jun'25

  Google Cloud and Singapore’s DISG launch AI initiative

  The AI Cloud Takeoff initiative, part of the Singapore government’s Enterprise Compute Initiative, will offer local firms up to S$500,000 in incentives to establish in-house AI centres of excellence and build AI capabilities

• June 13, 2025 13 Jun'25

  Fusion and AI: How private sector tech is powering progress at ITER

  When commercial AI meets the world’s most ambitious science experiment, nuclear fusion, surprising things start to happen

• June 12, 2025 12 Jun'25

  UKtech50 2025: the longlist of the UK’s influential tech leaders

  Each year, Computer Weekly launches a search for the most influential people in UK IT, asking the tech community who it thinks should be in the top 50 – here is the longlist of everyone nominated for 2025

• June 12, 2025 12 Jun'25

  Sweden gets help pulling its sovereign AI socks up

  Urgent government calls for more high-powered sovereign computers to fulfil Swedish goal of building a more powerful AI industry answered by foreign financiers, US tech and Europe’s AI emergency fund

• June 11, 2025 11 Jun'25

  AWS touts AI building blocks as key to customer innovation

  At the recent AWS Summit in Singapore, company executives and customers showcased how cloud and artificial intelligence are enabling organisations to scale, transform and tackle business challenges

• June 11, 2025 11 Jun'25

  London Tech Week: More funding, fellowships and skills

  The government wants to make the UK the best place for tech and AI, opening pathways for global talent and venture capital funding

• June 10, 2025 10 Jun'25

  UK defence scheme invests in future cyber tech Cheri

  Cambridge-based SCI Semiconductors is awarded DTEP funding to work on the application of defensive Cheri technology

• June 10, 2025 10 Jun'25

  IBM updates path to fault-tolerant quantum computing

  Two academic papers show how the company plans to provide quantum error correction using a technique that can run in real time

• June 10, 2025 10 Jun'25

  Open source a ‘force multiplier’ for AI innovation

  From powerful large language models to the next wave of AI agents, the open-source community is driving innovation and setting the agenda for the entire field, according to leaders at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China

• June 09, 2025 09 Jun'25

  Labour commits £17.2m to support Spärck AI scholarships

  The government has put up money to help drive the UK’s expertise in artificial intelligence

• June 09, 2025 09 Jun'25

  Starmer opens London Tech Week with £1bn AI boost

  Prime Minister unveiled plans to boost UK’s high-performance compute capacity 20-fold, along with funding to bolster skills

• June 06, 2025 06 Jun'25

  UK ICO publishes AI and biometrics strategy

  The UK data regulator has outlined how it will approach the regulation of artificial intelligence and biometric technologies, which will focus in particular on automated decision-making systems and police facial recognition

• June 05, 2025 05 Jun'25

  SXSW: An immersive experience is the future of AI

  OpenAI’s recent acquisition heralds a new direction for generative AI, away from the screen-based user experience

• June 04, 2025 04 Jun'25

  SXSW London: Risk of AI removing choice

  The modern era, where AI speeds up day-to-day chores, is undermining creativity and the ability to make choices

• June 04, 2025 04 Jun'25

  Artificial intelligence to initiate and manage litigations after ‘landmark’ approval

  The Garfield Project created an artificial intelligence-based litigation service for small claims, but how far can the technology reach in the legal sector

• June 03, 2025 03 Jun'25

  Fintech growth three times that of finance sector as a whole

  Global fintech revenues reached £280bn in 2024, according to Boston Consulting Group report

• June 02, 2025 02 Jun'25

  Microsoft Copilot AI saves civil service hours of admin work

  Over a third of Microsoft 365 users who took part in trials across government departments claimed they saved more than half an hour in productivity a day

• June 02, 2025 02 Jun'25

  Cyber and digital get over £1bn to enhance UK’s national security

  The government has set out plans to spend over a billion pounds on digital and cyber warfare capabilities to enhance the UK’s ability to defend itself and fight offensive wars

• June 02, 2025 02 Jun'25

  NPCC calls for better tech investment

  The National Police Chiefs’ Council sets out a series of digital ambitions and asks for £220m per year in the upcoming spending review to scale up science and technology capabilities

• June 02, 2025 02 Jun'25

  How Mistral is driving growth through open source and enterprise AI

  Company CEO Arthur Mensch details how the French startup is balancing its open source ethos with a strong enterprise focus and delivering efficient, customisable AI to solve business problems and expand its global reach

• May 30, 2025 30 May'25

  Tech adaptability helps Zopa unwrap current account and test generative AI

  Zopa Bank’s current account, already used by thousands of existing customers, will be made available to the wider public before end of 2025

• May 29, 2025 29 May'25

  Gov.uk Wallet open to public sector bodies

  Government departments can soon begin to add documents to Gov.uk Wallet, as the Government Digital Service publishes guidance for public sector bodies on how to use the smartphone app