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• January 08, 2026 08 Jan'26

  UK’s AI plan of action needs to shift into overdrive

  The UK has a 50-point plan of action to drive the AI sector. There’s ongoing investment, but plenty of areas to improve

• January 08, 2026 08 Jan'26

  What will happen with Starmer’s digital ID scheme in 2026?

  Last year, the UK government announced ambitious plans for a national digital identity scheme, but will 2026 lead to more disenchantment or new excitement?

• January 08, 2026 08 Jan'26

  Like it or not, AI will transform cyber strategy in 2026

  Bubble or no bubble, from cyber skills to defensive strategies to governance, risk and compliance, artificial intelligence will remake the cyber world in 2026

• January 07, 2026 07 Jan'26

  India and Singapore outpace global peers in agentic AI adoption

  Research from Thoughtworks reveals that while 77% of global businesses are focused on generating revenue from AI initiatives, Asian markets are leading the charge in agentic AI adoption, job creation and executive confidence

• January 06, 2026 06 Jan'26

  Lenovo taps AI and digital twins to power World Cup 2026

  Technology partner for upcoming football tournament has built an artificial intelligence knowledge assistant for coaches, digital avatars to assist VAR decisions, and smart infrastructure for venue management

• January 06, 2026 06 Jan'26

  Nvidia unveils Vera Rubin architecture to power AI agents

  The AI chip giant has taken the wraps off its latest compute platform designed for test-time scaling and reasoning models, alongside a slew of open source models for robotics and autonomous driving

• 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

• 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 30, 2025 30 Dec'25

  Top 10 government IT stories of 2025

  The past 12 months has seen a number of significant milestones in digital government. Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 government IT stories of 2025

• 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 cyber security stories of 2025

  AI dominated all tech conversations this year, but the concerns of cyber security professionals extend far beyond. From remote work to supply chains, quantum to identity, there were plenty of other topics for the industry to chew over in 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

  UAE and Dubai’s tech ambitions in focus as Sheikh Hamdan meets Elon Musk

  High-level talks highlight AI, space, digital infrastructure and the UAE’s push to become a global technology and innovation hub through partnerships and progressive regulation

• 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 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 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 18, 2025 18 Dec'25

  The AI regulation gap: Is the UK’s pro-innovation approach enough?

  As AI advances, the UK’s pro-innovation regulatory stance faces growing scrutiny. With non-statutory principles at its core, can the framework maintain public trust and provide effective oversight?

• December 18, 2025 18 Dec'25

  MHRA seeks views on healthcare AI regulation

  Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) wants to know how to regulate AI technologies in the NHS while keeping patients safe

• December 18, 2025 18 Dec'25

  From Kuwait to Brazil: Inside the network behind real-time robotic surgery

  Zain Omantel International and Zain Kuwait deliver ultra-low latency network enabling live telesurgery between Kuwait and Brazil, highlighting the role of advanced connectivity in digital healthcare transformation

• December 18, 2025 18 Dec'25

  AI safeguards improving, says UK government-backed body

  Inaugural AI Security Institute report claims that safeguards in place to ensure AI models behave as intended seem to be improving

• 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

  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

  Trump plans bonfire of US state-level AI regulation

  US president’s executive order targets state-level AI regulatory frameworks across the country, saying they are too onerous and endangering leadership in the field

• 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 10, 2025 10 Dec'25

  Error-prone eVisa system a precursor of digital ID

  Research highlights how the Home Office’s electronic visa system has used migrants as a ‘testing ground’ for the government’s wider digital ID ambitions

• 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

  NCSC warns of confusion over true nature of AI prompt injection

  Malicious prompt injections to manipulate GenAI large language models are being wrongly compared to classical SQL injection attacks. In reality, prompt injection may be a far worse problem, says the UK’s NCSC

• December 08, 2025 08 Dec'25

  How police live facial recognition subtly reconfigures suspicion

  A growing body of research suggests that the use of live facial recognition is reshaping police perceptions of suspicion in ways that undermine supposed human-in-the-loop protections

• 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 04, 2025 04 Dec'25

  Home Office launches police facial recognition consultation

  The Home Office has formally opened a 10-week consultation on a legal framework for police use of facial recognition technologies, and will consider extending any new rules to police deployments of other biometric and inferential technologies

• December 03, 2025 03 Dec'25

  Interview: Florence Mottay, global CISO, Zalando

  Florence Mottay moved from mathematics to software engineering, and is now leading security at Zalando, a high-tech online fashion retailer

• 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

  Mandatory digital ID paves way for surveillance and exclusion, MPs hear

  It is currently unclear how the UK’s government’s proposed mandatory digital ID scheme will help with its stated goal of curbing illegal migration and working

• 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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  UK digital ID scheme cash will come from existing funds

  UK Parliamentary committee hearing reveals there will be no permanent government chief digital officer going forward, and digital ID scheme will be funded by existing budgets

• 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

  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 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 19, 2025 19 Nov'25

  Government-backed coalition to end gazumping in property market

  The government wants a digital platform that can address ‘inefficiencies’ causing stress for homeowners and inflicting huge costs to the economy

• 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

  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

  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