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• November 05, 2025 05 Nov'25

  From ambition to action: How the Gulf is turning responsible AI into a global reality

  The Middle East is rapidly advancing in artificial intelligence and digital transformation, driven by strong government strategies. Success in the region requires trust, cultural awareness and alignment with local regulations

• November 05, 2025 05 Nov'25

  SAP TechEd 2025: Make AI real, grind in data

  SAP TechEd in Berlin put an accent on building agentic and generative AI systems to create real business outcomes, beyond what its executives say is excessive hype

• November 05, 2025 05 Nov'25

  Verizon Business, AWS seal fibre deal to accelerate AI applications at scale

  Comms provider and hyperscaler unite on network infrastructure and suite of products designed to enable global enterprises to deploy AI workloads at scale

• November 04, 2025 04 Nov'25

  UAE Sovereign Launchpad begins nationwide roll-out with support from e& and AWS

  The cloud infrastructure platform aims to strengthen digital resilience and regulatory compliance across government and regulated sectors in the United Arab Emirates

• November 04, 2025 04 Nov'25

  Microsoft’s $15.2bn investment in the UAE: A strategic bet on AI, talent and trust

  Microsoft’s decade-long investment in the United Arab Emirates underscores its commitment to building a robust artificial intelligence ecosystem, advancing digital infrastructure and fostering local talent through a strategic partnership with G42

• November 03, 2025 03 Nov'25

  ADNOC, Masdar, XRG and Microsoft forge strategic alliance to power the future of AI and energy

  Unveiled before Abu Dhabi’s flagship energy event ADNOC, the partnership aims to deploy AI across ADNOC’s operations and deliver sustainable infrastructure to power Microsoft’s global datacentre growth

• November 03, 2025 03 Nov'25

  How Zoom is approaching agentic AI

  Zoom CTO Xuedong Huang explains how AI Companion 3.0’s agentic AI capabilities can help turn conversations into completed actions using long-term memory and deep reasoning

• October 30, 2025 30 Oct'25

  Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act promises to fill Meta’s coffers

  The owner of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram is spending billions on new datacentres for artificial intelligence

• October 29, 2025 29 Oct'25

  Nokia, Zayo team on future-ready IP network infrastructure

  Upgraded IP network architecture seeks to provide operator’s customers with faster, broader set of services, including cloud access, datacentre connectivity and secure high-speed links

• October 29, 2025 29 Oct'25

  Saudi Arabia partners with Humain and Qualcomm to power next global AI frontier

  A collaboration to deploy advanced AI infrastructure positions Saudi Arabia as a global hub for intelligent computing

• 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 23, 2025 23 Oct'25

  Bereaved families call for public inquiry over suicide forum

  The Molly Rose Foundation and families bereaved by suicide claim Ofcom and government departments have not taken effective action to deal with a forum promoting suicide

• October 22, 2025 22 Oct'25

  More openness on the cards for Apple and Google’s mobile platforms

  Competition and Markets Authority will look closely at the openness of Google and Apple’s mobile platforms after designating both with strategic market status

• 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 20, 2025 20 Oct'25

  Arelion boosts Baltic connectivity with resilient route

  Diverse terrestrial route connects Baltics to Western Europe via subsea and land systems using open optical line systems with 400G coherent pluggable optics and 1.6 Tbps Waves connectivity

• October 20, 2025 20 Oct'25

  Microsoft admonished for role in facilitating Gaza genocide

  Following credible allegations that Microsoft Azure was being used to facilitate mass surveillance and lethal force against Palestinians, which prompted the company to suspend services to the Israeli military unit responsible, human rights ...

• October 20, 2025 20 Oct'25

  Du racks up 1 Tbps Middle East milestone

  Leading UAE operator Du achieves record-breaking peak traffic through its datamena platform and marks milestone for internet exchange in the Middle East to reach performance level

• October 17, 2025 17 Oct'25

  EXA Infrastructure raises over €1bn to support digital infra boom

  Global digital infrastructure platform provider refinances and expands its facilities, raising over €1.3bn to fuel network growth – including fibre footprint and subsea routes – and M&A plans across Europe and North America

• October 15, 2025 15 Oct'25

  Singapore Transport Authority enhances critical railway infrastructure with optical LAN

  Transport authority in Singapore revamps its video transport network to support advanced security and high-resolution video services to ensure safety for millions of passengers riding the railway

• October 15, 2025 15 Oct'25

  ‘Significant’ fibre gaps threaten datacentre expansion

  Research of 300 decision-makers finds consensus that core fibre investment is key to future AI growth, but four-fifths of firms delaying builds because of network infrastructure constraints

• October 14, 2025 14 Oct'25

  Sita unveils next-gen fibre-optic comms for data-intensive airports

  Air transport industry technology provider releases passive optical local area network designed to deliver uninterrupted, high-bandwidth connectivity across airports, addressing current bandwidth limitations, high latency and costly maintenance

• October 13, 2025 13 Oct'25

  UK police to upgrade illicit asset recovery system

  A new system is being developed by the Police Digital Service and NEC Software Solutions to help manage the recovery of criminal assets, replacing 20-year-old legacy infrastructure

• October 10, 2025 10 Oct'25

  What will happen now Google has been given ‘strategic market status’ by CMA?

  The Competition and Markets Authority will now be looking at what needs to be in place to support internet search

• October 10, 2025 10 Oct'25

  Orange lands first Medusa subsea cable in Marseille

  Global telco reveals key milestone in ongoing development of submarine networks connecting both sides of the Mediterranean, positioning the French city as a global digital hub

• October 09, 2025 09 Oct'25

  AI and autonomous vehicles drive UAE’s first commercial electric truck fleet

  Evocargo and RAK Ceramics deploy AI-powered autonomous vehicles, marking a new era for logistics and sustainable mobility

• October 09, 2025 09 Oct'25

  Infor debuts AI agents to tackle industry-specific tasks

  Infor unveils role-based AI agents to automate workflows in niche sectors from dairy to automotive, as well as a new cloud migration programme to ease the transition to cloud

• October 02, 2025 02 Oct'25

  CityFibre doubles customer connection rate in Q3

  UK’s largest independent full-fibre platform reveals unprecedented growth in third quarter, almost double that recorded over the previous three-month period

• October 01, 2025 01 Oct'25

  E-commerce platform eBay offers free ChatGPT training and tools

  Through eBay Activate, small businesses selling on the online marketplace will gain access to GPT-powered productivity and e-commerce tools

• September 30, 2025 30 Sep'25

  Cloud provider publishes ‘tech sovereignty’ plan for UK

  In the face of mounting data sovereignty concerns across Europe, UK cloud provider Civo lays out high-level plan for how the government can retain control and access of its data should the geopolitical situation sour

• September 30, 2025 30 Sep'25

  Google to pay $24m to settle lawsuit with president Trump

  Trump launched legal challenge after being blocked from posting on his YouTube channel, which Google is now seeking to settle

• September 30, 2025 30 Sep'25

  Zayo, Equinix develop AI network framework

  Tailored connectivity solutions and managed services provider teams with datacentre firm to develop a common model for the underlying infrastructure required to scale for the next phase of AI

• September 30, 2025 30 Sep'25

  UK gigabit broadband coverage hits 89% of population

  Research finds UK has hit a major broadband milestone, marking a significant step towards nationwide coverage and reflecting rapid roll-out by market leaders and a growing number of alternative networks

• 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 26, 2025 26 Sep'25

  Microsoft hides key data flow information in plain sight

  Microsoft’s own documentation confirms that data hosted in its hyperscale cloud architecture routinely traverses the globe, but the tech giant is actively obfuscating this vital information from its UK law enforcement customers

• September 25, 2025 25 Sep'25

  Brightsolid expands national network with diverse 100Gbps optical connectivity

  Strategic partnership issues assurance to deliver what it claims will be ‘ultra-fast’ resilient connectivity from Scotland to London, supporting UK digital infrastructure growth

• September 25, 2025 25 Sep'25

  Openreach UK broadband upgrade reaches 20 million homes

  UK’s largest comms provider celebrates full-fibre access milestone but points to lag in active network switchovers

• September 24, 2025 24 Sep'25

  Internet shutdowns in Africa on upward trajectory

  A comparative analysis of internet shutdowns in African countries highlights how the tactic is increasingly used to repress dissent and political opposition, depriving millions of people and businesses access to vital digital tools that sustain ...

• September 24, 2025 24 Sep'25

  Alibaba Cloud targets full-stack AI dominance

  The Chinese cloud giant has unveiled the Qwen3-Max model, a suite of agent development tools and cloud infrastructure upgrades to position itself as a one-stop shop for AI development and deployment

• September 24, 2025 24 Sep'25

  Klaasmeyer Construction taps Render Networks for quicker buildout

  Digitising network provider engaged by network construction management company to build scalable model for predictable broadband deployment and customer adoption

• September 19, 2025 19 Sep'25

  UK needs better defences to protect undersea internet cables from Russian sabotage

  A cross-party group of MPs and peers has called for the UK to step up defences to protect undersea cables from Russian sabotage risks

• September 19, 2025 19 Sep'25

  Huawei unveils interconnects to address large-scale AI infrastructure bottlenecks

  IT and networking giant announces technology designed to set standard in compute power for AI-driven workloads

• September 19, 2025 19 Sep'25

  Fortnite patch spurs record broadband traffic spike for Openreach

  Leading UK broadband firm sees historic warnings coming to pass regarding need to alleviate issues facing network users, with consumption of media-rich content such as video and of popular games continuing to grow

• September 19, 2025 19 Sep'25

  French court ruling may lead to legal challenges over state Sky ECC and EncroChat phone hack

  A decision by the French supreme court may pave the way for defendants to challenge the lawfulness of France’s hacking of the EncroChat and Sky ECC cryptophone networks used by organised crime groups

• September 16, 2025 16 Sep'25

  SG.GS expands connectivity presence in North America

  Global wholesale carrier expands customisable, scalable and low-latency network services to Toronto, Ashburn and Seattle, alongside upgrading existing markets in New York, Chicago, Miami, San Jose and Los Angeles

• September 15, 2025 15 Sep'25

  Olilo launches multi-gig broadband service

  UK broadband service provider launches network built by engineers for techies, with no arbitrary throttling or traffic shaping and no ‘pointless rules’

• September 11, 2025 11 Sep'25

  Zen, Neos carry out 400 Gbps upgrade between Manchester and London

  Strategic collaboration enables telecoms provider to undergo a wider core network upgrade as digital infrastructure demand surges

• September 05, 2025 05 Sep'25

  Neos Networks to deliver live broadcast connectivity for Premier League

  Provider of global connectivity services for broadcast and events taps dedicated B2B network provider to ensure high-quality delivery of Premier League football

• September 05, 2025 05 Sep'25

  How Metrobank is tapping VMware Cloud Foundation

  The Philippine bank has adopted nearly all of the capabilities in VMware’s private cloud platform to modernise its IT infrastructure while reaping cost savings

• September 03, 2025 03 Sep'25

  Google/DoJ antitrust ruling: Google must share data

  The search engine giant will be able to continue offering the Chrome browser, but there will be no more exclusivity distribution agreements

• September 03, 2025 03 Sep'25

  Fastly CEO plots course through AI and security

  Chief exec Kip Compton explains how Fastly’s unified platform is solving the web’s biggest challenges, from content scrapping by AI bots to distributed denial-of-service attacks