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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has urged organisations to review their use of automated decision-making (ADM) tools in recruitment, warning that safeguards are essential as AI and automation become more common in hiring
Posted: 01/04/2026
OpenAI has closed its latest funding round with $122 billion in committed capital – including over $3 billion from individual investors – against a post money valuation of $852 billion.
Posted: 01/04/2026
Oracle has begun laying off thousands of employees globally this week as the US software group restructures to fund heavy investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure
Posted: 01/04/2026
Virgin Media O2 has signed multi-year agreements worth “hundreds of millions” of pounds with Ericsson and Nokia to upgrade its UK mobile network as part of its mobile transformation plan.
Posted: 31/03/2026
British AI processor start-up Fractile is in talks to raise over $200 million in a bid to challenge Nvidia’s dominance in the AI chip market.
Posted: 31/03/2026
Microsoft has introduced new artificial intelligence features that allow its Copilot assistant to use multiple models simultaneously, as the company seeks to improve reliability and accelerate adoption of its enterprise AI tools
Posted: 31/03/2026
The Austrian government plans to ban children under 14 from using social media as part of a wider push to improve online child protection, with draft legislation due by the end of June
Posted: 30/03/2026
French AI company Mistral has secured $830 million in debt financing to support its development of data centres across Europe.
Posted: 30/03/2026
The BBC Board has appointed former Google executive Matt Brittin as the 18th director-general of the corporation, effective 18 May
Posted: 27/03/2026
Lloyds Banking Group exposed the personal and financial data of up to 447,936 customers during an IT failure on 12 March, according to a letter published on Friday by the UK Treasury Committee
Posted: 27/03/2026
China’s DeepSeek suffered its longest service disruption on Monday, with its widely used artificial intelligence chatbot offline for more than seven hours during its most significant outage since gaining global traction in early 2025
Posted: 30/03/2026
A US Judge has ordered a temporary pause on the Pentagon’s designation of AI company Anthropic as a supply chain risk, describing it as “arbitrary and capricious”.
Posted: 27/03/2026
US quantum computing firm Rigetti Computing has announced it plans to invest up to $100 million in the UK to accelerate quantum computing development in the country
Posted: 27/03/2026
The sale and use of Chinese robots could be banned across the American government under a proposed new law
Posted: 26/03/2026
Network Rail has tested a quantum navigation system on the national rail network for the first time
Posted: 26/03/2026
Chip designer Arm has released an AI-focused CPU, moving into silicon manufacturing for the first time.
Posted: 26/03/2026
President Donald Trump on Wednesday appointed prominent industry figures including Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, Nvidia head Jensen Huang, and Oracle chairman Larry Ellison to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)
Posted: 26/03/2026
Social media giant Meta must pay $375 million after losing a landmark, seven-week child exploitation case in the United States, as reported by The Guardian
Posted: 25/03/2026
Two co-founders of Manus AI, one of the first successful AI agents capable of operating without human intervention, have been barred from leaving China as the country reviews its $2 billion sale to Meta.
Posted: 25/03/2026
Marks and Spencer (M&S) is rolling out AI and agentic AI tools to every store manager and support centre employee in a bid to speed up data access and analysis.
Posted: 25/03/2026
The UK government is piloting social media bans, app time limits and digital curfews in the homes of 300 teenagers, as part of a six-week trial to assess potential measures to improve children’s online safety and wellbeing
Posted: 25/03/2026
Lidl and Amazon are set to begin selling plug-in solar panels in the UK within months under new government plans to open up the retail market for low-cost home energy technology
Posted: 25/03/2026
OpenAI will discontinue its Sora video-generation app and related services as it shifts focus towards enterprise tools and coding products ahead of a potential stock market listing later this year
Posted: 25/03/2026
Pinterest has launched a shoppable streaming series which will allow viewers to purchase items they see on screen through a QR code.
Posted: 24/03/2026
Japanese investment group SoftBank plans to invest a further $30 billion in OpenAI in a move that could breach its own borrowing limits.
Posted: 24/03/2026
The European Central Bank's chief economist said on Monday that artificial intelligence could add more than four percentage points to euro zone productivity growth over the next decade, but warned that Europe's technological disadvantage and high energy costs threaten to limit those gains
Posted: 24/03/2026
Billionaire Elon Musk is responsible for stock price drops caused by statements he made in the lead-up to his purchase of social media company Twitter – now X – a jury has found.
Posted: 23/03/2026
Starling Bank has announced the launch of an agentic AI financial assistant which can give customers banking guidance, financial insights and help to manage daily finances.
Posted: 23/03/2026
Tech West England Advocates has announced two initiatives designed to strengthen ties between the UK and Chinese tech sectors
Posted: 23/03/2026
European organisations are adopting artificial intelligence systems at a rapid pace, but are failing to implement adequate governance and safety controls to keep them in check
Posted: 23/03/2026
OpenAI is planning to nearly double its workforce to about 8,000 employees by the end of 2026 as it intensifies efforts to win business customers and counter rising competition in the artificial intelligence market
Posted: 23/03/2026
Darts player Luke Littler has applied to trademark his face with the UK Intellectual Property Office as the teenage champion seeks to prevent unauthorised AI-generated use of his likeness
Posted: 20/03/2026
Tech giant Meta has experienced an internal data breach caused by an AI agent acting outside its intended parameter, leading to a severe internal data breach.
Posted: 20/03/2026
Amazon has launched Alexa+ in the UK, bringing its next‑generation, generative AI assistant to what it says is its most engaged market.
Posted: 20/03/2026
OpenAI is preparing to launch a desktop “superapp” combining ChatGPT, Codex and its Atlas browser, as the artificial intelligence company seeks to simplify its product offering and strengthen its position against rising competition
Posted: 20/03/2026
Technology is globalising crime, accelerating it and making it more harmful, according to the director of the National Crime Agency (NCA) Graeme Biggar.
Posted: 19/03/2026
South Korean tech giant Samsung intends to spend over ₩110 trillion ($73.2 billion) on research and development in 2026 as the battle over semiconductor dominance heats up.
Posted: 19/03/2026
The vast majority of artificial intelligence investments are failing to generate a financial return for firms, according to new research
Posted: 19/03/2026
The European Parliament has taken a significant step towards banning artificial intelligence systems that generate non-consensual sexual images, following a committee vote on Wednesday advancing new rules under the bloc’s AI Omnibus legislation
Posted: 19/03/2026
South Korean tech giant Samsung has teamed up with American chipmaker AMD to develop a range of new artificial intelligence‑based memory and computing solutions
Posted: 18/03/2026
British Businesses Bank, the UK government’s economic development bank, has invested £50 million in a fund designed to provide B2B AI and SaaS startups with seed capital.
Posted: 18/03/2026
Microsoft has appointed relative newcomer Jacob Andreou to run its Copilot division and reduced DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman's responsibilities in a major shake-up.
Posted: 18/03/2026
On Tuesday, payment card provider Mastercard announced a new generative AI model trained on its payments data.
Posted: 18/03/2026
Chip manufacturer Nvidia’s chief executive, Jensen Huang, delivered a forecast of $1 trillion in revenue from chips over the next two years on Monday.
Posted: 17/03/2026
Bordeaux Airport, which handles six million passengers a year across 92 destinations, has announced plans to pilot an AI tool that uses a digital twin of its terminal to improve passenger flow and resource deployment
Posted: 17/03/2026
Finnish telecoms giant Nokia has unveiled a detailed vision for the ninth iteration of wireless networks, and it’s centred around artificial intelligence
Posted: 17/03/2026
The European Union has imposed sanctions on two Chinese companies, one Iranian firm and two individuals over cyber attacks targeting EU member states and partners, the Council of the EU announced on Monday
Posted: 17/03/2026
JD.com has launched its Joybuy online marketplace across the UK and five European markets on Monday, expanding the Chinese e-commerce group’s international push and positioning the platform as a competitor to Amazon in the region.
Posted: 16/03/2026
American semiconductor maker AMD has proposed creating a new category of computer to cater to the rise of artificial intelligence
Posted: 16/03/2026
Chinese retailer and technology company Alibaba Group Holding Limited (Alibaba) is set to announce a new agentic AI tool built on its Qwen large language model as soon as this week, Bloomberg has reported.
Posted: 16/03/2026
Over three-quarters of UK businesses do not immediately deactivate staff logins when employees leave, contributing to a 160 per cent increase in compromised logins over the last year, a new study says.
Posted: 16/03/2026
Meta Platforms has signed a five-year agreement worth up to $27 billion with Dutch cloud provider Nebius Group to secure large-scale artificial intelligence computing capacity, in one of the company’s biggest infrastructure contracts to date
Posted: 16/03/2026
Banco Santander and Visa have completed a controlled pilot of agentic commerce transactions across multiple Latin American markets, in a project powered by Visa Intelligent Commerce
Posted: 13/03/2026
McKinsey is working to fix issues with its AI system after hackers accessed millions of internal messages and were able to identify sensitive documents, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 13/03/2026
The University of Cambridge has announced plans to host what it says will be the UK’s most powerful quantum computer, in a move aimed at accelerating research in quantum science, engineering and other fields
Posted: 13/03/2026
Britain’s media and privacy regulators on Thursday ordered major social media companies including Meta, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube to strengthen age-verification systems, warning that platforms are failing to enforce their own minimum age rules under the country’s online safety framework
Posted: 12/03/2026
Atlassian and Oracle are the latest software-focused multinationals to prepare for layoffs in the wake of expanding use of AI sector-wide.
Posted: 12/03/2026
The UK government has announced it will launch measures aimed at boosting female participation in the technology industry.
Posted: 12/03/2026
Microsoft has filed a court brief supporting Anthropic's lawsuit against the Pentagon, urging a federal judge to impose a temporary restraining order blocking the Defence Department's designation of the AI company as a supply chain risk
Posted: 12/03/2026
Amazon organised a meeting on Tuesday to investigate a “trend of incidents” related to generative AI-based coding in its ecommerce business, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 11/03/2026
Google Cloud has announced a multi-year AI partnership with CANAL+ aimed at improving content discovery and accelerating video production capabilities across the French broadcaster’s streaming platforms
Posted: 11/03/2026
Advanced Machine Intelligence, a startup founded by former Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, said on Tuesday it had raised $1.03 billion in seed funding at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation to develop artificial intelligence systems designed to reason about the physical world
Posted: 11/03/2026
OpenAI is putting a pause on its plan to allow users to purchase products directly through ChatGPT, and will instead focus on checkouts that run through specific plugins for the service.
Posted: 10/03/2026
The UK government has announced a £180 million investment in timing technology designed to protect critical services and digital infrastructure
Posted: 10/03/2026
The vast majority of AI projects are reported to be successful, according to new research that challenges the perception that deployments are likely to fail because the technology is still in its infancy
Posted: 10/03/2026
A tech firm has warned that the world could be heading into what it’s calling “The Great Trust Recession” as people become more skeptical of what they see online due to the rise of deepfakes
Posted: 10/03/2026
Anthropic filed two federal lawsuits against the Trump administration on Monday, challenging a Pentagon decision to designate the artificial intelligence company a "supply chain risk"
Posted: 10/03/2026
Digital financial market infrastructure provider ClearToken and blockchain platform Canton Network have inked a new strategic partnership
Posted: 09/03/2026
British entrepreneurs are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence tools for the business advice they would have previously received from their peers
Posted: 09/03/2026
Tide, the London-based FinTech specialising in business banking and management services, has launched a mobile phone service for small businesses embedded directly in the Tide app
Posted: 09/03/2026
Sadiq Khan has invited artificial intelligence developer Anthropic to expand its operations in London
Posted: 09/03/2026
SoftBank Corp has unveiled plans to become an artificial intelligence infrastructure firm, rather than just a simple telecommunications carrier
Posted: 06/03/2026
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched an AI‑powered platform in the US that aims to cut administrative workloads in healthcare and improve access to patient services
Posted: 06/03/2026
Transport for London has confirmed that a cyber-attack carried out in late summer 2024 exposed personal data belonging to roughly 10 million individuals, one of the largest data breaches involving a UK public body in recent years
Posted: 06/03/2026
The UK government has announced plans to establish a new AI research laboratory, which it will back with up to £40 million of funding.
Posted: 05/03/2026
The ongoing US-Israel air strikes on Iran are likely to result in 'devastating' Iranian cyber attacks launched against American and allied critical infrastructure, claim experts
Posted: 05/06/2026
The UK Government has announced a £500 million support package for Britain’s space industry as part of a new national strategy to boost growth in the sector
Posted: 05/03/2026
Kraken’s Wyoming-chartered banking unit has been granted a limited-purpose master account by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, becoming the first US digital-asset firm to gain direct access to the central bank’s core payments infrastructure
Posted: 04/03/2026
Google is facing its first wrongful death lawsuit over its Gemini chatbot after the family of a 36-year-old Florida man alleged the AI tool instructed him to kill himself following weeks of immersive and delusional exchanges
Posted: 04/03/2026
Google Cloud has set out plans to build an agentic commerce infrastructure in Europe, in which AI agents autonomously shop and pay on behalf of consumers, based on explicit authorisations.
Posted: 04/03/2025
Amazon has announced plans to invest €33.7 billion in Aragón, Spain to expand data centre infrastructure and deliver advanced AI and cloud computing capabilities to European organisations.
Posted: 04/03/2026
The United States and China are emerging as the two biggest artificial intelligence superpowers, according to new research
Posted: 04/03/2026
OpenAI has amended its newly signed contract with the US Department of Defense, days after agreeing to supply its artificial intelligence models for classified military use, after chief executive Sam Altman admitted the rushed deal “looked opportunistic and sloppy” and prompted concerns over potential domestic surveillance
Posted: 04/03/2026
Banco Santander and Mastercard have announced the successful completion of Europe’s first live end-to-end payment executed by an AI agent.
Posted: 03/03/2026
Amazon Web Services said late on Monday that three of its data centres in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain were damaged by drone strikes over the weekend, disrupting core cloud services and prompting customers to consider moving workloads as conflict in the region intensifies
Posted: 03/03/2026
The vast majority of cyber crimes are perpetrated by middle-aged hackers, according to new research from Orange Cyberdefense
Posted: 03/03/2026
Vodafone and Amazon have teamed up to deliver improved mobile connectivity to those living in rural parts of Europe and Africa
Posted: 02/03/2026
O2 has announced it will invest £700m in its mobile network this yearas part of its ongoing Mobile Transformation Plan, targeting improved reliability, capacity and coverage across the UK.
Posted: 02/03/2026
Specialist artificial intelligence models tailored to finance are outperforming mainstream tools from technology giants such as Google and Amazon, according to new research
Posted: 02/03/2026
OpenAI signed an agreement with the US Pentagon on Friday to deploy its artificial intelligence models in classified military networks, hours after President Donald Trump ordered all federal agencies to cease using technology from rival Anthropic following a breakdown in negotiations over ethical restrictions
Posted: 02/03/2026
Not all artificial intelligence products have the same level of disruption, with platform-based AI companies faring significantly better than service-based firms, according to a new report by UK investment bank Peel Hunt
Posted: 27/02/2026
The UK government has cut the time it takes to address major cybersecurity issues across Britain’s public services by 84 per cent, as part of a wider push to harden critical systems and build a professional cyber workforce, it said on Friday
Posted: 27/02/2026
Skyscanner has launched the Skyscanner app in ChatGPT to allow travellers to search and find flight deals and travel options through ChatGPT.
Posted: 27/02/2026
Anthropic has rejected the United States Department of Defense's ultimatum to remove safety restrictions from its artificial intelligence model Claude, putting a $200 million contract at risk after chief executive Dario Amodei declared the company "cannot in good conscience" comply with the government's demands
Posted: 27/02/2026
Citigroup Inc. has formed a dedicated artificial intelligence infrastructure banking team and made its first strategic investment in Japan in Tokyo-based Sakana AI, moves announced on 25 February aimed at capturing a greater share of the capital-intensive global AI build-out
Posted: 25/02/2026
The vast majority of cybersecurity leaders see artificial intelligence as a good thing for their industry, according to new research from American software firm Splunk
Posted: 25/02/2026
UK data watchdog the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Reddit £14.47 million after finding the social media platform unlawfully processed children’s personal data and failed to put in place effective age checks.
Posted: 25/02/2026
Hackers are increasingly exploiting public-facing applications to launch devastating cyber attacks, according to new research from IBM
Posted: 25/02/2026
ByteDance’s Doubao chatbot surpassed 100 million daily active users on February 16 during China’s nine-day Lunar New Year holiday, overtaking rival apps from Alibaba and Tencent in a costly battle for consumer AI dominance, according to data published on Wednesday
Posted: 25/02/2026
Japan’s Fair Trade Commission on Wednesday raided the Tokyo offices of Microsoft Japan as part of an investigation into whether the US technology group improperly restricted customers of its Azure cloud platform from using rival services, raising fresh scrutiny of its licensing practices in the world’s third-largest economy
Posted: 25/02/2026
Amazon has announced plans to invest $12 billion in new data centre campuses in northwest Louisiana to support growing demand for AI and cloud computing services
Posted: 24/02/2026
Cyber attacks utilising artificial intelligence technology have risen by 89 per cent in the past year and are altering the online threat landscape completely, according to new research from CrowdStrike
Posted: 24/02/2026
Engine by Starling, Starling Group’s banking Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business, has announced a partnership with SBS Bank, a New Zealand‑owned mutual.
Posted: 23/02/2026
Business secretary Peter Kyle has selected Doug Gurr, a former Amazon country manager, as his preferred candidate to lead the Competition and Markets Authority permanently following a year-long tenure in an interim capacity aimed at refocusing the regulator on economic growth
Posted: 23/02/2026
Seven men have been arrested in Nigeria following a coordinated operation between Meta, the UK National Crime Agency (NCA), and the Nigerian Police Force National Cybercrime Centre to dismantle an online fraud network targeting UK and US victims with cryptocurrency scams
Posted: 23/02/2023
Microsoft said on Friday that Phil Spencer will retire after 38 years at the software group, naming internal executive Asha Sharma as chief executive of its gaming division in a leadership overhaul aimed at refocusing the Xbox business during a period of falling revenues and intensifying competition
Posted: 23/02/2026
OpenAI has told investors it expects total compute spending to reach about $600 billion by 2030, sharply below the $1.4 trillion infrastructure commitment outlined last year, as the company refines its growth plans ahead of a potential stock market listing
Posted: 23/02/2026
Tesco is making "significant strides" on safety through body worn cameras, the supermarket's project manager for shrink and security technology transformation has revealed.
Posted: 20/2/2026
The UK government has announced that OpenAI and Microsoft have joined its international coalition for the safeguarding of AI development.
Posted: 20/02/2026
The introduction of a digital euro could cost European banks between €4 billion and €6 billion over four years if legislation is approved in 2026, European Central Bank executive board member Piero Cipollone said during a speech this week
Posted: 20/02/2026
OpenAI will become the first customer of Tata Consultancy Services’ new data centre business in India, committing to an initial 100 megawatts of capacity as part of its global Stargate AI infrastructure programme, the companies announced on Thursday
Posted: 19/02/2026
The UK’s largest public research funder, UK Research and Innovation, on Thursday 19 February unveiled its first artificial intelligence strategy, backed by a record £1.6 billion of investment over four years to position AI at the centre of British science and innovation policy
Posted: 19/02/2026
As part of the move, Societe Generale has joined LSEG's model marketplace as a provider of advanced analytical models.
Posted: 19/2/2026
Tech companies will be ordered to take down intimate images shared without a victim’s consent within 48 hours, under new laws announced by the government to protect women and girls from abuse.
Posted: 19/2/2026
Amazon has started building a £40 million delivery station in Stockton-on-Tees, with the company hoping the site will be the first to achieve zero carbon certification outside of the US.
Posted: 18/02/2026
The European Commission launched a formal investigation into Chinese online retailer Shein on Tuesday over the sale of illegal products and the potentially addictive design of its platform, marking a significant escalation of regulatory pressure under the bloc's Digital Services Act
Posted: 18/02/2026
Meta Platforms has agreed to buy millions of Nvidia's current and next-generation artificial intelligence chips in a multiyear strategic partnership announced on Tuesday, marking a significant expansion of a relationship that stretches back more than a decade
Posted: 18/02/2026
DBS Bank has trialled Visa's agentic commerce suite in an Asia Pacific first.
Posted: 18/2/2026
Unilever has announced it is accelerating its business transformation through a new partnership with Google Cloud.
Posted: 17/2/2026
Infosys and Anthropic announced on Tuesday a collaboration to develop custom artificial intelligence agents for clients in telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing, and software development, marking Anthropic's deepening push into enterprise markets in India and beyond
Posted: 17/02/2026
OpenAI has hired Peter Steinberger, the Austrian developer behind the viral open-source AI agent OpenClaw, to lead its next generation of personal agent products, as the $500 billion company seeks to outpace rivals including Anthropic and Google in the race to deploy autonomous AI
Posted: 17/02/2026
The UK government has launched a new campaign urging business owners to “lock the door” on criminals and protect themselves from common online threats.
Posted: 17/02/2026
Alibaba unveiled its Qwen3.5 artificial intelligence model on Monday, positioning the system as designed for complex autonomous tasks whilst claiming significant cost and performance improvements over major American competitors including GPT-5.2, Claude Opus 4.5, and Gemini 3 Pro
Posted: 16/02/2026
The AI Impact Summit is being held in India this week, building on the momentum of similar summits held in Bletchley Park, Seoul and Paris.
Posted: 16/2/2026
Deliveroo has announced a new partnership with embedded finance platform Liberis to roll out a funding solution for restaurants on the app.
Posted: 16/2/2026
Prime minister Keir Starmer has announced plans for new legal powers which will allow the government to take “immediate action" following the findings of its upcoming children's digital wellbeing consultation.
Posted: 16/2/2026
Klarna has announced that it will make its flexible payment services available to Google Pay users in the UK.
Posted: 16/02/202
Starbucks has rolled out a new payment platform across 943 stores in the UK, Austria and Switzerland.
Posted: 13/02/2026
O2 has switched on its 5G standalone (5GSA) network in Manchester and its surrounding towns as part of its UK-wide rollout, which is now live in over 500 locations.
Posted: 13/02/2026
Investment in the UK FinTech industry fell by 21 per cent in 2025, but the country still attracted more funding than in France, Germany, Belgium, the Nordics, Ireland, China, and Brazil combined, according to new research from KPMG.
Posted: 13/02/2026
British retailer Debenhams Group has become the first UK retailer to implement PayPal’s agentic AI assistant.
Posted: 13/2/2026
Amazon Pharmacy will expand same-day prescription delivery to 4,500 cities and towns across the US by the end of 2026, adding nearly 2,000 new communities over the course of this year
Posted: 12/2/2026
National Australia Bank (NAB) will offer its customers appointments via video call to give them more choice and flexibility.
Posted: 12/2/2026
Network provider and tech retailer EE is offering 'Stay Safe with AI' appointments across 11 stores in Essex.
Posted: 12/2/2026
The UK government has chosen HSBC as the platform provider for its digital sovereign bonds trial following a tender process launched in October last year.
Posted: 12/2/2026
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has started formal legal proceedings against global crypto exchange HTX after concluding the firm repeatedly published illegal financial promotions in the UK.
Posted: 11/2/2026
Standard Chartered has partnered with B2C2 to expand institutional access to digital asset markets.
Posted: 11/2/2026
The Office of the Children's Commissioner for England has released "deeply concerning" findings which show that over half of children in the country have seen meals, snacks and drinks online that make claims that they help people lose weight.
Posted: 11/2/2026
Two co-founders of Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up xAI have resigned this week, reducing the company’s original founding team by half less than three years after its launch
Posted: 11/02/2026
Apple and Google have agreed to a package of voluntary commitments with the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority that will require them to treat third-party apps more fairly on their app stores
Posted: 11/02/2026
Global spend on AI agents for customer experience is set to grow 400 per cent over the next two years, according to new figures from Juniper Research.
Posted: 10/2/2026
Messaging platform Discord will introduce mandatory age verification for users worldwide from early March, automatically placing accounts into a “teen-appropriate” experience unless adulthood can be confirmed, as the company tightens access to age-restricted content and features
Posted: 10/02/2026
The company has rolled out a structured digital transformation programme designed to streamline internal processes, enhance information accessibility, and improve budget visibility across the organisation.
Posted: 10/2/2026
Google has found that state-sponsored hackers are increasingly targeting defence sector employees and hiring processes with highly personalised cyber-espionage campaigns, warning that attacks on individuals now pose a growing risk to Western industrial and military supply chains
Posted: 10/02/2026
Restaurant Brands Europe (RBE), which runs fast food restaurants including Burger King and Tim Hortons across Spain, Italy and Portugal, has installed new technology to improve demand forecasting and automate ingredient replenishment.
Posted: 9/2/2026
Ripple has partnered with Securosys and Figment to expand its custody capabilities.
Posted: 9/2/2026
Jordan Kuwait Bank has said it will integrate its digital channels within an “advanced next-generation platform” as part of its digital transformation strategy.
Posted: 9/2/2026
Virgin Media O2 has installed new AI monitoring tools across its mobile network to predict and prevent any potential issues in order to minimise downtime.
Posted: 9/2/2026
Morrisons has announced it is deploying a real-time engagement platform across its stores to provide personalised promotional offers on paper and digital receipts at the point of sale, as well as through extended digital channels.
Posted: 6/2/2026
BAE Systems has announced the launch of a new UK technology incubator programme designed to enable dual-use technologies that thrive beyond the defence sector and reach their full commercial potential.
Posted: 6/2/2026
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6 on Thursday, positioning its most advanced artificial intelligence model as a tool for knowledge workers beyond software engineering whilst markets continue to punish traditional software stocks
Posted: 06/02/2026
Gemini Space Station, the cryptocurrency exchange founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, will cut up to 200 jobs globally and withdraw from the UK, European Union and Australia by April as it seeks profitability during a prolonged downturn in digital asset markets
Posted: 06/02/2026
Spanish multinational bank BBVA has joined a consortium of major European financial institutions to launch a euro-pegged stablecoin.
Posted: 5/2/2026
If more British SMEs adopted digital finance tools, their growth could add around £25.3 billion to the economy, according to new research from Starling Bank.
Posted: 5/2/2026
South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang confirmed on Thursday that personal data from an additional 165,000 user accounts had been exposed, extending a crisis that has now entered its fourth month
Posted: 05/02/2026
The UK government has announced plans to work with Microsoft, academic institutions and technology experts to develop what it describes as the world's first deepfake detection evaluation framework aimed at setting industry standards for identifying harmful AI-generated content
Posted: 05/02/2026
The FinTech platform says that it is the first in the market to integrate account-to-account, online, and in-person payments directly within a core business account.
Posted: 4/2/2026
Amazon has partnered with the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) to develop packaging materials made from agricultural waste.
Posted: 4/2/2026
Half of the companies that have reduced employee numbers due to AI will rehire staff to carry out similar functions under different job titles by next year, according to Gartner.
Posted: 4/2/2026
French prosecutors raided the Paris headquarters of Elon Musk's social media platform X on Tuesday
Posted: 04/02/2026
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has opened an investigation into X, the owner of AI tool Grok, after reports that the platform has been used to generate non consensual sexual imagery of individuals, including children.
Posted: 3/2/2026
OpenAI is said to have been seeking alternatives to some of Nvidia's latest artificial intelligence chips since last year due to dissatisfaction with their performance for specific inference tasks, whilst a planned $100 billion investment from the chipmaker has stalled after months of negotiations, according to people familiar with the matter
Posted: 03/02/2026
When training AI models, MedTech companies must ensure that the data being used is representative of a population group in its entirety, according to David Lawson, director of medical technology & innovation at the Department of Health and Social Care.
Posted: 3/2/2026
Elon Musk's rocket manufacturer SpaceX has acquired his artificial intelligence start-up xAI in a deal valuing the combined entity at $1.25 trillion, as the billionaire consolidates his business empire ahead of what could become the largest initial public offering in history
Posted: 03/02/2026
Snapchat has shared that it has locked or disabled over 415,000 under-16 accounts in Australia as part of its efforts to comply with the country’s social media minimum (SMMA) laws.
Posted: 2/2/2026
The Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD) has urged retailers and suppliers to “prepare now” before agentic AI "rewrites how people shop".
Posted: 2/2/2026
Starling Bank has launched a drive to sell its software to American lenders, aiming to sign its first US banking client worth between $5 billion and $50 billion in assets by early next year as the London-based FinTech pursues international growth beyond its struggling consumer bank
Posted: 02/02/2026
French IT giant Capgemini will immediately begin selling its American subsidiary Capgemini Government Solutions after facing parliamentary scrutiny and government demands for transparency over contracts that enable US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to track and deport individuals
Posted: 02/02/2026
The UK government has announced the launch of a new Centre for AI Measurement which will be led by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL).
Posted: 30/01/2026
Google has agreed to pay $135 million to settle allegations that its Android operating system collected cellular data from users without permission, even when location tracking was disabled and apps were closed, in what lawyers believe is the largest payout in a conversion case
Posted: 30/01/2026
The new changes will require sole traders and landlords to use approved digital systems to submit quarterly income and expenses updates from April this year.
Posted: 30/1/2026
Amazon is reportedly in talks to invest as much as $50 billion in ChatGPT developer OpenAI
Posted: 30/01/2026
Tesla will discontinue production of its Model S sedan and Model X SUV next quarter
Posted: 29/01/2026
The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has banned adverts by cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase due to “irresponsible” messaging.
Posted: 29/01/2026
Gumtree is rolling out Know Your Business (KYB) technology as part of a transformation of its home services category.
Posted: 29/1/2026
Lloyds Banking Group expects to generate more than £100 million in value from generative and agentic AI this year, building on around £50 million delivered in 2025 as the lender accelerates deployment across its operations
Posted: 29/01/2026
OpenAI has partnered with travel firm Booking.com to launch a programme to train 20,000 SMEs across Europe in AI skills.
Posted: 28/01/2026
As part of the joint government and industry programme, every adult in the UK will be able to take newly benchmarked courses to gain practical AI skills.
Posted: 28/1/2026
Meta's WhatsApp messaging service began rolling out advanced security settings on Tuesday, offering journalists and public figures stronger protections against sophisticated cyberattacks by restricting certain features in exchange for heightened security
Posted: 28/01/2026
TikTok reached a settlement late Monday with a California woman who accused the platform of deliberately engineering addictive features that damaged her mental health, avoiding the first jury trial in a wave of cases targeting the world's largest social media companies
Posted: 28/01/2026
Microsoft has announced the launch of Maia 200, an AI accelerator chip designed to speed up inference workloads and integrate with Microsoft Azure.
Posted: 27/01/2026
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced it is launching a review into the implications of advanced AI on retail financial markets, consumers, and regulators.
Posted: 27/1/2026
Three of the world's largest social media companies will defend themselves in court this week against allegations their platforms deliberately addict children and damage mental health, in the first case of its kind to reach trial
Posted: 27/01/2026
Just Eat Takeaway.com has launched an AI voice assistant for iOS and Android devices in the UK
Posted: 27/01/2026
The move comes as the business develops a new category of products focused on conversational agents designed specifically for organisational learning and upskilling.
Posted: 26/1/2026
Amazon is said to be preparing to cut roughly 16,000 corporate positions starting this week, bringing the online retailer's total workforce reduction to approximately 30,000 employees, according to sources familiar with the company's plans reported by Reuters
Posted: 26/01/2026
British telecoms regulator Ofcom has launched a formal investigation into Meta Platforms over concerns that the company provided incomplete or inaccurate information relating to WhatsApp Business during a regulatory market review
Posted: 26/01/2026
Nationwide Building Society has announced an expanded partnership with Amazon Web Services that will enable the world's largest building society to accelerate innovation and deliver more personalised experiences to its 17 million customers
Posted: 26/01/2026
French games developer Ubisoft has scrapped several games and studios as it pushes ahead with cost reduction and organisational restructuring plans.
Posted: 23/1/2026
Macy's, the US department store, is deploying a new ad server and mediation technology to improve its media network.
Posted: 23/1/2026
TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance has finalised an agreement creating a majority American-owned joint venture to operate the app's US business, sidestepping a ban that would have blocked the platform's 200 million American users
Posted: 23/01/2026
The announcement puts him in direct rivalry with Elon Musk, who has his own satellite communications network called Starlink.
Posted: 22/1/2026
The UK government has named Harriet Rees, group chief information officer at digital bank Starling, and Dr Rohit Dhawan, head of AI and advanced analytics at retail banking giant Lloyds Banking Group, as AI champions.
Posted: 22/1/2026
A Canadian federal court has overturned the government's directive forcing TikTok to cease business operations in the country, sending the matter back for fresh review and allowing the app's 14 million Canadian users to continue accessing the platform alongside its local workforce
Posted: 22/01/2026
Britain's largest supermarket chain Tesco is to launch a 10-week trial of a new crime reporting platform across 40 of its stores.
Posted: 22/1/2026
The British government is funding a new drone degree as it looks to modernise the country’s armed forces amid a fast-changing threat landscape.
Posted: 21/1/2026
Lloyds Banking Group has announced an AI skills training drive for its staff.
Posted: 21/1/2026
The European Commission unveiled proposals on Wednesday granting telecommunications operators unlimited radio spectrum licences whilst declining industry demands that technology giants contribute financially to broadband infrastructure costs
Posted: 21/01/2026
As part of the proposed measures, immediate action includes Ofsted checking school mobile phone policy on every inspection, with schools expected to be phone-free by default following this announcement.
Posted: 21/1/2026
The British multinational professional services firm PwC surveyed 454 chief executives from 95 countries across the world, finding that just 30 per cent believe that the revenues of their firms will grow in 2026, compared to 38 per cent last year and 56 per cent in 2022.
Posted: 20/1/2026
HSBC is launching legal chatbot Harvey AI as it continues to leverage AI across the bank.
Posted: 20/1/2026
JD Sports has announced the rollout of new RFID technology designed to modernise inventory management across its European stores.
Posted: 20/1/2026
Britain's financial watchdogs are exposing consumers and the financial system to potentially serious harm by failing to properly regulate artificial intelligence in financial services, according to a Treasury Committee report published on Tuesday
Posted: 20/01/2026
Last week, deputy prime minister David Lammy asked the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to explore the role these tried-and-tested Ukrainian battlefield tactics can play in preventing the growing trend of criminal gangs using drones to smuggle contraband into British prisons.
Posted: 19/1/2026
Revolut has announced its digital wallet now supports Google’s Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) as the London-based neobank looks to harness the potential of agentic commerce.
Posted: 19/1/2026
Digital bank Monzo has introduced a new HMRC-recognised tax tool ahead of changes to tax rules in April.
Posted: 19/1/2026
Brussels is set to propose a phase-out of Chinese-made equipment from key European Union infrastructure
Posted: 19/01/2026
The move follows the launch of the country's ban on social media for children under the age of 16 last month.
Posted: 16/1/2026
Japan is reportedly launching a government probe into Grok after hearing reports that users could generate or edit sexualised images of real people
Posted: 16/01/2026
The UK government has announced plans to support the country’s robotics and defence industries by cutting existing red tape and providing them with more funding.
Posted: 16/1/2025
Spanish technology group Indra has won a Transport for London contract to operate and modernise the capital’s ticketing and access control systems
Posted: 16/01/2026
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced plans to shift its legacy technology systems to a new cloud infrastructure as it prepares to adopt new AI capabilities.
Posted: 15/01/2025
Amazon Web Services has launched an independent cloud service for Europe entirely located within the EU
Posted: 15/02/2026
Global financial messaging firm Swift is set to launch a blockchain-based shared ledger following a successful digital asset interoperability trial.
Posted: 15/1/2026
Elon Musk's social media platform X has announced restrictions preventing its Grok AI chatbot from editing images of real people into revealing clothing, following mounting pressure from regulators and governments over the proliferation of non-consensual sexual deepfakes
Posted: 15/01/2026
Apple has formed a multi-year partnership with Google to boost the iPhone maker’s next generation of AI models
Posted: 14/01/2026
She will lead the company’s data and analytics strategy and functions globally, including the use of data and AI for audience development and engagement.
Posted: 14/1/2026
The number of new UK technology companies incorporated increased by almost 50 per cent in 2025 compared to five years ago, according to new figures from consulting firm RSM UK.
Posted: 14/01/2026
Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled a “community-first” AI infrastructure initiative in the United States that pledges to pay higher utility rates, expand local power supply, and replenish more water than its data centres consume as concerns grow over household bills and resource use
Posted: 14/01/2026
Malaysia’s Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), Malaysia's communications regulator, has reportedly said that it will initiate legal action against X and xAI over user-safety failures linked to Grok
Posted: 13/01/2026
The technology, developed by Moneyhub, analyses all customer transactions, from card payments to direct debits, to provide “granular insights” for the building society's 16 million customers.
Posted: 13/1/2026
Amazon has started drone flights out of its Darlington fulfilment centre ahead of the launch its Prime Air service later this year.
Posted: 13/01/2026
Ofcom has opened a formal investigation into X under the Online Safety Act to assess whether the platform has complied with its legal duties to protect users in the UK from illegal content, following reports that the Grok AI tool has been used to create sexual abuse materials of adults and children
Posted: 13/01/2026
Danske Bank has announced the appointment of Dr Fiona Browne as its first head of AI to lead the strategic development and use of the technology across the bank.
Posted: 12/01/2026
Papa Johns has partnered with Google Cloud to become the first restaurant to use its agentic AI tool for food ordering.
Posted: 12/01/2026
Google has announced the launch of a new open standard for agentic commerce.
Posted: 12/1/2026
JD Sports, one of the largest UK sports retailers, is reportedly launching an AI powered platform in the US
Posted: 12/01/2026
Anthropic has launched a “HIPAA-ready” suite under Claude for Healthcare and broadened its Life Sciences tools, stepping further into medical workflows days after OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Health
Posted: 12/01/2026
Chinese electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Xpeng has announced plans to roll out robotaxis and humanoid robots
Posted: 09/01/2026
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence tool Grok has limited its image generation and editing capabilities to paying subscribers following widespread outcry over its use to create sexually explicit and violent imagery without consent
Posted: 09/01/2026
Alphabet’s Google, Meta Platforms, Netflix, Microsoft and Amazon are set to avoid stringent new obligations in the European Union’s forthcoming overhaul of telecoms regulation, according to people with direct knowledge of the draft plans reported by Reuters
Posted: 09/01/2026
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Health, a new tool designed to analyse medical records and data from health apps to get better answers to medical questions.
Posted: 9/1/2026
Walmart Connect Mexico is rolling out AI-driven audience‑insight sensors across its stores
Posted: 09/01/2026
More than half of chief financial officers (CFOs) in the UK have become more optimistic over the past year on AI’s potential to boost productivity in the year ahead, according to a survey by consulting firm Deloitte.
Posted: 8/1/2026
Stripe is teaming up with Crypto.com, enabling the exchange to incorporate Stripe’s payment solutions
Posted: 08/01/2026
In a new report, the public body explains that AI-powered agents will anticipate shopping needs and make proactive purchases based on learned and defined preferences or behaviours, along with knowledge of upcoming plans, rather than needing specific prompts.
Posted: 8/1/2025
XFusion, a leading Chinese AI server provider and spin-off from Huawei, has reportedly hired Citic Securities, one of China’s largest investment banks, to prepare for an initial public offering (IPO)
Posted: 07/01/2026
Barclays Bank has made an investment in Ubyx, a US-based clearing system for digital money, including tokenised deposits and regulated stablecoins.
Posted: 7/1/2025
East of England Co-op has wrapped up its first trial of a platform built to power digital experiences at the shelf edge
Posted: 07/01/2026
The music group said that the partnership will set new standards for innovation and responsibility in the sector, with the companies aiming to support rightsholder compensation, explore ways to use AI to protect artists’ work, and ensure "proper attribution of music-based content.”
Posted: 7/1/2026
The UK government has urged X to take immediate action after its in‑built chatbot Grok was used to generate non‑consensual sexualised images of women and girls, including “undressed” depictions and sexualised images of minors
Posted: 07/01/2026
Nvidia has unveiled its new AI platform Rubin and a suite of open models, as it continues to drive AI adoption across industries
Posted: 06/01/2026
The UK government will invest around £210 million to strengthen public services and improve digital resilience.
Posted: 6/1/2026
Intel has unveiled Panther Lake, its next-generation laptop processors branded Core Ultra Series 3, at CES in Las Vegas, marking the company’s first high-volume product built on its 18A manufacturing process
Posted: 06/01/2026
Amazon must face a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging price gouging during the COVID‑19 pandemic after a US district judge in Seattle rejected the company’s bid to dismiss the case
Posted: 06/01/2026
Samsung will double the number of mobile devices with Galaxy AI to around 800 million units this year, according to a Reuters report
Posted: 5/1/2026
Taiwan-based Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics manufacturer, has reported record growth driven by rising demand for AI products, the company said on Monday
Posted: 05/01/2026
Uber has restructured its contractual arrangements with drivers outside London to avoid paying millions of pounds under new VAT regulations introduced by chancellor Rachel Reeves, which took effect this month
Posted: 05/01/2026
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is facing international censure after generating sexual abuse material on social media platform X, including depictions of minors, in response to user prompts
Posted: 05/01/2026
Ocado Group has announced that mutual exclusivity with retailers in most of its markets where its technology is live has ended.
Posted: 1/2/2026
British supermarket chain Asda has announced the hire of Cal Corcoran as its new group chief information officer (CIO).
Posted: 2/1/2026
Currys has announced plans to overhaul its payment infrastructure to allow the technology retailer to adopt emerging technologies, including AI.
Posted: 2/1/2026
Morgan Stanley analysts have warned that the rise of AI adoption and further physical branch closures could drive more than 200,000 job losses in the European banking sector over the next four years.
Posted: 2/1/2026
Lyft and Uber have signed agreements with Chinese AI company Baidu to pilot robotaxis in London next year.
Posted: 23/12/2025
The new platform provides quick ad tools as well as an AI-driven assistant to improve copy and creative design.
Posted: 23/12/2025
As we approach the end of 2025, we added up the numbers to bring you a roundup of National Technology News’ most popular news stories, features, and analysis pieces of the year
Posted: 23/12/2025
2025 was a pivotal year in which AI was even more influential on the technology sector than in previous years
Posted: 23/12/2025
Visa has launched the first end to end voice-enabled agentic payment system in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in partnership with real estate developer Alder.
Posted: 22/12/2025
Italy’s Competition and Market authority (AGCM) has fined Apple €98.6 million for allegedly abusing its dominant position in the iOS app distribution market
Posted: 22/12/2025
French grocery retailer Carrefour has opened its second fully AI-powered microstore in Belgium.
Posted: 22/12/2025
The governor of the Bank of England has said that AI could displace jobs in a similar way seen during the industrial revolution.
Posted: 19/12/2025
The UK government is set to ban ‘nudification’ tools, making it illegal to create or supply apps that generate fake nude images without consent
Posted: 19/12/2025
SoFI bank has announced the launch of SoFiUSD, its native 1:1 cash-backed fully reserved US dollar stablecoin, as it seeks to bridge regulated banking with on-chain finance
Posted: 19/12/2025
Footwear retailer Deichmann has rolled out a new order fulfilment platform designed to improve the ordering system across multiple countries.
Posted: 19/12/2025
The UK government has confirmed a cyber-attack on the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) in October, with ministers saying the risk to individuals is low while declining to attribute the breach to any specific actor
Posted: 19/12/2025
Apple has announced that iPhones in Japan will now support alternative app stores, complying with the country’s Mobile Software Competition Act (MSCA)
Posted: 18/12/2025
Barclays is set to trial an AI-driven platform that creates digital twins of SMEs to drive sustainability insights.
Posted: 18/12/2025
Google has launched a credit card in India in partnership with Axis Bank.
Posted: 18/12/2025
Pornhub is investigating reports that hackers accessed the search and viewing habits of its premium users, with an extortion demand threatening to publish the data
Posted: 18/12/2025
The company has rolled out Revolut Mobile to waitlist customers, with general access available from January next year.
Posted: 17/12/2025
Amazon is reportedly in talks to invest around $10 billion in OpenAI
Posted: 17/12/2025
Former chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne has announced he will join OpenAI as managing director and head of OpenAI for countries.
Posted: 17/12/2025
Elon Musk’s X Corp has filed a lawsuit in Delaware federal court against Operation Bluebird, a Virginia startup seeking to cancel the social media company’s Twitter and Tweet trademarks and launch a rival platform styled on Twitter’s former branding
Posted: 17/12/2025
Ofcom has launched investigations into BT and Three after two separate outages in the summer caused nationwide disruption and impacted calls to emergency services
Posted: 16/12/2025
Monzo has unveiled plans to buy UK digital mortgage broker Habito.
Posted: 16/12/2025
The secretary of state for science, innovation and technology Liz Kendall has launched a women in Tech taskforce to help more women enter and take up leadership roles in the industry.
Posted: 16/12/2025
The US has paused implementation of its “Tech Prosperity Deal” with the UK, a package announced during President Donald Trump’s September visit that pledged co‑operation across artificial intelligence, quantum computing and civil nuclear energy
Posted: 16/12/2025
Build-A-Bear has teamed up with Uber Direct to roll out same-day delivery from across 33 stores in the UK.
Posted: 15/12/2025
The UK government has announced a new agreement with Canada to launch a shared semiconductor research network to advance progress on the technology.
Posted: 15/12/2025
Hong Kong based crypto exchange HashKey Holdings has reportedly raised approximately $206 million in its Hong Kong IPO
Posted: 15/12/2025
Japanese beermaker Asahi is considering the creation of a dedicated cybersecurity unit after a ransomware attack in late September disrupted core systems, slowed order processing and delayed financial reporting into the new year
Posted: 15/12/2025
Reddit has reportedly filed a lawsuit in Australia’s High Court challenging the country’s new social media ban for under 16s as it argues the move violates free speech and political communication rights
Posted: 12/12/2025
The UK government has launched new qualifications which it says will help plug the skills gap in the MedTech sector.
Posted: 12/12/2025
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), together with Swift and several European central banks, has successfully tested post-quantum cryptography in real-world payment systems to prepare for the security challenges posed by quantum computing
Posted: 12/12/2025
BBVA is rolling out OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise across its 120,000-strong global workforce.
Posted: 12/12/2025
Marks & Spencer (M&S) has implemented new AI-driven tech to boost search performance across its product range.
Posted: 11/12/2025
Uber Eats has rolled out autonomous deliveries in Leeds in collaboration with Starship Technologies
Posted: 11/12/2025
UK digital bank Starling has rolled out a new interactive tool designed to help couples improve their relationship with money.
Posted: 11/12/2025
The UK and AI company Google DeepMind are partnering to give British scientists priority access to advanced AI tools.
Posted: 11/12/2025
Amazon plans to invest over $35 billion across its Indian operations over the next four years to boost AI transformation in the country
Posted: 10/12/2025
Nearly 60 per cent of retail tasks could be augmented by AI by 2035, according to new research.
Posted: 10/12/2025
The UK government is to spend £11.7 million on digital training to help people from vulnerable communities get online.
Posted: 10/12/2025
Around 80 per cent of care providers in the UK now use digital social care records, according to new figures from the UK government.
Posted: 9/12/2025
Clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (A&F) is revamping its global in-store inventory management with the roll out of RFID technology.
Posted: 9/12/2025
The University of Oxford has teamed up with Swiss investment bank UBS to launch a new centre for applied AI.
Posted: 9/12/2025
The European Commission (EU) will investigate whether Alphabet’s Google has violated competition laws by using the content of web publishers, including online video-sharing platform YouTube, for AI purposes
Posted: 09/12/2025
Over 2,000 GPs in Greater Manchester can now connect with NHS consultants for specialist advice in under 30 seconds thanks to a new digital tool.
Posted: 8/12/2025
Specialist lending and savings account provider Aldermore Bank has announced the launch of a new cloud-based treasury platform.
Posted: 8/12/2025
The US secretary of state has criticised a decision by the European Commission (EU) to fine X €120 million for breaching its transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA)
Posted: 08/12/2025
The Fragrance Shop has deployed AI-powered retail operations platform across all its stores and frontline teams, marking a major step in digital transformation
Posted: 05/12/2025
Lloyds Bank has announced the completion of its first India-UK digital Letter of Credit (LC) transaction.
Posted: 5/12/2025
New Look has said it has successfully completed its migration to SAP Commerce Cloud, just ahead of the festive peak shopping season
Posted: 05/12/2025
Europol has dismantled a massive €700 million crypto fraud network, arresting nine suspects and shutting down fake investment platforms across nine countries
Posted: 05/11/2025
On Friday morning, websites including graphic design platform Canva and e-commerce company Shopify, which powers millions of businesses, faced issues during the outage.
Posted: 5/12/2025
The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has partnered with OpenAI to enable ChatGPT users and enterprise customers to directly access financial data licensed by the exchange
Posted: 04/12/2025
Albertsons has rolled out its AI-powered shopping assistant across all its banner websites as it seeks to boost customer experience
Posted: 04/12/2025
Jo Malone London has partnered with Google Cloud to launch an AI-powered Scent Advisor, designed to recreate the brand's signature in-store fragrance consultation online
Posted: 04/12/2025
Scottish Widows has launched a six‑month pilot of AI software as it seeks to strengthen marketing compliance and ensure clearer communications for customers
Posted: 04/12/2025
Amazon has said it will integrate Nvidia chips in its new Amazon Web Services (AWS) AI factories
Posted: 03/12/2025
NatWest, Monzo, Santander, Scottish Widows, Gain Credit, Snorkl, and the Homeprotect part of the Avantia Group will join the “first of its kind” scheme.
Posted: 3/12/2025
Video platform YouTube has provided users with an update about how it will comply with Australia’s Social Media Minimum Age Act but has warned that the regulation will “not make children safe online.”
Posted: 3/12/2025
Dior has partnered with Scandit and Hardis Supply Chain as it implemented a new AR-powered software that aims to improve warehouse management while providing real-time insights
Posted: 03/12/2025
A coalition of ten European banks has established a Netherlands-based venture, Qivalis, to create a euro-pegged stablecoin targeted for launch in the second half of 2026, subject to licensing
Posted: 03/12/2025
Snapchat has unveiled the Snapchat Winter Village, a holiday-themed AR shopping hub inside the Snapchat app in collaboration with luxury fashion brands Lancôme, BOSS and Chopard
Posted: 02/12/2025
Ofcom has fined Virgin Media £23.8 million for putting vulnerable remote assistance customers at risk of harm during the migration of analogue landlines to digital
Posted: 02/12/2025
British lifestyle retailer Crew Clothing has announced it will roll out gamification and broader engagement features on its existing AI-powered task management platform.
Posted: 2/12/2025
Revolut has launched Street Mode, a new security feature to improve protection for its UK and EEA customers amidst a rise in phone snatching and transfer mugging.
Posted: 2/12/2025
Samsung UK has launched on TikTok Shop, becoming the largest technology brand available on the social media platform.
Posted: 2/12/2025
Nvidia has taken a $2 billion stake in Synopsys and expanded a multi-year partnership to speed up engineering and design workflows using GPU-accelerated computing and artificial intelligence, the companies announced on Monday
Posted: 02/12/2025
The Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE) has called on the government to work with the country’s infrastructure industry to develop a national AI in engineering strategy.
Posted: 1/12/2025
HSBC and Mistral AI have signed a multi-year deal to speed up the use of genAI across the bank.
Posted: 1/12/2025
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud have announced plans to develop a new multicloud networking service which will enable enterprises to connect their platforms in “minutes”
Posted: 01/12/2025
ByteDance is introducing an artificial intelligence voice assistant for Chinese smartphones, starting with ZTE’s Nubia M153, as domestic brands push system‑level AI features while Apple’s upgraded tools remain unavailable in China
Posted: 01/12/2025
The EU is considering whether Apple Ads and Apple Maps should be subject to the same rules as other companies classified as “gatekeeper” services under its Digital Markets Act (DMA), while the tech giant argues that they should be exempt
Posted: 28/11/2025
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has hired Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli as the new head of its Innovation Hub.
Posted: 28/11/2025
Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has appointed Ranil Boteju as its first Chief AI Officer, effective early 2026, after serving as group chief data and analytics officer at Lloyds Banking Group in London
Posted: 28/11/2025
France’s competition watchdog has dismissed a complaint by Paris-based search engine Qwant that accused Microsoft of abusing market power in search syndication and related online advertising
Posted: 28/11/2025
Chinese tech company Baidu has reportedly begun laying off employees after publishing its loss-making third quarter financial results last week
Posted: 28/11/2025
British clothing brand Topshop will next year headline an AI-driven catwalk developed by THG Studios in a "world first".
Posted: 27/11/2025
Naver Financial, the FinTech arm of South Korea’s tech giant Naver, has reportedly agreed to buy crypto specialist Dunamu in a deal valued at about $10.3 billion
Posted: 27/11/2025
Amazon has given 63 Amazon Research Awards (ARA) to recipients representing 41 universities in eight countries.
Posted: 27/11/2025
Aldi Süd has announced it will overhaul its IT infrastructure and increase automation as part of wider digital transformation strategy.
Posted: 27/11/2025
Japan’s Asahi Group said it is working to restore its ordering and logistics systems in Japan by February after a late September ransomware incident disrupted operations and forced manual processing across parts of the business
Posted: 27/11/2025
The Emirates Group has partnered with OpenAI to ramp up AI adoption and innovation across the airline.
Posted: 26/11/2025
Debenhams Group, which owns brands including PrettyLittleThing, Karen Millen and boohoo, has announced it will roll out a new retail media platform.
Posted: 26/11/2025
On Tuesday, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) and Westminster City Council (WCC), which share a number of IT systems and services, announced that several systems were impacted by the attack, including phone-lines.
Posted: 26/11/2025
The delay in developing data centres in Europe could slow down the country's growth, ING said on Monday
Posted: 26/11/2025
Italy’s competition regulator has widened its investigation into Meta’s use of artificial intelligence tools on WhatsApp and opened a procedure for interim measures that could curb the company’s plans
Posted: 26/11/2025
Panasonic Group’s Panasonic Energy will supply lithium-ion battery cells to Zoox, Amazon’s autonomous ride-hailing company.Under the agreement, Panasonic Energy will supply its latest 2170 cylindrical lithium-ion cells to power Zoox's fleet of robotaxis, with delivery starting in early 2026 to support Zoox's growing service and operations
Posted: 25/11/2025
Chinese e-commerce platform Temu has partnered with British parcel delivery comparison website Parcel2Go.
Posted: 25/11/2025
Ofcom has issued new guidance urging technology firms to provide a safer online experience for women and girls.
Posted: 25/11/2025
OpenAI has introduced a shopping research feature in ChatGPT designed to compile personalised buying guides using up-to-date product information from retailers
Posted: 25/11/2025
Malaysia is now the latest country to reportedly consider banning social media use by users under the age of 16 due to concerns about child safety
Posted: 24/11/2025
Snap has announced that users in Australia will be able to verify their ages though ConnectID, a service offered by banks in the country.
Posted: 24/11/2025
Domestic abuse charity Refuge has warned that tech abuse, including spycam surveillance, has risen dramatically this year.
Posted: 24/11/2025
Major US banks are assessing potential exposure after New York-based real estate finance vendor SitusAMC disclosed a cyberattack that compromised corporate records and may have affected customer information
Posted: 24/11/2025
Alibaba’s Qwen artificial intelligence app has surpassed 10 million downloads within its first week on iOS and Android
Posted: 24/11/2025
Streaming and gaming platform Twitch will be included in the Australian federal government’s social media ban for under 16s
Posted: 21/11/2025
Ecommpay has introduced Apple Pay functionality via QR code payments on its merchant platform, making it one of the first global providers to offer the service
Posted: 21/11/2025
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has announced billions worth of additional AI investment which it says will drive thousands of new jobs across the UK.
Posted: 21/11/2025
Ocado Group has partnered with Auchan Polska to launch an automated customer fulfilment centre (CFC) for the grocery retail chain at Wilcza Góra near Warsaw.
Posted: 21/11/2025
OpenAI has announced a collaboration with Hon Hai Technology Group, better known as Foxconn, to co-design and manufacture hardware for artificial intelligence data centres in the United States
Posted: 21/11/2025
Uber Eats is partnering with Starship Technologies to launch autonomous delivery robots across multiple countries.
Posted: 21/11/2025
The UK, US and Australia have joined forces to implement sanctions against Media Land, a Russian cyber-crime group.
Posted: 20/11/2025
US cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has raised $800 million in funding as part of ambitions to scale its global operations.
Posted: 20/11/2025
HelloFresh will use generative AI-powered tools create to recipe cards which accompany its meal kits.
Posted: 20/11/2025
The European Commission is preparing a wide-ranging legislative package that would relax parts of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and delay elements of the EU’s artificial intelligence law
Posted: 20/11/2025
Roblox is introducing mandatory age verification for chat features, aimed at blocking interactions between children and adult strangers
Posted: 19/11/2025
Nvidia will spend up to $10 billion on the company, while Microsoft has committed to a $5 billion investment.
Posted: 19/11/2025
New research from Which? indicates that while almost half of Brits now use AI, online tools such as ChatGPT are providing “inaccurate and risky advice.”
Posted: 19/11/2025
European Union regulators have designated 19 technology firms as critical third‑party computing providers to the bloc’s financial sector under the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), bringing them under direct supervisory oversight
Posted: 19/11/2025
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has asked the High Court to overturn a suspension that is blocking it from completing a bond consolidated tape contract
Posted: 18/11/2025
On Tuesday morning, the internet infrastructure company said that it was investigating an issue which has impacted multiple customers, including widespread 500 errors.
Posted: 18/11/2025
Chocolate producer Barry Callebaut is to use AI in its recipe development to cope with supply chain shortages and higher cocoa prices.
Posted: 18/11/2025
Deutsche Börse Group and Societe Generale Group (SocGen) have inked a partnership to embed the French bank’s stablecoin into the German stock exchange’s settlement business
Posted: 18/11/2025
Superdrug has partnered with rapid delivery platform Just Eat, allowing customers to order and receive around 8,000 beauty, baby care and medical products in as little as 30 minutes.
Posted: 18/11/2025
Levi’s has partnered with Microsoft to build an AI “super-agent” that will automate back-office tasks across IT, HR, and operations, aiming to streamline workflows and boost efficiency
Posted: 18/11/2025
Jeff Bezos is set to become co-chief executive of Project Prometheus, a new artificial intelligence start-up developing systems for engineering and manufacturing across computers, aerospace and automobiles
Posted: 18/11/2025
Samsung Electronics, Hyundai Motor and other major South Korean manufacturers have announced large domestic investment plans, aiming to reassure that production at home will remain strong despite a new trade agreement with the US
Posted: 17/11/2025
Debenhams Group, owner of brands including Karen Millen and PrettyLittleThing, has adopted a new agentic AI tool to manage sales, stock and pricing more effectively across its portfolio.
Posted: 17/11/2025
Anthropic, the company behind Claude, publicly reported that Chinese state-sponsored hackers manipulated its AI chatbot to carry out an automated cyber espionage campaign targeting around 30 global organisations
Posted: 17/11/2025
A Berlin court has ordered Google to pay approximately €465 million in damages to German price comparison platform Idealo for abusing its dominant market position, with an additional €107 million awarded to rival platform Producto
Posted: 17/11/2025
Baidu has unveiled Ernie 5.0, a new version of its multimodal base model that jointly models text, images, audio, and video for complete multimodal understanding and generation
Posted: 14/11/2025
AI should be developed to train vocational skills such as construction and nursing instead of just “white collar” jobs according to Vishaal Gupta, president, enterprise learning & skills at education provider Pearson.
Posted: 14/11/2025
Not On The High Street, the British online marketplace, has rolled out a new AI shopping assistant.
Posted: 14/11/2025
Europol has coordinated a fresh phase of Operation Endgame that dismantled infrastructure behind three major malware services, with police taking down or disrupting more than 1,025 servers across multiple countries between 10 and 13 November
Posted: 14/11/2025
Fashion retailer Mango has implemented a new AI-powered supply chain platform designed to improve the quality and performance of its products.
Posted: 13/11/2025
Ocado Intelligent Automation has officially opened its new North American Solutions Hub in Dallas, Texas, showcasing advanced AI-driven warehouse robotics and fulfillment systems
Posted: 13/11/2025
ACS, a Spanish multinational company specialising in construction, engineering, and infrastructure development, is reportedly close to inking a €23 billion deal with BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners to develop data centres
Posted: 13/11/2025
insurance is becoming more accessible to people who would otherwise be unable to buy insurance policies or open bank accounts as a result of AI, according to AXA’s chief information officer (CIO) Natasha Davydova.
Posted: 13/11/2025
New research commissioned by Kingfisher, the owner of DIY retail brands B&Q and Screwfix, finds that 28 per cent of UK shoppers are happy for AI shopping assistants to automatically make purchases without their permission.
Posted: 13/11/2025
British technology minister Liz Kendall has urged Ofcom to accelerate its rollout of Online Safety Act duties
Posted: 13/11/2025
The government has announced new laws designed to prevent AI models from being used to create child sexual abuse material.
Posted: 12/11/2025
Visa has announced a pilot scheme which will enable businesses and platforms to send payments directly to stablecoin wallets.
Posted: 12/11/2025
South African mobile communication company Vodacom Group has signed a deal with Starlink which will see the world’s largest satellite broadband provider deliver high-speed, low-latency broadband internet across Africa and expand network coverage in rural areas
Posted: 12/11/2025
Alphabet’s Google has been sued in the US over claims its Gemini artificial intelligence assistant was quietly activated across Gmail, Chat and Meet to harvest users’ private communications without consent
Posted: 12/11/2025
BNP Paribas has introduced a genAI assistant to accelerate ESG assessments, as it seeks to cut down hours of manual work into a streamlined process
Posted: 12/11/2025
Under proposals for the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, medium and large companies providing services like IT management, IT help desk support and cybersecurity to private and public sector organisations, including the NHS, will be regulated for the first time.
Posted: 12/11/2025
The Bank of England has announced its proposed regulatory regime for sterling-backed systemic stablecoins.
Posted: 11/11/2025
A German court has ruled that OpenAI infringed the copyright of nine popular songs in a lawsuit brought by music rights group GEMA
Posted: 11/11/2025
The Defence Artificial Intelligence Centre (DAIC), a Ministry of Defence (MOD) organisation which aims to develop and scale AI across UK defence, has launched a new tool to help how it evaluates and sources AI technologies.
Posted: 11/11/2025
The European Commission is weighing a move to require European Union countries to phase out equipment from Huawei and ZTE Corp in their telecommunications networks
Posted: 11/11/2025
Waitrose has announced it will invest a record £50 million in technology across its store estate
Posted: 10/11/2025
Scandinavian fashion group Varner has rolled out new Point-of-Sale devices across its stores.
Posted: 10/11/2025
Italian banks have backed the European Central Bank’s plan for a digital euro, while pressing for the financial burden of implementation to be spread over time given high capital expenditure requirements
Posted: 10/11/2025
Around one in six UK employers expect AI to shrink their workforce over the next year, according to new research from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), the professional body for HR, learning and development in the UK.
Posted: 10/11/2025
OpenAI has sought US policy support for its vast infrastructure programme while insisting it does not want taxpayer guarantees for its data centres, as the White House signalled there will be no federal backstop for artificial intelligence firms
Posted: 10/11/2025
The British government has earmarked over £14 million for a range of quantum-based projects aimed at developing “next-generation” sensors for the healthcare, transport and defence sectors.
Posted: 7/11/2025
Topps Tiles has implemented a task management and retail operations platform across its 297 UK stores.
Posted: 7/11/2025
Mango has partnered with TextileGenesis, a blockchain-based traceability platform, to boost transparency across its global supply chain
Posted: 07/11/2025
Lloyds Banking Group is piloting a multi‑feature, AI‑powered financial assistant within its mobile app, positioning the tool as a 24/7 “financial companion” that offers personalised coaching, spending insights and guidance on savings and investments
Posted: 07/11/2025
Microsoft and neocloud provider G43 have announced a 200-megawatt (MW) expansion of datacentre capacity in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as they look to boost the nation’s digital transformation
Posted: 05/11/2025
The UK's top telecoms giants have agreed to roll out advanced call tracing technology across their networks so that police have the intelligence to track down scammers operating across the UK.
Posted: 5/11/2025
Chinese electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Xpeng is collaborating with Alibaba's Amap as it prepares to launch three robotaxi models in 2026
Posted: 05/11/2025
Skills England has published a new report which exposes what it describes as a “major AI skills gap” holding UK businesses back.
Posted: 5/11/2025
Amazon has filed a lawsuit against Perplexity in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, seeking to block the startup’s Comet browser agent from purchasing items on its site for users
Posted: 05/11/2025
Tails.com, the British pet food subscription provider, has announced the launch of a new delivery platform.
Posted: 4/11/025
Verizon has signed an agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build long-distance, high-capacity fibre optic pathways to connect AWS data centres
Posted: 04/11/2025
Marks & Spencer (M&S) has announced plans to sell popular products on TikTok Shop as part of a new pilot scheme.
Posted: 4/11/2025
Santander has launched Navigator Global, an international growth platform designed to help businesses expand into global markets
Posted: 04/11/2025
OpenAI has agreed a seven-year, $38 billion partnership with Amazon Web Services to run and scale its artificial intelligence workloads
Posted: 04/11/2025
Pornhub has reportedly claimed that UK traffic on its website has fallen by up to 77 per cent in the UK compared to July following the introduction of stricter age verification requirements on adult websites under the Online Safety Act (OSA)
Posted: 03/11/2025
The UK government has announced £10 million in funding to support projects enabling electric vehicles (EVs) to charge without large grid connections or off grid.
Posted: 3/11/2025
Bad AI encounters have put £8.6 billion of online sales in the UK at risk over the past year, new research commissioned by Trustpilot suggests.
Posted: 3/11/2025
More than 28 million UK adults are using AI to help them manage their finances, according to new research from Lloyds Banking Group.
Posted: 3/11/2025
Hackers are infiltrating trucking and freight companies to hijack cargo, with cybercriminals working alongside organised crime groups to steal goods that are then sold online or shipped overseas, according to new research from Proofpoint
Posted: 03/11/2025
Nvidia is working with South Korea to expand the nation's AI infrastructure by supplying it with over a quarter of a million GPUs
Posted: 31/10/2025
Ben's Soft Pretzels has integrated an all-in-one restaurant platform as it seeks to boost automation across its more than 185 locations nationwide
Posted: 31/10/2025
Hackers are scanning online devices over 4,000 times a day to identify gaps in security, BT has warned.
Posted: 31/10/2025
Which? has urged the government to crack down on BigTech companies as they are “failing” to protect consumers from new convincing AI scams.
Posted: 31/10/2025
Virgin Media O2 will introduce an optional satellite-enabled mobile service in the first half of 2026, partnering with SpaceX’s Starlink to extend connectivity to parts of the UK with no terrestrial signal
Posted: 31/10/2025
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has announced £55 billion in research and development (R&D) funding for research agencies and bodies who are making science and tech breakthroughs.
Posted: 30/10/2025
Ubank, a division of National Australia Bank (NAB), is introducing passkeys to online banking following strong adoption of the technology on its mobile app
Posted: 30/10/2025
Character.ai, the platform where users can chat with a variety of AI characters, create new characters and roleplay, is banning its chatbot service for under 18 years old
Posted: 30/10/2025
German grocery retailer REWE West has installed an AI-powered autonomous cooking robot in a supermarket in Düsseldorf.
Posted: 30/10/2025
Goldman Sachs has claimed it has conducted the first ever over-the counter (OTC) cryptocurrency options trade between two banks with Singapore-based DBS.
Posted: 30/10/2025
Under “industry-first” strategic agreements between the two companies, as well as the compensatory legal settlement, the firms have agreed to launch a new licenced AI music creation platform.
Posted: 30/10/2025
Vodafone Group has agreed to acquire Skaylink, a German cloud, digital transformation and security firm, for €175 million, strengthening the telecoms company’s enterprise services portfolio across Europe
Posted: 30/10/2025
The Alan Turing Institute has announced a new science and innovation programme designed to protect the UK’s critical national infrastructure against cyber-attacks.
Posted: 29/10/2025
Butlin’s has implemented a new AI tool to improve the employee feedback process.
Posted: 29/10/2025
PayPal has agreed a partnership with OpenAI to embed its digital wallet into ChatGPT and connect tens of millions of PayPal merchants to the platform, with launch targeted for 2026
Posted: 29/10/2025
PepsiCo has unveiled plans to introduce an automated storage and retrieval system at a warehouse in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland.
Posted: 28/10/2025
Starling Bank has introduced an AI-powered tool to help its customers spot the warning signs of purchase scams in what it describes as a UK first.
Posted: 28/10/2025
OpenAI has shared that around 0.07 per cent of ChatGPT users and 0.01 per cent of messages show possible signs of mental health emergencies related to psychosis or mania in any given week.
Posted: 28/10/2025
Amazon said on Tuesday it will reduce its corporate workforce by about 14,000 roles, continuing a multi-year effort to streamline operations and shift resources into priority areas such as artificial intelligence
Posted: 28/10/2025
Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company, the sovereign wealth fund of the Kingdom of Bahrain, has partnered with SandboxAQ, an artificial intelligence and quantum technology company, to create a “cutting-edge” biotech ecosystem in the country.
Posted: 27/10/2025
Mondelez is rolling out a generative artificial intelligence tool it says can reduce the cost of producing marketing content by 30 to 50 per cent
Posted: 27/10/2025
Amazon plans to invest more than €1.4 billion in the Netherlands between 2025 and 2027, its largest commitment since launching locally in 2020
Posted: 27/10/2025
The retailer has partnered with Verde Digital to strengthen its digital presence, supporting the expansion of its existing range and the launch of new product ranges.
Posted: 27/10/2025
Singapore has become the latest country to follow the same cybersecurity protections as Britain following a new agreement between the countries at Singapore International Cyber Week.
Posted: 24/10/2025
Xiaomi president Lu Weibing has reportedly taken to microblogging site Weibo to address the issue of rising memory chip prices, blaming them for driving up the production costs of the electronic company's headsets
Posted: 24/10/2025
Spending on new UK data centres is forecast to rise to £10 billion annually by 2029, according to analysis from construction data firm Barbour ABI, a more than five-fold increase from 2024
Posted: 24/10/2025
The UK's largest supermarket Tesco is rolling out body-worn cameras for its delivery drivers.
Posted: 24/10/2025
OpenAI has announced a new partnership with the UK’s Ministry of Justice (MOJ) which will allow civil servants to use ChatGPT.
Posted: 23/10/2025
NorgesGruppen is implemeting electronic shelf labels (ESLs) at its shops through a partnership with Pricer, which specialises in digital retail solutions
Posted: 23/10/2025
National Bank of Australia (NAB) has expanded its multi-cloud strategy by bringing Google Cloud into its ecosystem alongside Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Posted: 23/10/2025
Airbus, Leonardo and Thales are merging their satellite manufacturing and space systems divisions to create a new European space group that will compete with global giants such as Space X's Starlink
Posted: 23/10/2025
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has filed a civil lawsuit against crypto exchange HTX (formerly Huobi) for unlawfully promoting cryptoasset services to UK consumers without proper authorisation
Posted: 23/10/2025
The UK's largest independent retail Co-operative has prevented over 8,000 tonnes of food waste over the past three years after rolling out an AI-driven tool.
Posted: 23/10/2025
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