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Vodafone agrees to buy German cloud specialist Skaylink for €175m
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Goldman Sachs conducts 'first' over-the-counter crypto trade with DBS
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REWE West launches AI-powered autonomous robot to cook meals in supermarket
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Character.ai bans chatbot service for under-18s
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Australian Ubank introduces passkeys to online banking
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DSIT announces £55bn for R&D research
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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
Amazon is developing AI-powered smart glasses to help its delivery drivers identify hazards, navigate to customers’ doorsteps and improve customer deliveries.
Posted: 23/10/2025
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) will use AI and NHS data to predict the side effects of drug combinations before they reach patients as part of a new study funded by the UK government.
Posted: 22/10/2025
Innovate Finance has announced the launch of a new partnership with The Data City to develop a Real-Time Industry Classification (RTIC) for the UK RegTech market.
Posted: 22/10/2025
Online fashion company Zalando has installed robots at its fulfilment centres following a successful trial where the technology achieved 10,000 picks per day.
Posted: 22/10/2025
AI startup Anthropic is in discussions with Google for additional cloud computing capacity valued in the high tens of billions of dollars, according to Bloomberg News, in a prospective arrangement that would deepen the pair’s existing commercial ties
Posted: 22/10/2025
The cyber attack on Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has been assessed to cost between £1.6- £2.1 billion, with researchers at the Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC) stating the most likely figure is £1.9 billion, making it “the single most financially damaging cyber event ever to hit the UK”
Posted: 22/10/2025
The UK government has set out a new blueprint for AI regulation to encourage innovation in a safe, controlled environment
Posted: 21/10/2025
China has accused the US National Security Agency of carrying out long-running cyber intrusions against its National Time Service Center, warning that the alleged breaches risked disruption to communications networks, financial systems, power supply and the international standard time
Posted: 21/10/2025
Spotify has announced that it will collaborate with Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, Merlin and Believe to develop AI products that aim to empower artists and songwriters
Posted: 20/10/2025
Lloyds Banking Group has announced that 93 per cent of its workforce are now actively using Copilot tools.
Posted: 20/10/2025
Amazon Web Services reported a significant disruption on Monday morning, with multiple services in its US-EAST-1 region experiencing increased error rates and latency
Posted: 20/10/2025
European telecommunications tower and infrastructure operator Cellnex is selling 99.99 per cent of its shares in Towerink France to Vauban Infra Fibre (VIF) in a deal worth €391 million
Posted: 17/10/2025
Lidl is rolling out a new payment feature for in-store checkout which is integrated into the retailer's rewards app.
Posted: 17/10/2025
Frasers Group has become the first European retailer to partner with agentic AI specialist commercetools to implement the company's complete suite of agentic commerce solutions.
Posted: 17/10/2025
US-based cybersecurity vendor F5 has disclosed a breach by what it called a “highly sophisticated nation-state threat actor,” confirming unauthorised access to parts of its BIG-IP development environment and engineering knowledge platforms, as well as limited customer configuration data
Posted: 17/10/2025
Holland & Barrett has announced an automation upgrade to optimise warehouse operations
Posted: 16/10/2025
The government has said that specialist AI tech helped to speed up its decision to abolish the Water Services Regulation Authority (Ofwat).
Posted: 16/10/2025
Channel Islands Coop and British American Tobacco (BAT) have partnered to trial facial age estimation technology at 10 stores in Jersey.
Posted: 16/10/2025
Global asset manager Macquarie Asset Management is selling Aligned Data Centers (Aligned) to a consortium of investors
Posted: 16/10/2025
Swedish FinTech Klarna has rolled out a UK digital wallet and flexible debit card.
Posted: 16/10/2025
Mastercard has launched its first European edition of the Cyber Defence Exercise (CDX), bringing together key players from the financial and telecommunications sectors to simulate and combat real-world cyber threats
Posted: 16/10/2025
Waymo, the Alphabet-owned autonomous vehicle developer, plans to begin testing in London within weeks and is working towards offering fully driverless ride-hailing under the UK government’s proposed piloting scheme from 2026
Posted: 16/10/2025
Cryptocurrency platform Coinbase is expanding its presence across India and the Middle East by investing in CoinDCX, a leading cryptocurrency exchange with over 20 million users in the region
Posted: 15/10/2025
Visa has launched Trusted Agent Protocol, a foundational framework for agentic commerce designed to facilitate secure communication between merchants and AI agents during purchases.
Posted: 15/10/2025
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has hit London-headquartered Capita with a £14 million fine after the outsourcing business failed to protect the personal information of millions of customers during a data breach.
Posted: 15/10/2025
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has outlined new plans to support tokenisation in the asset management industry
Posted: 15/10/2025
Walmart has partnered with OpenAI to allow shoppers and members of Sams’s Club to complete purchases directly within ChatGPT.
Posted: 15/10/2025
British AI infrastructure provider Nscale has signed contracts with Microsoft to supply and operate roughly 200,000 Nvidia GB300 GPUs across facilities in the US and Europe, in what the company described as one of the largest AI infrastructure agreements to date
Posted: 15/10/2025
Apple has been hit with a new proposed class action in the United States that accuses the company of using pirated books and other copyrighted materials to train Apple Intelligence, its suite of artificial intelligence features
Posted: 13/10/2025
UK FinTech Tide is expanding its technology centre in Lithuania to strengthen its commitment to to scale its engineering capabilities.
Posted: 14/10/2025
Mastercard is rolling out a new payment optimisation platform (POP) that integrates real-time data to improve merchant approval rates
Posted: 14/10/2025
The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Microsoft are advancing their strategic partnership to advance agentic AI services, transforming how financial institutions access and use licensed financial data
Posted: 14/10/2025
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) dealt with 204 “nationally significant” cyber-attacks in the UK during the 12 months to August 2025, an increase from 89 during the previous year.
Posted: 14/10/2025
British digital bank Monzo is launching a new built-in tax filing tool for its business customers.
Posted: 14/10/2025
Warburg Pincus has agreed to acquire PSI Software, a German company that provides intelligent solutions for sustainable energy supply, production, and logistics, including automotive, energy trading, and gas grids, in an offer which will value the firm at approximately €702 million
Posted: 13/10/2025
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has confirmed that tech giant Google has strategic market status (SMS) in general search and search advertising services.
Posted: 13/10/2025
Lloyds Bank has rolled out a new bespoke AI training programme for its senior staff.
Posted: 13/10/2025
Ten major international banks have formed a consortium to evaluate the launch of a reserve-backed digital currency, pegged to G7 currencies and designed to be used on public blockchains
Posted: 13/10/2025
Tesco has implemented measures to make shopping in stores easier for its blind and partially sighted customers with a new app
Posted: 13/10/2025
Google and Open Banking infrastructure firm Yapily have partnered on the tech giant's bank account verification services.
Posted: 10/10/2025
Former British prime minister Rishi Sunak has joined both Microsoft and Anthropic as a senior advisor
Posted: 10/10/2025
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has conducted a trial to explore the use of AI to determine whether adverts for alcohol are complying with regulation.
Posted: 10/10/2025
Klarna has partnered with Google Cloud to supercharge its AI capabilities, as the FinTech seeks to boost its personalised and creative shopping experiences for its 114 million customers worldwide
Posted: 10/10/2025
Discord has said that government ID photos from approximately 70,000 users may have been exposed after hackers compromised a third‑party customer service vendor that handled age‑verification appeals for the platform
Posted: 10/10/2025
Breuninger is enhancing its media infrastructure through a partnership with Topsort, a company specialising in AI and retail media infrastructure, to increase brand visibility and customer engagement on its platform
Posted: 09/10/2025
Japanese multinational conglomerate SoftBank Group (SBG) is set to acquire ABB's robotics division in a carve-out deal worth $5.3 billion
Posted: 09/10/2025
The platform, which is winding down operations on 15 October, aims to make investing more accessible through personalisation.
Posted: 9/10/2025
Anthropic is expanding its global operations to India with plans to open an office in Bengaluru in early 2026
Posted: 08/10/2025
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 to a trio of scientists for their work on quantum technology.
Posted: 8/10/2025
The chief executive and co-founder of British digital bank Revolut has switched his country of residence from the UK to the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Posted: 8/10/2025
Amazon will invest €1 billion in Belgium by 2027 to build out logistics infrastructure, enable same‑day delivery, and deepen support for small and medium‑sized enterprises selling on its marketplace
Posted: 08/10/2025
Ingka Investments, the investment arm of Ikea-owner Ingka Group, has acquired US-based logistics technology company Locus.
Posted: 8/10/2025
Lloyds Banking Group has announced that its barcode cash deposit tool has seen customers pay in more than £3 million since its launch in August.
Posted: 7/10/2025
Chinese electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer BYD has announced that its UK sales jumped by 880 per cent in September. The brand said it sold over 11,271 cars last month, a substantial increase compared to the same four-week period of 2024 and surpassing established brands such as Renault and SEAT
Posted: 07/10/2025
Jaguar Land Rover has said it will restart manufacturing this week after a cyber-attack paralysed its operations at the end of August.
Posted: 7/10/2025
The European Union (EU) is reportedly planning to transfer direct supervision of cryptocurrency companies, stock exchanges and clearing houses to the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), marking a significant shift in its regulatory approach
Posted: 07/10/2025
The time taken to approve clinical trials in the UK has dropped from an average of 91 days to just 41 days thanks to AI and other technology platforms, according to new findings published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology (BJCP).
Posted: 7/10/2025
Elon Musk has appointed Anthony Armstrong, a former Morgan Stanley banker, as chief financial officer of artificial intelligence group xAI and social media platform X
Posted: 07/10/2025
The experience, which has been launched following a successful trial, aims to mimic how fashion is consumed on social media platforms.
Posted: 6/10/2025
Space and defence tech specialist Firefly Aereospace (Firefly) has acquired advanced national security technology firm SciTec in a deal worth $855 million
Posted: 06/10/2025
BT has said it will deliver 5G Standalone technology to 99 per cent of the UK population by the end of 2030.
Posted: 6/10/2025
Asahi Group Holdings has resumed production at six Japanese beer plants after a cyberattack triggered a system outage that halted brewing, shipments and customer operations across the country
Posted: 06/10/2025
Samsung Electronics has partnered with Coinbase to allow smartphone users to purchase cryptocurrency through the phone’s payment app.
Posted: 6/10/2025
British supermarket Iceland is expanding its retail media network through a new partnership with Epsilon.
Posted: 3/10/2025
Indonesia has reportedly suspended TikTok's registration status as an electronic system provider over allegedly failing to fully share data related to live streaming activities, particularly during recent nationwide protests
Posted: 03/10/2025
Accenture has appointed Shaheen Sayed as chief commercial officer of reinvention services.
Posted: 3/10/2025
Asda has integrated electronic shelf edge labels (ESLs) across 250 of its busiest Express convenience stores in the UK following a successful three-month trial at its Oxford Road store in Manchester
Posted: 03/10/2025
The European Central Bank has named the first-ranked providers for key components of its planned digital euro, including a central fraud detection and prevention mechanism led by Portugal-based Feedzai, as the project continues through its preparation phase
Posted: 03/10/2025
Phasecraft, a quantum algorithms company, has unveiled a quantum enhanced software platform which it claims can complete calculations 1,000 times faster than classical computers.
Posted: 2/10/2025
Meta will soon draw on user interactions with Meta AI and other AI features to decide what content, ads and recommendations users see and receive across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, including posts and reels
Posted: 02/10/2025
US multinational bank Citi has reportedly announced plans to roll out a mandatory AI prompt training programme for most of its workforce.
Posted: 2/10/2025
A financially motivated hacking campaign is pressuring executives at large organisations to pay ransoms after claiming data was stolen from Oracle’s E‑Business Suite, according to multiple cybersecurity firms investigating the incidents
Posted: 02/10/2025
Apple, Google and Meta are facing US-based legal challenges after a federal judge in California ruled that they must stand trial for allegedly promoting “illegal gambling” through casino-style apps that are addictive to users
Posted: 01/10/2025
The UK government has launched its £1 million Regional Tech Booster programme to support 14 projects across the country.
Posted: 1/10/2025
The 10th annual National Technology Awards have launched today, with a deadline for entries of 23 January 2026.
Posted: 1/10/2025
CoreWeave has signed an agreement to provide Meta Platforms with up to $14.2 billion of artificial intelligence cloud infrastructure through 14 December 2031, with an option for Meta to materially expand its commitment into 2032
Posted: 01/10/2025
British luxury department store Harrods has been contacted by the hackers behind a data breach at one of its third-party providers which impacted 430,000 customer records.
Posted: 30/9/2025
YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by president Donald Trump for suspending his account following the riots at the US Capitol in January 2021
Posted: 30/09/2025
Technology secretary Liz Kendall has set out plans to force technology giants to actively prevent unsolicited nude images being shared on their platforms instead of taking a reactive approach.
Posted: 30/9/2025
OpenAI has launched Instant Checkout, a feature that lets people buy products directly within ChatGPT, starting with US Etsy sellers and with Shopify merchants to follow
Posted: 30/09/2025
Meta is offering a no-ads subscription for Facebook and Instagram users in the UK
Posted: 29/09/2025
The UK government has awarded £4.4 million to businesses developing aviation technology including drones and unmanned aircraft.
Posted: 29/09/2025
Following prime minister Keir Starmer’s announcement for plans to launch a new digital ID scheme last week, concerns have been raised about digital exclusion, data protection, and a potential threat to innovation.
Posted: 29/9/2025
Deutsche Bank has carried out its first euro-denominated cross-border payment via blockchain.
Posted: 29/9/2025
Anthropic plans to triple its international workforce and expand its applied artificial intelligence team fivefold this year, responding to rising demand for its Claude models beyond the United States, according to statements published on Friday
Posted: 29/09/2025
The UK government has launched a taskforce to develop the North East AI Growth Zone.
Posted: 26/09/2025
Global marketplace operator OXL Group has acquired motor classifieds platform La Centrale from Providence Equity Partners in an all-cash deal worth €1.1 billion
Posted: 26/09/2025
The UK's trade association for financial services, along with top banks in the country, have rolled out a new pilot to test the first UK live transactions of tokenised sterling deposits (GBTD).
Posted: 26/9/2025
Carrefour Italy has integrated a new platform that unifies its forecasting and replenishment capabilities as the retailer seeks to reduce manual processes and boost automation across its stores
Posted: 26/09/2025
A new national commission has been launched to accelerate the safe adoption of artificial intelligence in the NHS, bringing together clinical leaders, patient advocates, and technology experts from companies such as Google and Microsoft
Posted: 26/09/2025
The University of Strathclyde has developed a new generation of quantum sensors which can provide insights into the risks posed by space weather to national infrastructure.
Posted: 25/09/2025
Crypto exchange Coinbase is launching support for XSGD, a stablecoin backed 1:1 by the Singapore dollar, the firm said on Thursday
Posted: 25/09/2025
Nine major European banks have joined forces to launch a euro-denominated digital stablecoin as they seek to provide a genuine European alternative to the US-dominated market
Posted: 25/09/2025
HSBC has developed a method for algorithmic bond trading which mixes quantum and classical computing resources to solve “real-world” problems.
Posted: 25/09/2025
The Co-operative Group (Co-op) has admitted that a cyber-attack on its systems in April has slashed its revenues by £206 million in the first half of the year.
Posted: 25/9/2025
Apple has urged the European Union to scrap its landmark Digital Markets Act (DMA), arguing that the regulation is causing delays to new product features and exposing users to increased privacy and security risks
Posted: 25/09/2025
Alibaba is turbocharging its AI push as it announces new data centre openings, a partnership with Nvidia, and the release of its new LLM model Qwen3-Max
Posted: 24/08/2025
Lørenskog based electronics retailer Power has debuted “Power Live”, a series of interactive live online shopping shows aimed at boosting online audience engagement and overall growth
Posted: 24/09/2025
Morgan Stanley is reportedly set to offer cryptocurrency trading on E-Trade, an investment brokerage and electronic trading platform that operates as a subsidiary of the bank
Posted: 24/09/2025
Nvidia and OpenAI have unveiled a landmark strategic partnership that will see the chipmaker invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI
Posted: 24/09/2025
Revolut has announced a £3 billion investment in the United Kingdom over the next five years, alongside the opening of its new global headquarters in London’s Canary Wharf
Posted: 24/09/2025
Amazon has reportedly filed a federal lawsuit to block a New York State law that gives the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) the power to oversee labour disputes in the private sector when the National Labour Relations Board (NLRB) is unable to act
Posted: 23/09/2025
Elkjøp, the largest consumer electronics retailer in the Nordics, has installed new technology to enhance its B2B payments and customer onboarding.
Posted: 23/9/2025
The Channel Islands Co-operative (CI Coop) has unveiled plans to roll out a new membership app.
Posted: 23/9/2025
BT and EE, CK Hutchison Group Telecom, Virgin Media O2, and Vodafone Group have announced the launch of new network technologies in the UK that will help online platforms verify customer ages and help combat digital fraud.
Posted: 23/09/2025
Oracle has announced a significant leadership transition, promoting Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia to the joint role of chief executive officer, while Safra Catz steps into the position of executive vice chair of the board
Posted: 23/09/2025
Researchers from the University of Bristol and Imperial’s Centre for Sectoral Economic Performance (CSEP) have released an independent report setting out how the UK can strengthen its cybersecurity sector to fuel both resilience and economic growth.
Posted: 22/9/2025
VodafoneThree has named Ericsson and Nokia as key partners to build out its 5G infrastructure across the UK over the next decade in a deal worth £2.7 billion
Posted: 22/09/2025
Fidelity International has introduced a generative AI (genAI) conversational interface designed to assist customers using its personal investing platform by helping them quickly find the information they need.
Posted: 22/9/2025
Meta has introduced QR code for payments in the WhatsApp Business app, as it seeks to enable small and micro businesses to accept payments easily within the platform
Posted: 22/09/2025
ASDA has renewed and expanded its partnership with Microsoft, marking one of the largest technology deals in UK retail to date, according to the Windows-maker
Posted: 22/09/2025
Airports across Europe have experienced significant delays and cancellations following a cyber-attack on Collins Aerospace, the company responsible for check-in and boarding systems at several major hubs.
Posted: 22/09/2025
Italy’s parliament has passed a new law regulating the use of artificial intelligence (AI), aligning national policy with the European Union’s recently adopted AI Act
Posted: 19/09/2025
Two teenagers have been charged as part of the National Crime Agency's investigation into a serious cyberattack on Transport for London (TfL) on 31 August
Posted: 19/09/2025
Nvidia has agreed to invest five billion dollars in Intel, marking a significant collaboration between two of Silicon Valley’s most prominent rivals as they seek to reshape the landscape of artificial intelligence and personal computing
Posted: 19/09/2025
Meta has unveiled a range of AI-powered glasses which allow users to carry out a range of tasks including checking messages, previewing photos or viewing translations.
Posted: 18/09/2025
Amazon has violated consumer protection law by collecting billing information from Prime subscribers before disclosing the terms of service, US District Judge John Chinin ruled on Wednesday
Posted: 18/09/2025
Singapore is introducing new measures to prevent scam mules from accessing services that could facilitate fraud, including financial, telecommunications, and government digital services
Posted: 18/09/2025
TikTok’s future in the United States has been secured following an agreement between the US and China that will see a consortium of American investors, led by Oracle, Silver Lake, and Andreessen Horowitz, take control of the app’s US operations
Posted: 18/09/2025
HSBC Private Bank has launched a gen AI-powered ecosystem called Wealth Intelligence, designed specifically for their client-facing wealth management teams as it seeks to boost its client service experience
Posted: 17/09/2025
Openbank, Grupo Santander’s fully digital bank, is expanding its product suite by enabling customers in Germany to trade leading cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ether, and Cardano, alongside their existing investments.
Posted: 17/09/2025
A software owned by major Australian banks is reportedly being trialled as a tool to enforce a social media ban for teenagers that will come into effect in December, according to a Reuters report
Posted: 17/09/2025
Chip manufacturer STMicroelectronics is investing $60 million to renovate its plant in Tours, France, with the aim of developing next-generation chip manufacturing technology through a new Panel-Level Packaging (PLP) pilot line
Posted: 17/09/2025
Lloyds Banking Group has announced an expanded strategic partnership with Broadcom, reinforced by a new multi-year agreement aimed at supporting its ambitious digital transformation
Posted: 17/09/2025
British computing company Quantum Motion has built what it claims is the industry's first full-stack quantum computer using a standard silicon CMOS chip fabrication process, which is the same transistor technology used in conventional computers.
Posted: 16/09/2025
PayPal has launched a new peer-to-peer (P2P) payment feature that now includes cryptocurrency support via personalised links, as it seeks to make payments universal and increase user growth
Posted: 16/09/2025
Cyber criminals have stolen the private details of potentially millions of Balenciaga, Gucci and Alexander McQueen customers in a ransomware attack
Posted: 16/09/2025
OpenAI has named Mike Liberatore, previously finance chief at Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence venture xAI, as its new business finance officer
Posted: 16/09/2025
Google will invest £5 billion in the UK over the next two years, the tech giant announced on Tuesday ahead of President Donald Trump's state visit to the country
Posted: 16/09/2025
The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has rolled out Digital Markets Infrastructure (DMI), a blockchain-based platform which provides comprehensive coverage from asset issuance and tokenisation through to distribution, settlement and post-trade management across multiple asset classes.
Posted: 15/09/2025
China's market regulator reportedly said that a preliminary investigation found that Nvidia has violated the country's antitrust law
Posted: 15/09/2025
The UK Ministry of Defence has awarded Google Cloud a £400 million contract for sovereign cloud services
Posted: 15/9/2025
The United States and China are nearing an agreement over the future of TikTok’s US operations, with officials signalling that a resolution could be reached as trade talks continue in Madrid
Posted: 15/09/2025
Spanish banking group BBVA is rolling out digital asset custody tech from Ripple to support its new crypto services.
Posted: 12/9/2025
Some 57 per cent of cyber incidents at schools are caused by students hacking into their schools’ computer systems, according to a new study by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).
Posted: 12/03/2025
The European Commission has made legally binding a set of commitments from Microsoft designed to resolve antitrust concerns over the tying of Teams to its Office 365 and Microsoft 365 suites for business customers
Posted: 12/09/2025
OpenAI has signed a non-binding agreement with Microsoft for the next phase of their partnership which will allow OpenAI to transform its for-profit division into a public benefit corporation (PBC)
Posted: 12/09/2025
Alibaba is reportedly planning to raise $3.2 billion through the sale of a zero-coupon convertible bond as it looks to ramp up international expansion and strengthen its cloud computing portfolio
Posted: 11/09/2025
Jaguar Land Rover has confirmed that some data has been affected during a cyber incident last week.
Posted: 11/9/2025
Mastercard has unveiled Agent Pay, a new service which enables AI-powered assistant to autonomously initiate and complete transactions on behalf of users
Posted: 11/09/2025
OpenAI has reportedly signed a contract to purchase $300 billion of computing capacity from Oracle over roughly five years starting in 2027
Posted: 11/09/2025
The Nepalese government has reportedly withdrawn its ban on major social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, after violent protests left at least 19 people dead and hundreds injured.
Posted: 10/09/2025
UK Morrison is set to roll out artificial intelligence-powered shopping trolleys in one of its UK stores, with the trolleys expected to be introduced in early 2026
Posted: 10/09/2025
Currys has rolled out electronic shelf edge labels (ESEL) across its stores in the UK and Ireland.
Posted: 10/9/2025
The new tool enables European manufacturers and brands selling their products on the Chinese e-commerce platform to book parcel deliveries with a range of couriers.
Posted: 10/9/2025
The Volkswagen Group has announced it will invest around €1 billion to expand its AI capabilities by 2030.
Posted: 10/09/2025
EcoDataCenter has secured €600 million in financing from Deutsche Bank as the firm continues to allocate capital to advanced digital infrastructure in Europe
Posted: 09/09/2025
The owner of brands easyJet and easyHotel is entering the crypto market with the launch of a new mobile app.
Posted: 9/9/2025
Fressnapf has transitioned 2,750 stores and their operations across Europe to the Gk Cloudretail platform, as it seeks to streamline operations with a scalable, cloud-based retail system
Posted: 09/09/2025
The UK government has announced that it will strengthen the Online Safety Act by putting stricter legal requirements on tech companies to search for and remove material which encourages or assists self-harm.
Posted: 9/9/2025
Microsoft has agreed to lease artificial intelligence computing capacity from Amsterdam-based Nebius in a contract valued at $17.4 billion over five years, with options that could lift the total to about $19.4 billion, according to company statements and filings
Posted: 09/09/2025
The European Commission has fined Google €2.9 billion (£2.5 billion) for allegedly violating EU antitrust rules by distorting competition and favouring its own online advertising technology services, advertisers and online publishers
Posted: 08/09/2025
Tesco has launched a new initiative to support its employees in the UK, providing free access to the Peoplesafe app, a personal safety tool designed to protect staff during their commute to work and personal travel
Posted: 08/09/2025
Users of Microsoft’s Azure cloud services may have experienced delays due to undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea, Microsoft has confirmed.
Posted: 8/9/2025
Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by authors who said the artificial intelligence company used pirated copies of their books to train its models, in what plaintiffs describe as the largest publicly reported copyright recovery on record
Posted: 08/09/2025
British AI companies received £2.9 billion in private investment last year, with the average deal valued at £5.9 million, according to new UK government figures
Posted: 5/9/2025
OpenAI has reportedly partnered with semiconductor giant Broadcom to develop its own custom chip, expected to launch in 2026
Posted: 05/09/2025
AI and digital twin specialist Cadence has acquired Hexagon’s design and engineering (D&E) business, in a deal worth approximately €2.7 billion
Posted: 05/09/2025
France's data protection authority has imposed a €150 million fine on fast-fashion retailer Shein for failing to comply with cookie consent regulations, marking one of the largest penalties ever issued by the regulator
Posted: 05/09/2025
Salesforce's latest quarterly results have raised concerns among investors, with the cause appearing to be the slower-than-expected monetisation of its AI initiatives
Posted: 04/09/2025
Google has been ordered by a US federal court to pay $425 million for breaching users’ privacy by collecting data from millions of users who had disabled a tracking feature in their accounts
Posted: 04/09/2025
Around 51 per cent of financial institutions plan to increase their investment in artificial intelligence over the next 12 months, with a further 22 per cent maintaining current spending levels, according to a new survey from Lloyds Banking Group
Posted: 4/9/2025
PayPal is dangling one of the most sought-after artificial-intelligence tools in front of its customers, offering a 12-month free subscription to Perplexity Pro and an invitation to the start-up’s new Comet browser
Posted: 04/09/2025
Scottish Widows has completed the migration of more than 3.8 million customers onto a new digital platform, marking a major milestone in its ongoing transformation programme
Posted: 3/9/2025
European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde has urged EU lawmakers to require strong protections and equal regulatory standards from foreign stablecoin issuers, warning that without them, there’s a risk of sudden withdrawals that could drain financial reserves in Europe
Posted: 03/09/2025
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has confirmed that it has severely been hit by a cyber incident
Posted: 03/09/2025
Alphabet’s Google has escaped a forced breakup after a Washington, DC judge decided the search giant may keep both its Chrome browser and Android mobile software, while ordering it to loosen distribution contracts and share key search data with rivals
Posted: 03/09/2025
Chinese social media platforms, including WeChat, Douyin (TikTok's domestic counterpart), Weibo, and RedNote, have implemented mandatory labeling systems for AI-generated content following new regulations that took effect on 1 September
Posted: 02/09/2025
Rail passengers travelling between Leicester, Derby and Nottingham will be able to trial a new digital system which the government claims will offer simpler and more flexible tickets.
Posted: 2/9/2025
Japan Post Bank is reportedly planning to issue a blockchain-based digital yen backed by deposits, with the aim of increasing the efficiency of financial transactions for customers
Posted: 02/09/2025
OpenAI is drawing up plans for a hyperscale data centre in India that could supply at least one gigawatt of computing power, according to people familiar with the project cited by Bloomberg
Posted: 02/09/2025
CaixaBank has launched a service to allow customers to split payments for online and in-app purchases.
Posted: 1/9/2025
Rain has raised $58 million in a Series B funding round.
Posted: 1/9/2025
Taco Bell is reportedly re-evaluating the next stage of its AI strategy after errors made by the company’s drive-through automated voice system went viral
Posted: 01/09/2025
Waitrose & Partners is reportedly testing advanced AI vision technology in its shopping trolleys, making it the first UK supermarket to adopt the technology
Posted: 01/09/2025
YouTube and Fox Corporation have announced that they have reached an agreement to continue offering Fox content on YouTube TV
Posted: 29/08/2025
Nokia has announced a new 5G radio solution which is designed to deliver high-quality and resilient real-time communications to rail operators around the world.
Posted: 29/08/2025
US consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion has said it experienced a July data breach which impacted the personal data of over 4.4 million customers.
Posted: 29/8/2025
US asset manager Blackstone is looking to expand its planned project to build data centres in Spain's Aragon, with an additional investment of €4.3 billion in the region striving to become a major cloud computing hub.
Posted: 29/8/2025
The controversial US websites argue that the British internet regulator has no authority to impose “unconstitutional UK laws on American soil."
Posted: 28/8/2025
The UK government has said will invest £154 million to help the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) develop technology to dispose of plutonium.
Posted: 28/08/2025
Google will invest an additional $9 billion over the next year in Virginia’s cloud and AI infrastructure as part of a move to accelerate innovation in the US
Posted: 28/08/2025
Anthropic has revealed how cybercriminals exploited its Claude artificial intelligence system to conduct sophisticated cyberattacks, including a large-scale extortion operation that targeted at least 17 organisations and fraudulent employment schemes linked to North Korea.
Posted: 28/8/2025
British retailer Charles Clinkard has implemented an AI platform that enables sentiment analysis and instant notifications as the retailer seeks to boost its online reputation and customer experience
Posted: 27/08/2025
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has called on the UK government to change its approach to AI as a new poll finds that 51 per cent of the public are concerned about the impact of the technology on their jobs.
Posted: 27/08/2025
Zopa is launching a five-year campaign to reskill 100,000 banking workers in AI disciplines by 2030.
Posted: 27/08/2025
Amazon is reportedly planning to roll out its Kuiper satellites service in Vietnam
Posted: 27/08/2025
British home improvement retailer B&Q has announced it is trialling an AI-driven transport optimisation platform to help it meet its ambitious goal to reach zero emissions by 2040.
Posted: 27/8/2025
Brussels has rebuffed a warning from United States president Donald Trump that he will impose “substantial additional tariffs” on countries whose technology laws he claims discriminate against American companies
Posted: 27/08/2025
Sam Altman, the co-founder of OpenAI, discussed a deal with Peter Kyle, the UK secretary of state for science, innovation and technology, reportedly discussed a deal with OpenAI to give people living in the UK access to the premium version of ChatGPT.
Posted: 26/08/2025
Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) has launched aUS$1 billion US commercial paper (USCP) programme powered by blockchain technology, the firm said on Tuesday
Posted: 26/08/2025
ANZ's digital padlock tool has gone live as the bank announces that scam losses dropped nearly 15 per cent between October 2024 and June this year.
Posted: 26/8/2025
Co-op has installed new electronic shelf labels to make it quicker to become a member.
Posted: 26/08/2025
Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore has developed an AI-powered treasury and foreign exchange (FX) management platform
Posted: 26/08/2025
LinkedIn is reportedly strengthening its investment in video advertising by expanding partnerships linked to its BrandLink programme
Posted: 26/08/2025
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence venture xAI has filed a federal lawsuit accusing Apple and OpenAI of using an exclusive partnership to squeeze rivals out of the fast-growing generative chatbot sector
Posted: 26/08/2025
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CommBank) has said it will no longer axe 45 customer service roles and replace them with an AI-powered voice bot as planned.
Posted: 22/8/2025
Swedish digital therapy provider Mindler has bought ieso Digital Health UK, deepening its access to the United Kingdom’s mental-health market and creating what the companies call the nation’s most comprehensive online treatment platform
Posted: 22/08/2025
British household name Marks & Spencer (M&S) is to invest £340 million in the development of an advanced automated distribution centre for its food business.
Posted: 22/8/2025
EDEKA Paschmann, the German supermarket chain, has announced the rollout of AI technology at self-service checkouts to address errors at its Düsseldorf stores.
Posted: 21/8/2025
Multinational food ordering business Just Eat is trialling an AI-driven robot for doorstop deliveries in Zurich, Switzerland.
Posted: 21/8/2025
JPMorgan and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group are set to lead a $22 billion loan facility to finance Vantage Data Centers' $25 billion data centre campus in Shackelford County, Texas
Posted: 21/08/2025
Citi has expanded its single-entry point digital client platform CitiDirect Commercial Banking to more customers across the globe and improved its functionality using AI technology.
Posted: 21/08/2025
John Lewis has announced the appointment of Dom McBrien as its chief digital & omnichannel officer, a role that will sit on the company’s management board.
Posted: 21/08/2025
The Council for Science and Technology (CST) has released a report outlining a set of recommendations for developing a sovereign AI chip design industry in the UK.
Posted: 20/08/2025
Suleyman wrote that one of his main concerns is that many people will soon start to believe that AIs are conscious so strongly that they’ll advocate for AI rights, model welfare, and even AI citizenship.
Posted: 20/8/2025
The state of Wyoming has become the first US public entity to launch a blockchain-based stablecoin.
Posted: 20/8/2025
Britain has quietly withdrawn a legal notice that would have forced Apple to weaken the encryption protecting iCloud accounts worldwide, ending an eight-month transatlantic row over access to user data
Posted: 20/08/2025
Santander UK has updated its OneApp mobile banking platform with technology that detects and blocks screen-sharing sessions, in a bid to curb a rise in scams that exploit legitimate remote-access software
Posted: 20/08/2025
Colin Bell, the former chief executive of HSBC, has been appointed by Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) to its board of directors.
Posted: 19/08/2025
Trading platform Robinhood has expanded its AI assistant to help UK users learn what is driving movements in the stock market.
Posted: 19/08/2025
CaixaBank has revealed it hit nine million registered Bizum users at the end of June.
Posted: 19/8/2025
Freemans, the digital department store, has implemented new technology to help it expand its dropship capabilities and increase its range of third-party bands.
Posted: 19/08/2025
Google has admitted to anti-competitive behaviour in Australia and will pay a court-recommended fine of A$55 million (£29 million) after striking deals that locked rival search engines out of millions of Android phones
Posted: 19/08/2025
Starling Bank has bought accounting software start-up Ember as it seeks to weave tax and bookkeeping tools directly into its small business accounts
Posted: 19/08/2025
The UK government has announced it has appointed Jade Leung as the Prime Minister’s new AI adviser.
Posted: 18/08/2025
Meta is preparing yet another restructuring of its artificial intelligence operations, splitting its recently formed Superintelligence Labs division into four specialised groups
Posted: 18/08/2025
Digital bank Monzo is reportedly in the early stages of creating a UK mobile phone service, setting up a new front in its contest with established telecoms operators and rival FinTechs
Posted: 18/08/2025
Brussels and Washington are struggling to finalise a joint statement that would seal a transatlantic trade deal, with European Union officials insisting the bloc’s landmark Digital Services Act must remain untouched
Posted: 18/08/2025
Stripe issued an apology after its customer service staff allegedly told customers that the company had banned LGBTQ+ purchases
Posted: 15/08/2025
The UK government will develop and launch AI-driven technology which can predict crime before it happens.
Posted: 15/08/2025
Accenture has acquired Australian cybersecurity company CyberCX, marking Accenture's largest ever acquisition in the cybersecurity sector
Posted: 15/08/2025
HSBC plans to blanket its future London headquarters with cameras and biometric scanners, expanding staff surveillance on a scale rarely seen in British banking
Posted: 15/08/2025
Google has announced it will invest $9 billion in Oklahoma over the next two years in cloud and AI infrastructure.
Posted: 14/08/2025
Russia has begun blocking voice calls on the hugely popular messaging apps WhatsApp and Telegram, deepening a campaign to bring the country’s online space under closer state control
Posted: 14/08/2025
HMRC has reportedly confirmed for the first time that it uses AI to monitor taxpayers' activity on social media
Posted: 14/08/2025
Th UK’s Ministry of the Interior has announced the introduction of 10 new vans equipped with real-time facial recognition (LFR) technology across seven police forces.
Posted: 13/08/2025
Danish fashion company Bestseller, which owns brands including Jack & Jones and Vero Moda, has invested in a firm which produces robotic sewing technology.
Posted: 13/08/2025
Anthropic is offering the Claude family of large language models (LLMs) to the US government for just one dollar, allowing it to speed up its adoption of the technology.
Posted: 13/08/2025
Pinterest has officially launched a new engineering excellence Hub in Zurich, Switzerland, with the move marking a significant expansion of its AI and machine learning capabilities to boost the global shopping experience across its channels
Posted: 13/08/2025
Spanish banking group Santander has said it is accelerating its data and AI-first transformation plans through a new partnership with OpenAI.
Posted: 13/8/2025
Artificial intelligence start-up Perplexity has offered $34.5 billion to buy Google’s Chrome browser, positioning itself as a ready buyer should a US court force parent company Alphabet to divest the software that dominates global web traffic
Posted: 13/08/2025
AOL is to discontinue Dial-up Internet, closing the service at the end of September.
Posted: 12/08/2025
The European Central Bank (ECB) is accelerating its digital euro initiative by integrating a new cloud-native payments technology into its innovation platform
Posted: 12/08/2025
GitHub will lose its chief executive officer by the end of the year as Thomas Dohmke departs to launch a new start-up, drawing the code-hosting giant closer to Microsoft’s artificial-intelligence engine
Posted: 12/08/2025
Prosus has received conditional approval from the European Commission for its €4.1 billion acquisition of Just Eat Takeaway
Posted: 12/08/2025
Meta said it had closed more than 6.8 million WhatsApp accounts linked to criminal scam centres
Posted: 11/08/2025
The UK government has announced that 13 car models will be added to the Electric Car Grant (ECG) scheme.
Posted: 11/8/2025
Walmart has launched a series of immersive online storefronts as part of a broader initiative called Walmart Realm, with the aim of capturing the attention of Generations Z and Alpha
Posted: 11/08/2025
Binance has inked a partnership with Spain’s BBVA which enables customers to store their cryptocurrency assets off the exchange, marking a significant shift in how digital assets are safeguarded
Posted: 11/08/2025
New figures from KPMG reveal that UK FinTech investment dropped by five per cent in the first six months of 2025.
Posted: 11/8/2025
British supermarket chain Asda is reportedly close to completing its £800 million IT upgrade project six months after its initial deadline.
Posted: 11/8/2025
Marks & Spencer has reinstated its click and collect service, nearly four months after a major cyberattack forced the retailer to suspend online operations and in-store collections
Posted: 11/08/2025
Meta has reportedly appointed major private investment firms PIMCO and Blue Owl Capital to lead a massive $29 billion financing package for the expansion of its data centre in Louisiana
Posted: 08/08/2025
US brand Tommy Bahama has announced the launch of a new point of sale (POS) system across its 160 stores.
Posted: 8/8/2025
UK-based retailer Toolstation, is boosting its inventory management as it seeks to enhance the customer experience and support its growing multi-channel retail operation
Posted: 08/08/2025
Standard Chartered has announced the formation of Anchorpoint Financial, a joint venture with Animoca Brands and Hong Kong Telecommunications (HKT), to apply for a stablecoin issuer licence in Hong Kong
Posted: 08/08/2025
Uber is reportedly in talks with potential investors, including private equity firms and banks, to raise funds for the expansion of its robotaxis business
Posted: 07/08/2025
Google has announced that it will invest $1 billion in AI literacy programmes, research funding and cloud computing resources at US universities.
Posted: 7/8/2025
British tech retailer Currys has announced the launch of a new AI platform for its in-store employees.
Posted: 7/8/2025
Supermarket Asda has rolled out a new advanced data-driven insights platform that enables suppliers optimise product performance, track market trends, and make smarter category decisions for Asda.com
Posted: 07/08/2025
Apple has announced a new $100 billion investment in its US manufacturing operations, increasing its total domestic commitment to $600 billion over the next four years
Posted: 07/08/2025
Investment Association joins global initiative to advance asset tokenisation across financial markets
Posted: 06/08/2025
Musk has reportedly announced that his AI start-up xAI will open source Grok 2 next week
Posted: 06/08/2025
Banco Sabadell is boosting digital accessibility and inclusion with the rollout of a new testing framework.
Posted: 6/8/2025
Wells Fargo will be rolling out agentic AI tools across its entire organisation through an expanded partnership with Google Cloud, the firm said on Tuesday
Posted: 06/08/2025
Retailers Chanel and Pandora have reportedly been hit by cyberattacks which resulted in customer data breaches.
Posted: 6/8/2025
OpenAI has unveiled two new open-weight language models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, marking a significant shift in its approach to artificial intelligence development
Posted: 06/08/2025
Walmart Global Technology, the retail technology arm of Walmart, has added a new company to its start-up programme as part of its generative AI (GenAI) push.
Posted: 6/8/2025
Google has signed two new deals with US utility companies that will allow it to shift or reduce energy consumption when there is high demand for electricity on the grid.
Posted: 5/8/2025
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has set up a new task force that will be focused on strengthening the agency's activities through the responsible use of AI
Posted: 05/08/2025
NatWest Group has partnered with Google Cloud to provide start-ups in the UK with AI tools and training.
Posted: 5/8/2025
AllSaints has launched Google Workspace AI tools across teams worldwide
Posted: 05/08/2025
Lyft and Baidu have announced a strategic partnership to deploy autonomous vehicles across key European markets, marking a significant expansion for both companies into the continent’s fast-evolving mobility sector
Posted: 05/08/2025
Former chancellor George Osborne has said that the UK is being “left behind” by the government’s approach to cryptocurrency.
Posted: 4/8/2025
The Debenhams Group, which owns brands including PrettyLittleThing and Karen Millen, has launched a new scheme to equip its employees with practical AI skills.
Posted: 4/8/2025
Carrefour has deployed its generative AI assistant to 125,000 staff members in eight countries.
Posted: 4/8/2025
OpenAI has secured $8.3 billion in new funding from a consortium of private equity and venture capital investors, as the artificial intelligence company continues its rapid growth and eyes an eventual initial public offering
Posted: 04/08/2025
Venture capital firm Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC) has announced it will invest at least £100 million in spinouts from the University of Cambridge.
Posted: 1/8/2025
Microsoft and Meta have joined the Global Signal Exchange (GSE), the world’s first global, multi-stakeholder and cross-sector clearing house for threat signals, as partners and data providers.
Posted: 1/8/2025
Egyptian financial institution MIDBANK has overhauled its legacy systems, replacing them with new core banking technology.
Posted: 1/8/2025
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has concluded that Amazon and Microsoft’s dominance in the country’s cloud computing sector is having a negative impact on competition, potentially leading to higher prices and reduced choice for businesses
Posted: 01/08/2025
The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has launched its own proprietary AI foundation model to provide a personalised customer experience and enhance banking tasks.
Posted: 31/07/2025
The AI Security Institute, a research organisation within the UK Government’s Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology (DSIT), has formed an international coalition to ensure the safe development of AI technology.
Posted: 31/07/2025
Standard Chartered, the London-headquartered bank, has inked a new AI deal with Alibaba Cloud.
Posted: 31/7/2025
Sainsbury's has confirmed that it experienced payment issues impacting online grocery orders on Wednesday.
Posted: 31/7/2025
OpenAI has announced plans to launch Stargate Norway, a large-scale artificial intelligence data centre in northern Norway, in collaboration with Nscale Global Holdings and Aker ASA
Posted: 31/07/2025
Worldwide spending on information security is projected to reach $213 billion this year, up from $193 billion in 2024, according to Gartner.
Posted: 30/07/2025
Klarna has been granted an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) licence by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
Posted: 30/7/2025
Tesco, the UK's largest grocer, is expanding a partnership with data collaboration platform from LiveRamp to improve data-driven marketing across its grocery, home & clothing, mobile, and retail media divisions.
Posted: 30/7/2025
The Italian Competition Authority has opened an investigation into Meta over allegations that the company abused its dominant position by integrating its artificial intelligence assistant, Meta AI, into the WhatsApp messaging service without users’ prior consent
Posted: 30/07/2025
Ocado Retail has announced it is rolling out invisible UV tag technologies across its full milk range.
Posted: 29/7/2025
Co-op has installed more than 6,500 solar panels at its largest regional distribution centre.
Posted: 29/7/2025
Samsung Electronics has signed a $16.5 billion contract to manufacture artificial intelligence chips for Tesla, marking a significant boost for the South Korean company's struggling foundry business
Posted: 29/07/2025
Google has launched AI Mode in the UK, allowing users to ask nuanced questions that would have previously required multiple searches.
Posted: 29/07/2025
The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), a UK government body investing in research and innovation, has announced it will invest £168 million on a public data project aimed at improving lives across the UK.
Posted: 28/07/2025
Deliveroo Express, which was launched in April, is a new white label tool from the delivery company which enables grocers and retailers to use its backend tech infrastructure and rider network to fulfil on-demand orders through their own website or app.
Posted: 28/7/2025
The introduction of the UK’s Online Safety Act has led to an unprecedented surge in the use of virtual private networks (VPNs), as Brits seek to circumvent new age verification requirements for accessing adult and potentially harmful online content
Posted: 28/07/2025
The British Standards Institute (BSI), a body that issues technical standards, has launched a new standard for the developing AI audit market to protect against a “wild west” of unchecked providers.
Posted: 25/07/2025
In the first six months of 2025, investment around the world reached $24 billion across 2,597 deals, representing a six per cent increase on the second half of 2024.
Posted: 25/7/2025
SpaceX's internet network Starlink suffered an extensive global outage on Thursday which prevented thousands of users from getting online
Posted: 25/07/2025
Mastercard has launched a new AI-powered tool to allow issuers to design their own payment cards in an industry first.
Posted: 25/07/2025
Intel has announced further job cuts and the cancellation of several projects in Europe as part of chief executive officer Lip-Bu Tan’s efforts to revive the company’s fortunes
Posted: 25/07/2025
The UK government has proposed a set of new measures designed to protect critical services and businesses from ransomware attacks following a public consultation.
Posted: 24/07/2025
Budget supermarket Aldi is investing £7.7 million in the deployment of solar panels across a further 90 stores.
Posted: 24/7/2025
Microsoft is facing growing criticism after it confirmed that vulnerabilities in its SharePoint server software have been widely exploited by Chinese state-linked hackers
Posted: 24/07/2025
Currys has rolled out an agentic AI video tool in one of the largest tech repair centres in Europe in what it describes as a retail first.
Posted: 24/7/2025
The growing use of AI-based advertising is set to boost global revenues in the entertainment and media (E&M) sector to $3.5 trillion by 2029, according to consulting giant PwC
Posted: 24/07/2025
The online market for used and returned products is now worth €21.6 billion across Europe and is expected to grow by €2 billion in 2025, according to new research commissioned by Amazon.
Posted: 23/07/2025
According to Lloyds, the transaction delivered 100 per cent data extraction accuracy and accelerated the end-to-end transaction process.
Posted: 23/7/2025
Amazon has reached a deal to acquire Bee, a San Francisco-based startup that makes an artificial intelligence-enabled wristband designed to listen to and transcribe conversations
Posted: 23/07/2025
NatWest Group has unveiled a five-year partnership with Amazon Web Service (AWS) and Accenture to modernise the banks’ digital, data, analytics and AI capabilities.
Posted: 23/7/2025
The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has started to use two additive manufacturing machines, also known as 3D printing machines, to manufacture components for future fusion machines.
Posted: 22/07/2025
German lifestyle retailer Butlers has launched a new checkout system across 100 stores in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Posted: 22/07/2025
OpenAI has signed a new partnership with the UK government to expand AI security research and explore investment in the region’s AI infrastructure, including data centres
Posted: 22/07/2025
Elon Musk’s social media platform X has refused to cooperate with a criminal investigation launched by French prosecutors, claiming the probe is politically motivated and threatens free speech
Posted: 22/07/2025
The University of Bristol has launched what it claims is the UK’s most powerful AI supercomputer.
Posted: 21/07/2025
Marks & Spencer (M&S) has rolled out invisible ultraviolet (UV) labels on four-pint milk bottles, a technology can track plastic packaging to recycling facilities across the UK to provide better data on recycling gains
Posted: 21/07/2025
The US has passed the first major national cryptocurrency law aimed at establishing a clear regulatory framework for digital assets, marking a crucial moment for the cryptocurrency industry
Posted: 21/07/2025
A group of major financial institutions including NatWest, Morgan Stanley and Aberdeen have launched a new tech initiative to strengthen operational resilience across the financial sector.
Posted: 21/07/2025
The Home Office is reportedly eyeing the sale of at least £5 billion worth of seized Bitcoin as the chancellor faces pressure to plug a £20 billion shortfall by the autumn.
Posted: 21/7/2025
Hackers have exploited a major security flaw in Microsoft's widely used SharePoint server software to launch a global cyberattack affecting government agencies and businesses worldwide, according to cybersecurity researchers and state officials
Posted: 21/07/2026
Meta Platforms chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and a group of shareholders reached an $8 billion settlement in a lawsuit accusing them of allowing repeated privacy violations on Facebook
Posted: 18/07/2025
Netflix has used AI in one of its original shows for the first time in a bid to save costs and speed up production time
Posted: 18/07/2025
EIFO, the export and investment fund of Denmark, and the Novo Nordisk Foundation, an independent Danish enterprise foundation, are investing €80 million in acquiring and operating what they claim will be the world’s most powerful quantum computer.
Posted: 18/07/2025
The platform, called 'the Pitch', enables employees to suggest improvements, flag inefficiencies, and solve everyday problems.
Posted: 18/7/2025
The UK government has announced plans to narrow the digital divide in schools to ensure that all staff and pupils have access to reliable and safe technology in the classroom.
Posted: 17/07/2025
WeTransfer has reportedly said that it does not use files uploaded to its platform to train AI models
Posted: 17/07/2025
The Nordic region's leading entertainment provider Viaplay Group has acquired the remaining 50 per cent stake in Allente Group from Telenor in a deal worth SEK1.1 billion ($113 million), becoming the full owner of the firm
Posted: 17/07/2025
The Magnum Ice Cream Company is planning a major roll-out of AI-driven and autonomous vending machines in the coming months to strengthen its partnerships and facilitate distribution.
Posted: 17/07/2025
The UK's financial watchdog has revealed that seven cryptoasset ATMs (CATMs) have been seized as part of an operation led by the regulator and the Metropolitan Police.
Posted: 17/7/2025
US Bank has completed its first fully digital trade finance transaction using blockchain-based platform WaveBL, as it seeks to streamline trade and working capital by reducing reliance on paper documents and manual workflows.
Posted: 17/07/2025
Anthropic has launched an AI tool aimed at financial services providers which is designed to analyse markets, conduct research and make investment decisions.
Posted: 17/07/2025
Reddit has announced that UK users must verify their age to access mature content on the platform
Posted: 16/07/2025
Agentic AI is set to deliver up to $450 billion in global economic value by 2028, according to a new report from the Capgemini Research Institute.
Posted: 16/7/2025
Google and Brookfield Asset Management have signed a first-of-its-kind $3 billion hydroelectric power framework agreement (HFA) to provide up to 3,000 megawatts (MW) of zero-emission hydropower capacity in the US
Posted: 16/07/2025
The Co-op has partnered with The Hacking Games to help prevent cybercrime by identifying young cyber talent in the wake of a high-profile cyber-attack against the retail industry
Posted: 16/07/2025
Meta is to build an AI data centre in the US which is almost the size of Manhattan.
Posted: 15/07/2025
Standard Chartered has launched a digital asset trading service that allows institutional clients, including corporations, investors and asset managers, to conduct spot trading in Bitcoin and Ether
Posted: 15/07/2025
The move will enable the supermarket to experiment and test decisions across everything from warehouse operations to network-wide flows.
Posted: 15/7/2025
Oracle has announced it is investing $3 billion in AI and cloud infrastructure across Germany and the Netherlands over the next five years
Posted: 15/07/2025
Lloyds Banking Group has announced the launch of its new AI customer knowledge hub, the bank’s first large scale generative AI tool designed to support its customer service employees.
Posted: 15/07/2025
Bitcoin has just surpassed the $120,000 mark, reaching an all-time high of $123,153.22 on Monday, according to Reuters
Posted: 14/07/2025
The company has earmarked the bulk of the funding for its sites in the North West of England, with the capital being used to increase capacity, capability and productivity through more automated lines and updated factory infrastructure.
Posted: 14/7/2025
High speed 4G and 5G networks have been expanded to new sections of London’s tube network.
Posted: 14/7/2025
Elon Musk has stated that he does not support a merger between his companies xAI and Tesla
Posted: 14/07/2025
Marks & Spencer (M&S) has announced new technology-focused projects that will receive £1 million in funding to help it achieve its net zero emissions targets by 2040
Posted: 14/07/2025
Lloyds Banking Group has partnered with Aberdeen Investments and Archax, a digital asset exchanged regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), to use tokenised assets as collateral for foreign exchange (FX).
Posted: 14/07/2025
Deutsche Bank has launched instant cash reporting (ICR), a real time treasury solution to give corporate and institutional clients access to real-time account and balance information with a single, standardised API connection.
Posted: 11/07/2025
The Spanish lifestyle menswear brand Scotta has implemented a new AI-powered in-season inventory platform powered as it seeks to improve inventory management and drive growth
Posted: 11/07/2025
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has shut down more than 1,600 websites suspected of promoting financial services without permission as part of its efforts to combat financial crime
Posted: 11/07/2025
Four people have been arrested by the National Crime Agency (NCA) in connection with cyber-attacks on Marks & Spencer (M&S), The Co-operative, and Harrods.
Posted: 11/7/2025
Lidia Yaccarino, chief executive officer of X, is leaving the social media platform after two years at the company
Posted: 10/07/2025
AIB deployed a suite of Microsoft Copilot AI tools to its 10,000 employees as it seeks to further promote AI adoption within the organisation
Posted: 10/07/2025
Amnesty International has warned that the UK government’s “unchecked use” of technology and AI systems is leading to the exclusion of people with disabilities and other marginalised groups.
Posted: 10/07/2025
OpenAI is reportedly close to releasing an artificial intelligence-powered web browser that could directly challenge Alphabet's market-dominating Google Chrome
Posted: 10/07/2025
Lloyds Banking Group will run a data and AI summer school for its employees as part of its commitment to building a digitally confident workforce.
Posted: 9/7/2025
Alphabet unit’s Google's AI investments are primarily in technical infrastructure, Google APAC's head of AI and emerging technology policy, Eunice Huang said on Wednesday
Posted: 09/07/2025
Lidl has announced plans to trial a self-scanning feature which will be integrated into its Lidl Plus app.
Posted: 9/7/2025
Qantas has confirmed that over a million customers have had their personal data leaked in a cyber-attack last week.
Posted: 9/7/2025
Helsing is to open the UK’s first resilience factory in Plymouth as part of the government’s plans to develop the economic potential of the country’s defence sector.
Posted: 8/7/2025
Climate change could disrupt global semiconductor production over the next decade due to the impact of extreme weather and drought on the extraction of copper, a critical material used in chip production, according to a new report by PwC
Posted: 08/07/2025
Italy’s third-largest banking group Banco BPM has launched AI-powered enriched transaction details within its mobile app to provide clear summaries for customers.
Posted: 8/7/2025
Cloud computing firm CoreWeave has agreed to acquire rival Core Scientific in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $9 billion, as artificial intelligence infrastructure companies race to secure the energy and data centre capacity needed to power surging demand
Posted: 08/07/2025
Science and Technology secretary Peter Kyle has reportedly told the Alan Turing Institute (ATI) it should refocus on defence and security
Posted: 07/07/2025
Vocus Group has officially received the green light from Australia’s Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) for its A$5.25 billion acquisition of TPG Telecom’s fibre and Enterprise, Government and Wholesale (EG&W) assets
Posted: 07/07/2025
Swedish fashion brand H&M is reportedly testing body cameras across three UK stores in a bid to tackle growing retail crime.
Posted: 7/7/2025
BBVA has launched bitcoin and ether trading and custody services for its retail customers of legal age in Spain.
Posted: 7/7/2025
Capgemini is to acquire business transformation and services company WNS for $3.3 billion as the IT and consulting firm looks to expand its agentic AI capabilities.
Posted: 7/7/2025
The Society of Motor Manufactures and Traders (SMMT) has said that more could be done to increase the sales of battery-operated electric vehicles (EVs) in the UK.
Posted: 4/7/2025
Indie rock band The Velvet Sundown, which currently has more than 650,000 listeners on Spotify, is causing a stir over suspicion it is completely AI-generated
Posted: 04/07/2025
BBVA has extended its partnership with Google Cloud to roll out Google Workspace with Gemini across the global operations of the bank.
Posted: 4/7/2025
The new hubs, which are based at TD SYNNEX facilities, are designed to to fast-track the development and adoption of enterprise-grade AI tools.
Posted: 4/7/2025
More than 45 major European companies including ASML Holding NV, Airbus SE and Mistral AI have called on the European Union to suspend implementation of its artificial intelligence regulation for two years
Posted: 04/07/2025
Elon Musk’s Tesla has reported a 14 per cent drop in vehicle deliveries in the second quarter of the year
Posted: 03/07/2025
The government is launching an innovator passport over the next two years to allow technology that has been “robustly assessed” by one NHS organisation to be easily rolled out to others
Posted: 3/7/2025
Peter Kyle, the secretary of state for science, innovation and technology, has announced plans for new tools designed to help FinTechs navigate the complex regulatory landscape.
Posted: 3/7/2025
Microsoft has announced plans to eliminate approximately 9,000 jobs worldwide, representing about 4 per cent of its global workforce
Posted: 03/07/2025
Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare has implemented a new default setting that allows publishers and content creators to block unauthorised AI scraping and use of original content
Posted: 02/07/2025
Crypto wallet Bitget is launching a zero-fee crypto card in the UK and EU that will enable consumers to pay with real-time, onchain payments by connecting Web3 wallets with Mastercard's global network
Posted: 02/07/2025
Spanish multi-brand group Sports Emotion has implemented a new AI-driven merchandising platform as it seeks to optimise its in-season inventory and enhance operational efficiency
Posted: 02/07/2025
The Premier League and Microsoft announced a five-year strategic partnership on Tuesday
Posted: 02/07/2025
Qantas has revealed that one of its contact centres has been hit by a cyberattack, impacting the data of around six million customers.
Posted: 2/7/2025
Supermaterials and lithium-sulphur battery manufacturer Lyten is taking full ownership of Northvolt's Dwa ESS in Gdansk, Poland, the largest battery energy storage system (BESS) manufacturing facility in Europe
Posted: 01/07/2025
British retail department store chain the John Lewis Partnership has expanded its retail media network with the rollout of new offsite ad capabilities for partner brands.
Posted: 1/7/2025
The government has announced that a trial version of the GOV.UK App is available to download on smartphones.
Posted: 1/7/2025
Apple is reportedly exploring using artificial intelligence technology from Anthropic or OpenAI to power a new version of Siri, potentially abandoning its own in-house models in what would represent a significant strategic shift for the iPhone maker
Posted: 01/07/2025
Walmart has renewed its partnership with Scandit, a data capture company, in an effort to boost its digital solutions to optimise the workflow and operational efficiency of its employees, the company said.
Posted: 30/06/2025
Chinese FinTech giant Ant Group has revealed it increased its research and development (R&D) investment to 23.45 billion yuan ($3.26 billion) in 2024 alone
Posted: 30/06/2025
The government is to launch AI technology that automatically identifies safety concerns across the NHS.
Posted: 30/06/2025
Germany's data protection commissioner has asked Apple and Google to remove Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek from their app stores, citing concerns that the company illegally transfers users' personal data to China
Posted: 30/06/2025
Google Ventures, the investment arm of technology company Alphabet, has led a $35 million Series B funding round in London based AI company Metaview
Posted: 27/06/2025
Google Cloud and Pearson have announced a multi year strategic collaboration to enhance AI capabilities for students, with a focus on K12 education, the companies said on Thursday
Posted: 27/06/2025
Meta Platforms has secured four additional clean energy agreements with Invenergy, the companies announced on Thursday
Posted: 27/06/2025
Palantir Technologies has announced a strategic partnership with The Nuclear Company to co-develop the Nuclear Operating System (NOS), the first artificial intelligence-driven software system designed exclusively for nuclear reactor construction
Posted: 26/06/2025
The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) contacted Tesla after videos emerged on social media showing its robotaxi driving erratically near Austin, the BBC reported on Wednesday
Posted: 26/06/2025
Adult entertainment site Pornhub will implement stricter age verification checks from next month, its parent company Aylo has confirmed
Posted: 26/06/2025
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) group has announced a partnership to deploy technology on a nuclear site to remotely and autonomously sort and segregate radioactive waste for the first time.
Posted: 26/06/2025
Microsoft has been hit with a lawsuit by a group of authors who claim the technology giant used their books without permission to train its Megatron artificial intelligence model
Posted: 26/06/2025
Verizon has won a contract to rollout its private 5G networks across several of Thames Freeport’s key logistics, manufacturing and innovation sites
Posted: 25/06/2025
Swedish investment firm Norrsken has committed €300 million from its venture capital, launcher and accelerator funds to support European start-ups developing artificial intelligence solutions for positive social impact
Posted: 25/06/2025
A professor of economics at the University of Oxford has argued that while much attention focuses on AI’s potential to suppress wages or displace jobs, the wider societal consequences – including a fundamental shift in power – are being overlooked
Posted: 25/06/2025
OpenAI has been compelled to remove marketing materials about its $6.4bn partnership with former Apple design chief Sir Jony Ive after a US federal judge granted a restraining order following a trademark complaint from rival start-up iyO
Posted: 25/06/2025
A federal judge in San Francisco has delivered a significant victory for Anthropic in a closely watched copyright lawsuit, ruling that the company's use of books to train its artificial intelligence system constitutes fair use under US copyright law
Posted: 24/06/2025
Australia's eSafety commissioner and YouTube are engaged in a public dispute over the platform's potential exemption from the upcoming social media ban for under-16s, set to take effect in December 2025
Posted: 24/06/2025
Amazon is investing £40 billion in the UK over the next three years, with the investment expected to contribute an estimated £38 billion to the UK’s GDP, the company announced on Tuesday
Posted: 24/06/2025
X users will soon be able to make investments and trades directly on the platform, the company’s chief executive Linda Yaccarino revealed in an interview with the Financial Times on Thursday
Posted: 23/06/2025
Tesla has launched a robotaxi trial in Texas, marking the first time the company’s driverless vehicles have carried paying passengers without human intervention
Posted: 23/06/2025
The Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC), a non-profit organisation which aims to assess the severity of cyber incidents, has classified the cyber attacks on the Co-op and Marks and Spencer (M&S) as a Category 2 systemic event
Posted: 23/06/2025
Precision instruments maker Spectris has agreed to a £3.8 billion takeover by US private equity firm Advent International, but faces the prospect of a bidding war as rival KKR considers a competing offer
Posted: 23/06/2025
The European Investment Bank (EIB) Group has secured €70 billion in funding from EU member states for TechEU, the bloc's largest technology innovation support programme
Posted: 20/06/2025
SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son is reportedly developing plans for a $1 trillion industrial complex in Arizona focused on robotics and artificial intelligence production
Posted: 20/06/2025
xford Quantum Circuits (OQC), a quantum computing solutions company spun out from the University of Oxford, has announced research that it claims could accelerate the development of commercially viable quantum computers
Posted: 20/06/2025
Amazon will invest over $233 million in India during 2025 to enhance its operations infrastructure, improve employee well-being programmes, and develop new technology for its fulfilment network
Posted: 19/06/2025
Tata Consultancy Services has publicly denied that any of its systems were compromised in the cyber attack that disrupted Marks & Spencer operations and led to customer data theft at the British retailer
Posted: 19/06/2025
Uk data protection regulator The Information Commissioner’s Officer (ICO) has fined genetic testing company DNA testing company 23andMe £2.31 for failing to implement appropriate security measures to protect the personal information of UK users, following a large-scale cyber attack in 2023
Posted: 19/06/2025
Texas Instruments has announced it will invest over $60 billion in seven manufacturing plants across Texas and Utah.
Posted: 19/06/2025
Apple is exploring the use of generative artificial intelligence to speed up the design of custom chips that power its devices
Posted: 19/06/2025
Microsoft is reportedly preparing to eliminate thousands of positions, with sales teams expected to bear the brunt of the reductions
Posted: 19/06/2025
President Trump is extending the deadline for the divestment of TikTok by the video sharing app's parent company ByteDance by 90 more days, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday.
Posted: 18/06/2025
Generative AI (genAI) could shrink the workforce at Amazon, according to the company’s chief executive Andy Jassy.
Posted: 18/06/2025
Ocado Group has announced plans to build a new robotic warehouse in Parets del Vallies, Catalonia, as it expands its partnership with Spanish supermarket chain Bon Preu
Posted: 18/06/2025
A dozen Latin American countries are working together to launch Latam-GPT in September
Posted: 18/06/2025
European automotive manufacturers Volvo Group and Daimler Truck have officially launched Coretura, a joint venture aimed at transforming the vehicle industry through a software-defined vehicle platform
Posted: 17/06/2025
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has called on the manufacturers of smart products to prioritise people’s privacy.
Posted: 17/06/2025
Microsoft has announced an expansion of its sovereign cloud offerings across Europe
Posted: 17/06/2025
The All England Lawn Tennis Club and IBM have unveiled new artificial intelligence-powered features designed to enhance fan engagement during The Championships, Wimbledon 2025
Posted: 17/06/2025
The US is reportedly urging Vietnam to scale back its reliance on Chinese technology in electronics and other high-tech devices assembled in the country and exported in America
Posted: 16/06/2025
Vodafone Business and Airbus Public Safety and Security, a business unit of Airbus Defence and Space, have formed a partnership to provide secure communication technology to critical services.
Posted: 16/06/2025
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