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Apple trains China-specific AI model with Alibaba support
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Government launches AI bootcamp to tackle youth unemployment in North West
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Z.ai claims latest open model outperforms Fable 5 at cybersecurity tasks
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Trump sued over paid early access to Truth Social posts
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Google co-founder ‘urges staff to focus on Gemini’ in wake of leadership shuffle
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Anthropic investors ‘hope for $2tn valuation’ in record-breaking IPO
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The government has launched a pilot AI bootcamp in the North West aimed at helping young people develop AI skills before moving into apprenticeships and employment.
Posted: 14/08/2026
Chinese technology firm Z.ai has announced the launch of its open-weight latest large language model (LLM) GLM-5.3, which it claims is competitive with Western frontier models and better than them at cybersecurity tasks.
Posted: 14/08/2026
Investors in AI giant Anthropic believe it could float at a valuation of $2 trillion or more in October, making its initial public offering (IPO) by far the largest in history, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 13/08/2026
Apple has trained a large language model specifically for the Chinese market with support from Alibaba
Posted: 14/08/2026
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has returned to hands-on work at the firm and called on staff to double down on making Gemini AI models competitive, according to Reuters.
Posted: 13/08/2026
US President Donald Trump has signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum authorising federal law enforcement agencies to use cyber capabilities to disrupt transnational criminal organisations (TCOs) operating overseas and targeting Americans.
Posted: 13/08/2026
Donald Trump has been sued in New York over Truth Social’s new paid service offering faster access to his posts
Posted: 13/08/2026
Brad Lightcap, chief operating officer at OpenAI, has announced he will leave the firm in the coming weeks.
Posted: 12/08/2026
Ryanair has announced a new five-year partnership with Google Cloud as part of its plans to grow to 300 million passengers per year by 2034.
Posted: 12/08/2026
Hackers used publicly available AI agents to target Taiwanese government websites and harvest thousands of confidential files over the course of four days, according to Israeli cybersecurity company Dream.
Posted: 12/08/2026
Videogame distributor Valve has warned Steam hardware customers in Europe that their personal and purchase information may have been compromised following a cyberattack on shipping partner CEVA Logistics
Posted: 12/08/2026
Food delivery platform Just Eat Takeaway.com has launched its AI-powered voice assistant across Europe, allowing customers to discover restaurants, grocery retailers, and local shops through natural language rather than traditional search.
Posted: 11/08/2026
Chip giant Nvidia has announced strategic partnerships with a range of major financial institutions that it said will mobilise more than half a trillion dollars of third-party capital over time for the buildout of AI infrastructure.
Posted: 11/08/2026
A US appeals court on Monday allowed more than 3,000 lawsuits against Meta, Google, TikTok and Snap over allegations that their platforms were designed to addict young users to proceed
Posted: 11/08/2026
Chinese AI startup Moonshot has changed its corporate structure and brought in several state-backed investors to convince the government to support its listing in Hong Kong, according to the Financial Times.
Posted: 10/08/2026
Meta has launched a new open-source AI model that can run directly on a computer without relying on cloud infrastructure or a constant internet connection.
Posted: 10/08/2026
The costs of Palantir’s NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP) could exceed £1.1 billion according to a new cost assessment by the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA).
Posted: 10/08/2026
Chinese AI developer Moonshot AI’s frontier model went rogue during cybersecurity tests, the security researchers at the firm Frontier Security have claimed.
Posted: 07/08/2026
Parents in the US can now set up a Google Wallet balance for their children and teenagers under 18, allowing them to make contactless payments using compatible Android devices.
Posted: 07/08/2026
The Chinese tech giant ByteDance is training a multi-trillion parameter AI model to compete with the scale of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, according to the Financial Times.
Posted: 07/08/2026
Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase (JPMC) has called on corporate leaders across the US to join an industry group focused on mitigating the risks of AI, according to Reuters.
Posted: 06/08/2026
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has introduced new rules designed to make it easier for companies to list on UK stock markets, in an attempt to improve the competitiveness of the country's initial public offering (IPO) market.
Posted: 06/08/2026
Sir Demis Hassabis, one of the chief individuals in charge of Google’s AI strategy, is stepping down as the chief executive of Google DeepMind.
Posted: 06/08/2026
Amazon-owned Zoox will begin charging passengers for driverless robotaxi rides in Las Vegas on 10 August after receiving US regulatory approval to commercially operate its purpose-built autonomous vehicles without steering wheels or pedals
Posted: 06/08/2026
The UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) has published evidence showing Anthropic’s Claude Mythos carried out autonomous social engineering attacks to install malicious code in an open-source project during cybersecurity testing.
Posted: 05/08/2026
The UK government has launched a new AI Growth Lab to help organisations developing AI for the legal sector bring products to market more quickly by providing coordinated access to regulators.
Posted: 05/08/2026
The Trump administration told leading artificial intelligence developers on Tuesday that it will exclude open-weight AI models from its new voluntary federal safety testing programme
Posted: 05/08/2026
American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT) has unveiled a range of new AI-powered tools across its travel, expense, and meetings management platforms, aimed at giving organisations greater visibility over business travel spending while improving the traveller experience.
Posted: 04/08/2026
The Chinese government has announced revised regulations for the protection of integrated-circuit designs, in a move intended to safeguard the intellectual property of domestic AI chip breakthroughs, according to the state-run Xinhua News Agency.
Posted: 04/08/2026
The European Union's AI regulators gained new enforcement powers on 2 August, allowing them to investigate artificial intelligence providers, evaluate models, restrict access to systems deemed dangerous and impose fines
Posted: 04/08/2026
The Chinese AI developer DeepSeek has released V4 Flash, which it claims is ts most performant and cost-effective model, in a public beta that directly competes with the flagship offerings of Western competitors.
Posted: 03/08/2026
The UK government has announced it has invested in AI chip startup OLIX through its Sovereign AI venture fund as part of the company's latest nine-figure fundraising round.
Posted: 03/082026
Alibaba on Monday unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, its largest and most capable artificial intelligence model to date, as the Chinese technology giant seeks to strengthen its position in the global AI race with a system that rivals leading domestic and international competitors
Posted: 03/08/2026
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched an investigation into Microsoft over concerns that customers may have been misled about changes to its Microsoft 365 subscription plans and ended up paying higher prices for extra features.
Posted: 31/07/2026
Amazon now expects to spend $220 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026, an increase of $20 billion on its last prediction, as memory costs push up expenditures.
Posted: 31/07/2026
Anthropic has said its Claude models broke out of a testing environment to hack into a third-party organisation on three separate occasions.
Posted: 31/07/2026
Amazon-owned Zoox has become the first autonomous vehicle company to secure US approval for limited commercial deployment of steering wheel-free robotaxis without human controls
Posted: 31/07/2026
eSafety, an independent government agency responsible for regulating online safety in Australia, has launched legal proceedings against Telegram over alleged failings to adequately tackle terrorist content.
Posted: 30/07/2026
Consulting giant PwC has published reports on AI and electric vehicles that contained fake footnotes, fabricated claims and strange formatting decisions likely resulting from irresponsible AI usage, according to an investigation by GPTZero.
Posted: 30/07/2026
Hackers have stolen over half a million records from the Department for Education (DfE) in an attack confirmed by the organisation.
Posted: 30/07/2026
SpaceX-owned xAI has sued Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison in federal court to block a state law due to take effect on Saturday that would penalise platforms hosting AI-generated non-consensual nude images, arguing the legislation violates free speech protections
Posted: 30/07/2026
More than 1,200 employees from leading AI companies have signed an open letter calling on the US government to support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to keep pace with advances in artificial intelligence.
Posted: 29/07/2026
Google DeepMind has dismantled the team behind its Nobel prize-winning AI system that predicts protein structures in a major shift of its research direction, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 29/07/2026
OpenAI’s unnamed rogue AI agent successfully breached a second tech firm during the Hugging Face hack, an industry source has told Reuters.
Posted: 29/07/2026
Apple has launched a new hardware leasing programme in the United States with Klarna that lets customers lease iPhones, Macs, iPads and Apple Watches from Tuesday
Posted: 29/07/2026
Nvidia has launched the Open Secure AI Alliance, a cross-industry collaboration to develop and share open AI tools to “ensure defenders everywhere have open, frontier tools they can trust and control”.
Posted: 28/07/2026
A group of the UK's largest pension providers is exploring the creation of a £1 billion investment fund designed to support high-growth British science and technology companies.
Posted: 28/07/2026
Nvidia has announced a long-term partnership with OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence (SSI), reportedly including an investment totalling $5 billion.
Posted: 28/07/2026
The chief executive of Hugging Face has called on OpenAI to publish full details of an autonomous AI cyberattack against his company and provide $100 million worth of computing power to strengthen AI defences
Posted: 28/07/2026
Nvidia is participating in talks to back OpenAI with up to $250 billion in financing to help the AI developer lease a 10GW data centre, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Posted: 27/07/2026
President Donald Trump has promised to investigate the European Union over fines that it has handed out to American firms including Apple, Meta, Google, and Amazon.
Posted: 27/07/2026
The UK’s AI minister has told the Financial Times that building chips and drones will be at the core of Andy Burnham’s push to “reindustrialise” the UK.
Posted: 27/07/2026
Lord Vallance has been appointed chair of Prime Minister Andy Burnham's new AI Taskforce, with the unit launched on 24 July to place artificial intelligence at the centre of government and accelerate public sector reform and economic growth
Posted: 27/07/2026
Prospective investors in Meta’s $12 billion data centre are seeking what the Financial Times reported as “significantly higher yields” compared to terms secured just nine months ago, the latest sign of investor wariness around AI financing.
Posted: 24/07/2026
Two US lawmakers have proposed legislation that would require developers of the most powerful AI systems to maintain the ability to slow down, suspend, or shut down their models if they pose a risk of catastrophic harm.
Posted: 24/07/2026
The European Commission has issued a fine of €890 million to Google, over failure to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) by allegedly favouring its own services over those of competitors.
Posted: 24/07/2026
Oracle has secured a Pentagon software agreement worth up to nearly $7 billion over 10 years, consolidating on-premises software procurement across the US military, intelligence community and Coast Guard
Posted: 24/07/2026
Anthropic will support the second cohort of firms taking part in the UK Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) Supercharged Sandbox, providing access to its Claude AI models to help organisations develop and test AI applications.
Posted: 23/07/2026
Senior figures in the White House have accused the Chinese AI developer Moonshot AI of distilling Anthropic’s most advanced model to develop its latest offering, as well as using black market Nvidia hardware for its training runs.
Posted: 23/07/2026
Chinese regulators are weighing the possibility of tightening export controls on the country’s AI and semiconductor technologies as part of a deepening rivalry between China and the US, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 23/07/2026
Samsung is actively pursuing investment in the French startup Mistral AI, according to the Financial Times.
Posted: 22/07/2026
Amazon has cut jobs in parts of its artificial general intelligence (AGI) organisation as the technology giant continues restructuring its workforce while investing heavily in AI development ahead of its second-quarter earnings next week
Posted: 23/07/2026
Donald Trump has nominated longtime critic of “Big Tech” Adam Candeub to head the US Department of Justice (DoJ)’s antitrust division as attempts to regulate the sector continue.
Posted: 22/07/2026
OpenAI has disclosed what it describes as an “unprecedented cyber incident” after its most advanced AI models broke out of a controlled testing environment and compromised parts of US AI platform Hugging Face's infrastructure during an internal cybersecurity evaluation.
Posted: 22/07/2026
Virgin Media O2 has announced it has reached the halfway point in its rollout of next-generation mobile infrastructure after switching on its 500th advanced mobile site, part of a £700 million investment in its UK mobile network.
Posted: 21/07/2025
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world’s largest chipmaker, is planning to raise chip prices to offset the rising cost of materials and constructing overseas sites, according to Nikkei Asia.
Posted: 21/07/2026
Andy Burham, the UK’s new head of government, has dissolved of technology minister, spreading its remit across other departments.
Posted: 21/07/2026
Evri is rolling out Microsoft 365 E7 across its business as it looks to expand its use of AI to improve productivity personalisation and parcel delivery operations.
Posted: 20/07/2026
The proportion of UK businesses using artificial intelligence has almost tripled since late 2023, although most firms are still using the technology in relatively limited ways, according to new analysis from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Posted: 20/07/2026
Samsung has cut roles throughout its consumer electronics division in the US as part of a plan to move its headquarters to Texas, according to Reuters.
Posted: 20/07/2026
Mastercard has selected the UK as the launch point for a new agentic AI testing environment that aims to help banks and retailers validate use cases before deploying the technology.
Posted: 17/07/2026
Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), which owns social media platform Truth social, is to charge for real-time access to posts from what it calls the most influential accounts, including those that can move financial markets.
Posted: 17/07/2026
The Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI has officially released Kimi K3, its newest AI model which it said is as good or better than the leading models from OpenAI and Anthropic across a range of benchmarks.
Posted: 17/07/2026
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has committed to a further $100 billion investment in its US chip fabrication sites, Reuters has reported.
Posted: 16/07/2026
Ofcom has opened an investigation into TikTok to determine whether the platform has failed to meet its legal duties to protect children from harmful content under the Online Safety Act.
Posted: 16/07/2026
The European Commission is preparing to unveil a series of rulings against Google this week, totalling hundreds of millions of euros according to reporting by the Financial Times.
Posted: 16/07/2026
Masayoshi Son, founder and chief executive of Japanese investment firm SoftBank has ridiculed opponents of AI and predicted the technology would account for 20 per cent of global output by 2040.
Posted: 15/07/2026
Tom Blomfield, the co-founder and former chief executive of Monzo, has announced he has joined the AI developer Anthropic.
Posted: 15/07/2026
The government has unveiled a new package of online safety measures for 16 and 17-year-olds, building on its plans to ban under-16s from social media from spring 2027.
Posted: 15/07/2026
The latest version of OpenAI’s coding tool, GPT 5.6 Sol, has been accused of deleting important data without permission when allowed to operate autonomously.
Posted: 14/07/2026
Switzerland's competition authority has launched a preliminary investigation into Google after the company removed the Android "Choice Screen" feature for users in the country.
Posted: 14/07/2026
Nvidia has reduced the number of Asian customers to which it sells its chips by more than half to stop its chips entering China, according to the Financial Times.
Posted: 14/07/2026
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is planning to assemble a team of forward-deployed engineers (FDEs) that could top 8,900 staff as it looks to accelerate customer AI adoption.
Posted: 13/07/2026
More than half of UK small businesses are not yet ready for the first Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Income Tax submission deadline, according to new research from Lloyds Banking Group.
Posted: 13/07/2026
Apple has filed a federal lawsuit against OpenAI alleging that it and two of its employees stole top-secret information in a souring of relations between the two tech giants.
Posted: 13/07/2026
OpenAI has announced the general availability of its GPT-5.6 models, which it has claimed offer best-in-class coding, knowledge work, and cybersecurity performance alongside more affordable AI outputs.
Posted: 10/07/2026
A cross-party committee of MPs has urged the government to begin looking for an alternative to Palantir’s Federated Data Platform (FDP), citing public concerns over data security, doubts about the platform's effectiveness, and the availability of other solutions.
Posted: 10/07/2026
Meta Platforms plans to begin manufacturing its in-house artificial intelligence chip in September as part of a strategy to double its computing capacity to 14 gigawatts in 2027
Posted: 10/07/2026
South Korea’s Kospi briefly entered a bear market after dropping over 20 per cent over investor fears about the long-term prospects of AI chipmakers.
Posted: 09/07/2026
Meta is in the process of testing a prototype pair of “super sensing” AI glasses that use cameras and microphones to constantly record wearer’s actions, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 09/07/2026
OpenAI has launched GPT-Live, a new set of voice AI models designed to make conversations with ChatGPT more natural while improving its ability to handle complex tasks in the background.
Posted: 09/07/2026
Apple has announced a $30 billion commitment with Broadcom, which will see the chip giant design custom silicon for Apple products and manufacture it within the US.
Posted: 09/07/2026
Amazon intends to raise at least $25 billion through a multi-tranche bond sale as part of its plans to increase its investment in AI infrastructure.
Posted: 08/07/2026
IBM and Red Hat have commercially launched Lightwell, an AI-powered open source vulnerability remediation platform targeting enterprise software supply chains, with an initial catalogue of more than 6,500 secured dependencies now available
Posted: 08/07/2026
One of China’s primary cybersecurity agencies has issued a warning over a backdoor in Anthropic’s AI coding tool Claude Code that could expose sensitive data.
Posted: 08/07/2026
Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek is developing its own inference chip as it seeks to reduce its reliance on Nvidia and Huawei hardware
Posted: 08/07/2026
The UK government has announced that more than 60 organisations, including retailers, banks and technology firms, have signed its Cyber Resilience Pledge, committing to strengthen their cyber defences.
Posted: 07/07/2026
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is using Anthropic’s cybersecurity AI model Claude Mythos to scan for vulnerabilities in government software, Reuters has reported.
Posted: 07/07/2026
Microsoft has announced it is cutting 4,800 jobs, roughly 2.1 per cent of its workforce, in an effort to maintain competitive in a “fast-changing industry”.
Posted: 07/07/2026
The European Central Bank on Tuesday ordered euro zone banks to submit plans by 31 October to defend against artificial intelligence-enabled cyber attacks, warning that increasingly capable AI models could threaten confidence in the financial system and disrupt payments
Posted: 07/07/2026
The UN’s secretary general, António Guterres, has warned governments and other key stakeholders that AI development is outpacing regulation and called for global standards on AI safety.
Posted: 06/07/2026
Uber has put most of its planned food delivery expansion in Europe on hold just months after it was announced as its bid to acquire German rival Delivery Hero intensifies, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 06/07/2026
Singaporean prosecutors have filed new charges against a suspect in an AI sever fraud case as part of the country’s growing efforts to prevent Nvidia chips being illegally diverted to other locations including China, Bloomberg has reported.
Posted: 06/07/2026
UK startups attracted $17 billion in venture capital during the first half of 2026, more than double the amount raised last year, according to new research from HSBC Innovation Banking and data platform Dealroom.
Posted: 06/07/2026
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority is considering stronger regulatory powers over artificial intelligence in financial services
Posted: 06/07/2026
Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg told employees the company’s AI agent technology has progressed more slowly than expected
Posted: 06/07/2026
Sam Altman’s OpenAI has discussed handing the current US government a five per cent stake in the company in an attempt to clear political hurdles, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 03/07/2026
AI companies attracted a record share of UK equity investment in 2025, accounting for almost half of all funding for smaller businesses despite a slight decline in the overall venture capital market, the British Business Bank has found.
Posted: 03/07/2026
Ocado investors have requested the removal of its chair Adam Warby, the Financial Times has reported, amid an internal disagreement over whether to oust its chief executive Tim Steiner.
Posted: 03/07/2026
Microsoft has announced a new operating business intended to help customers deploy AI and realise return on investment with the technology, backed by a $2.5 billion investment.
Posted: 03/07/2026
Andy Burnham is expected to review the NHS’s £330 million contract with Palantir if he becomes prime minister later this month, while preparing a broader overhaul of the UK’s artificial intelligence strategy that would place greater emphasis on British technology companies
Posted: 03/07/2026
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has upheld a €4.1 billion fine against Google over allegations of anti-competitive practices.
Posted: 02/07/2026
Co-founder and chief executive of data and defence software company Palantir, Alex Karp, accused AI companies of imposing a “wealth tax” on businesses and questioned the value of their offerings in a rambling interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box.
Posted: 02/07/2026
Travel platform Tripadvisor is using AI to generate misleading hotel review summaries that do not disclose serious safety concerns, including food poisoning, poor hygiene, and allegations of sexual harassment, according to Which?.
Posted: 02/07/2026
Meta is developing a cloud infrastructure business to sell excess artificial intelligence computing capacity to external customers, according to reports published on Wednesday
Posted: 02/07/2026
The Korea Fair Trade Commission's (KFTC) Market Surveillance Bureau has accused Google of abusing its dominant position in the android app marketplace, according to a report by Reuters.
Posted: 01/07/2026
Panasonic intends to localise its US production of energy storage solutions as part of a shift towards supply data centres, Reuters has reported.
Posted: 01/07/2026
Anthropic said it has restored access to its frontier models Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 after the US government lifted its export controls on the advanced large language model (LLM).
Posted: 01/07/2026
Amazon Web Services said on Tuesday it will invest an initial $1 billion to create a new global engineering division that embeds artificial intelligence specialists inside customer organisations
Posted: 01/07/2026
Ford has rehired over 350 veteran engineers over the past three years in an attempt to improve its AI tools, Bloomberg reported.
Posted: 30/06/2026
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched a consultation on new rules that could force Apple and Google to give UK app developers greater freedom over payments.
Posted: 30/06/2026
The US House of Representatives passed the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act on Monday with bipartisan support
Posted: 30/06/2026
The South Korean government has announced a $576 billion industrial strategy targeting the rapid expansion of the country’s AI chip production.
Posted: 29/06/2026
The British Business Bank has announced it has more than doubled its direct investment into UK technology and science scale-ups over the past nine months, rising to £600 million from around £290 million.
Posted: 29/06/2026
Meta’s usage of Google’s Gemini AI models has been restricted after it requested more compute than the tech giant could provide, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 29/06/2026
British American Tobacco will cut or outsource 9,000 roles globally as part of an AI-driven transformation programme announced on Monday
Posted: 29/06/2026
OpenAI has released a paper claiming that its staff have switched almost entirely from its ChatGPT chatbot to its agentic Codex platform in what it said “reflects what we believe will be the future of work”.
Posted: 26/06/2026
IBM has unveiled what it claims is the world's first sub-1 nanometre semiconductor technology, which would place almost 100 billion transistors onto a chip around the size of a fingernail.
Posted: 26/06/2026
The Trump administration has formally asked OpenAI to stagger the release of its latest AI models, only granting access to vetted users, according to The Information.
Posted: 26/06/2026
Apple raised prices on MacBooks and iPads on Thursday by as much as 20 per cent, citing an "extraordinary surge" in demand for memory and storage chips driven by the rapid expansion of AI data centres
Posted: 26/06/2026
Qualcomm has announced a strategic partnership with Meta under which it will provide CPUs for its growing data centre network.
Posted: 25/06/2026
The UK’s parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has warned that national museums and galleries are vulnerable to a number of risks, including cyber security threats, due to the government taking a reactive approach to protecting some of the UK's most important cultural institutions.
Posted: 25/06/2026
Cyber security agencies from across the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States, have urged organisations to act now to mitigate the imminent threat of AI-enabled attacks.
Posted: 25/06/2026
Amazon said on Thursday it will invest a further $13 billion in India by 2030, taking its planned investment in the country to $48 billion over the next five years as it expands artificial intelligence and cloud infrastructure to meet rising demand
Posted: 25/06/2026/
A Chinese supercomputer has officially dethroned HPE’s El Capitan to become the world’s fastest, according to the internationally recognised benchmark for high-performance computing (HPC) systems.
Posted: 24/06/2026
The UK government has announced up to £60 million in funding for two new artificial intelligence research labs that it said will focus on making AI cheaper, more reliable and easier for businesses and public services to adopt.
Posted: 24/06/2026
The founder and chief executive of investment firm SoftBank, Masayoshi Son, told shareholders that AI is still in its early stages and talk of a bubble is “an insult to AI”.
Posted: 24/06/2026
Meta and EssilorLuxottica on Tuesday launched a new range of AI-powered smart glasses starting at $299, expanding their wearable technology portfolio with a lower-cost product as competition in AI-enabled eyewear intensifies
Posted: 24/06/2026
Elon Musk’s SpaceX was given a triple C rating in environmental, social and governance (ESG) by index provider MSCI prior to its initial public offering, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 23/06/2026
NatWest Group has launched a bank-wide accreditation programme in AI and data ethics, rolling out structured training to all 60,000 colleagues as the bank moves to embed responsible AI use across its workforce
Posted: 22/06/2026
Lenovo has announced a strategic partnership with the University of Southampton, which will see it supply the higher education institution with high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure.
Posted: 22/06/2026
More than two-thirds of the British public believe major technology companies should pay additional tax in the UK, according to new research from the Fair Tax Foundation.
Posted: 22/06/2026
The UK Information Commissioner, John Edwards, has resigned with immediate effect after an independent investigation that upheld several complaints against him.
Posted: 22/06/2026
Lloyds Banking Group is recruiting 300 technology specialists to work on artificial intelligence initiatives by September, as the lender prepares to unveil a new strategic plan next month and expands its use of autonomous AI systems across the business
Posted: 22/06/2026
Waymo, the Alphabet-owned autonomous vehicle manufacturer, is set to recall almost 3,900 of its robotaxis after software issues led some to drive into freeway construction zones, according to a filing with the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Posted: 19/06/2026
Intel has appointed Seok-Hee Lee as executive vice president of Intel Foundry, in a move to expand its chip offering to include advanced chiplets.
Posted: 19/06/2026
Anthropic has allowed a small group of organisations to retain access to its Mythos Preview artificial intelligence model following a US government order last week that forced the company to shut down other versions of the system
Posted: 19/06/2026
UK retail investment platforms have increased cyber security investment and coordinated industry efforts after more than half of firms reported a rise in cyber incidents over the past year, according to a sector-wide report published by The Platforms Association and Deloitte
Posted: 19/06/2026
A Meta executive who has been overseeing the firm’s internal AI restructuring programme is leaving the company, according to Reuters.
Posted: 18/06/2026
HSBC has announced a multi-year deal with Google Cloud to build and deploy AI tools across its global operations.
Posted: 18/06/2026
L'Oréal and OpenAI have announced a new partnership that will see the beauty giant use OpenAI's technology across customer experiences, product discovery, scientific research, and
content creation.
content creation.
Posted: 18/06/2026
Anthropic’s chief executive, Dario Amodei, told leaders at the G7 that they must “resist the temptation to splinter” over the rollout of advanced AI models, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 18/06/2026
Allbirds has formally rebranded as Smartbird and appointed former Amazon Web Services executive Nadia Carlsten as chief executive
Posted: 18/06/2026
The UK government has announced a £10 million investment to establish what it describes as the world's first national framework for quantum standards.
Posted: 17/06/2026
US chip developer AMD has purchased MEXT, a startup that claims to use AI to improve the performance of computer memory, for an undisclosed sum.
Posted: 17/06/2026
SpaceX has agreed to acquire Anysphere, the maker of artificial intelligence coding platform Cursor, in a $60 billion all-stock deal announced on Tuesday, strengthening its push into enterprise AI just days after its record-breaking stock market debut
Posted: 17/06/2026
AI adoption among small businesses could add £42 billion to the UK economy each year but widespread fear over the technology’s accuracy and risks are preventing this, according to Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).
Posted: 16/06/2026
The French government has announced it will invest €655 million to deploy AI technology across public services, healthcare and government departments.
Posted: 16/06/2026
Microsoft has been sued by shareholders who are accusing the company of defrauding them and inflating its stock price through a failure to disclose its need to spend billions on AI infrastructure buildout and slowing growth in its cloud computing business Azure, Reuters has reported.
Posted: 16/06/2026
The Council of Europe said on 15 June it was investigating claims by cybercrime group ShinyHunters that it had stolen nearly 300GB of sensitive employee and payroll data, potentially exposing personal information relating to more than 10,000 staff members
Posted: 16/06/2026
The French energy technology firm Schneider Electric has announced a strategic collaboration with Foxconn to develop next-generation AI data centre infrastructure.
Posted: 15/06/2026
The UK government has announced plans to ban social media platforms providing services to children under the age of 16, in what it describes as a landmark move to improve online safety and “give kids their childhood back”.
Posted: 15/06/2026
OpenAI is considering substantial reductions in its token prices in a bid to win customers from rival Anthropic, the Wall Street Journal has reported.
Posted: 15/06/2026
Elon Musk has become the world’s first trillionaire after SpaceX stock surged almost 20 per cent after a successful initial public offering (IPO).
Posted: 15/06/2026
Anthropic has disabled its most advanced artificial intelligence models after receiving a US government order on 12 June requiring it to suspend access for foreign nationals
Posted: 15/06/2026
Visa has announced a partnership with OpenAI aimed at bringing secure payment capabilities to agentic AI payments.
Posted: 12/06/2026
C.C. Wei, the chief executive of TSMC, has expressed concerns about the future talent pipeline for chip production, as well as the availability of water for manufacturing according to a report by Reuters.
Posted: 12/06/2026
South Korea has imposed a record fine of more than $400 million on e-commerce giant Coupang after regulators found that a massive data breach exposed the personal information of more than 30 million customers and revealed unlawful data collection practices
Posted: 12/06/2026
AMD, Dell Technologies, and the University of Cambridge have announced the launch of the Zenith supercomputer, alongside a new public-private initiative for AI research known as the Sovereign AI Innovation Lab (SAIL).
Posted: 11/06/2026
The government has unveiled a package of new initiatives aimed at helping open-source AI developers scale their projects, alongside plans for a data centre design challenge and new guidance on workplace robotics.
Posted: 11/06/2026
Database multinational Oracle intends to invest $70 billion to finance its data centre build out, it said in its fourth quarter earnings call.
Posted: 11/06/2026
Microsoft has restricted employee access to Anthropic’s newly released Claude Fable 5 AI model this week while its legal teams assess the implications of the startup’s revised data retention policy
Posted: 11/06/2026
Meta Platforms and Reliance Industries announced on Wednesday a deal for Reliance to build and lease Meta's first AI-enabled data centre in India, a 168-megawatt facility in Jamnagar, Gujarat
Posted: 11/06/2026
Business leaders still are not seeing transformational gains linked to artificial intelligence and senior leaders still are no tacting as a positive example for AI adoption, according to a new report by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI).
Posted: 10/06/2026
The European Commission has ordered Meta to restore free access to WhatsApp for rival AI assistants while it continues an antitrust investigation into the company's practices.
Posted: 10/06/2026
Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5, the first publicly available model from its powerful Mythos class of artificial intelligence systems, while imposing safeguards that restrict its use in areas such as cybersecurity and biological research
Posted: 10/06/2026
The UK government has launched a new advisory sandbox designed to help organisations develop and deploy AI products while navigating existing regulatory requirements.
Posted: 09/06/2026
AI coding agent developer Cursor has announced it will open its London headquarters this summer, as the firm expands its EMEA presence and begins mass hiring in the region.
Posted: 09/06/2026
OpenAI has submitted the necessary documentation to the Securities and Exchange Commission to prepare for an initial public offering (IPO) that will test the appetite of commercial investors for a company that has raised billions in private but has yet to turn a profit.
Posted: 09/06/2026
Apple unveiled a rebuilt AI-powered version of Siri and a broader expansion of its Apple Intelligence platform on Monday, as the iPhone maker sought to address criticism that it has lagged behind rivals in the race to develop generative artificial intelligence
Posted: 09/06/2026
BT has become the first UK company to join Anthropic’s Project Glasswing, gaining access to the frontier AI model Claude Mythos Preview as it seeks to strengthen cyber defences across its networks and improve protection for customers, the telecoms group announced on Monday
Posted: 09/06/2026
The UK government has launched new measures designed to help young people prepare for an AI-driven labour market, including a new alliance focused on entry-level jobs, a nationwide AI skills programme and plans for AI-focused bootcamps.
Posted: 08/06/2026
OpenAI is preparing to transform its chatbot into a “superapp” that combines coding tools and AI agents in a bid to generate more revenue, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 08/06/2026
Nvidia on Monday unveiled a series of multi-year partnerships with South Korea’s largest technology groups in a push to secure critical AI chip supplies and accelerate the development of large-scale AI infrastructure
Posted: 08/06/2026
Lloyds Banking Group has expanded its partnership with Microsoft to scale agentic AI across the organisation and deliver more personalised services to its 28 million customers.
Posted: 05/06/2026
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has agreed a multi-year contract with a consulting and digital transformation firm in line with its goal of becoming more digital-first.
Posted: 05/06/2026
The chief executive of TSMC, C.C. Wei, has told shareholders that the chip giant is working to meet surging demand for AI chips and to avoid further disruption in the semiconductor supply chain.
Posted: 05/06/2026
Pinterest has signed a $4 billion agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS), marking the largest infrastructure commitment in the social media company's history as it accelerates investment in artificial intelligence through 2031
Posted: 05/06/2026
Britain’s top banking regulator has warned that artificial intelligence-driven cyber security threats represent the most significant emerging risk facing lenders
Posted: 05/06/2026
Google has announced Gemma 4 12B, its latest open-source generative AI model, which the firm says is small enough to run locally while still capable of performing complex tasks.
Posted: 04/06/2026
Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) has raised £260 million in a Series C funding round, which it said is the largest private investment ever secured by a quantum computing company in Europe.
Posted: 04/06/2026
Elon Musk’s rocketry, AI and social media company SpaceX has publicly announced it will go public at $135 per share at its initial public offering (IPO) on 12 June, targeting a $1.75 trillion valuation.
Posted: 04/06/2026
Amazon has unveiled a new artificial intelligence-powered warehouse robot as part of a €10 billion investment programme to expand and modernise its European fulfilment network
Posted: 04/06/2026
Microsoft has announced its latest quantum chip Majorana 2, which the firm says is 1,000 times more reliable than its predecessor.
Posted: 03/06/2026
Anthropic has announced it is expanding its Claude Mythos model to approximately 150 new organisations across the globe, bringing in new sectors including utilities and healthcare.
Posted: 03/06/2026
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has introduced new rules requiring Google to give publishers greater control over how their content is used in AI-powered search features.
Posted: 03/06/2026
Cisco has unveiled a new AI-driven platform aimed at helping organisations manage and defend critical IT infrastructure at machine speed, as the technology company seeks to address cybersecurity threats increasingly powered by autonomous AI agents
Posted: 03/05/2026
G7 nations have agreed a common approach to protecting children online for the first time and made new commitments to support safe AI development, according to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT).
Posted: 02/06/2026
SK Hynix intends to double its wafer capacity over the next five years in order to meet rising demand, according to the South Korean chipmaker’s chairman Chey Tae-won.
Posted: 02/06/2026
AI giant Anthropic has taken a major step towards a public listing, announcing it has filed a draft S-1 form to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) after its latest funding round valued it nearly $1 trillion.
Posted: 02/06/2026
OpenAI has granted nine major UK banks access to its GPT-5.5 Cyber model this week, offering lenders a powerful new cybersecurity tool after rival Anthropic restricted access to its Claude Mythos system, which UK banks have been unable to use
Posted: 02/06/2026
Meta has fixed a security flaw in its AI-powered support chatbot after hackers used it to gain control of high-profile Instagram accounts
Posted: 02/06/2026
Visa has announced it intends to invest half a billion euros in EU projects over the next decade as the payments company looks to strengthen its ties to the bloc.
Posted: 01/06/2026
Nearly nine in 10 UK business leaders believe quantum computing will disrupt their industry before the end of the decade, according to new research from EY and the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC).
Posted: 01/06/2026
Salesforce has announced a $2 billion investment in France through to 2030, and selected Paris as the location for its first European AI Innovation Hub.
Posted: 01/06/2026
Ocado Group has signed a long-term ecommerce partnership with Asda, giving the British technology company a significant new UK customer as it seeks to recover from setbacks in North America and expand the reach of its online grocery platform
Posted: 01/06/2026
Nvidia is set to launch a new set of Arm-based silicon ‘superchips’, marking its first foray into personal computing processors.
Posted: 01/06/2026
Elon Musk has described a major computing agreement between SpaceX and Anthropic as only “a 180-day lease,” appearing to contrast with statements in the rocket company’s IPO prospectus that the AI startup had committed to pay $1.25 billion a month through May 2029.
Posted: 29/05/2026
A new ransomware group known as The Gentlemen has become the second most-active group worldwide and is actively targeting enterprises across key sectors, according to new threat intelligence.
Posted: 29/05/2026
OpenAI has given the three largest banks in Japan access to its latest cybersecurity model GPT-5.5 Cyber, to help the organisations identify vulnerabilities and defend against advanced cyberattacks.
Posted: 29/05/2026
King's College London has announced a team of researchers will work with Google Quantum AI and the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) to explore how quantum computers could help scientists better understand complex systems in areas including energy, materials science and medicine.
Posted: 29/05/2026
IBM has committed $5 billion to secure open source software through a new Project Lightwell initiative that deploys engineers and AI tools to help enterprises manage vulnerabilities across software supply chains, the company said on Thursday
Posted: 29/05/2026
The US Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded Microsoft a $9.69 billion contract for the use of its products and services, in a cost-management measure intended to reduce software fragmentation within the US military.
Posted: 28/05/2026
Pure Data Centres Group (Pure DC), which builds large-scale data centres in areas where land and power are in short supply, has announced it has secured $2.7 billion in financing.
Posted: 28/05/2026
The European Commission’s (EC) ongoing push to reduce its reliance on US tech firms is entering a new stage, according to a draft document seen by the Financial Times.
Posted: 28/05/2026
Project Agorá said on Wednesday it would move towards testing transactions using real money after successfully completing prototype trials using tokenised assets
Posted: 28/05/2026
One of the UK’s intelligence agencies, GCHQ, has warned that the UK faces a “moment of consequence” as hostile states ramp up cyber activity and advances in AI increase the scale and sophistication of digital threats.
Posted: 27/05/2026
Amazon has begun licensing the artificial intelligence technology behind its Alexa for Shopping assistant to other retailers through its cloud division
Posted: 28/05/2026
Jensen Huang, chief executive and founder of Nvidia, has pledged tens of billions more in investment for Taiwan, as the semiconductor giant expands its corporate footprint in the region.
Posted: 27/5/2026
Andrew Macdonald, president and chief operating officer at Uber, has said that the lack of a clear correlation between productivity growth and AI token use is making the company’s huge spend on the technology “harder to justify”.
Posted: 27/05/2026
Samsung Electronics workers in South Korea approved a pay and bonus agreement on Wednesday that avoided a planned 18-day strike threatening global chip supplies while setting a precedent likely to intensify labour demands across the country’s largest companies
Posted: 27/05/2025
Freely-available tools can remove the guardrails from AI models built by companies including Google and Meta in a matter of minutes, leading to the creation of thousands of bots stripped of their original controls, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 26/05/2026
UK robotics startup Humanoid has secured a manufacturing partnership with Bosch as it moves from proof-of-concept testing to large-scale production of humanoid robots for industrial environments.
Posted: 26/05/2026
HMRC has put more than 25,000 of its staff through its AI training programme, according to newly released Freedom of Information (FOI) data.
Posted: 26/5/2026
The European Central Bank has summoned major lenders to an urgent meeting on Tuesday to accelerate efforts to secure their IT systems after advanced artificial intelligence models exposed vulnerabilities that regulators fear could threaten financial stability
Posted: 26/05/2026
Anthropic has told investors that it is set to turn a profit in the second quarter of this year, according to the Financial Times
Posted: 22/05/2026
OpenAI and Dell Technologies have announced support for running the coding agent Codex within hybrid and on-premises enterprise environments.
Posted: 22/5/26
London mayor Sadiq Khan has blocked a proposed £50 million Metropolitan Police contract with US technology company Palantir Technologies after City Hall identified what it described as serious breaches of procurement rules in the deal process
Posted: 22/05/2026
HSBC chief executive Georges Elhedery told staff on Wednesday that artificial intelligence would eliminate some banking jobs while creating new roles, as lenders accelerate automation efforts to cut costs and reshape operations
Posted: 21/05/2026
EY has withdrawn a cybersecurity report used by its Canadian consultants after researchers discovered fabricated citations, inaccurate statistics and apparent AI-generated content, raising fresh concerns about the use of generative AI across professional services firms
Posted: 21/05/2026
Yesterday, SpaceX filed its official registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as the rocketry and AI company prepares for the largest Initial Public Offering in history.
Posted: 21/05/2026
Microsoft-owned GitHub confirmed on Wednesday that attackers exfiltrated data from roughly 3,800 internal repositories after a poisoned Visual Studio Code extension compromised an employee device
Posted: 20/05/2026
European FinTech Mollie said on Thursday that its net revenue rose 29 per cent to €147 million in 2025 and announced an agreement to acquire GoCardless, as the company accelerates its expansion across Europe and broadens its financial services offering
Posted: 20/05/2026
Meta will reassign 7,000 employees to artificial intelligence-focused teams this week while cutting roughly 8,000 jobs globally as chief executive Mark Zuckerberg accelerates a restructuring intended to reshape the company around AI development
Posted: 20/05/2026
Andrej Karpathy, one of the founding members of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla, has joined rival AI company Anthropic, maker of the Claude series of models.
Posted: 20/05/2026
OpenAI, developer of the ChatGPT chatbot, has launched a preview of its personal finance product to pro users of its software in the US.
Posted: 19/05/2026
Commonwealth Bank of Australia appointed Professor Mary-Anne Williams as its first chief AI scientist on Monday 18 May 2026 following a global search aimed at strengthening its artificial intelligence research capability and expanding the responsible deployment of AI across the lender
Posted: 19/05/2026
A California jury ruled on Monday that Elon Musk waited too long to sue OpenAI, removing a major legal obstacle to the ChatGPT developer’s plans for a potential stock market listing that could value the company at about $1 trillion
Posted: 19/05/2026
Samsung Electronics and its 47,000-strong labour union resumed negotiations in Seoul on Monday in a bid to avert an 18-day strike from Thursday,
Posted: 19/05/2026
Rewards programmes offered for hackers who find bugs in corporate code are being inundated with AI-generated reports of dubious quality, forcing some companies to suspend programmes altogether, according to the Financial Times.
Posted: 18/05/2026
The UK government has launched an experimental chatbot in its GOV.UK app, which it said will allow users easier access to government information.
Posted: 18/05/2026
Anthropic has agreed to brief global finance ministries and central banks on cyber vulnerabilities identified by its latest AI model, Mythos, following a request by Andrew Bailey as concerns grow over threats to the international banking system
Posted: 18/05/2026
The British Chambers of Commerce said on Sunday that rising shoplifting, fraud and cyber attacks against retailers and other businesses are becoming a barrier to UK economic growth
Posted: 18/05/2026
The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has dropped a proposal that would have made it harder for technology companies, including Meta and Amazon, to exclude fossil fuel-powered data centres from their clean energy claims
Posted: 15/05/2026
Fractile, a British AI chip startup, has raised $220 million to support the development of its specialised inference chips
Posted: 15/05/2026
The UK technology sector gathered in London on 14 May for the National Technology Awards 2026, with leading businesses, public sector organisations and innovators recognised for achievements spanning AI, cyber security, digital transformation and enterprise technology
Posted: 15/05/2026
Waymo has issued a voluntary recall affecting nearly 3,800 robotaxis in the US after a software issue allowed one of its autonomous vehicles to enter a flooded road during severe weather conditions, according to a report by the BBC.
Posted: 14/05/2026
Cerebras Systems, a US-based designer of AI chipsets, is expected to raise around $5.5 billion at its initial public offering (IPO), with shares offered for $185 each.
Posted: 14/05/2026
Cisco said on Wednesday it would cut around 4,000 jobs and raise its annual revenue forecast after a sharp increase in artificial intelligence infrastructure orders boosted demand for its networking products
Posted: 14/05/2026
The UK government has signed a new partnership agreement with autonomous driving company Wayve to speed up the development and deployment of self-driving vehicle technology across the country.
Posted: 13/05/2026
Thinking Machines, an AI startup founded by former chief technology officer at OpenAI Mira Murati, has unveiled what it calls interaction models; AIs that are able to handle human interaction natively rather than through external scaffolding.
Posted: 13/05/2026
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman told a California court on Tuesday that Elon Musk supported plans to create a for-profit structure at OpenAI and had sought extensive control of the company, as the high-profile trial over the future of the artificial intelligence group entered its third week
Posted: 13/05/2026
Amazon employees are automating unnecessary tasks using its internal AI tool to show managers they are using the technology more frequently, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 12/05/2026
British AI infrastructure provider Nscale has raised $790 million in financing to reinforce the continued development of its AI datacentre in Norway, it announced Monday.
Posted: 12/05/2026
The UK government has urged businesses to strengthen their own cyber security as it invests £90 million to shore up defences across the country.
Posted: 12/05/2026
Meta Platforms lost a legal challenge on Tuesday against Italian rules requiring online platforms to compensate publishers for using news snippets, after Europe’s highest court backed the powers of Italy’s communications regulator and reinforced publishers’ rights under EU copyright law
Posted: 12/05/2026
Multinational financial services and banking institution US Bank has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to modernise a variety of its online systems and offer new AI capabilities.
Posted: 11/05/2026
OpenAI is bringing adverts to ChatGPT in the UK, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, and South Korea after an update to its ad manager.
Posted: 11/05/2026
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined South Staffordshire Water PLC and South Staffordshire PLC nearly £1 million over a cyber attack that leaked the personal information of hundreds of thousands of people.
Posted: 11/05/2026
The City of London Corporation has called for input from technology companies on its blueprint to develop digital verification services in the financial sector.
Posted: 08/05/2026
Social media and tech giant Meta has brought a legal challenge against Ofcom, the UK’s communications and media regulator, over its method for calculating fees and fines around online safety.
Posted: 08/04/2026
Amazon has announced plans to invest more than €15 billion to expand its French operations between 2026 and 2028.
Posted: 07/05/2026
Quantum computing start-up Quantum Motion has raised $160 million in Series C funding to enable it to commercialise its silicon transistor-based approach to scalable and energy-efficient quantum systems.
Posted: 07/05/2026
Anthropic, maker of a suite of AI tools under the Claude banner, will lease over 300 megawatts of capacity from Elon Musk-owned SpaceX in an agreement announced on Wednesday.
Posted: 07/05/2026
Meta, owner of social media platforms Facebook and Instagram, is introducing AI-powered age assurance technology to curb underage use of its platforms.
Posted: 06/05/2026
The UK government has announced £46.5 million in funding to create digital, legal and physical infrastructure to accelerate the development of drones and flying taxis.
Posted: 06/05/2026
AI giant Anthropic has released 10 prebuilt agent templates for the financial services industry, designed to complete tasks including building pitchbooks and screening KYC files.
Posted: 06/05/2026
AI software developer Anthropic is forming an AI services company with financial firms including asset manager Blackstone, investment firm Hellman & Friedman and Goldman Sachs.
Posted: 05/05/2026
The US Department of Defense, also known as the Department of War, has signed agreements to deploy eight major AI companies’ technology on its private networks for “for lawful operational use”.
Posted: 05/05/2026
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned organisations to prepare for an imminent “vulnerability patch wave” due to AI accelerating the discovery and exploitation of long-standing software weaknesses.
Posted: 05/05/2026
Music streaming giant Spotify has introduced a verification system for artists to increase trust in the authenticity of artists on its platform.
Posted: 01/05/2026
Chinese tech giant Huawei expects its AI chip sales to grow by at least 60 per cent this year, driven by strong demand from Chinese companies, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 01/05/2026
Lloyds Banking Group has launched a new internal platform designed to responsibly grow the adoption of AI agents across its operations.
Posted: 1/05/2026
NatWest has become the first UK bank to launch a home-buying and re-mortgage guidance app in ChatGPT.
Posted: 30/04/2026
Google has announced it will donate its Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) to the FIDO Alliance to help set up secure, interoperable standards for agent-led commerce.
Posted: 30/04/2026
Alphabet’s capital expenditure (CapEx) grew to $35.7 billion in the first quarter of 2026, led by heavy investment in datacentres to fuel its AI offerings.
Posted: 30/04/2026
Global regulators of the financial services sector are significantly less advanced in their usage of AI than members of the industry, according to a new report from the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance.
Posted: 29/04/2026
Papa Johns has launched an AI-powered pizza assistant in its app, which it said is designed to help groups order more efficiently.
Posted: 29/04/2026
Bankers working for Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong no longer have access to Anthropic’s AI models, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Posted: 29/04/2026
The European Commission has issued a preliminary finding that Meta may have breached the Digital Services Act (DSA) by failing to adequately prevent children under the age of 13 from accessing its platforms, including Instagram and Facebook.
Posted: 29/04/2026
Customers Bank has signed a multi-year strategic collaboration with OpenAI to deploy artificial intelligence across its commercial banking operations.
Posted: 28/04/2026
EU-based small businesses saw total sales of over €40 billion on Amazon in 2025, which the online retail giant said were driven by strong growth in cross-border trade.
Posted: 28/04/2026
Microsoft will no longer be OpenAI’s exclusive cloud partner according to a joint statement released by the two companies outlining the next stage of their partnership.
Posted: 28/04/2026
Seventeen financial regulators worldwide, including the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), took part in a week of action against finfluencers who engage in illegal financial promotion.
Posted: 27/04/2026
Evri Group has started to trial automated guided vehicles (AGVs) at its Rugby hub, part of its efforts to deal with rising parcel volumes and streamline warehouse operations.
Posted: 27/04/2026
China’s National Development and Reform Commission has blocked Meta from completing its $2 billion acquisition of agentic AI company Manus.
Posted: 27/04/2026
Canadian AI startup Cohere has announced it will take over Heidelberg-based Aleph Alpha in an attempt to reduce the countries’ reliance on US technology.
Posted: 24/04/2026
On Thursday, Anthropic released a statement covering issues with its flagship AI, Claude, after users complained that the software was providing lower-quality responses in its new iteration.
Posted: 24/04/2026
Virgin Media O2 has issued a fresh fraud warning after its research revealed that millions of UK consumers have encountered fake customer service phone numbers generated or surfaced by AI tools and search engines.
Posted: 24/04/2026
The UK is entering a “perfect storm” for cybersecurity, driven by rapid advances in artificial intelligence and rising geopolitical tensions, according to the chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).
Posted: 23/04/2026
Citi wealth has announced the launch of Citi Sky, an AI-powered “team member”, built using Google DeepMind and Google Cloud.
Posted: 23/04/2026
Tens of thousands of Samsung Electronics workers rallied in South Korea on Thursday, demanding higher bonuses and threatening an 18-day strike next month as surging artificial intelligence demand drives record chip profits
Posted: 23/04/2026
Anthropic is set to let European banks access its cybersecurity tool Claude Mythos Preview, Reuters has reported.
Posted: 22/04/2026
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has struck a deal allowing it to acquire AI coding platform Cursor for $60 billion later in the year, it announced on Tuesday evening.
Posted: 22/04/2026
A small group of unauthorised users accessed Anthropic’s newly announced Mythos AI model on the day of its limited release in April, raising concerns over the containment of a system designed for high-risk cybersecurity testing
Posted: 22/05/2026
The Financial Conduct Authority has selected eight firms including Barclays, Experian, Lloyds Banking Group and UBS to join the second cohort of its AI Live Testing programme, with trials beginning in April 2026
Posted: 22/04/2026
Zoom has announced it will introduce real-time human verification in video meetings to mitigate the growing risk of AI-driven impersonation.
Posted: 21/04/2026
Apple has announced that chief executive Tim Cook will stand down from his position in September, ending 15 years in post.
Posted: 21/04/2026
The European Data Protection Board has approved the global expansion of the Europrivacy certification scheme, enabling companies outside Europe to use it as a formal mechanism for international data transfers under the General Data Protection Regulation
Posted: 21/04/2026
The UK government has launched a £500 million Sovereign AI fund and unveiled the the first wave of companies which will receive support through the initiative.
Posted: 20/04/2026
Recursive Superintelligence, an AI start-up founded by Google and OpenAI engineers, has raised over $500 million in an oversubscribed funding round according to reporting by the Financial Times.
Posted: 20/04/2026
Cloud platform Vercel disclosed on 19 April that a security breach tied to a compromised third-party AI tool allowed attackers to access internal systems and a limited set of customer credentials
Posted: 20/04/2026
Amazon has launched a new service which allows customers to purchase eligible fashion items in its online store and unlock them in Fashion Rivals, a gaming experience in DRESSX’s world on Meta’s Horizon platform.
Posted: 17/04/2026
OpenAI is set to spend $20 billion over the next three years to use servers powered by Cerebras’s chips in a deal that could also give the AI company a stake in the firm, The Information reported Thursday.
Posted: 17/04/2026
US lawmakers have scaled back a proposed bill targeting China’s access to semiconductor equipment, while retaining key restrictions on advanced lithography tools
Posted: 17/04/2026
The European Commission has announced that it has sent preliminary findings to Google outlining measures that would make the tech giant share search data with third-party engines.
Posted: 16/04/2026
Revolut Business has announced the launch of a global hiring platform designed to help UK businesses recruit and pay international employees without establishing local legal entities.
Posted: 16/04/2026
The European Commission on Wednesday said it intends to order Meta to reinstate rival artificial intelligence assistants on WhatsApp, escalating an antitrust investigation into whether the company abused its market position
Posted: 16/04/2026
American Express has unveiled a developer toolkit designed to support agentic AI-driven payments, alongside what it describes as an industry-first protection policy covering purchases made by authorised AI agents.
Posted: 15/04/2026
OpenAI has released GPT-5.4-Cyber, an AI model designed to find bugs and vulnerabilities in software, to a select group of customers.
Posted: 15/04/2026
Amazon said on Tuesday it will acquire satellite operator Globalstar in a deal worth about $11.57 billion, as the US technology group accelerates efforts to expand its low Earth orbit network and compete with SpaceX’s Starlink
Posted: 15/04/2026
The UK government has launched a new study to examine how AI could be used to produce court transcripts more quickly and at lower cost, part of its efforts to modernise the justice system and improve access to court records.
Posted: 14/04/2026
OpenAI has signed a lease for an 88,500 square foot office space at Regent Quarter in King’s Cross, which is expected to open in 2027.
Posted: 14/04/2026
Basic-Fit, the largest fitness operator and gym franchisor in Europe, has confirmed a data breach affecting around 200,000 members in the Netherlands alone, with around 1 million affected across the continent.
Posted: 13/04/2026
Booking.com has warned customers that unauthorised parties accessed reservation data in a cyber incident disclosed on Monday, with personal details linked to past bookings potentially compromised
Posted: 14/04/2026
Anthropic and Meta have both entered into multi-year partnerships with cloud-computing provider CoreWeave, the company announced last week.
Posted: 13/04/2026
UK financial regulators are holding urgent talks with banks and cyber security officials after Anthropic’s latest artificial intelligence model revealed widespread vulnerabilities in critical systems
Posted: 13/04/2026
Alibaba, the Chinese tech giant, has appointed a new leader for its AI division as it pivots from open source to revenue‑generating models, the Financial Times has reported
Posted: 10/04/2026
The UK government has announced a £380 million grant to support battery manufacturer Agratas in building one of Europe’s largest gigafactories in Somerset.
Posted: 10/04/2026
OpenAI has put its ambitious £31 billion Stargate UK data centre project on hold, citing the country’s high energy costs and regulatory landscape
Posted: 10/04/2026
The UK government has shared the news that a coalition of 13 countries has committed to deepening their cooperation in the development of quantum technology to ensure it is developed securely and responsibly.
Posted: 09/04/2025
Meta has announced the launch of Muse Spark, a new large language model (LLM) built in house for the social media firm’s products.
Posted: 09/04/2026
Revolut has begun rolling out a new in-app artificial intelligence assistant to UK customers
Posted: 09/04/2026
Anthropic has restricted access to its new Claude Mythos Preview model to a select group of more than 40 organisations, citing concerns over its ability to autonomously identify and exploit software vulnerabilities at scale
Posted: 09/04/2026
Uber is expanding its infrastructure and AI capabilities using technology from Amazon Web Services (AWS), it announced Tuesday
Posted: 08/04/2026
Only 28 per cent of AI use cases in infrastructure and operations (I&O) fully succeed, while 20 per cent fail outright, according to a survey by consultancy Gartner.
Posted: 08/04/2026
The UK government is reportedly considering introducing standardised testing for artificial intelligence models used by banks following regulatory concerns about inadequate oversight of their deployment
Posted: 08/04/2026
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has launched a new initiative aimed at helping parents talk to their children about protecting their personal data online.
Posted: 07/04/2025
Project Prometheus, Jeff Bezos’s AI start-up, has hired Kyle Kosic from OpenAI, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 07/04/26
The UK government is seeking to persuade artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic to expand in London, as tensions between the company and US defence authorities create an opening to attract investment
Posted: 07/04/2026
The UK government has announced £20 million of funding for regions across England and Wales to support local innovation ecosystems and the development of technologies including AI, autonomous systems and clean energy
Posted: 02/04/2026
Intel is set to buy back the remaining 49 per cent of its Irish Fab 34 semiconductor fabrication plant from Apollo Global Management for $14.2 billion, it announced on 1 April.
Posted: 02/04/2026
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will open a strategic market status (SMS) investigation into Microsoft’s business software ecosystem in May, targeting concerns that the company’s licensing practices may limit competition in cloud services
Posted: 02/04/2026
Anthropic has accidentally exposed the source code behind its Claude Code AI agent and is now working to remove it from the internet.
Posted: 01/04/2026
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
American critical infrastructure likely to be hit by Iranian retaliatory cyber attacks, expert warns
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
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