UK government outlines next wave of AI investment plans
The government has unveiled a package of investments and initiatives designed to strengthen the UK’s standing within the artificial intelligence (AI) space, which includes the…
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Fujitsu milks £110m from HMRC in six months with hardly a public stir
Fujitsu has raked in just under £110m from its IT services contracts with HMRC alone in six months, as the supplier continues to evade punishment…
Government-backed coalition to end gazumping in property market
Government departments are working as part of a coalition designed to transform the archaic homebuying and selling process, which costs the economy nearly £1bn a…
Finland uses tax reform to attract foreign tech investment
Finland is poised to further strengthen its global appeal as a Nordic hub for technology innovation and development through tax cuts for businesses. The new…
Workday sets out to reinvent ERP with agentic AI platform
At Workday’s Rising conference in Barcelona, the HR and financial applications SaaS supplier fleshed out what looks like a strategic shift towards being an agentic…
EU sets out plans to cut red tape on digital
A set of digital initiatives for European companies has been proposed by the European Commission to streamline regulations and data sharing. The initiative includes European…
Apple denies ‘locking in’ iCloud users as £3bn legal claim brought by Which? reaches court
Apple has dismissed a legal claim that it has breached UK competition law by overcharging and “trapping” users who sign up to use its iCloud…
Management reboot essential for agentic AI strategy
According to research from MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group (BCG), agentic artificial intelligence (AI)-based applications will lead to major management headaches. This…
Datacentre energy demands set to soar by 2030 as AI growth accelerates, predicts Gartner
The surging demand for artificial intelligence (AI) is fuelling growth in datacentre markets across the world, with figures from Gartner highlighting the twin impact of…
Artificial intelligence helps Klarna double revenues with half the staff
Over the past three years, fintech Klarna has cut its workforce by half while doubling its revenues, in a sign of artificial intelligence’s (AI’s) growing…
Ransomware resilience may be improving in the health sector
In a possibly encouraging sign that cyber messaging is cutting through among healthcare providers, the sector appears to be becoming increasingly resilient to ransomware and…
Cloudflare outage disrupts public web services
Web traffic protection specialist Cloudflare has issued an apology to its customers after an unspecified outage affecting its Access zero-trust platform downed multiple public-facing services,…