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Infrastructure is back as Orange Business drives trusted AI

Annual customer gathering of enterprise arm of global telco sees launch of four key applications taking advantage of agentic AI capabilities and emphasising the need for robust and secure infrastructure
Hit the north! UK datacentre focus shifts to M62 and points north

Barbour ABI data shows 8GW of total datacentre pipeline with most big projects in the north and Scotland, while London and the M4 corridor are about 25% of projected capacity
Apple issues first Background patch for WebKit browser flaw

Apple’s first ever Background Security Update fixes a WebKit browser engine bug that could enable threat actors to see and steal important data from their victims
Meta quizzed over facial-recognition plans for smart glasses

Democratic senators warn that Meta’s plans to introduce facial-recognition technology into smart glasses could lead to normalisation of mass surveillance and breach citizens’ rights
UK MoD awards over two dozen contracts for AI targeting systems

The UK Ministry of Defence is ramping up its investment into military artificial intelligence in a bid to increase the ‘lethality’ of the British armed forces
Fast followers will fall behind in the AI race, warns ServiceNow

ServiceNow experts and customers highlight why acting at pace, deploying cross-system AI agents and governance are key in AI adoption

Do neoclouds mean a world where anything is possible?

A small group of companies have dominated cloud compute infrastructure. Neoclouds are able to boost AI workloads. Should you consider them?
This rise of the splinternet? Data sovereignty risks and responses

We look at the political, legal and economic risks around data sovereignty, the fears for digital dependency and massive hyperscaler penetration in the UK public sector
CES 2026: AI gets physical

Continuing our round-up of this year’s CES, we look at key use cases and how the generation of artificial intelligence and connected devices will evolve

SmartBear BearQ always-on teammates drive autonomous testing - CW Developer Network

SmartBear is a company focused on delivering what it calls “application integrity for modern tech stacks” today. So, in practice, that means API lifecycle management and observability capabilities ... Continue Reading
StrongestLayer offers AI-native email security detection & automated risk investigation- CW Developer Network

Enterprise technology companies are now defining themselves as AI-native, first and foremost, primarily because they have to in order to retain any level of credibility in the current market. Now ... Continue Reading
UK Digital Identity Policy - Issues, Choices and Questions in 850 words- When IT Meets Politics

How do we ensure that UK ID policy is effective and meaningful? 850 words, with 14 key actions and 12 foundational questions that need to be answered before moving forward on the introduction of a ... Continue Reading
Pathway builds truly native reasoning model to solve LLM Sudoku stumbling blocks- CW Developer Network

Pathway is a post-transformer AI lab that claims to be delivering a faster path to AGI through true continuous learning and long-horizon reasoning. First set out in a scientific paper last ... Continue Reading

The upcoming King’s Speech - where are the words on AI?

Despite past promises of regulation on AI, there is no indication the Labour government is planning any legislation in the next session of Parliament - and that's an economic and social mistake
Azure Local Disconnected looks the part for sovereignty. It isn’t

Despite fanfare, Microsoft’s air-gapped cloud offer is far from GA-ready, can’t run Azure Kubernetes Service, maxes out workload clusters, and at scale can’t be truly disconnected
Why AI Is shifting power left

Business leaders will need to re-think how they influence their organisations as work becomes more decentralised