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US government to consider AI Kill Switch law

Two US congressmen have introduced a bill to give Washington the power to pull the plug on rogue AI models in an emergency.
Physical AI now mainstream as manufacturers scale AI deployment

Study reveals how physical AI is set to transform industrial environments – from factories and warehouses to logistics networks, maintenance operations and quality management
Patrick Vallance returns as AI taskforce chair

Following stepping down as science minister, Vallance’s return marks a rethink on AI, taking best practices from the UK’s Covid-19 Taskforce
VMO2 sees revs drop but hits subs milestone in Q2

Quarter sees total revenue fall 7.9% and EBITA hover just under the £1bn mark, but progress made on full-fibre with footprint reaching nine million and 18.8 million homes serviceable able to access gigabit
BT claims connectivity milestone in first quarter of fiscal year

Fibre to the fore for UK’s leading comms provider in first quarter, with FTTP 574,000 net adds, total premises connected totalling 9.4 million and take-up rate of 40%
OpenUK calls for a UK version of the Linux Foundation

Tech sovereignty needs to be a part of the UK government’s reindustrialisation plans, and this requires an open source focus

From knowing to doing: embodied AI gets to work

At Hyundai’s smart factory in Singapore, robots handle two-thirds of the assembly work, offering a glimpse of AI that can sense, decide and act in the physical world
Journalist Richard Medhurst had his mobile phone seized. Did using a secure phone protect his data?

How can journalists protect confidential data and sources on their phones when crossing borders?
CW@60: How tech escaped the machine room - and why it never really did

Julian David, CEO of the influential tech trade association TechUK, looks at what’s changed in tech across his career – and perhaps more importantly, what hasn’t

Where does the rewiring of Central Government leave Cyber/Digital Skills?- When IT Meets Politics

Will the moving digital skills to DCMS and AI skills to Number 10 make it easier or harder to build bridges and addressing shortages (quality and relevance as well as numbers) across the divide ... Continue Reading
AWS bets big on Lean programming language to bring mathematical guarantees to agentic AI- CW Developer Network

As we know, AI agents are now engineered to be capable of taking on higher-stakes decisions, so there needs to be a commensurately higher-stakes shift in the way we handle and manage agentic code. ... Continue Reading
Domino Data Lab: Agentic AI is scaling faster than governance - the split explained- CW Developer Network

Domino Data Lab this week released its Fifth Annual Domino Enterprise AI Report, a study that finds the share of enterprises whose ROI fails to outpace their investment has held at 57% since 2025, ... Continue Reading
Forget Flash Gordon - Tech Trailblazers Really Can Save The Earth (in less than 14 hours)- Networks Generation

It’s Friday – it’s five to five (well five to 11 actually) and it’s Crackerj… Well, no, it’s not – but that does spare us the Peter Glaze school of acting (for those of a certain age and ... Continue Reading

Stop debating frontier AI – start defending against it

The Computer Weekly Security Think Tank considers if Anthropic’s Claude Mythos frontier AI model is a benefit or barrier to achieving resilient enterprise IT security, and how security leaders need to adapt.
Viva la devolution – rebalancing power through technology

A note for Andy Burnham - on how digital operating models and infrastructure can improve UK devolution and strengthen democratic accountability
Does the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill make you feel secure?

The UK government's latest cyber security regulations are hugely important but remain riddled with inconsistencies and vagaries - substantial changes are needed before it becomes law