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Artificial intelligence, automation and robotics

• November 21, 2024 21 Nov'24

  Grab taps GPT-4o to improve mapping service

  Regional ride-hailing giant and super app Grab is leveraging OpenAI’s GPT-4o model to build hyperlocal, dynamic maps, cutting costs and boosting accuracy

• November 20, 2024 20 Nov'24

  Government issues strategic priorities for online safety regulator Ofcom

  Technology secretary Peter Kyle sets out the government’s strategic priorities for how Ofcom should approach regulating online safety, including embedding safety by design and supporting innovation in technologies to help protect people online

• November 20, 2024 20 Nov'24

  Digital Catapult hails shared infrastructure as route to decarbonisation for logistics sector

  Digital Catapult has opened up about the success it has seen with using shared digital infrastructure to help the transport-logistics sector work more collaboratively to cut carbon emissions

• November 20, 2024 20 Nov'24

  Microsoft Ignite: AI capabilities double every six months

  If Moore's law promised a doubling of tech every 18 months, the pace is three times quicker with AI developments, says Satya Nadella

• November 19, 2024 19 Nov'24

  AI readiness stalls in APAC

  Despite significant investment in AI, only 15% of organisations in Asia-Pacific are ready to deploy the technology today, according to Cisco’s latest regional AI readiness survey

• November 19, 2024 19 Nov'24

  CMA clears Google over Anthropic partnership

  The UK competition watchdog has finished its initial investigation into Google’s partnership with Anthropic, with no follow-up on the cards

• November 19, 2024 19 Nov'24

  Interview: Raymond Boyle, vice-president of data and analytics, Hyatt Hotels

  Data culture is a key focus for the strategy at the global hotel chain, especially as AI opens up new opportunities to drive personalisation and trust with customers

• November 19, 2024 19 Nov'24

  UK government seeks AI innovators to support clean energy transition and pursuit of net zero by 2050

  The UK government has launched the second round of the Manchester Prize, which is geared towards using artificial intelligence technologies to assist with the clean energy transition

• November 18, 2024 18 Nov'24

  How banks are navigating the AI landscape

  Industry experts discuss the transformative potential of artificial intelligence in banking, while addressing the challenges and governance implications of integrating AI into financial services

• November 18, 2024 18 Nov'24

  Infinidat gets in on the RAG act with workflow architecture offer

  Storage array maker says customers can get data from any NFS storage to use in RAG for internal enterprise AI projects, and claims its OS metadata expertise enables this

• November 18, 2024 18 Nov'24

  Denmark’s AI-powered welfare system fuels mass surveillance

  Research reveals the automated tools used to flag individuals for benefit fraud violate individuals’ privacy and risk discriminating against marginalised groups

• November 15, 2024 15 Nov'24

  CBRE: Spare datacentre capacity levels to hit all-time low across Europe by end of 2024

  Real estate consultancy CBRE has lifted the lid on how growing demand for datacentre capacity, coupled with shortages of land and power in Europe, are having a downbeat impact on vacancy rates

• November 15, 2024 15 Nov'24

  Nvidia, SoftBank claim AI, 5G telecom pilot first

  AI processor leader joins Japanese telco on AI Aerial platform for outdoor pilot of what is said to be world’s first combined AI and 5G network

• November 15, 2024 15 Nov'24

  Nvidia powers AI development in Japan and Indonesia

  Nvidia is deepening its presence in Japan and Indonesia through partnerships with local cloud providers and tech companies to build sovereign AI infrastructure and local large language models

• November 14, 2024 14 Nov'24

  A fifth of new PCs shipped in Q3 were AI-optimised

  PC manufacturers are working hard to showcase the benefits of premium devices that use neural processing units to deliver on-device AI acceleration

• November 14, 2024 14 Nov'24

  MPs hold first ever debate on live facial recognition

  MPs have held an open debate on police use of live facial recognition technology for the first time since it was initially deployed by the Met Police in August 2016

• November 14, 2024 14 Nov'24

  Microsoft ramps up small language model effort

  Microsoft is working with several industry sector specialist software providers to bring industry-specific AI models to its Azure AI platform

• November 13, 2024 13 Nov'24

  Red Hat acquires tech to lower the cost of machine learning

  The acquisition of Neural Magic by Red Hat is being positioned as a way to democratise machine learning and reduce the need for GPUs

• November 13, 2024 13 Nov'24

  Even AI laggards can see triple return on investment

  A study from IDC shows that those businesses that have an aligned AI strategy can achieve accelerated benefits

• November 13, 2024 13 Nov'24

  Server manufacturers ramp-up edge AI efforts

  There has been a spate of developments in the server space, as manufacturers focus on supporting inference workloads at the edge

• November 07, 2024 07 Nov'24

  AI a force multiplier for the bad guys, say cyber pros

  CIISec’s annual report on the security profession finds evidence of growing concern that artificial intelligence will ultimately prove more useful to threat actors than defenders

• November 07, 2024 07 Nov'24

  Interview: Petra Molnar, author of ‘The walls have eyes’

  Refugee lawyer and author Petra Molnar speaks to Computer Weekly about the extreme violence people on the move face at borders across the world, and how increasingly hostile anti-immigrant politics is being enabled and reinforced by a ‘lucrative ...

• November 06, 2024 06 Nov'24

  Snowflake brings AI to data for Australian businesses

  At the Sydney leg of the Snowflake World Tour, the company showcased how its platform simplifies data management, reduces costs and drives AI adoption for Australian businesses

• November 06, 2024 06 Nov'24

  UK government launches AI assurance platform for enterprises

  The platform is designed to drive demand for the UK’s artificial intelligence assurance sector and help build greater trust in the technology by helping businesses identify and mitigate a range of AI-related risks

• November 06, 2024 06 Nov'24

  Lords shoplifting inquiry calls for facial recognition laws

  A Lords committee has expressed concern about the use of facial recognition technology by retailers to combat shoplifting, and is calling on the government to introduce new laws to ensure there are minimum standards for their deployments

• November 06, 2024 06 Nov'24

  How enterprises can ride the AI coding wave

  GovTech leader urges developers to prioritise value, security and compliance when implementing AI coding tools in enterprise environments

• November 05, 2024 05 Nov'24

  Gartner Symposium: IT leaders urged to do reps like Arnie

  Terminator film star shares lessons from his life experiences to help IT leaders succeed

• November 05, 2024 05 Nov'24

  Gartner Symposium: Why ServiceNow wants to be seen as the AI platform for business transformation

  We report on how a deal between ServiceNow and Rimini Street may offer IT leaders an alternative route to enterprise AI

• November 05, 2024 05 Nov'24

  HCLTech to open AI lab in Singapore

  The new facility in Singapore will be the latest in HCLTech’s network of global AI labs set up to help businesses deploy artificial intelligence applications and build local talent

• November 04, 2024 04 Nov'24

  Gartner: Avoid AI project money pit

  Artificial intelligence project costs can quickly escalate, so IT leaders need to focus on the business objectives and invest appropriately

• November 04, 2024 04 Nov'24

  How AI is impacting global connectivity

  Jürgen Hatheier, international CTO of Ciena, discusses the role of connectivity in the age of artificial intelligence and how the company is helping service providers navigate this transformative period

• October 31, 2024 31 Oct'24

  Meta no longer prolonging the life of datacentre servers

  During the earnings call for the company’s latest quarterly results, CFO Susan Li said Meta would be investing in GPU servers

• October 31, 2024 31 Oct'24

  AI becomes Microsoft’s fastest-growing business

  Artificial intelligence has delivered $10bn to Microsoft’s bottom line, but the business is not in cloud GPUs for third-party inference engines

• October 31, 2024 31 Oct'24

  Interview: Niall Robinson, head of product innovation, Met Office

  Weather and climate data is hugely valuable to government and businesses – and the Met Office is finding ways to innovate with data to deliver improved products and services

• October 30, 2024 30 Oct'24

  Autumn Budget 2024: Chancellor emphasises importance of tech for UK growth

  In her first budget, Rachel Reeves reiterated the vital role of technology in delivering economic growth and improving productivity and efficiency in public services

• October 30, 2024 30 Oct'24

  Interview: James Fleming, CIO, Francis Crick Institute

  Helping to cure cancer with computers puts digital leadership on another level – and the world-leading research institute is turning to data science and artificial intelligence to achieve its groundbreaking goals

• October 30, 2024 30 Oct'24

  Interview: Rahul Todkar, head of data and AI, Tripadvisor

  The travel website generates huge amounts of data – as a result, artificial intelligence offers equally huge opportunities for the business and its customers

• October 30, 2024 30 Oct'24

  Thai Airways gains altitude with AI-native networking platform

  Leading Asian airline engages artificial intelligence-native networking company to modernise its network infrastructure at Thai headquarters by deploying platform to deliver measurable and secure wired and wireless services

• October 30, 2024 30 Oct'24

  Alphabet results reveal extent of AI-powered programming

  The parent company of Google is using its Gemini generative artificial intelligence tool to code a quarter of new software development initiatives

• October 30, 2024 30 Oct'24

  Scality Ring XP to offer object storage at scale with rapid access

  Lightweight S3 API trades storage features for microsecond access. Scality pairs it with all-NVMe flash in Ring XP, aimed at AI use cases for small object data in PB-scale datasets

• October 30, 2024 30 Oct'24

  How Formula One works with AWS to drive data insights

  We speak to Formula One's lead cloud architect, Ryan Kirk, and AWS about a partnership that strives to deliver data for greater fan engagement

• October 30, 2024 30 Oct'24

  How FPT Software is expanding its footprint in APAC

  Vietnamese IT giant is experiencing rapid growth in the region, driven by its diverse workforce, focus on key technologies and ability to navigate a highly competitive IT services market

• October 28, 2024 28 Oct'24

  Tokyo University of Science sets pace in neural networks on edge IoT

  Researchers in educational establishment propose a novel magnetic random access memory-based architecture that uses spintronics to realise smaller, more efficient AI-capable circuits for internet of things

• October 28, 2024 28 Oct'24

  Inside Google Cloud’s secure AI framework

  Google Cloud’s secure AI framework that’s integrated into its Vertex AI platform offers practical tools and guidance to manage the lifecycle, data governance and operational risks of AI

• October 28, 2024 28 Oct'24

  How Manulife is empowering sales and call centre agents with AI

  Canadian insurance giant is leveraging generative AI to personalise customer experiences, transform contact centre workflows and automate underwriting processes

• October 25, 2024 25 Oct'24

  Lords committee warns about risks of the UK losing its EU data adequacy

  The UK government must work with the European Commission (EC) to secure a renewal of UK’s two data adequacy statuses, says cross-party Lords committee, in stark warning about impacts of losing the ability to seamlessly exchange citizens’ personal ...

• October 25, 2024 25 Oct'24

  Cisco looks to transform customer experiences with Webex AI Agent

  Collaboration and customer technology arm of Cisco automates contact centre inquiries with conversational intelligence to change how businesses interact with and support customers

• October 24, 2024 24 Oct'24

  Prudential taps AI to improve health insurance experience

  Insurance giant Prudential teams up with Google Cloud to streamline claims processing, personalise healthcare journeys and improve health outcomes

• October 24, 2024 24 Oct'24

  AI drives more Ethernet, everywhere

  Study from test and assurance services provider reveals ‘unprecedented’ demand and innovation for what is said to be Ethernet’s biggest transformation in decades

• October 24, 2024 24 Oct'24

  Nvidia deepens investment in India’s AI ecosystem

  Nvidia is expanding its presence in India through new partnerships focused on building AI infrastructure, developing Indian language models and training AI professionals