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Artificial intelligence, automation and robotics

• October 23, 2024 23 Oct'24

  How AI helps junior programmers and senior managers

  Many believe artificial intelligence will not replace human software developers but will instead offer a way to help coders deliver software more easily

• October 23, 2024 23 Oct'24

  ServiceNow touts Now platform as AI engine for transformation

  At the ServiceNow World Forum in Melbourne, company executives touted the transformative power of AI in streamlining workflows, improving user experiences and driving business value

• October 23, 2024 23 Oct'24

  Snapdragon Summit 2024: Qualcomm gains mileage with automotive offer

  Qualcomm accelerates automotive offering designed to drive success with leading OEMs such as GM, BMW, Li Auto and Mercedes as cars become new computing space

• October 22, 2024 22 Oct'24

  Dell CTO: Enterprise AI poised to take off in 2025

  After a period of experimentation, the building blocks are in place for wider enterprise adoption of AI, says Dell Technologies’ global CTO, John Roese

• October 21, 2024 21 Oct'24

  Labour signs up to five years of Microsoft AI

  The UK government has signed a deal with Microsoft to reduce the cost of running public sector services using the supplier’s cloud and artificial intelligence technologies

• October 21, 2024 21 Oct'24

  Techcombank’s tech investments set to fuel record profit

  The Vietnam bank is targeting $1bn in profit in 2024 while maintaining a flat headcount and reducing physical branches, thanks to its investments in artificial intelligence and a data engine

• October 21, 2024 21 Oct'24

  Can AI be secure? Experts discuss emerging threats and AI safety

  International cyber security experts call for global cooperation and proactive strategies to address the security challenges posed by artificial intelligence

• October 17, 2024 17 Oct'24

  NCSC chief warns of gap in cyber threats and defence capabilities

  The UK and its allies must take collective action to improve their cyber resilience and repel the increasing volume of severe cyber attacks, says NCSC chief

• October 16, 2024 16 Oct'24

  SUSE sees growth in multi-Linux support and containers

  SUSE CEO talks up the company’s double-digit growth, fuelled by demand for its multi-Linux support offering, Rancher container platform and focus on artificial intelligence

• October 16, 2024 16 Oct'24

  Google Cloud Summit: Unifying data, data residency and agent-driven AI

  Google Cloud’s London summit underpinned a focus on artificial intelligence with some significant infrastructure updates

• October 15, 2024 15 Oct'24

  Tech and digital skills key to improving police productivity

  The Policing Productivity Review sees data and technology as a way of improving productivity and outcomes, as well as a potential means of restoring diminishing legitimacy, but warns there needs to be a revamp in digital skills, investment and ...

• October 15, 2024 15 Oct'24

  UK government unveils AI safety research funding details

  Through its AI Safety Institute, the UK government has committed an initial pot of £4m to fund research into various risks associated with AI technologies, which will increase to £8.5m as the scheme progresses

• October 15, 2024 15 Oct'24

  Hillingdon Council commits £9m to tech revamp in digital strategy

  Hillingdon’s three-year digital strategy will see the council fund attempts to modernise its systems and infrastructure, change how residents interact with the local authority and make better use of data

• October 14, 2024 14 Oct'24

  How Zoom is charting its course towards an AI-first platform

  Zoom CEO Eric Yuan talks up his vision for the future of work, the company's transition to an AI-powered platform and what it is doing to stay ahead of rivals

• October 10, 2024 10 Oct'24

  Gartner: AI can be catalyst for new business models

  Gartner expert Nicholle Lindner explains how companies like Klarna are leveraging AI to drive new revenue, and what businesses need to consider when embracing the technology

• October 09, 2024 09 Oct'24

  OpenAI to open office in Singapore to spearhead APAC expansion

  OpenAI will establish a regional hub in Singapore later this year, partnering with the government and AI Singapore to boost AI development across the region

• October 08, 2024 08 Oct'24

  Foxconn and Nvidia to build Taiwan’s fastest supercomputer

  The supercomputer, powered by Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture, will drive breakthroughs in cancer research, large language models and smart city initiatives

• October 08, 2024 08 Oct'24

  How AI is permeating enterprise IT

  The industry is ramping up efforts to help enterprise IT deliver artificial intelligence-based business applications

• October 07, 2024 07 Oct'24

  Labour sets up new office to coordinate tech innovation regulations

  The newly formed Regulatory Innovation Office has been set up to ensure existing regulations do not become barriers to emerging tech innovations

• October 04, 2024 04 Oct'24

  Data and technology key to the future of the subsurface, report says

  The report highlights the important role of the subsurface, but lack of accessible data and the likely need for new policy and regulation on the use of new technologies are barriers to future sustainable and efficient use

• October 04, 2024 04 Oct'24

  Meta fuels AI innovation in APAC with accelerator programme

  Meta launches AI accelerator and incubator programmes to support startups and enterprises in building AI applications using its Llama model

• October 03, 2024 03 Oct'24

  Local councils need ‘better support’ to buy AI responsibly

  The Ada Lovelace Institute says there is lack of adequate support on how councils can safely and responsibly procure artificial intelligence systems in the public interest

• October 03, 2024 03 Oct'24

  Nutanix courts VMware customers in APAC amid Broadcom concerns

  Nutanix is driving double-digit growth across the region by capitalising on the evolving cloud landscape with its hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence offerings, as well as anxieties about the future direction of VMware under Broadcom’s ownership

• October 02, 2024 02 Oct'24

  Amazon Mechanical Turk workers suspended without explanation

  A likely glitch in Amazon Payments resulted in hundreds of Mechanical Turk workers being suspended from the platform without proper explanation or pay

• October 02, 2024 02 Oct'24

  GenAI edges closer to enterprise maturity

  While many organisations are piloting generative AI applications, few have mature production roll-outs, according to a survey of Computer Weekly readers worldwide

• October 02, 2024 02 Oct'24

  India’s fintechs find fortune in underserved segments

  Indian fintech companies are leveraging artificial intelligence and blockchain to address underserved customer segments, unearth hidden revenue opportunities and create innovative products

• October 01, 2024 01 Oct'24

  APAC organisations embrace generative AI

  Study reveals a surge in GenAI adoption across APAC, with businesses looking to train their own models, likely to address specific regional needs and market dynamics

• October 01, 2024 01 Oct'24

  Businesses are getting some value from AI, but struggling to scale

  Survey from KPMG reveals IT leaders struggling to keep up with the pace of technology innovation

• September 30, 2024 30 Sep'24

  Google invests $1bn in Thailand’s cloud future

  The five-year investment will bolster Thailand’s digital economy, create more than 10,000 jobs each year and support the country’s cloud-first policy

• September 30, 2024 30 Sep'24

  Nokia Bell Labs and e& forge AI use case R&D collaboration

  Renowned comms research facility teams with leading MENA telecoms operator to innovate for strategic industrial sectors, developing artificial intelligence-based use cases for strategic industrial sectors

• September 27, 2024 27 Sep'24

  Digital customer experience critical for manufacturing, construction

  Study finds desire to improve operational efficiency, digital transformation, changing customer expectations and competitive pressures driving a shift towards an enhanced digital customer experience in key industrial sectors

• September 27, 2024 27 Sep'24

  How UEM Sunrise is driving transformation with Salesforce and AI

  Malaysian property developer UEM Sunrise is leveraging Salesforce and AI to boost sales and enhance customer experience while prioritising data sovereignty and a diversified cloud strategy

• September 26, 2024 26 Sep'24

  Auckland museum enhances digitisation efforts with storage upgrade

  A major storage upgrade is enabling the Auckland War Memorial Museum to safeguard its vast collection, ensure digital sovereignty and enhance visitor experiences using AI

• September 24, 2024 24 Sep'24

  HPE enriches AI capabilities of Aruba Networking Central

  Leading networking provider sees growth of customer base and data lake accelerate AI insights and improved network management, security, performance and visibility

• September 24, 2024 24 Sep'24

  NetApp maintains push to data management for AI

  From data storage to intelligent data infrastructure – that’s the plan from NetApp, which has announced data curation for artificial intelligence as well as additions to its ASA and FAS storage arrays

• September 24, 2024 24 Sep'24

  How VMware is supporting AI workloads

  VMware claims its Private AI Foundation with Nvidia platform that speeds up AI deployment in private cloud environments is gaining significant traction in the Asia-Pacific region

• September 23, 2024 23 Sep'24

  Huawei: ‘6 As’ to pave the way for ‘all intelligence’ era

  Comms tech giant unveils blueprint for AI-driven future improving smart enterprises, including adaptive user experiences and closed-loop autonomous operations for all business flows

• September 23, 2024 23 Sep'24

  Home Office eVisa scheme is ‘broken’, says Open Rights Group

  Digital rights campaigners say the Home Office’s plan to make its new electronic Visa scheme a real-time online-only process is part and parcel of the 'hostile environment' around immigration status

• September 23, 2024 23 Sep'24

  UK, US and Canada to collaborate on AI and cyber security

  International collaboration agreement will see the governments of Canada, the UK and the US work together to research, evaluate and test new defence technologies

• September 23, 2024 23 Sep'24

  Medtech startup brings Oracle AI to bear on cancer drug research

  Learn how Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and its cutting-edge AI features are bringing new benefits to cancer care by helping doctors identify better treatment options

• September 22, 2024 22 Sep'24

  Zendesk debuts outcome-based pricing for AI agents

  Zendesk customers only pay for successful AI query resolutions, easing the transition to AI-powered customer support and improving scalability during peak periods

• September 20, 2024 20 Sep'24

  UN body urges ‘globally inclusive and distributed’ AI governance

  A United Nations body set up to investigate the international governance of AI says the nature of how the technology currently operates requires a global approach to regulation that prioritises equity and inclusion

• September 19, 2024 19 Sep'24

  CIOs urged to pace AI adoption

  At the recent Gartner IT Symposium 2024 in Gold Coast, experts call for CIOs to pace their adoption of AI, manage costs and embrace ‘augmented leadership’

• September 18, 2024 18 Sep'24

  M1 ditches 70% of legacy systems in cloud transformation drive

  Singapore telco M1 is switching off 70% of its legacy systems by the end of 2024 and leveraging Salesforce to offer more personalised services

• September 18, 2024 18 Sep'24

  Dreamforce 24: Salesforce taps Nvidia to power Agentforce

  At Dreamforce in San Francisco, Salesforce and Nvidia detail some of the tech that will power the software giant's newly launched Agentforce service

• September 18, 2024 18 Sep'24

  Workers and business leaders have different views on GenAI uses

  Employees are using GenAI primarily for spelling and grammar checking, while business chiefs are using it for data analysis

• September 18, 2024 18 Sep'24

  Public digital transformation will be challenged by austerity

  Public sector and IT industry figures gathered at TechUK’s 10th annual Building the Smarter State event discussed how Labour’s ‘mission-driven’ policy approach can drive digital transformation efforts in the context of fresh austerity measures

• September 18, 2024 18 Sep'24

  Dreamforce 2024: Salesforce calls on customers to flesh out AI vision

  A stream of customers helped Salesforce make the case for its Agentforce artificial intelligence offering on the opening day of the annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco

• September 17, 2024 17 Sep'24

  Microsoft adds $30-a-month business chat AI assistant to Copilot

  The software giant has introduced AI-powered features, including Python code generation in Excel

• September 17, 2024 17 Sep'24

  Salesforce’s agentic AI platform to transform business automation

  CRM giant’s Agentforce lets organisations build and deploy autonomous agents to automate business processes through advanced learning and data integration