Apple’s revamped Siri is more than a voice assistant; it’s now the backbone of the iPhone user experience. You can try it now through the iOS 27 public beta.

“SceneSmith” system uses collaborative AI agents to create realistic 3D environments of places like kitchens, hotels, and living rooms, where robots can simulate everyday chores.

<p>It took four years for Microsoft datacentres to increase their greenhouse gas emissions by four-million tonnes. Between 2024 and 2025, its datacentre carbon footprint jumped by a further four-million tonnes to 20-million tonnes.&nbsp;</p> <p>The company’s <a href="https://cdn-dynmedia-1.microsoft.com/is/content/microsoftcorp/microsoft/msc/documents/presentations/CSR/2026-Microsoft-Environmental-Sustainability-Report-PDF.pdf"><em>2026 Environmental sustainability report</em></a>, shows that total emissions (Scopes 1, 2, and 3) increased 25% year over year (YoY), driven primarily by the expansion of Microsoft <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/The-great-datacentre-backlash-The-industry-response">datacentre infrastructure<

Researchers developed an auditing technique to test generative AI models for malicious capabilities, without prompting them for illegal outputs.

Amid live coding sessions and Silicon Valley optimism, the UN’s AI for Good summit wrestled with an increasingly urgent question: Can global governance catch up before the technology races beyond its control?

The soft, weirdly sexualized home-chore robot has been given some very tactile hands.

MIT researchers developed FloatForm, a swarm of small aquatic robots that snap together like ants forming a raft, assembling into reconfigurable structures on the water.

A single wording mistake cost the government millions. Now Estonia is using AI to spot legal errors before they become law—and to automate more of the state.

As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content.

A USAF cadet and a Lincoln Laboratory researcher found AI chatbots can help nontechnical service members produce viable software applications for their unique problems.

Claude Cowork now keeps working on tasks even after you close your laptop. It’s part of a larger push toward smartphone-controlled agents.

The professor of physics and inaugural director of the NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions will lead LNS and continue his research in particle physics.

You can clip a cover over the cameras, which could be a double-edged sword.

You bought the hardware. Now you’ll need to subscribe for “expanded access” to the most advanced features.

During a "Washington Post Live" panel discussion with ASU President Michael Crow, President Sally Kornbluth explored how universities are preparing the next generation of scientists to lead in America’s rapidly changing technological landscape.

AWS customers can once again access Mythos-level capabilities and exceptional performance in coding, knowledge work, and vision.

The government has removed restrictions on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models—but there were strings attached.

A researcher found that using Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7, he could break into the website of Front Gate—used by every festival from Lollapalooza to Bonnaroo—and freely issue any ticket he chose.

Computer scientist Phillip Isola cuts through the hype to explain how AI agents work and what the future might hold for this rapidly advancing technology.

CIA Director Ratcliffe, Energy Secretary Wright, and UK CTO Patel joined the AWS Summit D.C. keynote for major classified cloud and AI announcements.

A new AWS Forward Deployed Engineering organization will embed thousands of experts with customers to co-develop and deploy agentic AI solutions in days.

The new offering opens the door for cleared defense contractors to build on AWS's classified cloud, backed by an up to $20 million accelerator initiative to fuel innovation.

For decades, the senator has argued that concentrated wealth threatened American democracy. Now he’s betting that frustration with Big Tech, billionaires, and unchecked AI is reaching a tipping point.

Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta pretended to be kids—and then prompted rival chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT to discuss high-risk subjects.

Associate Professor Anna Huang delivers the keynote address, “In Search of Human-AI Resonance,” to a capacity crowd.

In a new Keller Gallery exhibition, Alexandros Haridis SM ’17, PhD ’22 traces centuries of ideas about aesthetic judgment and explores how design can make complex computational systems visible.

To help robots do chores in places like homes and factories, a new approach from MIT uses one language model to clarify users’ instructions, then another to ignore irrelevant info.

Qatar has become the place where FIFA experiments with the next generation of football technology. The results are already visible across this year’s World Cup.

“Scientific American” showcases the history and future of America’s scientific engine, highlighting promising young scientists and icons at MIT and beyond.

Amazon is joining RAISE US as a founding member to help workers prepare for the jobs of tomorrow.

A new system, known as Murakkab, optimizes the design and deployment of multistep workflows that power AI applications.

Google’s Search history update stores media uploads from your interactions, like images used in reverse image searches, for training its AI models.

At high-stakes meetings with the White House, Anthropic's cofounder—a "weirdo," per one official—has been replaced by cofounder Tom Brown.

In a new interview, Garman explains why enterprises are moving past AI experimentation—and what's driving real business value.

AI agents that email people and post on other people's websites are cursed and we shouldn't make them.

<p>The shift from experimental artificial intelligence (AI) projects to enterprise-grade autonomous systems was the defining theme of the <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366644938/Google-Cloud-boosts-for-enterprise-agentic-at-London-Summit">Google Cloud Summit in London</a> last week.&nbsp;</p> <p>As UK enterprises move to action-oriented agentic workflows, technology leaders encounter a new set of challenges. To build a prototype agent is simple, but to deploy hundreds of them at scale demands rigorous data infrastructure, strict security governance and fine-grained cost management.</p> <p>This transition is also redefining the economics of IT, with <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366641816/How-the-AI-boom-is-res

Researchers combined an efficient algorithm with dedicated hardware to rapidly generate 3D maps for navigation using minimal memory and power.

Amid concerns about AI models’ cybersecurity capabilities, OpenAI revealed an improved version of GPT-5.5-Cyber and its “Patch the Plant” initiative to fix open source software bugs.

<p>Data centers are among the highest consumers of electric power. Studies have shown that data center energy consumption increases annually, with three identifiable trends.</p> <p>The first trend is that mainstream legacy corporate data centers remain major power consumers, despite many organizations&nbsp;<a href="https://www.techtarget.com/searchcloudcomputing/tip/12-key-steps-for-a-successful-cloud-migration">migrating systems and hardware to cloud environments</a>. However, while average use is increasing steadily, it's doing so at a lower rate than 25 years ago, when cloud data centers emerged as a major alternative to legacy facilities.</p> <p>The second trend is that while large cloud data centers, often called&nbsp;<a href="htt

From fake tickets to cloned websites, AI is magnifying World Cup scams. Can fans distinguish between what’s real and what’s not?

Sure, anyone can use OpenAI’s chatbot. But with smart engineering, you can get way more interesting results.

The new Siri AI is conversational, omnipresent, and actually helpful.

MIT researchers’ approach captures subtle atomic patterns, improving predictions of material properties.

Leaked files show the invite-only network grades members by their money and fame, shaping who’s in, who’s out, and who pays.

Researchers show that for certain kinds of games, an overlooked class of algorithms performs much better than expected.

At VivaTech 2026 in Paris, Peter DeSantis argued we're at the starting line of AI development with the most important breakthroughs still ahead.

The launch of AWS Continuum and AWS Context, along with capabilities across Amazon Quick, Kiro, AWS DevOps Agent, AWS Transform and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, highlight how AWS is helping customers use agents to work more effectively.

Beyond Anthropic and OpenAI, a new wave of AI startups is choosing Trainium to train models that simulate the physical world.

A new spatial memory system for robots efficiently captures details about the objects they see while exploring their environment.

<p>Expansion of <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/resources/Data-centre-capacity-planning">datacentre capacity</a> – lately driven by <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366642960/Data-dive-Power-grid-data-shows-birth-of-AI-in-UK-datacentres">demand for artificial intelligence (AI) processing</a> – has sparked growing concern about the industry’s <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366630435/Water-efficiency-of-English-datacentres-scrutinised-in-TechUK-report">impact on water supplies</a>. With datacentres set to multiply, some are warning that the shift towards high-density computing could trigger unsustainable demands on water.</p> <p>But the debate is characterised by an information gap. On one hand, we can f

MIT researchers provide a major upgrade to the nearly century-old idea of random utility models.

The fellowships in applied sciences, engineering, and mathematics recognize doctoral students who are pursuing solutions to the most pressing challenges in science and technology.

Media Lab study shows that, much like how GPS has weakened our navigation skills, AI can make us worse at detecting fake news.

Anthropic's 5th-generation AI model makes Mythos-level capabilities available to all customers and shows exceptional performance in coding, knowledge work, and vision— now available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS.

From personalized pet portraits on tumblers to matching group shirts, the new feature uses AI to turn ideas into designs you’ll want to share and wear.

IAIFI enters its second phase with increased funding, broader ambitions, and a growing community at the frontier of AI and fundamental physics.

The visual discovery platform deepens its over decade-long relationship with AWS to accelerate AI innovation for more than 600 million monthly users.

The new Proteus and additional robotics expansions in Europe are designed to support employees by taking on physically strenuous tasks.

From startups launching with a bold idea and enterprises scaling globally to public sector organizations being able to do more with less, cloud computing has supported a foundational change in readily accessible IT services across the economy.

Amazon is building AI agents that combine reliable foundation models with purpose-built infrastructure to deliver incredible accuracy on real-world tasks.

How a Slack shout-out, a dusted-off academic theory, and a spaghetti monster led an AWS team to crack an elusive code—and deliver greater reliability and performance for customers.

AWS brings the technology and learnings behind Amazon's successful Alexa for Shopping agentic assistant to retail customers through AWS Agentic Shopping Assistant solution.

<p><a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Kazakhstan-Where-data-is-set-to-be-the-real-new-oil">In the first part of our investigation of the digital transformation that the state of Kazakhstan is undertaking</a>, we looked at how the country is making a leap from relying on fossil fuels to broadening its revenue base. We now concentrate on a company that might make this happen.</p> <p>To say that Kairat Akhmetov has a big job on his hands is something of an understatement. Speaking with Computer Weekly at the Freedom Inside conference in Kazakh capital Astana in April 2026, the Freedom Telecom CEO explains just how the firm sees telecommunications, digital infrastructure and connectivity as key drivers of economic growth in Kazakhstan.</p> <

<p>If one were to ask most people what they know about Kazakhstan, it wouldn’t be much of a surprise if they were to describe it as a fossil fuel-rich former Soviet republic. Indeed, that is what the world’s ninth-largest country by land area and largest landlocked nation is.</p> <p>Yet while that is accurate to say right now, the Kazakhstan government is planning a future that looks rather different. A digital transformation across the nation is in play, looking to take advantage of the country’s natural resources and its strategic geographic position between Russia and China to create a land where critical infrastructure encompasses data networks and connectivity lines in addition to oil pipelines. And where telcos are already primed to plug in to the opportunity comin

<p>After completing a major upgrade to its New York metro platform to a quad-node network architecture, Internet Exchange (IX) operator DE-CIX has turned to a different deployment, working with NGO Internet Pour Tous, along with internet connectivity and web hosting provider United SA, to expand the Kinshasa-based Africa Congo Internet Exchange (ACIX) with an additional datacentre presence in OADC Texaf’s Kinshasa FIH1 facility.</p> <p>Established in 2023, <a href="https://www.acix.net/">ACIX</a> is designed as a neutral Internet Exchange environment open to all licensed operators, internet service providers (ISPs), mobile network operators (MNOs), cloud providers, content providers, enterprises, financial institutions, academic networks and international car

A new feature creates AI-generated audio episodes on any topic, ready to listen wherever you are.

Amazon brings together Rufus and Alexa+ to create ‘Alexa for Shopping’ on the Amazon Shopping app and website.

AI runs on chips. Here’s what the most important terms mean and why they matter.

<p>As it furthers its journey into providing critical infrastructure throughout the UK, business connectivity provider <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/search">Neos Networks</a> has teamed with mobile infrastructure services firm Cornerstone to provide connectivity services to UK “microscaler” StonesThro to support distributed sovereign edge cloud infrastructure.</p> <p>Seeking to establish a difference between <a href="https://www.stonesthro.co.uk/">StonesThro</a> and hyperscalers that centralise infrastructure in major datacentres, <a href="https://neosnetworks.com/">Neos</a> noted that microscalers distribute cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) compute power to localised sites.</p> <p>By connecting these regio

<p>In early April, Dame Chi Onwurah, chair of the Science Innovation and Technology Select Committee, <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366642254/Science-Innovation-and-Technology-committee-chair-questions-UKs-tech-sovereignty-approach">made some pointed remarks</a> about the UK Government’s technology strategy, or its relative lack thereof.</p> <p>Her argument centred on our dependency on a small number of Big Tech providers, principally Microsoft and AWS, with Palantir receiving mention due to their NHS and military contracts, along with legitimately framed concerns over UK dependencies on foreign supply chains.</p> <p>There was much to agree with in Dame Chi’s article, with just one jarring point – her definition of sovereignty. Nam

<p>A case seeking compensation for approximately 59,000 businesses and organisations using the <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366628071/Microsoft-reports-massive-cloud-uptick-as-CMA-questions-licensing">Microsoft Windows Server</a> operating system in non-Microsoft public clouds is going ahead.</p> <p>The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has ruled to certify a £2bn legal action against Microsoft over its cloud computing and software practices. The collective action court case, brought by digital markets regulation expert Maria Luisa Stasi, accuses Microsoft of overcharging UK businesses and organisations that use its Windows Server on rival cloud services.</p> <p>CAT dismissed Microsoft’s arguments against certification and granted

Entrust, a global leader in identity-centric security solutions, announced the appointments of Ajay Jindal as Senior Vice President of Business Process & Automation and Erika Cowen as Senior Vice President of Customer Success. Both leaders report to Tony Ball, CEO of Entrust, and join the company’s Senior Leadership Team. “At...

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Integration embeds WatchGuard security operations inside HaloPSA, streamlining ticketing, provisioning, and billing workflows for MSPs  WatchGuard Technologies, a global leader in unified cybersecurity for managed service providers (MSPs), today announced a strategic partnership with Halo to help MSPs deliver and administer security services with less overhead and faster response. As part of this relationship, WatchGuard Cloud is integrating with HaloPSA to embed unified security...

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With autonomous endpoint management at its core, the AI-assisted, cloud-native platform unifies IT operations, security, remote support, and remote access into one streamlined experience. After 20 years of trusted remote performance, Splashtop® has announced the launch of its unified platform for modern IT operations, marking the company’s evolution from remote performance leader...

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New Website Introduces a New Services launch and Long-awaited On-site Programming-as-a-Service (PaaS) Offering Data I/O Corporation (NASDAQ: DAIO), the leading global provider of data provisioning solutions for flash memory, microcontrollers and security ICs, today announced the launch of its completely redesigned website at www.dataio.com. More than a visual refresh, the new...

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ThreatModeler, the leader in AI-driven threat modeling, has appointed Kevin Gallagher as Chief Executive Officer. Gallagher will lead the company’s strategy, go-to-market execution, and post-merger integration following ThreatModeler’s acquisition of IriusRisk, the landmark deal that united the top two enterprise threat modeling platforms and positioned ThreatModeler as the global leader...

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Q4 Inc. Acquires Virtua Research to Bring AI-Powered Consensus Management to IR Operations Acquisition adds analyst consensus data to Q4 platform—with Q4’s AI applied to help IR teams identify shifts and proactively manage market expectations Q4 Inc. (Q4), the leading provider of AI-driven IR Ops software, today announced the acquisition...

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Drawing on Five Years’ Experience Deploying Post-Quantum, QuSecure Says PQC Market is Splitting Between Early Movers and Laggards as Google, Cloudflare and India Sharpen 2029 Timelines 2029 milestones from Google, Cloudflare and India show that post-quantum migration is no longer a future-readiness exercise, but an operational timeline problem many organizations will...

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New Solution Delivers Instant, Package-Level Answers, Decision-Ready Insights and Context Without Dashboards, Spreadsheets, Or Manual Analysis Reveel™, the only Shipping Intelligence™ Platform with Parcel Spend Management 2.0 (PSM 2.0) technology, today announced the launch of Reveel IQ, a new AI-powered solution engineered to transform how organizations understand and manage shipping...

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Collaboration unlocks unprecedented access to AI-powered personalization for enterprises Yobi and Microsoft technologies propel Wolverine Worldwide Inc.’s (NYSE: WWW) Merrell and Saucony brands to higher ROI and accelerated new customer acquisition across priority audiences Yobi, the leading behavioral AI company, today announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft to unlock predictive...

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Invicti, a leader in application security testing, today announced the availability of its new DAST-to-SAST correlation capability, designed to help organizations rapidly identify and fix runtime vulnerabilities with unmatched accuracy and speed. Modern DevOps teams face increasing pressure to deliver software quickly without compromising security. Traditional Dynamic Application Security Testing...

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Company surpasses $100 million in annual revenue run rate AfterQuery, a leading applied data solutions research lab, today announced the completion of its $30 million Series A fundraising round at a $300 million valuation. The round was led by Altos Ventures, with participation from The Raine Group alongside existing investors...

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Talkiatry, the nation’s largest private employer of psychiatrists and the preferred in-network psychiatry partner for more than 50 U.S. health systems, today announced the launch of Talkiatry Connect, a referral product that sits inside cloud-based EMRs and makes it easier for primary care providers and specialists to refer patients to psychiatry...

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Former Governor and Film Star Arnold Schwarzenegger Delivers Keynote at Exclusive Event During RSA Conference Week in San Francisco; Wiz Founder & CEO Assaf Rappaport Named 2026 CEO of the Year Evolution Equity Partners, a leader in venture capital investment in cybersecurity, held the fourth Annual Presidents Forum on March...

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ID.me today announced that it is available in Epic Toolbox for the Identity Verification for MyChart category. The integration provides health systems a turnkey option to support identity verification within MyChart workflows—helping patients securely create and recover accounts while reducing administrative burden and strengthening protections for sensitive health information. ID.me can also be configured as...

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US-based startup Haast embeds organizational policy and risk frameworks directly into enterprise workflows, automating high-effort manual compliance processes at scale. Today, Haast, the leading AI-powered enterprise compliance engine, announced it has raised $12 million in Series A funding led by Peak XV Partners, with participation from DST Global Partners, Airtree, Aura...

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Ascendion has been named a Market Leader in HFS Research’s Horizons: Agentic Services, 2026 report. Ascendion’s client impact – innovation velocity, capital unlock, and risk management – demonstrates the potential value available when agentic AI is correctly combined with a modern AI-native methodology and trained engineers. Ascendion, an AI-native leader in software...

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Milesight, a leading provider of innovative IoT products, announced the launch of the EG71 Building IoT Gateway, designed to address smart building integration challenges. As smart buildings scale in complexity, integration remains the industry’s key bottleneck. Fragmented protocols, including BACnet, Modbus, KNX, M-Bus, I/O, and LoRaWAN®, continue to operate in isolation,...

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Offering delivers governed visibility, automation, and streamlined endpoint operations in real time using Tanium’s Autonomous IT Platform Foresite Cybersecurity, a global provider of managed security services, today announced a strategic partnership with Tanium, a leader in Autonomous IT. Through this collaboration, Foresite is expanding its managed service portfolio with a new offering...

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Autonomous IT leader recognized for leadership and innovation in advancing cyber resilience through AI and real-time intelligence Tanium, a leader in Autonomous IT, today announced it has been named a Silver Award winner in the Best Cybersecurity Company category in the 2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards. Presented by Cybersecurity Insiders, each year the...

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<p>The UK is over-reliant on a small number of big tech companies to provide critical datacentres, software and digital infrastructure, placing national security at risk, according to a report by the Open Rights Group (ORG).</p> <p>The report, which is backed by a number of MPs, warned that the UK’s dependency on US big tech companies places the UK at risk as relations between the two countries have become strained.</p> <p>Rifts between the UK and the US over the conduct of the US and Israel’s war with Iran, if they are exacerbated, could expose the UK to threats of US sanctions that could impact critical infrastructure, the report said.</p> <p>Big Tech companies have used their power and resources to control markets, limit innovation and lobby

<p>OpenAI has paused plans for its Stargate UK investment, which was to take place in concert with artificial intelligence (AI) <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/resources/Data-centre-capacity-planning">datacentre builder</a> Nscale and in the government’s AI growth zones.</p> <p>The Microsoft-backed company has cited concerns about rising energy costs as well as the regulatory environment in the UK, particularly <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366640523/UK-government-puts-brakes-on-opt-out-copyright-exemption-for-AI">in copyright</a>.</p> <p>Affected locations – should OpenAI’s “pause” become permanent – are in the government’s <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366631325/Government-confirms-North-East

<p>Tata Communications has launched a self-healing network platform called IZO datacentre Dynamic Connectivity, which is designed to eliminate costly datacentre downtime and support the demands of an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven world.</p> <p>In explaining the rationale for the launch, Tata Communications said that in the current digital economy, disruptions from cable cuts, route failures or sudden AI workload spikes can bring business to a standstill.</p> <p>Specifically, that is every enterprise depends on the ability to always be connected with an uninterrupted data flow. From financial transactions, information technology-enabled services (IT-ITeS) and manufacturing to <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366629456/AI-streaming-to-deli

<p>Culham Campus in Oxfordshire, the site of the UK’s first artificial intelligence (AI) growth zone, will house the UK’s first <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366624056/AIs-thirst-for-power-pushing-enterprises-into-supercomputing">AI supercomputer</a>.</p> <p>The UK government is investing £45m into a 1.4MW supercomputer named Sunrise, a key first step in establishing the country’s first AI Growth Zone at the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s (UKAEA).</p> <p>Unveiled in the UK’s Fusion Strategy, Sunrise is due to be ready by June. The government claims it is the world’s most powerful AI supercomputer dedicated to fusion energy.</p> <p>With the global economy under siege from the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz due

<p>The Met Office has celebrated one year of <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/resources/Infrastructure-as-a-Service-IaaS">“supercomputing as a service”</a> from Microsoft.&nbsp;</p> <p>The occasion presented an opportunity for the weather forecasting and climate prediction organisation to offer its view on why artificial intelligence (AI) is peripheral to its scientific modelling core activities and why cloud is suited to the delivery of supercomputing services.</p> <p>The <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/ezine/Computer-Weekly/Innovating-with-weather-data-at-the-Met-Office">Met Office</a>’s Microsoft cloud supercomputing capability was <a href="https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2025/better-forecasts-ahead-as-met-o

<p>When the chair of your own independent inquiry walks out a year early, citing “glacially slow progress,” that is not a minor administrative footnote - it is a distress signal.</p> <p>Kip Meek’s departure from the <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/The-CMA-anti-trust-investigation-into-AWS-and-Microsoft-explained-Everything-you-need-to-know?_gl=1*479sev*_ga*MTQyNTQ1NjY0NS4xNzQxMzYzOTc3*_ga_TQKE4GS5P9*czE3NzMyMzgzNzkkbzEyMTgkZzEkdDE3NzMyMzkzOTckajYwJGwwJGgw">Competition and Markets Authority</a> (CMA) in late January, reportedly driven by frustration at the snail-like pace of action following the cloud services market investigation, should be deeply uncomfortable reading for British businesses who depend on digital infrastructure they can trust,

<p>The commercial case for cyber security platformisation is a compelling one, and it is a primary driver behind its momentum. Organisations running <a href="https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/tip/Too-many-cloud-security-tools-Time-for-consolidation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">15 or 20 disparate security tools</a> face enormous operational overhead in the form of licensing complexity, integration maintenance, competing vendor relationships and fragmented data that makes it genuinely difficult to understand what’s happening across their technology estate.</p> <p>Consolidating onto a platform that reduces that burden while delivering tighter signal correlation is a legitimate strategic goal and CISOs are right to pursue it where it makes sense to do

<p>As data growth increases, ramping up storage capacity and costs, older backup methods once presumed obsolete -- such as magnetic tape -- are a saving grace.</p> <p>But was tape ever truly dead? Hardly.</p> <p>For a while, tape had a reputation for being outdated. This isn't surprising given that newer technologies have overcome some of tape's most problematic limitations. However, interest returned as organizations began generating data at unprecedented rates and <a href="https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/feature/A-history-and-timeline-of-big-data">exponential data growth</a>&nbsp;became the norm, thanks in large part to AI's extensive training requirements and the increase in IoT devices.</p> <p>One of the main problems with

<p>The first HPE “modular” Mod Pod datacentre modules are set for delivery at <a href="http://carbon3.ai">Carbon3.ai</a>’s off-grid Derbyshire “AI factory”.</p> <p>The site will eventually comprise five HPE Mod Pods, which are modular datacentre pods capable of delivering 1.5mW of <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/resources/Data-centre-capacity-planning">datacentre capability</a>, and will be powered by electricity generated from landfill gas at the site.</p> <p>The Derbyshire site will go live in the second half of 2026, according to Carbon3.ai chief strategy officer Sana Kharegani.</p> <p>Carbon3.ai has plans <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366631218/Startup-Carbon3ai-sets-sights-on-building-UK-wid

<p>ChatGPT, launched in 2022, began making a significant impact on the market by late 2023, according to Synergy Research Group. The company’s chief analyst, John Dinsdale, points out that cloud market leaders have experienced accelerated revenue growth over time. Additionally, the emergence of numerous <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366634475/CBRE-charts-rise-of-neocloud-providers-within-European-colocation-market">neocloud companies</a> (<em>see box: </em><a href="http://preview.pg.techtarget.com:8080/ComputerWeekly/feature/Neoclouds-Meeting-demand-for-AI-acceleration?_dc=1770899156939&amp;vgnextrefresh=1"><em>What is a neocloud?</em></a>) has further strengthened the already positive momentum in the market.</p>