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Six UK companies have been selected as part as UK government’s plans to introduce AI tutoring tools in schools

Post Office general counsel, who led court case against subpostmasters, failed to appear at statutory public inquiry

Steve Lucas, CEO of Boomi, believes the answer is prompt routing, which sends queries to the LLM with the lowest token cost and caches responses

Nationwide extends its VCF contract with Broadcom. Meanwhile, in the Tesco legal case, Broadcom disputes that VMware is a dominant software platform

Survey reveals concerns over the take-up of artificial intelligence technology in Finland

Enhanced powers to collect and share data are at the heart of EU plans to expand Europol, putting it at loggerheads with human rights groups

AI-native networks, intelligent computing and token-based business models are emerging as the next frontier of digital infrastructure

The UK’s national museums and galleries have failed to heed the lessons of high-profile cyber attacks and remain highly vulnerable. The Public Accounts Committee is calling on DCMS to do more to help

The UK’s national museums and galleries have failed to heed the lessons of high-profile cyber attacks and remain highly vulnerable. The Public Accounts Committee is calling on DCMS to do more to help.

Outsourcing migration processes to third countries via the transfer of powerful digital surveillance technologies is entrenching an ‘arbitrary and deterrent’ approach to border management that is hard to scrutinise and ultimately undermines the human rights of migrants

Metropolitan Police set to roll out live facial recognition (LFR) in the West End and Soho, but critics say police are ‘rushing ahead’ without regulation

Space-based datacentres are becoming technically feasible in the next decade, with one in eight AI workloads running in space by 2040, according to Boston Consulting Group – but costs will pose a major barrier to its adoption

Pegasystems boss criticises big software suppliers for pushing enterprises to deploy unpredictable AI agents

The Center for Financial Innovation and Technology received further government backing in April

Engineering needs rigour to fix gender imbalances. By treating inclusion as a design challenge with intent and accountability, firms build better teams and more resilient system

Some 25 organisations back Strategic Market Status for Microsoft’s business software ecosystem, while the Open Cloud Coalition estimates £60m in annual public sector costs

A parish council, a £60m public sector bill, and the AI question that could define UK digital competition for a generation in responses to the CMA’s Strategic Market Status investigation

For three decades, governments have promised that technology would transform and improve the state - yet the same failures keep recurring. The missing ingredient is to find a better way to prove that a policy works

AI demands high-density compute, challenging sustainability goals. CIOs must shift from vague targets to operational, audited metrics and responsible hardware lifecycle management

As organisations ramp up the use of AI coding agents in software development, they may find costs increase significantly if such tools are overused