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Nearly 60% of people regret taking social media financial advice

TSB survey of 2,000 people found that one in four have used artificial intelligence for financial advice
Why the next AI race will be won at the inference layer

Growing adoption of agentic AI is exposing the limitations of single-stack infrastructure, prompting enterprises to rethink how models, hardware and sovereignty are managed
Capita CEO receives scathing rebuttal from employee

Capita CEO criticised after making Civil Service Pension Scheme claims in a message to staff
Chi Onwurah pushes to curb digital twins of real people

The chair of the science, technology and innovation committee says digital twins of people should be covered by data protection law
Munich Airport presses digital twin to improve operations

Munich Airport turns to Celonis process mining software to optimise operations and passenger experience through real-time digital twins, focusing on baggage handling efficiency
Government gives regulatory boost to support AI in legal sector

Legal firms have been invited to participate in the new Legal Services AI Growth Lab to reduce barriers to the use of artificial intelligence in legal services

CW@60: From the absurd to the obvious - the day we laughed at the future

It's easy to get stuck in the present - the successful tech careers come to those with the skill to reason forward and work out the next trend before it happens, as a computing legend once demonstrated to his students
CW@60: Christmas in the Falklands and the importance of keeping in touch

Sometimes our amazement at new innovations obscures what really matters - the way that technology connects people, and makes the world seem a smaller place
Why valuing neurodivergent workers is a cyber security essential

Visible recognition and support are vital for neurodivergent cyber security professionals to flourish. So, how can leaders ensure they get it right?

Agentic AI and data observability: the data check you didn’t know you had- Data Matters

This is a guest blogpost by Ashwin Rajeeva, Chief Technology Officer, Acceldata. For twenty years, the last line of defence in enterprise data has been a person looking at a number and thinking: ... Continue Reading
Anthropic Claude incidents show the limits of AI guard rails- Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog

Anyone considering what guide rails need to be in place to protect us from rogue AI behaviour, need to read Anthropic’s postmortem of the latest security breach. Three models undergoing ... Continue Reading
Edge series - Microsoft Azure: Trusted intelligence at the edge- CW Developer Network

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Michael Nelson, cloud & AI GTM director at Microsoft. At Microsoft Azure, the "edge story" is all about turning edge ... Continue Reading
IBM client engineering VP: The inside track (for developers) on IBM Bob- CW Developer Network

Just a couple of months ago, IBM launched IBM Bob. Bob (which, admittedly, in the UK at least, is difficult to say without invoking Rowan Atkinson’s Bob in Blackadder) in this instance is described ... Continue Reading

Why telco economics must move from gigabytes to AI

In the second of a three-part series on the role of telcos in the AI economy, we examine why a pricing model built on traffic volume no longer captures the value that AI creates
The King spoke not a word on AI - then the end of term turned

The UK government went through a whole parliamentary term without consideration of AI legislation - will a new prime minister take a different approach?
AI won't rescue your organisation from itself

What determines whether an IT transformation will enable you to thrive or fail?