Last month, a report revealed how much energy and water ChatGPT consumes. Then, we also discovered that being polite to AI also costs millions for companies. A simple “You’re welcome” from the agent uses up resources, too.So, not only are these AI companies spending a lot of money, but they’re also consuming a ton of…
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With millions of businesses now using Amazon Web Services (AWS) for their cloud computing needs, it’s become a vital consideration for IT security teams and professionals. As such, AWS offers a broad range of cyber security tools to secure AWS-based tech stacks. They cover areas such as data privacy, access management, configuration management, threat detection,…
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Europe has started taking steps to fix the immense problems it believes have hampered its competitiveness and left it with an under-developed artificial intelligence (AI) industry that cannot compete on the world stage. Leaders of European Union (EU) nations, having called for urgent measures, set terms for political negotiations to simplify onerous rules governing financiers and…
Thanks to cloud computing, organisations of all shapes and sizes have benefitted from the flexibility of IT capacity without the cost and challenges of maintaining their own infrastructure. Hyperscale public cloud providers and SaaS tools to help with a vast array of business processes have been a particular boon for small and fast-growing organisations, helping…
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Given digital technology is so central to how we live, work, transact and communicate, we have recently seen the finalisation of an unprecedented amount of digital regulation in both the UK and the EU. In such a fast-moving environment, this begs the question, how should companies stay ahead of the curve? Although the exact response…
Cloud computing’s rise is a success story under scrutiny. It has been nothing short of transformative, enabling businesses to scale operations, innovate rapidly, and optimise costs. It has become an essential pillar of modern enterprise IT, supporting mission-critical workloads across industries. From finance and healthcare to artificial intelligence (AI) and retail, the cloud is now…
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has hit out at the UK competition watchdog for presenting “no credible evidence” to support its claims the public cloud giant’s anti-competitive behaviour is harming how the domestic cloud infrastructure market operates. The Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) published the provisional findings from its multi-year antitrust investigation into the inner workings…
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The competition watchdog has published the provisioning findings from its long-running investigation into the inner workings of the UK cloud infrastructure services market, which shows that competition in the sector is not working as well as it could be. For this reason, Kip Meek, chair of the CMA’s independent inquiry group, said it is advising…
The State of digital government review, published by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, has portrayed the highly fragmented nature of public sector digital services. A root cause of the problems with public sector digital services, according to the review, is that fragmentation is a feature of the system. One of the challenges noted…
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The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) should embrace artificial intelligence (AI) to maintain its military advantages, which will require nurturing the country’s private AI defence sector and ensuring there is interoperability with the systems used by its allies, the Commons Defence Committee has said. In December 2023, the committee launched an inquiry examining how the…
