ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott hailed AI as an “absolute requirement” for the survival of humanity at the supplier’s Knowledge 2025 customer and partner conference in Las Vegas. “AI is civilization’s opportunity of this century. It is a gateway to prosperity. It is the only $22tn global market opportunity between now and 2030. It’s the only…
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Veteran UK retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) has apologised to customers after a cyber incident of a currently undisclosed nature forced multiple public-facing services offline, with shoppers predictably taking to social media in their droves to lament the outages. In a note published on the afternoon of 22 April, the company revealed it had been…
California-based Twenty20 (T20) cricket side the San Francisco Unicorns has enlisted cloud security and compliance technology specialist Qualys as its inaugural cyber security partner for the upcoming summer 2025 Major League Cricket season in the United States. In exchange for its suite of IT security solutions, including its security intelligence platform Enterprise TruRisk, which automates…
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Daniele Tonella, global head of IT at ING Bank, tells Computer Weekly about his first nine months in the job, which has so far seen him navigate four layers of tech. The chief technology officer (CTO), who describes himself as “a mechanical engineer by mistake” with a passion for tech, started coding when he was…
In this podcast, we talk to Mathieu Gorge, CEO of Vigitrust, about the ongoing impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on data, storage and compliance for CIOs. Gorge discusses the implications for data, its volume, the difficulties of keeping track of inputs and outputs from AI processing, and the need to keep up with law and…
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Since the government announced in the King’s speech last year that it would bring forward a Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, much has changed. The geopolitical context has become more chaotic with the new Trump administration testing long-held norms of the rules-based international order, the economy continues to struggle and new advances in AI complicate…
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With a large ecosystem of partners in France in both the public and private sectors, Microsoft already has a big stake in the country. But last May, the company announced it will be upping the ante with an investment of €4bn to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud technologies. The company said…
The use of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI, relies on a lot of energy. As its adoption grows and people become more adept at harnessing its power, increasingly strong ties are being created between the tech and energy industries. Whilst this may be a good thing, it also brings about new challenges and legal…
AI’s power play: the high-stakes race for energy capacity Read More »
CIOs have been under immense pressure for some time to deliver successful digital initiatives while navigating budget constraints and increasing demands from senior executives. A recent Gartner survey reveals that 92% of CIOs anticipate integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into their organisations by 2025, yet 49% struggle to assess and showcase the technology’s value. Are we…
Why SLMs could be a big deal for businesses looking for an edge Read More »
In her Spring Statement, Chancellor Rachel Reeves said government departments will reduce their administrative budgets by 15% by the end of the decade, adding that the savings on back-office functions will total at least £2.2bn per year by 2030. Artificial intelligence (AI) has a strong presence in the Chancellor’s statement, with the government confirming the…
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