Met Police finally get full funding for national Post Office investigation
But, in May, commander Stephen Clayman, who is leading the operation, said: “We recently received a Home Office Special Grant of £2.8m, which goes some way to supporting our costs, but the reality is that we urgently…
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Huawei Cloud Rolls Out Enterprise AI Products Across the Board, Building an Open Agentic Cloud
He shared Huawei Cloud's latest progress. He announced the global launch of the latest AI Cluster Service (AICS), a key step in Huawei Cloud's strategy to strengthen the silicon bedrock on the cloud and reinforce the…
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SoftBank invests $225M in ASI and forms autonomous construction venture
SoftBank is funding the joint venture to cover several kinds of building work, mainly civil construction and moving materials on site. The size of that funding, who owns what and the name of the venture were not…
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French local authorities to replace WhatsApp with ‘sovereign’ encrypted messaging
Four French local authorities have taken part in a trial of a WhatsApp-style messaging service based on the Matrix open source protocol , which will become available to local authorities across France from January 2027.…
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Trump-XI summit aims to head off an AI arms race
Trump told a gathering of world leaders at the US general assembly on Tuesday that, “whoever wins superintelligence wins … and we’re leading now over China by a lot”. Quite how this will help build rapport between the…
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Dreamforce 2026: A question of trust
The supplier behind the conference, Salesforce, has long vaunted its trustworthiness as a software-as-a-service provider. Its thesis is that as a cloud supplier, trusted with its customers’ data and applications…
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OpenAI is reportedly preparing to preview a GPT-6 Cyber security model
Alongside the model, OpenAI plans to launch a new product that helps customers deploy it more securely and automatically, according to Fortune. The product has no name yet, and Fortune says it would be the first of its…
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Consumers want strong independent oversight of banking AI
The latest survey of around 2,500 customers by NatWest bank found that 71% use AI tools at least occasionally and 40% use them most or every day. Out of those surveyed, 57% are using AI tools more than they were six…
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Anthropic Releases Lower-Cost Opus 5.5 Ahead Of IPO
The company said Opus 5.5 performs similarly to Fable 5.1 on most work while costing $20 (£15) per million output tokens, compared to $25 for the previous Opus release. Price, performance Fable is a model in Anthropic’s…
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Why AI adoption is a people problem, not a technology problem
The industrial world is the ideal proving ground for AI tools, and the sector has already seen a plethora of innovation built on real-world business needs, creating tools that have transformed operations from engineering…
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