Europe’s IT spend to surge 11% as cloud sovereignty fever takes hold
Europe’s IT spend to surge 11% as cloud sovereignty fever takes hold Summary Gartner forecasts that IT spending in Europe will grow 11% in the year ahead, pushing the market…
Digital overhaul at UK’s NS&I bank is £1.3B over budget and 4 years late
Digital overhaul at UK’s NS&I bank is £1.3B over budget and 4 years late Summary The National Audit Office (NAO) has found that National Savings & Investments’ (NS&I) business transformation…
Chinese spies told Claude to break into about 30 critical orgs. Some attacks succeeded
Chinese spies told Claude to break into about 30 critical orgs. Some attacks succeeded Summary Anthropic reports a state-backed Chinese threat group (tracked as GTG-1002) used its Claude Code AI…
Baidu answers China’s call for home-grown silicon with custom AI accelerators
Baidu answers China’s call for home-grown silicon with custom AI accelerators Summary Baidu has unveiled a new generation of custom AI accelerators as China pushes to reduce dependence on Western…
The human touch: A CIO’s wake-up call on customer service AI
The human touch: A CIO’s wake-up call on customer service AI Summary Sarah Amsler warns that widespread adoption of AI in customer service — often used as a cost-cutting measure…
Britain’s first small modular reactors to be built in Wales
Britain’s first small modular reactors to be built in Wales Summary The UK has chosen Wylfa on Anglesey for its first small modular reactor (SMR) plant. The £2.5bn project will…
OpenAI’s Open-Weight Models Are Coming to the US Military
OpenAI’s Open-Weight Models Are Coming to the US Military Summary OpenAI has released open-weight models (gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b) that can run locally and allow access to model weights. That capability…
Microsoft is building datacenter superclusters that span continents
Microsoft is building datacenter superclusters that span continents Summary Microsoft has begun linking datacentres across large distances to create what it calls “Fairwater” superclusters — multi‑datacentre training fabrics intended to…
Google sues 25 China-based scammers behind Lighthouse ‘phishing for dummies’ kit
Google sues 25 China-based scammers behind Lighthouse ‘phishing for dummies’ kit Summary Google has filed a US lawsuit against 25 unnamed China-based defendants it accuses of operating Lighthouse, a phishing-as-a-service…
OpenAI’s viability called into question by reported inference spending with Microsoft
OpenAI’s viability called into question by reported inference spending with Microsoft Summary Leaked Microsoft internal financial documents reported by Ed Zitron suggest OpenAI has paid more than £12bn to Microsoft…