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Nvidia acquires Hugging Face and becomes open platform provider

AI acceleration hardware provider Nvidia announces the acquisition of the open model platform Hugging Face
Fri, 04 Sep 2026 04:58:00 GMT

CW@60: From cassettes to cellular - how early constraints built a modern CTO

Forrester's CTO charts his path from farm hand to tech leader, via his mother's love of 1980s soap operas
Fri, 04 Sep 2026 03:00:00 GMT

New York City to ban children’s use of GenAI tools in school

New York mayor Zohran Mamdani has moved to restrict children’s use of AI tools in the city’s public school system
Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:06:00 GMT

Financial firms face ‘vulnerability bottlenecks’ from frontier AI

The Financial Conduct Authority warns that frontier AI models are finding security vulnerabilities faster than firms can patch them
Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:30:00 GMT

Interview: Oracle accelerates Middle East cloud expansion as demand for sovereign AI rises

The company is expanding its regional cloud footprint, growing sovereign cloud deployments and investing in AI skills development as governments and enterprises seek control over data, compliance and artificial intelligence
Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Oracle executive chairman Larry Ellison called to testify over US health system overspend

The executive chair of Oracle and its CEO will be asked to justify why a project budgeted at $10bn is costing taxpayers $17bn more
Thu, 03 Sep 2026 11:45:00 GMT

Human-AI chemistry: the real differentiator in enterprise AI

Enterprise AI has evolved from isolated tools to integrated systems, says Capgemini. Success depends on human-AI collaboration, runtime governance, and orchestration
Thu, 03 Sep 2026 10:03:00 GMT

CW@60: My life as an alt-tech geek

Computer Weekly's tech-writer-in-chief Cliff Saran explains why he is perfectly suited to the job
Thu, 03 Sep 2026 03:00:00 GMT

Lords considers government emergency AI kill switch

 An amendment to the UK’s Cyber Security and Resilience Bill will give the government powers to switch off AI systems or datacentres in an emergency
Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:28:00 GMT

When the intern has admin rights: GDPR in the agentic age

The Security Think Tank explores the intersection of GDPR and artificial intelligence, considering how data protection standards in the UK and Europe are changing in this new paradigm.
Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:26:00 GMT

UK airport hackers leak stolen customer data

The cyber gang that attacked Manchester Airports Group has leaked data on 8.7 million travellers after its victim refused to pay a ransom
Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:17:00 GMT

Mythos helps bug bounty firm find critical hidden RCE

HackerOne used Anthropic’s controversial Claude Mythos 5 model on its codebase and found a critical hidden flaw
Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:06:00 GMT

The road to digital tyranny: when AI acts autonomously

AI can operate autonomously but should do so only within human-defined limits. Capability is not equal to authority — AI may act independently, but humans must set boundaries
Wed, 02 Sep 2026 10:04:00 GMT

Amazon S3 & AI: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

We speak to AWS’ Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec about S3 growth, DuckDB and how AI is helping people understand their data
Wed, 02 Sep 2026 05:13:00 GMT

AWS sets 2026 opening date for Saudi cloud region

New cloud region, AI partnerships and skills programmes underscore AWS’s growing role in supporting Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030
Wed, 02 Sep 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Microsoft sets November launch for Saudi cloud region

Announcement at Leap 2026 highlights Saudi Arabia’s push to expand local cloud and AI infrastructure in support of Vision 2030
Wed, 02 Sep 2026 04:45:00 GMT

CW@60: Action is the antithesis of anxiety

Zahra Bahrololoumi, CEO of Salesforce UK & Ireland, charts a career through three decades of seismic tech shifts to arrive at a philosophy for meeting AI head-on
Wed, 02 Sep 2026 03:00:00 GMT

The loop nobody's checking the size of

Every MDR provider leads with the benefits of AI for managed cyber security and covers its bases by stressing that a human oversees what its AI decides. The more useful question is what that person knows.
Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:59:00 GMT

AI has exposed the cracks GDPR was already trying to fix

The Security Think Tank explores the intersection of GDPR and artificial intelligence, considering how data protection standards in the UK and Europe are changing in this new paradigm.
Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:46:00 GMT

The next AI breakthrough won't be a bigger model

The next leap in AI will not come from making one model smarter, but rather from learning how to organise thousands of them
Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:45:00 GMT