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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 FaceFri, 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 operasFri, 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 systemThu, 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 themThu, 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 intelligenceThu, 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 moreThu, 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 orchestrationThu, 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 jobThu, 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 emergencyWed, 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 ransomWed, 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 flawWed, 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 boundariesWed, 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 dataWed, 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 2030Wed, 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 2030Wed, 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-onWed, 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 themTue, 01 Sep 2026 12:45:00 GMT