By all counts, this week should mark a crowning achievement and a flood of fervent coverage across the tech media universe — and, heck, even the mainstream, general news media. Think about it: At whatever point Apple decides to finally catch up and get on the foldable phone bandwagon — in 2026, 2027, 2097, or

Google has introduced a new AI assistant to serve as a platform so users can access and coordinate agents that automate work tasks. Gemini Enterprise, which replaces the Agentspace app launched last year, also features new enterprise search functions to help customers tap into data from across an organization’s business apps.  Gemini Enterprise is aimed

The Discord user data breach offers yet another argument against the UK government’s authoritarian plans for Digital ID. A sensible government would consider the implications before forcing people to risk information with a stunt like this. So, what happened?  The online speculation is that millions of government ID data items might have been stolen in an attack against an

The UK government has announced plans to appoint a “digital markets champion” as part of its drive to modernize the way financial transactions are conducted by adopting blockchain-based shared ledgers. News of the new role was announced by Economic Secretary to the Treasury Lucy Rigby, in a speech on Wednesday at the Digital Assets Week

The modern enterprise has more data than it can handle, and AI agents are increasingly stepping in to help. AWS aims to tackle that data overload with its new Amazon Quick Suite, an agentic AI system released Thursday that can conduct deep-dive research, answer questions, analyze and visualize data, and automate workflows. The company claims

The latest AI imaging tools not only create a picture from a prompt (you type words, and the tool makes a picture seemingly ex nihilo).  They also do another neat trick: You can upload a photograph, and they can convincingly modify it.  At the moment (this category moves really fast), no product does it better than Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash

A new report from Red Hat finds that 89 percent of businesses are yet to see any customer value from their AI endeavours. However, organisations anticipate a 32 percent increase in AI investment by 2026. The survey finds that AI and security are the joint top IT priorities for UK organisations over the next 18

Cisco has entered an increasingly competitive race to dominate AI data centre interconnect technology, becoming the latest major player to unveil purpose-built routing hardware for connecting distributed AI workloads across multiple facilities. The networking giant unveiled its 8223 routing system on October 8, introducing what it claims is the industry’s first 51.2 terabit per second fixed router

Google Cloud has launched Gemini Enterprise, a new platform it calls “the new front door for AI in the workplace”. Announced during a virtual press conference, the platform brings together Google’s Gemini models, first and third-party agents, and the core technology of what was formerly known as Google Agentspace to create a singular agentic platform.

David AI has secured $50 million in Series B funding to expand its audio data research operations. The round was led by Meritech, with participation from NVIDIA, Alt Capital, First Round Capital, Amplify Partners, and Y Combinator. The company positions itself as the world’s first audio data research lab, focused on creating the datasets and