Team Techopia
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Kantata brings natural-language reporting into services software
Kantata has launched Expertise Insights, combining Amazon Quick with professional services data and a business-specific semantic layer. Users can generate financial and operational analysis through natural-language requests, with access governed by their existing permissions.
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One Login targets 500 services despite digital ID cancellation
Officials told MPs that GOV.UK One Login serves 264 government services, with wider integration targeted over the next two years. The work continues despite the cancellation of the proposed national digital ID.
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AstraZeneca and Oracle plan AI clinical trial tools
AstraZeneca and Oracle have signed a non-binding agreement to explore AI-assisted clinical trial matching, patient care and safety monitoring. Their first planned programme focuses on hypertension in Abu Dhabi.
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CMA weighs prohibition as nexfibre owners withhold remedies
The CMA is considering prohibition as a possible remedy for nexfibre’s proposed £2bn acquisition of Substantial. The buyer’s shareholders have submitted no remedies package, disputing the regulator’s assumptions about wholesale broadband competition.
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Bullhorn restores recruitment platform after cyber incident
Recruitment software supplier Bullhorn has brought its regional platforms back online after a security incident, although authentication and integration issues remain. The company is investigating with CrowdStrike and warning customers about impersonation attempts.
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Twelve-year-old test account led to Welsh ransomware breach
The ICO has reprimanded Ogi Networks and Data Cymru after a ransomware attack exploited an obsolete test account protected by Password1. Information relating to 3,300 people, most of them children, was taken.
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CMA targets Apple’s contactless access fees and restrictions
The CMA wants Apple to provide access to both established iPhone contactless standards on fairer commercial terms, potentially allowing UK payment providers and other developers to compete more effectively.
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Google Cloud failure puts UK banking resilience under scrutiny
A power failure in Google Cloud’s London region disrupted banking, payments and public services on 20 October. The Treasury Committee has asked financial regulators how they will use their new oversight powers.
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Plinto raises €2.9m to automate financial controls
Copenhagen-based Plinto has secured €2.9m to expand AI software that examines invoices, payments and contracts for discrepancies. Its agents investigate potential errors and coordinate corrective actions through existing business systems.
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Magnora adds operating Oslo data centre to network
Magnora Data Center has acquired an operating Oslo facility with up to 2 MW of IT load, in partnership with Blix Group. The 1,400 m² site will join a connected network of smaller metropolitan data centres.
