Team Techopia
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Salesforce wins signed £2bn HMRC CRM contract
HMRC’s £2 billion CRM contract with Salesforce has been confirmed through official procurement records. The agreement covers an initial ten years, with extensions potentially taking it to 15, and includes planned AI-assisted casework.
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Finland brings AI into classified government workflows
Finland’s Foreign Ministry has begun piloting UMAI, an AI assistant for certain classified and confidential material. The deployment will inform the development of a secure platform for wider central government use.
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TomTom restructures as automotive revenues come under pressure
TomTom is reorganising around automated driving, location intelligence and navigation, with approximately 200 roles affected. The changes come alongside falling automotive revenue and expanding efforts to bring mapping services into AI applications.
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Sweden extends AI computing access to smaller companies
Sweden AI Factory is collaborating with NVIDIA to provide additional technical support, training and development resources to startups and smaller businesses using European supercomputing infrastructure.
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Cohere moves to acquire autonomous security specialist AISLE
Cohere has signed a letter of intent to acquire AISLE, bringing autonomous vulnerability discovery and remediation expertise into its enterprise AI strategy. The proposed transaction would expand the company’s cybersecurity capabilities in Europe.
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CERN and Mistral plan a foundation model for physics
CERN and Mistral have agreed to develop foundation models for particle physics, beginning with simulations of proton collisions. The research aims to consolidate multiple scientific analysis tasks into a reusable AI architecture.
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Sweden puts shared AI computing into operation
Five major Swedish organisations have launched Sferical One, a jointly funded AI supercomputer already supporting selected business applications. Its operators are pooling computing infrastructure while keeping sensitive workloads separated.
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TikTok faces another obstacle in gatekeeper appeal
An adviser to Europe’s highest court has recommended rejecting ByteDance’s appeal against TikTok’s Digital Markets Act gatekeeper designation, clarifying the evidence needed to challenge a regulatory classification.
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Fraud refunds come before negligence disputes
Europe’s highest court has ruled that payment providers must immediately reimburse unauthorised transactions even where customers may have been grossly negligent. Banks can pursue recovery separately.
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Palantir settlement returns Met software deal to competition
Palantir and London’s policing authority have settled their legal dispute over a blocked £50 million Metropolitan Police software contract, clarifying the grounds for rejection while leaving a new procurement process to determine the eventual supplier.
