News
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Mainframe AI stops short of autonomy
BMC’s latest mainframe survey finds enterprises moving AI into operational use while remaining cautious about autonomous action, exposing a governance problem as agents reach systems carrying critical business data and transactions.
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Equinix pushes networking towards intent
Equinix has unveiled a managed networking service that turns connectivity requirements into automatically orchestrated routes across cloud, AI, and enterprise infrastructure, moving another layer of network engineering behind software and APIs.
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AWS puts limits around agentic customer service
AWS has launched its agentic customer-experience designer in London and Frankfurt, combining generative conversations with fixed workflows where approvals, routing, eligibility, and compliance cannot be left to probabilistic reasoning.
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AI inference becomes an infrastructure decision
Equinix is building a distributed inference service with Nvidia and Together AI, betting that model location will become a cost, performance, and governance decision as enterprise AI moves deeper into production.
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Telecom security rules reach procurement
A five-year DDoS protection contract with an unnamed Tier-1 UK telecoms provider shows security regulation feeding directly into infrastructure procurement as operators face tighter requirements around resilience, control, and network operations.
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Age checks become a vendor governance problem
Ofcom has told online services to conduct regular due diligence on age-assurance suppliers, making explicit that buying third-party technology does not transfer responsibility for whether the resulting checks meet the regulator’s effectiveness standard.
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Online Safety Act reaches the operating layer
Ofcom research suggests regulated online services have made substantial changes under the Online Safety Act, but costs, incomplete understanding, and uneven implementation show how differently the regime is being absorbed into day-to-day operations.
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AI rollouts expose UK observability gap
A Virtana survey of 238 UK enterprise technology decision-makers finds organisations pushing AI further into production while engineers report weaker visibility into failures, costs, and infrastructure performance than senior executives believe they possess.
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Pistachio turns failed startup IP into compliance play
Norwegian cybersecurity company Pistachio has bought Hugin.io’s technology from its bankruptcy estate, using the intellectual property to build compliance software for smaller businesses facing expanding European security obligations.
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Aize buys Samp to close AI’s data gap
Norway’s Aize has acquired French industrial AI company Samp, combining engineering-system data with AI-generated representations of physical assets as operators confront the gap between corporate records and what actually exists on site.
