Enterprise
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HMRC puts AI assurance into senior management
HMRC is recruiting a deputy director for AI assurance as the tax authority builds permanent controls around systems moving from experimentation into operational government services.
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Newport turns AI Growth Zone policy into live capacity
Nebius will deploy Nvidia based AI infrastructure at Vantage’s Newport campus, giving the South Wales AI Growth Zone its first announced commercial capacity commitment.
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Palantir’s police footprint emerges contract by contract
At least six British police forces have used Palantir systems under agreements worth £7.8 million, while regional arrangements make the wider operational footprint harder to map.
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UK growth data catches the computing investment wave
Britain’s second quarter GDP figures show strong programming, information technology, and research activity, although the statistics do not isolate artificial intelligence as the cause.
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Grid access gives RWE a datacentre opening
RWE is close to two datacentre development agreements as AI demand turns electricity connections, generation assets, and existing energy sites into strategic digital infrastructure.
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Spain’s Huawei exit becomes a network economics test
MasOrange is reassessing its mobile supplier strategy as European security policy collides with the cost, competition, and operational complexity of replacing installed Huawei infrastructure.
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AI hardware inflation reaches ordinary cloud servers
OVHcloud is raising server prices after sharp increases in memory and storage costs, showing how the AI infrastructure buildout is affecting customers far beyond GPU workloads.
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Physical AI inherits an industrial installed base
NEURA Robotics is taking over Bosch Rexroth’s ACTIVE Shuttle platform, giving its physical AI strategy an established logistics product, installed customers, and ongoing service obligations.
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Claude’s watermark moves transparency down the stack
Anthropic is adding machine readable markers to Claude output as EU transparency requirements begin changing the engineering of models, APIs, and generated files.
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ACRO reprimand exposes a patching governance failure
The ICO has reprimanded ACRO after security weaknesses left highly sensitive criminal-record and identity information potentially exposed during a prolonged compromise.
