The Ultimate Guide to Artificial Intelligence
A curated UK edition of TechDay news, analysis, interviews, reviews, job moves, and related resources for Artificial Intelligence (AI).
What to know about Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming industries, reshaping business operations, enhancing customer experiences, and driving innovation across sectors globally and in Australasia. From the surge in AI-driven cybersecurity threats and the adoption of AI in cloud infrastructure to the integration of generative AI in customer service, marketing, and financial sectors, this dynamic field demands close attention.
Experts emphasise the critical role of robust data management and infrastructure in successfully leveraging AI technologies, while organisations face challenges including skill gaps, ethical considerations, and regulatory developments. As AI adoption accelerates, businesses must balance innovation with security, sustainability, and human-centric strategies to thrive in this evolving landscape.
Readers exploring this tag will gain insights into the latest AI trends, practical applications, organisational strategies, technological advancements, and the collaborative efforts shaping the future of AI. Understanding these developments is essential for anyone interested in the impact of artificial intelligence on business, technology, and society.
UK Artificial Intelligence News
Regional stories with direct local relevance
Navex expands Nira AI assistant into customer support
Customers can now get faster help in more than 50 languages as NAVEX brings its Nira assistant into support and case creation.
FormationQ & Hartree Centre partner on quantum adoption
More than 40% of respondents cite a skills shortage as quantum computing's adoption barrier, as the UK seeks practical uses.
Latos plans AI-ready data centre for east Manchester
The canal-side brownfield scheme could reuse disused land while adding capacity for AI workloads closer to Manchester users.
UK marketers lose quarter of week to admin, Optimizely finds
Poor workflows are leaving UK marketing teams short of time, with 45% spending at least a quarter of the week on admin.
MindBridge partners Fieldguide on AI audit workflow
Accounting firms could cut manual steps as transaction-level risk analysis is built into a single audit platform used for planning and reporting.
Lincolnshire Police automates traffic notices with Quadient
The force says the switch has freed capacity equal to four staff a month, helping it meet statutory deadlines and cut printing costs.
Analyst Insights
Research and market analysis connected to Artificial Intelligence
Fortinet buys Virtue AI to boost AI security tools
Gartner urges CFOs to pilot finance AI with governance
Global CIOs rush to invest in AI agents, study finds
Daon wins Frost & Sullivan recognition for biometric model
Unit4 wins public sector deals as demand for cloud grows
Featured News
AI will fade, says Dell Technologies' ephemeral Chief AI Officer
Dell says agentic AI should shift routine tasks below the machine line, freeing staff for expert work while making the role temporary.
Schrodinger's ERP both dead and alive, says Rimini Street
Businesses can avoid costly ERP rip-and-replace projects by layering AI and automation onto existing systems, Rimini Street says.
Estima CEO: Generative AI reshapes pharmaceutical value proof
The HEOR tech firm is using generative AI to cut approval analyses from years to weeks, reshaping launch decisions and regulator responses.
Grafana Labs launches six AI tools for telemetry & agents
Grafana Labs has launched six AI observability tools during its AI Week, including new capabilities for monitoring and investigating AI agents.
Theorem study: friction between pre-sales and executed media ads
Theorem's new survey finds friction remains the biggest barrier in enterprise pre-sales, despite widespread automation adoption.
Check Point CTO on AI's double-edged sword
AI is shrinking the gap between vulnerability disclosure and real-world exploitation to hours, forcing security teams to adapt fast.
Meet the man behind the Saas-Pocalypse: Emergent's Mukund Jha
The new cash will help Emergent broaden from coding tools into an operating system for small and medium businesses as demand surges.
Check Point: Be the best, or get out the way
Rising AI-driven attacks are compel security buyers to cut vendor sprawl, though Check Point warns over-consolidation can still raise risk.
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Check Point: Hackers are already in. Act accordingly
Hackers are exploiting vulnerabilities in hours or minutes, leaving many organisations compromised before defenders spot the breach.
Human jobs are safe - but AI influence on healthcare growing
AI is helping hospitals cut scan times, clear backlogs and spot disease earlier, while doctors still keep final say over treatment.
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OnBoard says board AI policy key, but lags behind in adoption
Most boards are using AI, but formal guidelines are still missing as adoption races ahead of governance, OnBoard's survey found.
John Margerison on the new class of employee: AI managers
Businesses should treat AI like a new hire, as weak oversight could expose sensitive data and leave staff needing fresh skills to stay relevant.
Exclusive: Dreamdata CEO on why B2B buying funnel isn't linear
Buyers are spending most of the journey before sales speak, forcing marketers to rethink funnels and how they prove return on investment.
The new workforce: AI agents to work in concert with humans
AI agents are set to reshape hiring and team structures, pushing firms towards global talent pools and outcome-based work.
Exclusive: Virtuozzo sees GPU clouds reshape AI infrastructure
AI demand is pushing cloud providers towards GPU-as-a-service models, with efficiency and utilisation emerging as key differentiators.
How the 'human hour' mentality influences the future of tech
AI pilots are faltering where firms still judge success by hours saved, leaving customer value and workforce design unresolved.
Humanoid robots, 0-day defence among Info-Tech trends for '27
Agentic AI, zero-day surge, sovereign cloud, and humanoid robots will define IT strategy in 2027, Info-Tech Research Group warns.
Exabeam: Ruthless efficiency can make agentic AI malicious
Behavioural analytics is becoming essential as AI agents can pursue tasks so efficiently that they may cause damage without any malicious intent.
Quantum computers aren't here yet. But the data threat is
Hackers are already stockpiling encrypted data for Q-Day, when quantum machines could break RSA and ECC in minutes.
Marvell targets AI connectivity bottleneck with NVIDIA boost
AI data centres are hitting copper limits, pushing Marvell and Nvidia towards optics as clusters grow larger and more distributed.
Check Point Technologies: On vigilance, Mythos and beyond
AI-driven vulnerability scanning is forcing firms to rethink complacency as Check Point says existing defences still help against Mythos.
Exclusive: Reco COO on securing the AI inside your SaaS stack
Reco COO Zoe Hillenmeyer says enterprises typically underestimate their AI agent exposure by a factor of ten and that gap is widening.
Reviews
Expert Columns
Modern data teams: key roles, structures and data quality
Trust, AI, and quantum technologies in the new logic of state power
Why AI fails without a strong data foundation and how to get it right
Dupe culture is creating a new challenge for toy and gaming brands
The psychology of better decision-making in the real-time enterprise
Why smarter payments data is becoming the iGaming CFO's best friend
AI can produce the work, it can't produce the lawyer
The new architecture of money: Stablecoins, AI and Europe's payments future
When AI memory, simulation and provenance collide
Supercharged security: Cyber risk in the age of frontier AI
Interviews
Interviews and video coverage from the network
AI will fade, says Dell Technologies' ephemeral Chief AI Officer
Schrodinger's ERP both dead and alive, says Rimini Street
Estima CEO: Generative AI reshapes pharmaceutical value proof
Grafana Labs launches six AI tools for telemetry & agents
Theorem study: friction between pre-sales and executed media ads
Recent Artificial Intelligence News
Keyloop says AI can boost EV sales as UK reviews targets
Electric car buyers are asking AI far more questions than sales staff, underscoring a confidence gap as ministers rethink EV mandates.
UK manufacturers see AI as key to customer loyalty
Cybersecurity fears remain a key hurdle as most UK manufacturers race to use AI to improve service, fulfilment and retention.
RedSquid & Bango target TV subscriptions for operators
Households could soon manage entertainment, gaming and fitness subscriptions on one TV bill as operators seek fresh revenue beyond connectivity.
Tokenovate appoints Alec Burns as Head of Product Technology
The hire signals Tokenovate's push to make its post-trade automation platform easier for institutions to deploy at scale.
Panduit launches ES2P rack power unit for data centres
Rack-level power monitoring is being pushed further into edge and branch sites as demand rises for cloud, AI and distributed workloads.
Centeca launches ChatGPT plugin for UK car listings
The tool could steer shoppers straight to independent dealers, as AI searches reshape how UK buyers find and finance cars online.
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Iceland cuts retail losses 80% with AI theft system
The frozen food chain says fewer false alarms and faster staff alerts are helping protect customers, after theft losses fell 80% in pilot stores.
TechWorks widens AESIN to aerospace, defence & more
The move opens the network to aerospace, defence and industrial firms grappling with the same software, security and systems challenges as automakers.
Synextra gains full Microsoft Azure partner status
It strengthens Synextra's appeal to UK firms seeking one provider for cloud migration, app development and data projects across Azure.
CloudCoCo launches AI procurement platform for IT buyers
Enterprise IT buyers could cut procurement delays as CloudCoCo rolls out AI tools across a 250,000-product catalogue and invoice processing.
UK shoppers demand personalised rewards in loyalty schemes
Retailers face pressure to make rewards more relevant, after a survey found 79% of UK shoppers want personalised loyalty offers and many feel no different.
AnywhereNow's Tendfor wins Microsoft Teams certification
Customers using Microsoft Teams may find contact centre integration simpler after Tendfor was certified under Microsoft's Unify Integration Model.
ANS Academy expands AI leadership apprenticeship sixfold
Growing employer demand has pushed the AI leadership apprenticeship to six cohorts, with 71 learners now in the pipeline.
Netcall adds AI tools to speed process to app delivery
Businesses could cut weeks from app projects as Netcall's new AI tools automate process mapping, search and specification drafting.
Trust, AI, and quantum technologies in the new logic of state power
States risk losing strategic autonomy as cloud, chip and cryptographic dependencies spread beyond borders and into foreign-controlled systems.
SolarWinds says AI in IT service management hides costs
Most IT teams are finding AI in service management costs more in training, data cleanup and upkeep than they expected.
DataVita secures GBP £300 million to build AI data centres
The funding backs Scotland's first AI Growth Zone, with two sites set to create hundreds of jobs and cut reliance on overseas compute capacity.
Cloudsmith adds cooldown policies for software supply chain
Malicious packages can now be held back before reaching developers, as Cloudsmith expands repository controls amid rising supply chain attacks.
Nominations open for everywoman in Technology Awards
Against a backdrop of AI-driven job losses and skills shortages, the 2027 awards aim to spotlight women whose work could widen tech talent.
Synap launches Synoptic online exam proctoring system
Amid rising cheating concerns, the platform aims to help schools and exam boards run monitored tests without constant live surveillance.
Job Moves
Tokenovate appoints Alec Burns as Head of Product Technology
United Fintech names three new partners in leadership shift
Epicor names Vaibhav Vohra as Chief Executive Officer
Sapiens names Paul Wheeler Chief Executive Officer
Hyperlayer names first Head of AI as banks push AI
Paylink appoints new Senior Leaders as business evolves platform
Mercator promotes Gold & Bates in leadership shake-up
CloudFirst appoints Scott Lee as Chief Revenue Officer
Tem names Claire Addison as Chief of Staff after funding
