UK businesses spend £11.7 billion on ‘AI slop’ corrections every year, with 1 out of every 4 hours wasted

Layering modern AI tools on top of legacy IT and fragmented data is adding complexity and diminishing returns, study shows.
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How to move GenAI pilots from experiments to enterprise advantage

What CIOs and CTOs need to know as they move beyond GenAI pilot phase.

Why the tech gender gap persists and the importance of building a more inclusive future

Progress has been made in encouraging more women into the industry, but more needs to be done.

Four key questions insurers must answer to embrace AI effectively

Insurers need to run, not walk, to AI in the Cloud, but should ask these four questions first.

One in four UK government computer systems are running on outdated technology — with taxpayers footing the bill for any failures

Legacy IT is costing the UK government £45 billion annually, and that’s before you factor in the savings made possible by AI and automation.
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‘It’s gonna be awesome’: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has high hopes for using AI in its products, says ‘it’s impossible to describe what we’re gonna be able to do for customers’

“Everything’s gonna be cheaper to make, it’s more efficient”, says Salesforce CEO.

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Could ChatGPT suffer Firefox’s fate? — ‘The risk of falling behind is growing exponentially’ as rival AI tools Gemini and Claude surge while Copilot stalls

Workplace AI adoption surged dramatically while ChatGPT lost dominance as Gemini and Claude attracted growing numbers of professional users globally.
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‘Threat actors are adapting social engineering and monetization strategies to modern user behavior’: Microsoft warns AI chatbots may be sending victims to malicious websites — so be on your guard when clicking

What happens when an AI recommends a tool, and that tool ends up being malicious?

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‘Born from basalt’ — How a tiny Hawaii startup is rewriting the rules of naval shipbuilding with 3D printers and 100% recyclable materials

Hawaii startup tests 3D printed basalt reinforced boats, aiming to replace traditional shipyards with distributed rapid naval manufacturing systems globally
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Quote of the day by Google co-founder Larry Page: “When you aim for the stars you may come up short, but still reach the moon” — comments on the scale of ambition

The legendary tech entrepreneur outlines a philosophy at the heart of Google’s meteoric rise in the last few decades
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