Police use of Clearview AI’s facial recognition increased 26% after Capitol raid

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05.07.2025

Clearview AI reports that police use of the company’s highly-controversial facial recognition system jumped 26 percent following the raid on the Capitol. The facial recognition system relies on scraping the data of people from across the web without their explicit consent, a practice which has naturally raised some eyebrows—including the...

Google creates new AI division to challenge OpenAI

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04.07.2025

Google has consolidated its AI research labs, Google Brain and DeepMind, into a new unit named Google DeepMind. The move is seen as a strategic way for Google to maintain its edge in the competitive...

Red Hat on open, small language models for responsible, practical AI

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03.07.2025

As geopolitical events shape the world, it’s no surprise that they affect technology too – specifically, in the ways that the current AI market is changing, alongside its accepted methodology, how it’s developed, and the...

CDEI: Public believes tech isn’t being fully utilised to tackle pandemic, greater use depends on governance trust

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02.07.2025

Research from the UK government’s Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) has found the public believes technology isn’t being fully utilised to tackle the pandemic, but greater use requires trust in how it is...

AI enables shift from enablement to strategic leadership

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01.07.2025

CIOs and business leaders know they’re sitting on a goldmine of business data. And while traditional tools such as business intelligence platforms and statistical analysis software can effectively surface insights from the collated data resources,...

92% of product decision-makers say data and analytics is critical to success

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30.06.2025

A new study, “The Business Intelligence Landscape,” commissioned by Sisense and conducted by The Harris Poll among product decision-makers, highlights that companies offering data and analytics to their customers have a competitive advantage and reap...

2023 Public v Private Cloud Which One is Right for You?

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29.06.2025

As technology continues to advance, businesses are presented with a multitude of options when it comes to cloud computing. One of the biggest decisions that companies need to make is whether to use public or...

Large language models could ‘revolutionise the finance sector within two years’

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28.06.2025

Large Language Models (LLMs) have the potential to improve efficiency and safety in the finance sector by detecting fraud, generating financial insights and automating customer service, according to research by The Alan Turing Institute. Because...

Kinetic Consulting launches Macky AI – the first AI business consulting platform available to any business

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27.06.2025

Kinetic Consulting, the leading boutique consulting company providing business growth consultancy, has released macky.ai, the first AI business consulting platform that offers any organisation an easy, non-prompt-based AI consulting solution for up to 55 different...

Microsoft acquires Nuance to usher in ‘new era of outcomes-based AI’

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26.06.2025

Microsoft has completed its acquisition of Siri backend creator Nuance in a bumper deal that it says will usher in a “new era of outcomes-based AI”. “Completion of this significant and strategic acquisition brings together...