
FCA rules tighten cyber reporting across financial services supply chains. Arqit says the bigger test is retaining control when critical infrastructure, data, and services sit beyond an institution’s own estate.

Corelight is targeting repetitive security triage with transparent AI tools. The cybersecurity company said new agentic workflows can speed investigations while preserving an auditable trail of playbooks, evidence, and analyst actions.

Alibaba missed forecasts as profits slumped despite stronger cloud growth. The results revived a wider market question: how long investors will keep rewarding AI narratives when core commerce remains under pressure.

Private AI deployments are putting storage architecture under pressure now. Scality-backed research suggests object storage, governance, and performance are becoming central constraints as AI moves into production.

Cellebrite has launched a collaborative AI investigations management platform globally. Guardian Investigate is aimed at helping agencies coordinate evidence, tasks, and oversight across high-pressure cases.

Jitterbit has topped G2’s enterprise iPaaS implementation ranking once again. The company says faster go-live times and earlier ROI continue to separate its Harmony platform from category averages.

UK payroll teams face mounting strain at financial year-end again. CloudPay says integration complexity and legacy systems are still slowing modernisation at a moment when payroll is under closer scrutiny.

Met Office technology spending has climbed as unused licences rose. FOI data analysed by Parliament Street points to a larger software estate, a bigger budget, and more dormant subscriptions.

UK transformations are leaking value at an alarming rate today. Sullivan & Stanley says businesses lose £27m per £100m invested, as board confidence outpaces execution, adoption, and scaled AI delivery.

Data literacy is becoming a core business capability for AI. Carruthers and Jackson says AI use is spreading faster than workforce capability, with most senior data leaders reporting that employees remain underprepared to question and apply data-driven outputs.