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The funds will allow for the significant scale up of digitalisation efforts among SMEs and public sector organisations. Read more: Ireland’s national AI centre given €5.7m to advance European digital initiative
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Austin, Texas-based cybersecurity player CrowdStrike says it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SGNL to ensure identity security for the AI era. Read more: CrowdStrike to acquire identity security start-up SGNL for $740m
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In his regular column, Jonathan McCrea looks at just the latest Grok AI scandal and asks if it might prompt us to truly demand change from Big Tech. Read more: Opinion: In light of the Grok horror show, is it time we demand better?
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Big Tech will be subject only to a voluntary framework rather than binding rules that telecom providers will have to comply with, Reuters reports. Read more: Reuters: New EU networks regulation will go easy on Big Tech
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Contract lifecycle management vendor Sirion is set to be acquired by Haveli Investments, an Austin-based technology focused investment firm, which will make a majority investment in the Utah-headquartered company. Sirion helps some of the world’s largest enterprises such as Vodafone and Bank of New York Mellon manage complex commercial relationships across the full contract…
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Kyndryl’s Faith Taylor talks about how businesses are approaching sustainability in regard to AI and her predictions for tech sustainability in 2026. Read more: ‘2026 should be a year of delivery, not greenwashing’
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Legal GenAI vendor Harvey today (8 January) announced the launch of Memory, a context retention product that it is looking to co-build with input from the legal industry. Harvey says that when Memory is turned on it will be able to reference past threads within a firm’s defined retention window to inform new questions. This capability can be scoped at…
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Legacy approaches no longer enough to ward off attacks, experts warn. Read more: Expect AI to take centre stage in 2026’s cyber landscape
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Regardless of your field, you aren’t going to get too far without an arsenal of soft skills, but which ones should you prioritise? Read more: What are the must-have soft skills for the year ahead?
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AI litigation platform Crimson has today (8 January) published its Litigation AI Playbook 2026, setting out how artificial intelligence is now being used across the lifecycle of disputes, examining its impact on early case assessment through advocacy, pricing, professional conduct and judicial expectations. Over the past year, Crimson’s CEO Mark Feldner says the company spoken with more than 200 litigation partners, innovation…