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Catherine Knowles
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Catherine has a keen interest in all areas of technology and storytelling in our digital age. Having worked with a number of businesses and people across media, education, publishing and communications, Catherine has a definite respect for common sense, great content and turning ideas into reality.

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CommonAI wins GBP £16m grant for new AI inference lab

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CommonAI secures GBP £16m ARIA grant to build a Scaling Inference Lab in live UK data centres, targeting 1,000-fold AI cost cuts.
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MOO renews Loomery partnership, expands Kosovo hub

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MOO renews its Loomery partnership, expanding a Prishtina engineering hub that has rapidly embedded into its manufacturing tech teams.
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Infobip unveils AgentOS to power AI-first customer service

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Infobip launches AgentOS, an AI orchestration layer unifying customer data and channels so autonomous agents can manage and personalise service.
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Callosum raises $10.25m for mixed-chip AI architectures

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London AI software startup Callosum raises $10.25m to scale mixed-chip systems and build sovereign heterogeneous data centre infrastructure.
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NFON grows AI revenues as botario deal boosts 2025

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NFON posts 2025 revenue uptick to EUR €89.1 million as AI products and the botario deal lift earnings despite a shrinking seat base.
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Vertiv backs Zagreb data centre design skills push

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Vertiv teams with Zagreb University of Applied Sciences on a new data centre design course to tackle Europe's digital infrastructure skills gap.
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Totalmobile & Solvares merge in field service push

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Totalmobile and Solvares merge to create an 800-strong field service software group serving 4,000 customers across Europe and beyond.
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Leaseweb brings NVIDIA L4 GPUs to UK sovereign cloud

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Leaseweb has added NVIDIA L4 GPUs to its UK sovereign public cloud, offering pay-per-use AI capacity it claims undercuts hyperscalers.
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AI-ready data centre planned for East Manchester site

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Latos Data Centres has launched consultation on a new “Neural Edge” AI-ready data centre planned for a brownfield site in East Manchester.
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Revuze adds TikTok Shop insight to market platform

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Revuze now tracks TikTok Shop sales and creator performance, unifying commerce data with customer feedback in its market platform.
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OpenClaw AI assistant surge sparks major security fears

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A rapid surge in OpenClaw AI assistant use has left tens of thousands of exposed systems and a trail of hijacked tools and malicious add-ons.
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Moderne launches Bauhaus for agent-driven dev tools

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Moderne unveils Bauhaus, a selective programme backing startups building lifecycle infrastructure for an agent-driven dev future.
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Island adds browser AI controls to AWS Security Hub

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Island brings browser-based security and AI governance tools to AWS Security Hub Extended, offering unified buying, billing and support.
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ShinyHunters pivots to subdomain phishing & vishing

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ShinyHunters shifts to subdomain-brand phishing and vishing on mobiles, bypassing domain checks to hijack SSO logins and SaaS sessions.
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NETSCOUT boosts telco AI with Omnis smart data tools

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NETSCOUT expands Omnis AI tools so telcos can turn noisy 5G network data into AI-ready streams for customer experience and operations.
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Tenable warns AI outpacing security, widening risk gap

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Tenable warns cloud and AI adoption is creating a widening 'zero‑margin' security gap as exposure grows faster than defenders can respond.
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Synechron teams with Cognition to bring Devin into banks

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Synechron partners with Cognition to embed AI engineer Devin in bank modernisation work, targeting faster upgrades and legacy code overhauls.
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RingCentral taps OpenAI to power live AI voice calls

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RingCentral integrates OpenAI's GPT-5.2 to power live AI voice calls, launching new assistants to support customers and employees in real time.
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Ataccama named Leader in 2026 Gartner data quality MQ

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Ataccama named a Leader in Gartner's 2026 Magic Quadrant for augmented data quality, topping the Completeness of Vision axis.
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Vertiv unveils secure KVM platform for remote IT control

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Vertiv launches Avocent MergePoint Unity 2 KVM, promising secure, centralised remote management for data centres, edge sites and branches.