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AI misalignment costs UK firms billions in lost gains

Fri, 13th Feb 2026
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Misaligned expectations over workplace AI risk costing UK employers up to GBP £60 billion a year in lost productivity and savings.
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Manchester firms delay growth plans amid volatility

Fri, 13th Feb 2026
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Manchester's mid-sized firms are stalling investment and expansion, citing volatile costs, policy shifts and tougher access to finance.
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Simbian touts AI SOC growth as automation race intensifies

Fri, 13th Feb 2026
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Simbian claims 15-fold customer surge as its AI-driven SOC agents vie to replace rules-based automation in the cyber defence arms race.
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Delivery constraints now define Europe's data centres

Thu, 12th Feb 2026
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Europe's data centres face surging AI demand but BCS warns grid, skills and planning bottlenecks now dictate where capacity can be built.
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Scottish firms talk up AI but lack clear strategies

Thu, 12th Feb 2026
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AI dominates Scottish boardroom talk, yet most organisations still lack clear strategies or ownership to turn enthusiasm into action.
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MoD signs Red Hat deal to boost hybrid cloud and AI

Thu, 12th Feb 2026
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UK Ministry of Defence signs Red Hat enterprise deal to standardise hybrid cloud, automation and AI platforms across Defence Digital Foundry.
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ESG backs GeN+1 to boost UK data centre apprentices

Thu, 12th Feb 2026
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ESG teams up with GeN+1 to expand UK data centre apprenticeships amid growing skills shortages in AI-driven digital infrastructure.
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Leighton to manage eaga Trust's AWS cloud operations

Thu, 12th Feb 2026
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Leighton has secured a long-term deal to manage eaga Trust's AWS cloud, modernising its digital estate and boosting cost efficiency.
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AI data centre demand set to exceed capacity by 2027

Thu, 12th Feb 2026
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AI workloads are set to outstrip data centre capacity by 2027, as power constraints and skills shortages threaten expansion plans.
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DXC opens London AI experience hub to drive co-creation

Wed, 11th Feb 2026
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DXC opens a central London Customer Experience Centre to co-create AI and automation solutions with clients and expand its UK presence.
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Bending Spoons launches €1.5m tech fellowship in Europe

Wed, 11th Feb 2026
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Bending Spoons unveils a EUR €1.5m fellowship, offering major scholarships and mentoring to top computer science students across Europe.
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Tech roles top UK pay league as AI skills fuel rises

Wed, 11th Feb 2026
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Tech roles keep topping UK pay charts as AI skills drive a 9% rise in median salaries to GBP £48,595, outpacing wider wage growth.
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UK bullish on quantum but skills gaps cloud outlook

Wed, 11th Feb 2026
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UK firms are bullish on quantum computing, but a talent squeeze and flat budgets threaten to slow progress from pilots to scale.
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QA launches NVIDIA-backed Level 6 AI apprenticeship

Wed, 11th Feb 2026
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QA becomes an official NVIDIA training partner and launches a 19‑month Level 6 AI Engineer apprenticeship to tackle UK AI skills gaps.
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Yokogawa links OpreX software with ANYmal inspection robots

Wed, 11th Feb 2026
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Yokogawa is integrating its OpreX Robot Management Core with ANYbotics' ANYmal robots to automate hazardous industrial site inspections.
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Survey finds enterprises race to agentic AI, lag on scale

Wed, 11th Feb 2026
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Enterprises rush to adopt agentic AI via external platforms, but few have standardised, organisation-wide deployments in place yet.
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CyberArk crowns PwC 2025 Global Partner of the Year

Wed, 11th Feb 2026
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CyberArk names PwC its 2025 Global Partner of the Year as partner-led deals surge and certification-driven identity security gains pace.
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NG Bailey to recruit over 70 apprentices across UK

Wed, 11th Feb 2026
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NG Bailey will recruit over 70 apprentices across the UK, offering roles in engineering, building services, facilities and IT.
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EC-Council unveils new AI risk & CISO training suite

Wed, 11th Feb 2026
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EC-Council rolls out its biggest training expansion in 25 years, unveiling an AI risk credential suite and revamped CISO leadership course.
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Fortinet unifies cloud risk signals in FortiCNAPP upgrade

Wed, 11th Feb 2026
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Fortinet updates FortiCNAPP to fuse network, data and runtime signals into one workflow, aiming to cut cloud tool sprawl and speed remediation.