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  • 4 Aug 2025 10:13 AM | Shivani Kaura (Administrator)

    The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) has published its ‘AI action plan for justice’, detailing the potential artificial intelligence (AI) has in helping reduce court backlogs, increase prison capacity, improve rehabilitation outcomes and enhance victim services. Implementation of the plan will be led by its Justice AI Unit, which was established in late 2024, with input from its Data Science, Digital and Transformation teams.

    The policy paper focuses on three AI priorities: strengthening the MOJ’s foundations, embedding AI across justice services, and investing in the people who will deliver this transformation. The MOJ intends to deliver these priorities over a three-year period through the ‘Scan, Pilot, Scale’ approach used in the UK government's AI Opportunities Action Plan.


  • 1 Aug 2025 1:53 PM | Shivani Kaura (Administrator)

    The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) issued its final report Thursday following a nearly three-year-long investigation that began with a review by Ofcom and was handed over to the CMA in October 2023.

    The findings conclude that Microsoft and Amazon hold "significant unilateral market power" in the UK's cloud infrastructure services market – a dominance that the regulator says has led to financial returns far outpacing their capital investments.

    According to the report [pdf], Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) each control 30% to 40% of UK customer spending in the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market, a segment that includes processing, storage, and networking via remote datacentres.

    Read the full article on Computing here.


  • 29 Jul 2025 9:16 AM | Shivani Kaura (Administrator)

    IT Services giant TCS has taken the decision to reduce headcount of its global workforce by 2% (c.12,000 employees) over the rest of FY 2026 as the impact of AI drives shifting demand in skill sets.

    In an interview widely covered in the Indian media over the weekend, TCS CEO K Krithivasan emphasised the rationale for the cuts reflecting skill mismatches rather than AI-driven productivity gains or demand weakness. The move will primarily target middle and senior management positions and fits with the broader SITS industry shift toward more software/product driven delivery models and agile methodologies.

    Read the full article on TechMarketView here.


  • 29 Jul 2025 9:08 AM | Shivani Kaura (Administrator)

    Atos, a global leader in digital transformation and managed services, today announced the renewal of its status as a Google Cloud Managed Service Provider (MSP), reinforcing the strategic partnership between the two organizations. This renewal reaffirms Atos’ continued excellence in delivering cloud-native services, scalable infrastructure solutions, and end-to-end digital modernization to enterprises worldwide.

    As a Premier Google Cloud Partner and a certified Google Cloud MSP, Atos will continue to provide advanced support, optimization, and AI-driven management of Google Cloud environments for customers across industries, accelerating their digital journeys to AI solutions and maximizing the value of their cloud investments. The renewed recognition highlights Atos’ proven expertise in cloud migration, data analytics, AI, security, and application modernization.

    Read the full article on Atos here.


  • 29 Jul 2025 8:24 AM | Shivani Kaura (Administrator)

    The layoffs comes despite better-than-expected revenue in Intel’s second-quarter results, as new CEO Lip-Bu Tan seeks to reset the chipmaker's strategic direction amid mounting losses and fierce industry competition.

    Intel reported $12.9 billion in revenue for Q2 2025, surpassing analyst expectations of $11.92 billion, but still recorded a net loss of $2.9 billion for the quarter – an increase from a $1.61 billion loss a year earlier.

    The cuts represent one of the most significant restructurings in Intel's history, and Tan acknowledged their severity in a memo to employees last week.

    Read the full article on Computing here.


  • 17 Jun 2025 12:46 PM | Shivani Kaura (Administrator)

    UK workers must shift from "trepidation" to "exhilaration" when it comes to AI or risk being left behind by those already engaging with the technology, Technology Secretary Peter Kyle has warned.

    In a bold call to action following a roundtable with major tech companies, the Technology secretary Peter Kyle has urged employees and businesses across the country to "act now" and begin integrating AI into their daily work.

    Kyle acknowledged that while breakthroughs like ChatGPT have ignited a wave of excitement and investment in AI, they've also sparked anxiety over job security, especially in sectors such as law, medicine, and finance.

    Read the full article on Computing here.

  • 17 Jun 2025 10:37 AM | Shivani Kaura (Administrator)

    Meta is making a $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI. The deal sees Mark Zuckerberg’s company acquire 49% of the data labelling start-up, whose CEO, Alexandr Wang will take a top position inside a team developing “superintelligence” at the tech giant. Scale will remain an independent company but the agreement, which is described as a strategic partnership, will substantially expand commercial relationship between the two parties.

    Founded in 2016, Scale provides labelled data or curated training data required to support the development of AI large language models (LLM’s). 

    Read the full article on TechMarketView here.

  • 17 Jun 2025 10:23 AM | Shivani Kaura (Administrator)

    What do you make of Ethan Hunt’s leadership style? In Anglo-American business culture, Tom Cruise’s indestructible Mission Impossible agent is likely to be perceived as a pioneering hero. In Japan, he would probably be regarded as the spearhead of – but not necessarily better than – the cohesive team he works with. In Scandinavia, the concern would be how to reintegrate him into the team to ensure that no one is left behind. The franchise’s blockbuster box office revenues transcend boundaries but such a variety of attitudes does, says Randall Peterson, professor of organisational behaviour at London Business School, indicate that “good leadership looks different around the world”.

    “In Australia, Canada, the UK and US, the perception would be that if you’re a leader that makes you special. In Singapore, where it is all about the power of a cohesive team, group coordination and action, such a leader may even be seen as selfish because he is preventing other members from overtaking him,” says Peterson, an authority on cross-cultural leadership. 

    Read the full article on Management Today here.

  • 9 Jun 2025 7:57 AM | Shivani Kaura (Administrator)

    The Hon. Prime Minister & Minister of Finance, Dr. the Hon. Navinchandra Ramgoolam, G.C.S.K., F.R.C.P. presented the Budget 2025-2026 which is visionary, bold and transformative marking a pivotal moment in our nation’s journey. The Budget charts a new trajectory, that is designed to navigate complex global headwinds, accelerate our economic transition, and fully leverage our national competitive advantages – anchored on 3 pillars: Economic Renewal; a New Social Order; and Fiscal Consolidation.

    Read the full article here.

  • 9 Jun 2025 7:54 AM | Shivani Kaura (Administrator)

    A new report from the United Nations' International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has revealed a 150% average increase in indirect carbon emissions from four leading AI-focused tech companies – Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta - between 2020 and 2023.

    The spike is largely attributed to the high energy demands of AI systems and datacentres, which account for a rising portion of global electricity consumption.

    AI and machine learning contributed 0.2% of global emissions in 2021, which even then was about 10% of the entire tech sector. It has accelerated from there.

    Among the worst performers, Amazon's operational emissions increased by 182% over the 2020-2023 period, followed by Microsoft (155%), Meta (145%) and Alphabet (138%).

    Read the full article on Computing here.


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