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The shopping lists we used to scribble on the back of an envelope are increasingly already known by the supermarkets we frequent.

Firstly via the loyalty cards we scan at checkouts, and more and more so from our online baskets, our shopping habits are no longer a secret.

But now more retailers are using AI (artificial intelligence) - software systems that can learn for themselves - to try to automatically predict and encourage our very specific preferences and purchases like never before.

Read more on BBC Business News here.

Atos and Thales have joined forces to create a Big Data and AI platform for public and private sector players in the defence, intelligence and internal state security communities

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Oxford-based clinical AI company, Sensyne Health, has announced it has signed a production contract with the Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC) to use its MagnifEye system to read COVID-19 lateral flow diagnostic tests as part of the UK Government's asymptomatic testing programme.

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Workday, provider of enterprise cloud applications for financial management, HR, planning, spend management, and analytics, has announced the signing of a new MoU with UK Government. As a result of the MoU, which includes a preferential pricing agreement, UK public sector customers will be able to take advantage of a range of discounts on Workday’s products. This will apply when using any route to market for procurement of the technology. One of those procurement routes is the £1.2b Back Office Software framework on which Workday recently secured a place.

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London based AI start-up Faculty has raised a cool £30m in a round led by Apax Digital Fund, taking total funding to almost £40m. 

Founded in 2014, the company has built itself by providing a combination of strategy, software and skills to clients, using its team of data scientists to apply their skills to clients’ real world business issues using Faculty’s own cloud based data science platform. The Faculty approach provides AI as a Service where the service aspect includes AI techniques applied to specific business issues and support for clients from Faculty’s AI/ML specialists. The company has a team of 50+ PhD’s in STEM subjects, and says 5%-10% of UK maths, physics and engineering postgrad students apply to its Fellowship programme. The programme helps graduates develop real world experience, including the business skills around the tech topics, through 8 week bespoke paid projects with clients, and helps organisations recruit data scientists. 

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Lack of digital skills may deprive women of healthcare, education, work, and financial independence.

Access to technology is not equal between men and women in all countries.

Read the full article on BBC News here.

Air India said the cyber-attack affected the information of about 4.5 million customers.

Read the full report on BBC News here.

Innovation and technology are powerful engines of prosperity, inclusion and resilience that will drive radical benefits across society – from decarbonisation to healthier lives and high-value jobs.

Read the full report on Computer Weekly here.

Major UK banks, insurers and asset managers are taking part in a landmark survey on menopause, amid fears that a lack of support may be hindering gender equality and blocking women from taking senior roles across the City.

Standard Chartered, which has commissioned the women’s rights charity the Fawcett Society to survey more than 300,000 workers in the financial sector, said the menopause must be considered a “workplace issue”.

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Click here to watch the GSA Women in Sourcing - Supporting the Menopause Webinar

“Data is the great opportunity of our time”. That is the opening statement of Rt Hon Oliver Dowden MP in his Ministerial Foreword within the Government’s response to the consultation on the National Data Strategy. It sets the scene as Government attempts to change the narrative around data from one associated with ‘risk’ to one associated with ‘opportunity’. The Government wants data to be viewed as a strategic asset.

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