The Metropolitan Police is set to significantly expand its use of AI, drones and facial recognition in a bid to ‘regain the advantage’ over criminals, but commissioner Mark Rowley warns that progress could be held back by updated legislation and a lack of data integration in and between forces
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The April 2026 ShinyHunters breach of the Canvas learning management system caused downstream impacts at more than 150 higher education institutions in the UK, but the damage appears to have been limited
Six UK companies have been selected as part as UK government’s plans to introduce AI tutoring tools in schools
Post Office general counsel, who led court case against subpostmasters, failed to appear at statutory public inquiry
Steve Lucas, CEO of Boomi, believes the answer is prompt routing, which sends queries to the LLM with the lowest token cost and caches responses
Nationwide extends its VCF contract with Broadcom. Meanwhile, in the Tesco legal case, Broadcom disputes that VMware is a dominant software platform
Survey reveals concerns over the take-up of artificial intelligence technology in Finland
Enhanced powers to collect and share data are at the heart of EU plans to expand Europol, putting it at loggerheads with human rights groups
AI-native networks, intelligent computing and token-based business models are emerging as the next frontier of digital infrastructure