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How Everpure plans to stop AI from starving without data
SPONSORED FEATURE: The vendor's AI solutions are dedicated to increasing GPU utilization and avoiding costly GPUs doing nothing while waiting for data
Open weights are not open source: Why AI's favorite label is under dispute
Downloading a model is increasingly easy. Understanding how it was made, or changing a system at its root, is another matter
M&S launches ‘first-ever’ Too Good to Go bag
M&S has partnered with Too Good to Go to offer its “first-ever” Too Good to Go bag containing surplus bakery products. The launch takes place after a trial in select stores across the UK. It is part of the retailer’s wider Plan A programme, which aims to halve food waste by 2030.
Exclusive: National Friendly launches into UK term assurance market
National Friendly has launched into the term assurance market with its Friendly Life Cover proposition, available on a single and joint basis. Friendly Life Cover offers customers a fixed lump sum payment on death, with a choice of level or decreasing benefit.
Apple iPhone Duo makes developers think in folds
Cupertino's $2,000 foldable gives devs more screen, and more UI state to manage
Give Xfce a Mac or Unity-style makeover
The existing layouts are fun, but there's much more we can do
COBOL dev won .Net hackathon with help from AI – and their CIO loves it
Australia Taxation Office sees footling with Copilot as a way to develop ‘muscles’ for real AI work
Gender pension gap leaves women with half the wealth of men
Women aged 55 to 59 hold around half the pension wealth of men of the same age, according to new research from the Pensions Policy Institute (PPI). The PPI found women in this age group have around 54% of the pension wealth held by men,
State pension set to rise by nearly £500 after earnings boost
Pensioners are on course for a state pension increase of almost £500 next year after the latest earnings figures showed wage growth of 3.9%. Under the triple lock, the state pension rises each April by the highest of average earnings growth, September CPI inflation or
Ex-FTC boss Khan urges Uncle Sam to break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent
There are plenty of laws on the books to hold companies, and potentially their execs, accountable
Adapting energy data access for other markets
By Paul Linnane, Chief Data Officer, ElectraLink For a select few energy market devotees, energy data has been available for the past 10 years and a number of highly successful companies have been leveraging it to improve the sector.
Fintel ramps up AI compliance push as earning rise
Fintel has stepped up its investment in AI-powered compliance and oversight tools for financial advisers as it reported double-digit earnings growth in the first half of 2026.
William Burrows: The case for annuities becomes even stronger
With bond yields rising and annuity rates continuing to increase, the case for annuities gets stronger for three main reasons: Higher annuity incomes; opportunity to de-risk; and options to reduce potential IHT Higher annuity incomes As all good advisers know, annuity rates are…
Most people who quit M365 for Google do it out of spite, but there’s no ROI in that
Nor are you likely to save much by making the move, says Gartner
The Morning Briefing: National Friendly launches into UK term assurance market; State pension set to rise by nearly £500
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The latest AI doomsayer is China’s intelligence boss
Beijing’s response is to ‘firmly grasp technological sovereignty’ and broad regulations
KBC brings 'guardian angel' to more than 4 million customers in Belgium
Following a successful pilot phase involving 2000 customers, KBC has launched ‘guardian angel’, a new fraud prevention feature that allows a trusted person to review suspicious payments before they are executed
School uniform sales drop as parents favour promotions and second-hand
Value-for-money was at the forefront of parents minds this September, with the return to school and work seeing many shoppers tightening their budgets.
Killer AI: Yours for $50 per million output tokens and a side of CTO ennui
Just don't bury your head in the sandbox...
Microsoft drafts feel-good AI model guidelines and wants your input
Redmond outlines 'aspirational' goals for model behavior, but gives itself a pass if it gets things wrong
OpenAI's malicious bot swarm attacked RubyGems
Ruby are you ok? Ruby are you ok? Are you ok Ruby?
HBO Max Reddit account compromised to serve ClickFix attacks
Part of a 'massive 48-hour malvertising blitz' targeting macOS and Windows machines with malware
Oracle celebrates banner quarter with another round of layoffs
Congratulations on helping Larry Ellison's AI cloud boom. Now please pack your bags and go
Wickes profits rise as DIY shoppers return to stores
Wickes has reported a 2.1% rise in first-half revenue to £865.3m, with growing volumes in retail and a strong design & installation order book, helping offset deflation.
New hardware device can RAM into encrypted memory, expose your data
Attackers would need physical access to the server to pull off the DDR5 trick
CX specialist Foundever promotes banking innovation veteran Claire Calméjane
Former Lloyds and Société Générale innovation executive Claire Calméjane has taken on an expanded role at customer experience specialist Foundever.
Nubank launches deposit account in the US
Brazilian digital giant Nubank has launched in the US, rolling out a suite of products through a partnership with a sponsor bank.
Datacenter developers want your backyard. FAS says negotiate harder
Tax breaks, water, noise, decommissioning - report tells local officials what to nail down before signing
Anthropic launches Claude for Financial Advisors
Anthropic has unveiled Claude for Financial Advisors, a suite of connectors and workflow skills designed to help automate research, meeting preparation and documentation tasks.
Merchants call on judge to reject Visa-Mastercard interchange fee settlement
Nearly 1000 US merchants have called on a federal judge to reject the proposed settlement of a lawsuit over Visa and Mastercard credit card swipe fees, saying the deal fails to provide adequate relief and is "riddled with loopholes".