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1 week ago | 
itpro.com | Rory Bathgate
Google Cloud Next 2025 is officially over – here's everything that was announced and shown off in Las Vegas
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1 week ago | 
itpro.com | Rory Bathgate
Las Vegas has been taken over by Google Cloud this week, with Google Cloud Next 2025 in full flow.
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2 weeks ago | 
itpro.com | Rory Bathgate
Google Cloud Next 2025 is imminent, with Google Cloud poised to unveil a slew of new cloud, AI, security, and channel announcements to a small army of Las Vegas attendees.
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1 month ago | 
livescience.com | Rory Bathgate
A new kind of road-legal flying car is now a step closer to hitting the roads, and skies, after its maker Alef Aeronautics signed an agreement with aerospace companies PUCARA Aero and MYC to build it. The Alef Model A is designed to work as both a road vehicle and aircraft, with its aim being to beat commuter congestion, representatives say. Styled as a "retro" flying car, the Model A will operate as an all-electric car capable of vertical takeoff and landing.
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1 month ago | 
itpro.com | Rory Bathgate
Oracle NetSuite has announced new AI tools and features for UK customers aimed at supercharging productivity. The new features will enable users to automate tasks such as data entry and financial operations, and boost operational efficiency. Announcements include greater control over Text Enhance, the company’s AI tool for filling out forms, item descriptions, and emails using company data as context, as well as automatic financial exception detection via a dedicated tool.
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1 month ago | 
itpro.com | Rory Bathgate
Computer systems that can autonomously work on menial tasks have been the promise of technologists – and science fiction authors – for decades. While we’ve dabbled with the likes of robotic process automation and machine learning in the past, the arrival of advanced AI software has put these lofty ambitions back on the table.
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1 month ago | 
itpro.com | Rory Bathgate
The founder of Google DeepMind has hailed the arrival of agentic AI as a major step forward for the technology and struck an optimistic tone about its potential in years to come, while tempering expectations in the near term. Demis Hassabis, CEO at Google DeepMind and one of the UK’s most prominent voices on AI, told assembled media at Google Cloud’s Gemini for the United Kingdom event that AI will bring exciting developments in the coming year.
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1 month ago | 
itpro.com | Rory Bathgate
Google Cloud has announced new sovereign services in the UK, as well as new skills and cloud services support for UK AI startups and established British businesses. In a commitment to privacy-focused and restricted UK businesses, Google cloud will offer UK data residency for Google Agentspace, its platform for enterprise AI agents. This will allow organizations to use multimodal AI searches and AI agents tailored to their companies, while keeping data securely stored within the UK.
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1 month ago | 
itpro.com | Rory Bathgate
The former head of GCHQ has warned businesses face increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks on critical national infrastructure (CNI), urging firms to pay closer attention to geopolitics and collaborate on fighting the next generation of threats. Jeremy Fleming, who served as director of the agency from 2017 to 2023, says the ‘big four’ – generally understood as China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran – are launching attacks on CNI to an unprecedented degree.
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1 month ago | 
itpro.com | Rory Bathgate
How much has your company invested in AI? Are you finding it a revolutionary technology, or still waiting for the promised gains to materialize? As businesses seek to unlock productivity gains from AI, investment in the technology has continued to rise. All across the world, firms are buying AI products, undergoing digital transformation in preparation, or even fine-tuning AI to suit their bespoke use cases. But how much of this is going to pay off?
