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Catherine Knowles
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Catherine has a keen interest in all areas of technology and storytelling in our digital age. Having worked with a number of businesses and people across media, education, publishing and communications, Catherine has a definite respect for common sense, great content and turning ideas into reality.

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Amplitude launches AI assistant for in-product support

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Amplitude adds an AI assistant inside apps to guide users through tasks, cut support tickets and tie help requests to product behaviour.
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Klarus launches AI consultancy to fix weak returns

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Former EY and Accenture executive Frank O'Dea leads London-based Klarus, which uses senior specialists and outcome-based fees to turn AI pilots into measurable returns.
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CodeRabbit launches Slack agent for engineering teams

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CodeRabbit brings its AI engineering assistant into Slack, aiming to keep planning, coding and deployment decisions in one shared workflow.
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HackerOne launches h1 Validation to verify exploitable flaws

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HackerOne rolls out h1 Validation to help enterprises sort AI-found bugs by real-world exploitability as submissions jump 76% and critical flaws rise.
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Salesforce launches Headless 360 for agents & developers

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Salesforce launches Headless 360, giving software agents and developers API access to core tools as it deepens its push beyond the user interface.
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Council data breaches rise 53% in five years, study finds

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England's biggest councils logged more data incidents over five years, with serious referrals up 41% and some authorities blaming better reporting.
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Code and Theory launches AI creative tool with Adobe

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Code and Theory and Adobe launch AI tool for financial services, using synthetic personas to guide creative decisions before campaigns reach approval.
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Cast AI report finds 5% GPU use in Kubernetes clusters

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Cast AI says businesses are burning cash on AI infrastructure, with just 5% GPU use across 23,000 Kubernetes clusters and rising H200 costs adding pressure.
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UK data privacy complaints rise in finance & health

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Bridewell says ICO data privacy complaints climbed across key UK sectors, with finance still top, while retail and manufacturing saw the fastest rise.
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ServiceNow completes USD $7.75 billion Armis acquisition

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ServiceNow bolsters cyber security push with Armis buyout, adding real-time asset visibility and deepening its platform after Veza.
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Luminance & LexisNexis link legal AI tools for contracts

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Luminance and LexisNexis have struck a tie-up to embed citation-backed legal research inside contract review, aiming to cut switch-hopping for in-house lawyers.
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HackerOne launches h1 Validation to tackle AI flaws

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HackerOne unveils h1 Validation as vulnerability reports surge 76% and AI tools speed up discovery, leaving firms struggling to triage real threats.
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Pluxee UK launches financial wellbeing hub with Attivo

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Pluxee UK and Attivo unveil a life-stage financial wellbeing service for employees, as firms seek to ease money worries linked to lost productivity.
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Cognizant named OpenAI Codex partner for enterprise AI

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Cognizant named inaugural OpenAI Codex partner as it embeds the coding tool across engineering work for clients and internal software delivery.
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Companies spread AI across multiple models amid failures

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Datadog says firms are spreading AI workloads across several models as production failures climb, with capacity limits emerging as a key bottleneck.
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PlatformAlt5 launches F-E-A-T to tackle AI trust fears

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PlatformAlt5 and Cloud202 have rolled out a scoring system in BriefBrain that ranks AI-assisted content for credibility, transparency and source quality.
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CIS launches AI security guides for models & agents

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CIS, Astrix and Cequence publish AI security guides for large language models, autonomous agents and MCP environments.
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Clarks launches curated marketplace with Marketplacer

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Clarks adds a curated marketplace for third-party sellers as it looks to broaden its online range while keeping tight control of brand experience.
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Keepit survey finds gap in AI disaster recovery plans

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Keepit survey finds organisations overconfident about AI disaster recovery, with just 32% testing plans monthly and many lacking clear governance.
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SUSE launches AI Factory with NVIDIA for enterprise control

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SUSE and NVIDIA unveil an enterprise AI stack aimed at regulated sectors, offering on-premise control, governance and sovereignty for production use.