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Beyond capital: How Scotland is shaping the future of fintech

Private backing and public funding are helping Scottish fintech firms scale AI tools, with Aveni's GBP £12 million round and FRIL's GBP £3.18 million boost.

By Pamela Bryer • 4 min read • Yesterday

Software-as-a-Service

Digident launches FleetStart Radar for West Midlands fleets

Fleet suppliers in the West Midlands can now spot licence changes, care-location updates and roadworks risks in one searchable tool.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Last month

Agricultural Technology

Cambridge releases open AI map of Earth's land surface

Governments and researchers can now track land-use change, crop health and biodiversity globally without proprietary systems after Cambridge opened its dataset.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Last month

Data Analytics

Unit4 launches Data Hub to ease ERPx analytics access

Finance and analytics teams could cut manual exports as the new service pushes ERP data directly into reporting tools and keeps connections intact.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Last month

Data governance

Open Supply Hub joins GODIN with Wikimedia & Wikirate

The network's reach has widened into supply chains, sustainability and open knowledge as membership rises to 11 organisations.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Last month

Hyperscale

OpenUK unveils speakers for Edinburgh open source AI event

The conference will put Scotland's AI talent, security and infrastructure under the spotlight as debate over governance and control intensifies.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 5 min read • Fri, 5th Jun 2026

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Agricultural Technology

Google Cloud expands Data Commons on Spanner Graph

The upgrade lets analysts query more than 400 billion public data points directly in a single graph, easing joins with private data.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Yesterday

Private Cloud

Cloudera named leader in Forrester's data lakehouse wave

The ranking may strengthen Cloudera's pitch to regulated enterprises struggling to move AI pilots into production at scale.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Last week

Data sovereignty

Massey researcher backs AI for low-resource languages

A new 100,000-sentence dataset could improve translation and classroom tools for Sinhala and Tamil, where AI support remains patchy.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 5 min read • Last month

Data Analytics

Apache Ossie joins incubator to standardise metrics

Aiming to cut conflicting analytics results, the project will now be governed by the Apache Software Foundation after support topped 50 organisations.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Last month

DevOps

Imply launches Lumi Loglake to expand object storage search

Teams under pressure from AI-driven telemetry growth can now query logs in object storage without indexing, cutting storage and search costs.

By Mark Tarre • 3 min read • Sat, 20th Jun 2026

Data Analytics

Ataccama joins Databricks Marketplace with MCP Server

The tie-up gives Databricks users quality and lineage checks for AI workflows, helping teams spot risky data before it reaches models.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Fri, 19th Jun 2026

Software-as-a-Service

Coralogix raises USD $200 million to expand AI observability

The funding backs Coralogix's push to help companies cope with heavier AI telemetry and rising observability costs as software becomes more automated.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Thu, 4th Jun 2026

Malware

OpenClaw adds NVIDIA SkillSpector to ClawHub checks

The registry is tightening checks after malicious uploads exposed a gap between declared skill purpose and actual behaviour.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Wed, 3rd Jun 2026

Data Protection

Snowflake boosts governed data for AI with Iceberg

Customers will be able to query live data across systems with less duplication, as Snowflake expands governance for AI workloads and Iceberg tables.

By Mark Tarre • 5 min read • Wed, 3rd Jun 2026

Data governance

Snowflake renames AI tools amid broader platform push

Customers will get tighter controls and new streaming and interoperability features as Snowflake expands its platform around enterprise data.

By Mark Tarre • 5 min read • Wed, 3rd Jun 2026

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Software-as-a-Service

Biza wins four CDR lenders & adds three executives

Its early lead in Australia's Consumer Data Right non-bank lending rollout now spans more than half of the first wave of lenders, while adding three executives.

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 4 min read • Last month