The Ultimate Guide to Artificial Intelligence
A curated UK edition of IndustrialDay news, analysis, interviews, reviews, job moves, and related resources for Artificial Intelligence (AI).
What to know about Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming industries, reshaping business operations, enhancing customer experiences, and driving innovation across sectors globally and in Australasia. From the surge in AI-driven cybersecurity threats and the adoption of AI in cloud infrastructure to the integration of generative AI in customer service, marketing, and financial sectors, this dynamic field demands close attention.
Experts emphasise the critical role of robust data management and infrastructure in successfully leveraging AI technologies, while organisations face challenges including skill gaps, ethical considerations, and regulatory developments. As AI adoption accelerates, businesses must balance innovation with security, sustainability, and human-centric strategies to thrive in this evolving landscape.
Readers exploring this tag will gain insights into the latest AI trends, practical applications, organisational strategies, technological advancements, and the collaborative efforts shaping the future of AI. Understanding these developments is essential for anyone interested in the impact of artificial intelligence on business, technology, and society.
UK Artificial Intelligence News
Regional stories with direct local relevance
Apprentices say AI is reshaping tech skills demand
AI is making communication and adaptability as vital as coding for junior tech roles, apprentices said, as employers seek workplace-ready staff.
Mindgard raises USD $30 million to boost AI security
Customer demand is helping the Boston and London startup expand as enterprises race to secure AI systems against fresh attack risks.
Cytix launches risk platform after GBP £5.2m funding
UK security leaders are warning that AI-generated code is outpacing controls, with a quarter already seeing incidents from flaws it introduced.
FE fundinfo boosts Nexus for advisers with AI tools
Advisers could save hours a week as FE fundinfo adds AI research, modelling and reporting tools to its Nexus platform.
Napier AI & Delta Capita join forces on compliance
The tie-up could cut onboarding delays and duplicate checks for banks by linking customer due diligence with AML monitoring in one workflow.
Dupe culture is creating a new challenge for toy and gaming brands
Viral lookalikes are spreading fast across toy and game marketplaces, with cheaper copies now posing safety and reputational risks for brands.
Analyst Insights
Research and market analysis connected to Artificial Intelligence
Application modernisation services market set to soar
Infios named a leader in IDC MarketScape assessments
Searchlight Cyber launches pre-emptive threat platform
Hitachi Vantara posts 12% revenue growth on AI demand
CrowdStrike named leader in IDC MarketScape MDR study
Featured News
AI will fade, says Dell Technologies' ephemeral Chief AI Officer
Dell says agentic AI should shift routine tasks below the machine line, freeing staff for expert work while making the role temporary.
Schrodinger's ERP both dead and alive, says Rimini Street
Businesses can avoid costly ERP rip-and-replace projects by layering AI and automation onto existing systems, Rimini Street says.
Estima CEO: Generative AI reshapes pharmaceutical value proof
The HEOR tech firm is using generative AI to cut approval analyses from years to weeks, reshaping launch decisions and regulator responses.
Grafana Labs launches six AI tools for telemetry & agents
Grafana Labs has launched six AI observability tools during its AI Week, including new capabilities for monitoring and investigating AI agents.
Theorem study: friction between pre-sales and executed media ads
Theorem's new survey finds friction remains the biggest barrier in enterprise pre-sales, despite widespread automation adoption.
Check Point CTO on AI's double-edged sword
AI is shrinking the gap between vulnerability disclosure and real-world exploitation to hours, forcing security teams to adapt fast.
Meet the man behind the Saas-Pocalypse: Emergent's Mukund Jha
The new cash will help Emergent broaden from coding tools into an operating system for small and medium businesses as demand surges.
Check Point: Be the best, or get out the way
Rising AI-driven attacks are compel security buyers to cut vendor sprawl, though Check Point warns over-consolidation can still raise risk.
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Check Point: Hackers are already in. Act accordingly
Hackers are exploiting vulnerabilities in hours or minutes, leaving many organisations compromised before defenders spot the breach.
Human jobs are safe - but AI influence on healthcare growing
AI is helping hospitals cut scan times, clear backlogs and spot disease earlier, while doctors still keep final say over treatment.
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OnBoard says board AI policy key, but lags behind in adoption
Most boards are using AI, but formal guidelines are still missing as adoption races ahead of governance, OnBoard's survey found.
John Margerison on the new class of employee: AI managers
Businesses should treat AI like a new hire, as weak oversight could expose sensitive data and leave staff needing fresh skills to stay relevant.
Exclusive: Dreamdata CEO on why B2B buying funnel isn't linear
Buyers are spending most of the journey before sales speak, forcing marketers to rethink funnels and how they prove return on investment.
The new workforce: AI agents to work in concert with humans
AI agents are set to reshape hiring and team structures, pushing firms towards global talent pools and outcome-based work.
Exclusive: Virtuozzo sees GPU clouds reshape AI infrastructure
AI demand is pushing cloud providers towards GPU-as-a-service models, with efficiency and utilisation emerging as key differentiators.
How the 'human hour' mentality influences the future of tech
AI pilots are faltering where firms still judge success by hours saved, leaving customer value and workforce design unresolved.
Humanoid robots, 0-day defence among Info-Tech trends for '27
Agentic AI, zero-day surge, sovereign cloud, and humanoid robots will define IT strategy in 2027, Info-Tech Research Group warns.
Exabeam: Ruthless efficiency can make agentic AI malicious
Behavioural analytics is becoming essential as AI agents can pursue tasks so efficiently that they may cause damage without any malicious intent.
Quantum computers aren't here yet. But the data threat is
Hackers are already stockpiling encrypted data for Q-Day, when quantum machines could break RSA and ECC in minutes.
Marvell targets AI connectivity bottleneck with NVIDIA boost
AI data centres are hitting copper limits, pushing Marvell and Nvidia towards optics as clusters grow larger and more distributed.
Check Point Technologies: On vigilance, Mythos and beyond
AI-driven vulnerability scanning is forcing firms to rethink complacency as Check Point says existing defences still help against Mythos.
Exclusive: Reco COO on securing the AI inside your SaaS stack
Reco COO Zoe Hillenmeyer says enterprises typically underestimate their AI agent exposure by a factor of ten and that gap is widening.
Riverbed says go from ticket queues to zero disruption
AI-driven support tools could cut employee downtime, as Riverbed argues that fewer tickets may still hide unresolved problems.
Dell Technologies makes all the hardware cool again
Renewed AI spending is boosting demand for Dell's secure, certified infrastructure as companies chase faster deployment and lower cloud costs.
Dell numbers the days for hyperconverged infrastructure
Rising hypervisor costs and AI demand are pushing customers towards disaggregated systems, as Dell says HCI is becoming too expensive and inflexible.
Reviews
Expert Columns
Why AI fails without a strong data foundation and how to get it right
Dupe culture is creating a new challenge for toy and gaming brands
The psychology of better decision-making in the real-time enterprise
Why smarter payments data is becoming the iGaming CFO's best friend
AI can produce the work, it can't produce the lawyer
The new architecture of money: Stablecoins, AI and Europe's payments future
When AI memory, simulation and provenance collide
Supercharged security: Cyber risk in the age of frontier AI
Fintech opened more doors for women, now we must keep them open
What Role Does Data Quality Play in Data Governance?
Interviews
Interviews and video coverage from the network
AI will fade, says Dell Technologies' ephemeral Chief AI Officer
Schrodinger's ERP both dead and alive, says Rimini Street
Estima CEO: Generative AI reshapes pharmaceutical value proof
Grafana Labs launches six AI tools for telemetry & agents
Theorem study: friction between pre-sales and executed media ads
Recent Artificial Intelligence News
Dell study finds UK SME AI front-runners save more time
A small group of UK SMEs are reporting far bigger productivity gains from AI, with front-runners saving more than 280 hours a year per employee.
UK firms face GBP £525m revenue risk from old content
Outdated web pages and poor product data could erode customer trust and leave large UK businesses exposed to GBP £525 million in lost revenue.
Why smarter payments data is becoming the iGaming CFO's best friend
Real-time financial data could help operators curb churn, sharpen affordability checks and lift margins as acquisition costs climb.
Luma launches Scenes for storyboard-first AI video
Users can now fix shots before spending on a full render, as the new workflow targets continuity errors in AI-made video.
RAICo software speeds nuclear robot training setup
The new framework could cut delays in training nuclear robot operators by letting sites build and update simulator scenarios without coding skills.
Ecommpay warns UK fraud review ignores platform liability
Losses still ran to GBP £703.4 million as Ecommpay said ministers must widen the fraud review to cover platform liability and SIM-swap crime.
UK cyber leaders tackle third-party risk, resilience and AI
UK CISOs and senior cyber executives will examine resilience, third-party risk and practical AI use at a London cyber security forum.
British firms warned over digital disruption risks
Outages in cloud, payments and software could stop British firms trading within minutes, Everywhen said, even with premises still open.
AI search shift leaves products invisible to shoppers
Retailers risk losing shoppers to AI answers as poor product data leaves items absent from recommendations and search clicks fall.
The new architecture of money: Stablecoins, AI and Europe's payments future
Faster transfers are exposing a gap in Europe's payments systems, where firms still struggle to link money movement with data, controls and accountability.
Half of UK tech leaders say outages threaten revenue
Outages are now a board-level risk for many UK firms, with most technology leaders saying network resilience is critical to revenue and operations.
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Winston Taylor adopts Ctrl AI for employment disputes
Law firms handling high-volume workplace claims are under pressure to cut manual work while keeping lawyers in control of every decision.
Locai Labs launches on-premises AI appliance for UK
UK government trials the appliance as organisations weigh tighter control of sensitive data against rising cloud AI costs.
United Fintech names three new partners in leadership shift
The governance shift gives the fintech a clearer ownership structure as it seeks deeper ties with major banks and asset managers.
Trimble launches Arc Agent to automate logistics workflows
Logistics back offices could cut time spent on emails and spreadsheets as the tool targets the manual tasks 70% of firms flag as a pain point.
AI agent used fake identities to push malicious code
Cybersecurity experts warn single-person approvals are now vulnerable after an AI agent used fabricated identities to slip malicious code past checks.
Epicor names Vaibhav Vohra as Chief Executive Officer
The planned handover keeps Epicor's strategy intact as it leans on cloud and AI software to serve manufacturers, distributors and retailers.
IBM launches Apptio AI tool to track ROI of spending
Boards seeking proof of generative AI returns now have a tool that links token spend to revenue, productivity, risk and cost.
UK merchants want point-of-sale tech beyond payments
Merchants are prioritising stock, data and software links over card acceptance as point-of-sale systems become part of daily operations.
Globant launches Glob.AI marketplace for AI services
Enterprises can now buy AI work by output, as the new marketplace aims to cut project costs and speed delivery across functions.
Job Moves
United Fintech names three new partners in leadership shift
Epicor names Vaibhav Vohra as Chief Executive Officer
Sapiens names Paul Wheeler Chief Executive Officer
Hyperlayer names first Head of AI as banks push AI
Paylink appoints new Senior Leaders as business evolves platform
Mercator promotes Gold & Bates in leadership shake-up
CloudFirst appoints Scott Lee as Chief Revenue Officer
Tem names Claire Addison as Chief of Staff after funding
D2 Legal Technology names Daniel Heymann to lead law firm AI
