Infrastructure stories
Tasmania is set for its first new subsea fibre link in more than 20 years, boosting resilience and adding a direct Sydney route.
Security buyers get a stronger benchmark as CREST-certified testers gain faster access to Synack's vetted red team for client engagements.
Legacy systems are slowing AI roll-outs at large firms, with most executives saying modernisation and governance are now the main bottlenecks.
Security teams may gain relief from manual identity investigations as Offroad targets risks from human, machine and AI access with USD $7 million.
Public sector cloud buying could soon favour greener, EU-controlled systems as Brussels seeks to curb reliance on non-EU providers.
Banks and brokers in Sweden face a phased overhaul as Euroclear moves to a shared Nordic securities platform with TCS software.
Firms racing to deploy generative AI are exposing themselves to data incidents and compliance gaps, Wallarm says, as oversight lags.
Banks and investment firms face mounting exposure as ransomware incidents jump and more than half of vendors carry high-severity flaws.
AI operators could bring new capacity online faster, as Delta says its prefabricated system may cut data centre deployment time by 60%.
As inDrive expands beyond ride-hailing, the new Chief Financial Officer will steer finance after gross bookings rose 30% to USD $6.4 billion.
Infrastructure spending is surging as businesses expand data centres for AI, with Europe's tech outlay set to reach USD $1.3 trillion in 2026.
Scattered data and stricter rules are slowing rivals, while 37% of North American finance teams already use AI in multi-step workflows.
Merchants and banks are demanding better payment reliability as The Power 50 names 40 companies and 10 figures in its 2026 ranking.
Overseas enterprises can now tap Tencent Cloud's new AI tools for office work, design and model access as it steps up its push beyond China.
It may help regulated customers use archived data for AI without moving sensitive records into separate systems, reducing compliance risk.
The upgrade should speed access for researchers, easing long delays in using the IDI to analyse education, health and income data.
Continuous improvement, not ticket handling, is becoming the measure of value as firms expect managed services to keep pace with fast-changing IT needs.
Backed by more than 8GW of powered land, the new unit targets scarce AI campus capacity as demand for power and grid access intensifies.
Connectivity could become the bottleneck as AI-driven data centres and mobile traffic push fibre networks and power demand to new limits.
Controlled US availability means customers can now unify network, security and AI operations in one place, with external tools included.