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NTT DATA maps six AI trends shaping mass intelligence

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NTT DATA’s 2026 foresight flags six AI trends driving an ‘age of mass intelligence’, reshaping autonomy, security and chip sovereignty.
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NEXTDC names Jodi Pearce Alliance Director for AI push

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NEXTDC has hired Jodi Pearce as Alliance Director to steer AI-focused partnerships and expand its ecosystem around NVIDIA DGX-ready sites.
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Firmus lands USD $10 billion to fund AI factories push

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Firmus secures USD $10 billion debt led by Blackstone and backed by Coatue to supercharge Australia’s nationwide AI factories rollout.
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Chainguard hits 500m container manifests with AI boost

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Chainguard tops 500m container manifests as AI-powered DriftlessAF ‘software factory’ scales secure open-source image production.
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Kocho taps Zadara for sovereign AI cloud in VMware shift

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Kocho partners with Zadara for a sovereign AI cloud platform, curbing VMware reliance and scaling Microsoft-aligned, multi-tenant services.
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Gartner names Komodor key vendor in AI SRE tooling

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Gartner names Komodor a Representative Vendor in its AI SRE tooling guide, as it predicts 85% of enterprises will adopt such tools by 2029.
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11:11 Systems names winners of 2025 UK, Europe awards

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11:11 Systems names Softcat, Colo insight, Creative ITC and Interstellar among winners in new 2025 UK and Europe partner awards scheme.
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AI fuels Europe data centre boom amid power crunch

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AI is turbocharging Europe’s data centre boom, but grid bottlenecks and power scarcity now threaten to slow the next wave of expansion.
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Lucion adds in-house AI to upgrade NexGen compliance

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Lucion has embedded in-house AI into its NexGen platform, promising continuous, data-led compliance oversight for complex UK estates.
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SUSE rolls out APAC cloud sovereignty self-assessment

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SUSE has launched a 20-minute cloud sovereignty self-assessment for APAC firms, benchmarking them against the 2025 EU framework.
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NeuBird AI names Venkat Ramakrishnan president & COO

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NeuBird AI appoints Venkat Ramakrishnan president and COO to scale its agentic AI SRE platform and expand global commercial operations.
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Nvidia & Dassault partner to build industrial AI twins

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Nvidia and Dassault team up on “physical AI” virtual twins to power science-based industrial models across biology, engineering and factories.
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Infostealers increasingly target enterprise SSO access

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Infostealer attacks are increasingly compromising enterprise SSO, with Flare warning 16% of late-2025 infections exposed identity access.
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UK firms lack data to prove AI’s green credentials

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Most UK IT chiefs hail AI as vital to net-zero, yet over half admit they cannot accurately measure its carbon emissions or green impact.
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India budget boosts tech, data centres & MSME support

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India’s Union Budget backs tech infrastructure, data centres and MSMEs, signalling policy continuity and long-term digital growth plans.
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Gr4vy unveils Silent Mode for parallel fraud testing

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Gr4vy launches Silent Mode to let merchants trial multiple fraud tools in parallel on live payments without affecting real customer outcomes.
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Data#3, Perfekt, Secureware win 11:11 APAC honours

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Data#3, Perfekt and Secureware have been named 11:11 Systems’ top Asia-Pacific partners in inaugural awards for cloud and security projects.
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Snowflake, OpenAI agree USD $200m enterprise AI deal

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Snowflake strikes USD $200m deal to embed OpenAI models across its data platform, promising native AI tools for 12,600 enterprise customers.
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Mphasis gains AWS AI Competency for generative AI work

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Mphasis wins AWS AI Competency, bolstering its generative AI credentials and signalling readiness to scale enterprise deployments on AWS.
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Xanadu targets quantum data centre in Toronto ahead of IPO

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Canadian quantum firm Xanadu says its first quantum data centre in Toronto could cut energy use dramatically for complex AI workloads.