Columbus is doubling down on Infor M3 in the UK, planning to hire 10 to 15 M3 consultants a year and targeting a bigger CloudSuite customer base by 2027. More skills capacity is the headline here.itbrief.co.uk/story/columbus…

Cyera just landed a $400m Series F at a $9bn valuation, six months after a $6bn round. Investors are betting on data security posture management as AI increases data sprawl and leak risk.techcrunch.com/2026/01/08/dat…

China’s commerce ministry is reviewing Meta’s reported purchase of AI startup Manus, checking export controls and tech trade rules. The deal has been pegged at over $2bn.techround.co.uk/news/china-inv…

WhatsApp Channels’ EU audience has reportedly crossed the DSA threshold, putting the feature in line for “very large platform” obligations. That could mean extra transparency and risk controls, while private messages stay out of scope.engadget.com/social-media/w…

Universal-led music publishers are suing Anthropic for $3bn, alleging Claude training used pirated songbooks and lyric collections, including BitTorrent downloads.technewshub.co.uk/post/music-pub…

Epstein-related documents suggest a Prince Andrew adviser pitched Jeffrey Epstein on EV startup investments in 2017, including Lucid. The reporting frames it as a window into how deeply Epstein was plugged into Silicon Valley deal flow before his arrest.techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/pri…

Private 5G is moving from trials to production, but integration is the hard part. This piece argues open standards, and “zero trust” thinking are becoming the baseline for making private networks workable across sites, devices and suppliers. iottechnews.com/news/private-5…

European officials believe Russian “Luch” satellites have approached multiple European connectivity satellites, raising concerns about interception, resilience. The article flags both physical proximity and older command-and-control designs as risk areas.telecomstechnews.com/news/russian-l…

Nokia says Europe and the US remain tightly linked on the chips, software and secure equipment. The takeaway is that “strategic autonomy” is complicated in practice, and operators will feel the impact when policy shifts collide with long planning cycles.telecomstechnews.com/news/why-nokia…

US prosecutors say a former Google engineer stole thousands of pages of confidential AI infrastructure designs. It’s a sharp example of why monitoring, least privilege and export controls remain live issues in modern engineering teams.technewshub.co.uk/post/ex-google…

OpenAI plans to retire GPT-4o, and TechCrunch says the user backlash shows how quickly “companion” behaviours can create dependency. The piece also points to the safety trade-offs companies face when making assistants more emotionally engaging.techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/the…

Google has renamed its open-source ZetaSQL project to GoogleSQL, aligning the developer tooling with the SQL dialect branding used across BigQuery and Spanner.developer-tech.com/news/google-op…

The FCA is defending its Palantir contract before lawmakers, keeping questions about public sector AI, data handling and vendor dependence firmly in view.reuters.com/technology/bri…

Small businesses are set to benefit from more than £7.4bn in government spending targets by 2028, with ministers promising better access to contracts. For SMEs, the real question is whether the procurement process becomes simpler as well as larger.startups.co.uk/news/sme-gover…

UK self-driving firm Oxa has raised fresh funding to scale deployments at ports and airports, where autonomy has clearer near-term use cases.reuters.com/technology/uk-…

Shadow AI is becoming a real security problem. Unmanaged agents and poorly governed tools can create blind spots faster than many teams can see them.techradar.com/pro/security/s…

Over half of businesses reportedly do not know how quickly they could stop AI in a crisis. That is a governance gap, not just a technical one.techradar.com/pro/over-half-…

The FCA’s Palantir deal is facing renewed scrutiny as lawmakers question how sensitive financial data should be handled and by whom. The policy question is becoming harder to ignore.theguardian.com/technology/202…

DSIT is asking for views on how to protect children’s digital wellbeing across social media, gaming and AI chatbots.ukauthority.com/articles/dsit-…

A record number of UK businesses have reportedly been hit by nation-state attacks as attackers make wider use of AI. Cyber resilience now needs to assume faster, more adaptive threats rather than just more of the same.techradar.com/pro/security/r…