A light-hearted look at the week in tech by the Computer Weekly team
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We speak to Starling Bank’s deputing CIO, Fred Laurent, about smart tools for the bank’s customer facing AI agent
In June, MP Jess Asato began a legal case over AI-generated explicit images of herself generated without her permission by the xAI Grok AI engine
We speak to Peter Byford, chair of the LEO Computer Society about the world’s first business computer and his experiences programming it
We speak to Przemek Czarnecki, chief technology officer of Asos, about how the company is deploying AI and agentic AI
We speak to Reema Jain, CIO of Unilever about how to ensure IT teams remain focussed while innovating with new technology
We speak to Joel Hron, chief technology officer at Thomson Reuters about how MCP-connectivity into Claude to streamline legal work
We speak to Gartner analyst Helen Poitevin about why business leaders should not use AI to reduce headcount
A discussion on why, in spite of industry best practices, IT projects are still failing
We speak to Jakob Freud, CEO of Camunda about who business processes are being reinvented in the age of agentic AI
We speak to Jill Luber, CTO of academic publisher, Elsevier, about creating AI tools to support researchers and protecting against fake science
We speak to Griff Parry, CEO and co-founder of m3ter about why billing based on consumption sometimes fails
Artificial intelligence is changing the way IT professionals work. We speak to Matt Stava, CEO of Spinnaker Support', about reskilling
We speak to Lucy Robson, a quantum algorithm scientist at Universal Quantum, about her work in helping to develop simulations for drug discovery
We speak to UKAEA director for computing programmes, Rob Akers, about the new Sunrise AI supercomputer for nuclear fusion research and development
In this podcast interview, we speak to Seth Ravin, CEO of Rimini Street about how AI improves support call handling
We speak to the CEO of Stack Overflow about agentic AI workflows and AI in software engineering
We speak to the head of the Microsoft Security Response Center about how the company works with the industry to get systems patched quickly
We speak to Conor Riordan, chair of the UK & Ireland SAP user group about how IT needs a new way to work with the business
How Imperial Brands put in place the right data management and governance to enable a smooth migration to SAP S/4Hana
