Digital friction is quietly crippling UK productivity, and AI could be the turning point

Small IT failures create big costs. AI can ease disruption and boost output.

Palantir to continue UK Ministry of Defense work in new three-year deal – £240 million ‘data analytics’ contract awarded without procurement

UK MoD awards Palantir new three-year contract worth £240 million to continue supporting data analytics capabilities.

Payday deal! Save $50 on this Crucial P310 1TB Gen 4 NVMe SSD at Best Buy — at just $149.99 it won’t stay in stock for long

Crucial’s P310 1TB PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSD is $50 off at Best Buy and delivers up to 7,100MB/s read speeds in an M.2 2280 form factor.

Just in time for payday, this MSI Vector 16 HX AI laptop with Core Ultra 9, RTX 5080, 16GB RAM, and 1TB SSD is $500 off now

MSI’s 16-inch Vector HX AI laptop comes with an Intel Core Ultra 9 processor, 16GB RAM, and a 1TB SSD, and is $500 off at Newegg right now.

‘We are pushing the frontier across our entire AI stack’: Microsoft’s latest results show new cloud and AI returns – but reliance on OpenAI causes concerns

Microsoft revenue is up 17% year-over-year, but investor scepticism led share prices to drop 6% in after-hours trading.

OpenAI has a new program to help SMEs get the most out of AI

OpenAI’s EU Economic Blueprint 2.0 plan includes a partnership with Booking.com to train 20,000 EU SMBs in AI.

Act fast! This Acer Aspire 16 AI Snapdragon X Windows 11 laptop is half price at $450, but it could sell out at any minute

Acer’s 16-inch Aspire AI laptop is 50% off at Newegg and comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon X processor, 16GB RAM, and a 512GB SSD.

This wild triple-screen 16-inch Windows 11 Pro laptop packs a Core i7, 64GB RAM, and 2TB SSD – and it’s better than half price right now

Hotface 16-inch triple-screen laptop is 55% off at Best Buy and comes with an Intel Core i7-12700H processor, 64GB RAM, and a 2TB SSD.

Some AI work is paying off – but many CIOs just aren’t ready for the impact

AI could deliver some serious returns, but only if companies tackle the same old roadblocks we’re always warned about, report says.