Skills shortage stories - Page 17

Leonard Cheshire teams up with Multiverse on an AI Academy to streamline admin, freeing frontline staff to focus more on hands-on care.

Consumer goods groups race to modernise fragmented data systems as they lay foundations for scaling AI and agentic tools across factories.

SonicWall warns over 95% of cyber breaches stem from misconfigured tools, as firms lean on MSPs and cyber warranties to plug skills gaps.

Pearson says US could gain up to USD $6.6 trillion from AI by 2034, but only if employers urgently invest in reskilling and task-level redesign.

Finnish Data Centre Association taps Antti “Jogi” Poikola as Managing Director to bolster the country's growing sustainable data hub ambitions.

Employees trust AI data more than ever, yet European and UK firms admit literacy gaps and weak governance are undermining safe adoption.

Security and governance fears keep half of agentic AI stuck in pilots, even as leaders raise budgets and pursue tightly supervised use cases.

Fortinet has upgraded FortiCNAPP with network, data and runtime signals to sharpen cloud risk scoring and cut alert overload for security teams.

UK firms risk weaker AI security and wasted investment as soaring data complexity outpaces their ability to govern and protect systems.

AI ambitions are outstripping legacy IT, as Netskope finds most infrastructure leaders doubt they can meet rising performance and security demands.

AI platform Emergent raises USD $70m Series B from Khosla Ventures and SoftBank to speed global software creation for non-coders.

BenchBee says UK IT consultancies waste GBP £3.06bn a year on idle staff, urging a shared-talent model inspired by government reforms.

UK leaders now see AI and automation as top drivers of resilience, yet most still define it mainly as cyber security, new research finds.

NMITE and the British Army have unveiled a three-year autonomous robotics MEng, blending drone technology with hands-on defence-linked projects.

Only 1% of FTSE AIM-100 firms have AI embedded in core operations, as poor data governance and weak strategy stall wider adoption.

SonicWall launches unified automation tools to cut alert fatigue, speed cyber threat remediation and streamline overstretched security teams.

Accountants double down on everyday AI tools, as optimism stays high but scepticism, job fears and data security worries all intensify.

AI is exposing the limits of aging campus and branch networks, pushing enterprises and MSPs towards unified, cloud-managed, secure platforms.

New global survey warns a widening 'complexity gap' leaves AI-driven, multi-cloud environments outpacing organisations' security defences.

NMITE launches a three-year autonomous robotics MEng from 2026, tying drones, defence needs and local industry into a hands-on curriculum.