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Human resources software giant Workday has disclosed a data breach following a social engineering attack that compromised a third-party customer relationship management (CRM) platform.

In a blog post on Friday, the California-based firm said attackers accessed some information stored on its CRM systems after targeting employees in a campaign that has also ensnared multiple global organisations.

However, Workday stressed that no customer tenants or their data were affected.

"We want to let you know about a recent social engineering campaign targeting many large organisations, including Workday," the company said.

"We recently identified that Workday had been targeted and threat actors were able to access some information from our third-party CRM platform. There is no indication of access to customer tenants or the data within them.

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Hackers stole the personal information of 1.1 million customers in a July breach at US insurer Allianz Life, according to the data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned.

In late July, Allianz Life – The US arm of insurance conglomerate Allianz SE – revealed that hackers had breached a cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) database, stealing the personal information of the "majority" of customers as well as company employees.

"The threat actor was able to obtain personally identifiable data related to the majority of Allianz Life's customers, financial professionals and select Allianz Life employees," Brett Weinberg, a spokesperson for Allianz Life, said last month.

Allianz has nearly 2,000 staff in the United States and serves around 128 million customers worldwide.

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A new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has revealed that the vast majority of corporate generative AI pilots are failing to generate meaningful financial returns, despite widespread investment.

The report, The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025, published by MIT’s NADA initiative, found that 95% of pilots stall at early stages and never progress to scaled adoption. Only 5% of projects achieved rapid revenue growth.

Based on 150 interviews with business leaders, a survey of 350 employees and an analysis of 300 public AI deployments, the study highlights a growing divide between successful AI integrations and those that remain stuck in experimental mode.

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The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) has published its ‘AI action plan for justice’, detailing the potential artificial intelligence (AI) has in helping reduce court backlogs, increase prison capacity, improve rehabilitation outcomes and enhance victim services. Implementation of the plan will be led by its Justice AI Unit, which was established in late 2024, with input from its Data Science, Digital and Transformation teams.

The policy paper focuses on three AI priorities: strengthening the MOJ’s foundations, embedding AI across justice services, and investing in the people who will deliver this transformation. The MOJ intends to deliver these priorities over a three-year period through the ‘Scan, Pilot, Scale’ approach used in the UK government's AI Opportunities Action Plan.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) issued its final report Thursday following a nearly three-year-long investigation that began with a review by Ofcom and was handed over to the CMA in October 2023.

The findings conclude that Microsoft and Amazon hold "significant unilateral market power" in the UK's cloud infrastructure services market – a dominance that the regulator says has led to financial returns far outpacing their capital investments.

According to the report [pdf], Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) each control 30% to 40% of UK customer spending in the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market, a segment that includes processing, storage, and networking via remote datacentres.

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IT Services giant TCS has taken the decision to reduce headcount of its global workforce by 2% (c.12,000 employees) over the rest of FY 2026 as the impact of AI drives shifting demand in skill sets.

In an interview widely covered in the Indian media over the weekend, TCS CEO K Krithivasan emphasised the rationale for the cuts reflecting skill mismatches rather than AI-driven productivity gains or demand weakness. The move will primarily target middle and senior management positions and fits with the broader SITS industry shift toward more software/product driven delivery models and agile methodologies.

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Atos, a global leader in digital transformation and managed services, today announced the renewal of its status as a Google Cloud Managed Service Provider (MSP), reinforcing the strategic partnership between the two organizations. This renewal reaffirms Atos’ continued excellence in delivering cloud-native services, scalable infrastructure solutions, and end-to-end digital modernization to enterprises worldwide.

As a Premier Google Cloud Partner and a certified Google Cloud MSP, Atos will continue to provide advanced support, optimization, and AI-driven management of Google Cloud environments for customers across industries, accelerating their digital journeys to AI solutions and maximizing the value of their cloud investments. The renewed recognition highlights Atos’ proven expertise in cloud migration, data analytics, AI, security, and application modernization.

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The layoffs comes despite better-than-expected revenue in Intel’s second-quarter results, as new CEO Lip-Bu Tan seeks to reset the chipmaker's strategic direction amid mounting losses and fierce industry competition.

Intel reported $12.9 billion in revenue for Q2 2025, surpassing analyst expectations of $11.92 billion, but still recorded a net loss of $2.9 billion for the quarter – an increase from a $1.61 billion loss a year earlier.

The cuts represent one of the most significant restructurings in Intel's history, and Tan acknowledged their severity in a memo to employees last week.

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UK workers must shift from "trepidation" to "exhilaration" when it comes to AI or risk being left behind by those already engaging with the technology, Technology Secretary Peter Kyle has warned.

In a bold call to action following a roundtable with major tech companies, the Technology secretary Peter Kyle has urged employees and businesses across the country to "act now" and begin integrating AI into their daily work.

Kyle acknowledged that while breakthroughs like ChatGPT have ignited a wave of excitement and investment in AI, they've also sparked anxiety over job security, especially in sectors such as law, medicine, and finance.

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Meta is making a $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI. The deal sees Mark Zuckerberg’s company acquire 49% of the data labelling start-up, whose CEO, Alexandr Wang will take a top position inside a team developing “superintelligence” at the tech giant. Scale will remain an independent company but the agreement, which is described as a strategic partnership, will substantially expand commercial relationship between the two parties.

Founded in 2016, Scale provides labelled data or curated training data required to support the development of AI large language models (LLM’s). 

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