Finextra: Blackstone to build £10bn AI data centre in UK
Private equity giant Blackstone has confirmed a £10 billion investment in an AI data centre in the North East of England, creating around 4000 jobs.
Finextra: Firms struggling to find RoI for AI projects
According to recent research firms are struggling to find RoI for AI projects.
TechCrunch: Meta teases Orion, brain-powered true AR glasses in a tiny package
At Wednesday’s Meta Connect event, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Orion, which he described as “the most advanced glasses the world has ever seen.”
Finextra: Bank of England to form AI consortium
The Bank of England (BoE) is calling on financial services firms to join its artificial intelligence (AI) consortium designed to oversee the use of the technology within the sector.
Cybersecurity Dive: Major companies keeping hiring North Korean IT workers
IT workers operating as plants for North Korea’s government are posing as non-North Korean nationals to gain employment with Western companies, especially those in the U.S. tech sector, threat intelligence and incident response firm Mandiant said Monday.
CSO: Deepfakes break through as business threat
Deepfakes targeting enterprise financial data used to be a hypothetical concern, but that’s no longer the case, as criminal deepfakers now target more than a quarter of all companies, according to a recent survey.
efinancialcareers: JPMorgan paying $3k per week for 2025 interns in its hottest AI team
J.P. Morgan is paying $3k per week for 2025 interns in its hottest AI team.
The Banker: AI in payments fraud detection expands but needs strong regulatory oversight
AI in payments fraud detection expands but needs strong regulatory oversight.
CIO Dive: JPMorgan Chase to equip 140K workers with generative AI tool
JPMorganChase is rolling out it’s AI assistant LLM Suite to 140,000 employees
UKTN: Race to build British data centres heats up as AWS commits £8bn over 5 years
The race to become the biggest cloud provider in the UK stepped up a gear today after Amazon Web Services (AWS) vowed to invest as much as £8 billion into British data centres over the next five years.