Europe (European) stories

Acronis has renewed its partnership with Manchester City, extending its role safeguarding the club’s expanding digital and data operations.

Targa Telematics keeps top spot in Europe’s fleet market and turns to Agentic AI to automate decisions as connected vehicles surge.

UK shoppers value accurate parcel tracking and honest delivery updates far more than rapid shipping promises, a new Locus survey suggests.

Airstride launches Carmen AI, an autonomous agent that scouts, scores and contacts B2B channel partners, claiming up to 80% time savings.

Open ECX wins PEPPOL access point status as the UK edges towards mandatory e-invoicing, expected to be introduced by 2029.

Anthropic adds Claude plugins to Cowork, fuelling investor fears that agent-style AI could undermine traditional seat-based software.

CapitaLand Ascendas REIT posts higher income and an 8.6% rise in portfolio value to SGD $18.2 billion, despite lower payout per unit.

Upcover adds deepfake incident cover to cyber policies in Australia via Coalition, targeting rising AI impersonation and fraud risks.

Agencies rush to adopt AI to boost efficiency and margins by 2026, yet many fear churning out low-quality ‘slop’ that could erode trust.

AI data centre investment is starving Europe’s PC market of key components, driving sharp RAM and SSD price rises into 2026.

Fico says by 2026 banking AI will be standard infrastructure, heightening fraud risks and putting CIOs and human cyber oversight centre stage.

Loop integrates Sendcloud into Ship by Loop 2.0, giving Shopify merchants wider UK and EU carrier choice for simpler, label-free returns.

AI-powered tools are rapidly reshaping UK retail as most shoppers embrace chat-based assistants and retailers ramp up investment for 2026.

AI rollouts are lifting UK staff engagement, but new research warns unapproved ‘shadow AI’ use is outpacing employers’ controls.

ENCS and DIVD have agreed a new cyber pact to uncover and disclose vulnerabilities in Europe’s high-impact energy and critical systems.

Westcon-Comstor unveils free Tech Insights programme to help EMEA partners assess cyber risk and AI data readiness for customers.

11:11 Systems names Softcat, Colo insight, Creative ITC and Interstellar among winners in new 2025 UK and Europe partner awards scheme.

AI is turbocharging Europe’s data centre boom, but grid bottlenecks and power scarcity now threaten to slow the next wave of expansion.

Liquium secures over NZD$2m to scale green ammonia catalysts, promising major efficiency gains for fertiliser and clean fuel producers.

Most firms plan agentic AI within three years, but Celonis finds clunky processes and poor context threaten ROI and slow deployment.