This Weekâs Top Five Stories in Technology
How Oracle’s Agentic AI is Improving the Entire Enterprise
For years, businesses have relied on assistive AI, such as chatbots that suggest answers or tools that summarise meetings.
However, Oracle’s recent unveiling of Fusion Agentic Applications signals a transition from AI that simply helps us work to AI that actually does the work.
By integrating coordinated teams of specialised AI agents directly into the Oracle Fusion Cloud suite, Oracle is moving beyond static workflows toward autonomous, outcome-driven execution across customer experience (CX), human resources (HR), finance and supply chain.
How Snowflake’s AI-Powered Model Spots Building Flood Risks
Snowflake, the cloud-based AI data company, has joined forces with Ordnance Survey (OS) in identifying approximately one million undefended buildings in England at risk of flooding.
OS is the country’s official national mapping service, providing the latest geographical data that is relied on by the multitude, including the government.
The findings are laid out in the Intelligent Flood Readiness Model, leveraging OS’ detailed and up-to-date buildings and government data, alongside current Flood Risk Management Plans (FRMPs).
The model brings together six different, critical data streams to synthesise them into a single, shared “structural intelligence” layer.
It cross-references OS’ building datasets with the Indices of Deprivation in England to identify where physical vulnerability, like building height and type, intersects with social risk.
This is then layered against Environment Agency (EA) flood data, the EA’s Rivers and Sea defended and undefended flood risk extents and an AI-driven text analysis of more than 3,000 pages of statutory FRMP documents.
Kyndryl Predicts Tech Gremlins With Digital Twin Solution
Kyndryl, an IT infrastructure provider, is helping organisations to avoid workflow disruption by anticipating and resolving technology issues with its new capability, Kyndryl Digital Twin for the Workplace.
The Kyndryl Digital Twin for the Workplace is built on Microsoft Foundry and combines predictive intelligence, automation and operational insight, all with the aim of improving the employee experience through automated IT service operations.
Digital twins enable organisations to collect both real-time and historical data from across the system.
In an AI-infused cloud environment, an enterprise can then deploy agentic AI to analyse operational patterns and predict likely points of failure or user frustration that support staff can then address proactively.
The Kyndryl solution detects and addresses employee technology issues proactively by analysing signals from employee devices, applications and workplace locations. It then automatically triggers alerts, recommends corrective actions, and dispatches support resources before a system fails.
How AWS is Removing Barriers to Cloud Sustainability Data
AWS has launched a standalone Sustainability console that centralises carbon emissions data and sustainability resources, giving organisations a unified way to measure, analyse and report the environmental impact of their cloud usage.
Building on the existing Customer Carbon Footprint Tool, the new service is designed to make sustainability insights more accessible and actionable for dedicated teams.
The move aligns with AWS’s broader commitment – under parent company Amazon’s Climate Pledge – to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2040 while helping customers meet their own sustainability goals.
Why 55% of Women Leave the UK Tech Sector Within Five Years
Women are leaving tech roles at pivotal points in their careers, finds a new UK-wide report commissioned by Akamai.
The research is based on answers from 1,500 women across the UK, 1,000 of which have left a tech role and 500 have returned to tech after a career break.
Akamai found that 55% of women leave tech roles or tech companies within five years of being in the industry and 87% leave within 10 years.
