This Week’s Top Five Stories in Technology

Publicis Sapient AI Cuts Modernisation From Years to Weeks

The global market for legacy system modernisation is surging as enterprises race to shed technical debt. Yet, for global financial services, scaling past deeply embedded, multi-million-line common business-oriented language (COBOL) architectures presents massive systemic constraints. 

For technical leaders, the challenge has shifted from incremental code patching to orchestrating end-to-end, AI-augmented engineering outcomes.

Publicis Sapient is a 20,000-strong digital business transformation company helping clients build AI-native enterprises.

Here, Pinak Kiran Vedalankar, Group Vice President of Technology at Publicis Sapient, discusses how his teams leverage agentic networks and platform innovation to eliminate legacy gridlock, accelerate value streams and compress multi-year transformations into weeks.

TeraWulf Deploys $290m AI Data Centre Tech with Schneider

Schneider Electric and Motivair by Schneider Electric have delivered more than US$290m in AI infrastructure for TeraWulf’s rapidly growing Lake Mariner data campus on the shores of Lake Ontario in Barker, New York. 

The once-coal-powered site, built in 1984 and retired in 2020, previously hosted rows of bitcoin mining racks. 

Today, it is being transformed into an AI high-performance computing campus with five halls designed for 3GW of capacity, purpose-built to handle HPC, cloud and AI workloads.

The Big Technology Takeaways from Data Centre LIVE 2026

Data Centre LIVE: The London Summit offered a window into the challenges that could define how AI infrastructure develops over the next decade.

Hundreds of industry experts gathered at Exhibition White City to discuss energy infrastructure, geopolitical risk, grid access and investment strategies.

The event revealed that the race to build AI-ready facilities extends well beyond purchasing computing hardware.

Power access, government intervention and public perception have become factors that could determine which projects succeed.

Copilot Cuts Data Tasks Up to 50% at Cactus Life Sciences

The healthcare sector is producing a surge of complex clinical data, which is straining medical communications teams. Cactus Life Sciences is responding by modernising its operations with Microsoft 365 and Copilot to reduce manual work.

The global agency employs more than 350 professionals with advanced scientific degrees. It translates large volumes of clinical and scientific research into practical insights for healthcare professionals, payers and patients.

Cactus Life Sciences aims to keep quality and security high while increasing speed. It has embedded automation into everyday workflows and aligned it with strict controls suitable for sensitive pharmaceutical content.

Marcus Lauren on Combatting Deepfakes With Biometric Tech

The portable devices we carry every day hold the keys to our lives, from corporate budgets and private colleague information to personal bank details. 

At the centre of securing this data is biometric technology, an interface we use seamlessly dozens of times a day, either to open our phones or log in to our laptops. 

However, as Gen AI and deepfakes grow increasingly sophisticated, the digital perimeter has fundamentally shifted. To combat these advanced threats, modern cybersecurity architecture must remain completely unyielding.

This new reality requires a rigid commitment to Zero Trust. As John Kindervag, the former Forrester analyst who coined the term, famously stated, the core strategy must always be to “never trust, always verify”.

In this Q&A, Marcus Lauren, Chief Product Officer at NEXT Biometrics, discusses how the company is redefining identity and access management (IAM), including the critical role of physical biometrics in an AI-driven world.