Wipro, SK Hynix and Microsoft: Top Tech News this Week
METRO’s Multi-Cloud Shift with Wipro and Google Cloud
Wipro has completed a multi-year data centre migration programme for METRO.
The technology services and consulting company worked with the international food wholesaler to move legacy IT operations to a multi-cloud ecosystem on Google Cloud.
The new infrastructure aims to support METRO’s long-term growth plans, having moved away from legacy systems as part of its cloud-first strategy and digital transformation agenda.
Why CEOs Fear AI Costs as Firms Burn Through Budgets
When a corporate board pours millions of dollars into generic AI licences hoping for magic to happen, it usually only takes a few quarters for the lack of return to set in.
“People went out and bought 50,000 Copilot licences, threw them at every person in their company and hoped for the best,” says Jed Dougherty, Senior Vice President of AI and Platform at Dataiku.
“That burned a whole bunch of money, didn’t go anywhere and no one saw any gains from it. Now, the shift has come from generic tools to personal accountability.”
At the executive level, that accountability has translated into outright anxiety. According to Dataiku’s Global AI Confessions Report: CEO Edition, 2026, 78% of CEOs fear AI could cost them their jobs.
They find themselves personally accountable for AI outcomes, despite not fully trusting or controlling the underlying systems.
How SK Hynix Overcame Debt to Beat Samsung in Market Value
Two decades ago, South Korea’s SK Hynix was reeling through a debt crisis that left the company nearly bankrupt. In May, it entered the trillion-dollar club, matching the world's largest technology giants.
That milestone set the stage for SK Hynix claiming the ultimate throne in chipmaking, overtaking arch rival Samsung Electronics in total market value.
Now the world’s most valuable memory chipmaker, SK Hynix shares closed up 5.6% on Monday (22 June), lifting its market capitalisation to 2,080.4tn won (US$1.35tn), while Samsung’s stock eased 0.14% to give it a market value of 2,066.7tn won (US$1.34tn), excluding preferred shares.
Behind the company’s path to success is its early dominance as the primary high-bandwidth memory (HBM) supplier for global technology giants. These chips are increasingly being used in AI systems for customers such as NVIDIA and Alphabet’s Google in a trend reshaping priorities across data centres and cloud providers.
UK’s First Police AI Assistant Handles 200 Chats Per Day
The UK’s first police AI agent – Bobbi – has helped the Thames Valley Police and the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary to handle 200 conversations per day, fully resolving 45% of non-emergency inquiries like case updates and parking issues without human intervention.
This is freeing up an estimated 3,290 operational hours per year so citizen contacts across both forces can help more people.
“This is a pioneering moment in policing,” says Chief Superintendent Simon Dodds from the Joint Operations Unit for Thames Valley Police and Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary.
Microsoft’s Bid to Fix the Cloud Complexity Crisis
Eight in 10 (84%) organisations have reported increased cloud complexity, with 69% saying it is outpacing their current operating.
That's according to the 2026 Microsoft Azure Agentic AI in Cloud Operations report, which surveyed 250 IT decision-makers.
To fix any operating model, organisations need observability.
“It [observability] provides the real-time understanding of system behaviour that agents depend on to reason, adapt and act,” says Brendan Burns, Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President of Azure Cloud Native and Management Platform at Microsoft.
“Without a connected view across signals, even the most advanced agents lack the context required to operate reliably.”
