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DIGIT's 2025 event programme is now live! https://t.co/ahPwW5UWV9

📅ITSX Summit 27 Feb
📅Scot-Secure & Awards 27 Mar
📅FS Technology Summit 1 May
📅DIGIT Expo West 5 Jun
📅Scot-Secure West 10 Sep
📅Fintech Summit & Awards 24 Sep
📅DIGIT Expo 27 Nov

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Lloyds Banking Group and Microsoft have announced a new multi-year agreement that will see the tech giant supporting the finance firm with its next stage of AI deployment.

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#Tech | #News | #AgenticAI | #Finance

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“We are determined to change old fashioned public services where assessments are recorded by paper and children’s needs are missed,” technology secretary Liz Kendall said.

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#Tech | #News | #Data | #PublicServices

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“The opportunity from the current and forecast future growth of fintech is huge,” Aleks Tomczyk, Chief Executive, FinTech Scotland, added.

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#Tech | #News | #FinTech | #Finance | #Funding

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Edinburgh-based Aveni has raised £12 million in a funding round led by PXN Ventures to accelerate the development of its Unified Assurance Platform and launch new products designed to assess the conduct risk of AI agents in financial services.

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https://t.co/eOs00DfHKD

#Tech | #News | #Aveni

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Edinburgh-headquartered Wordsmith AI today announced a $70 million Series B funding from Highland Europe and Index Ventures among others.

Hugeeee win - well done Wordsmith! Full story below 👇

https://t.co/q2Hx1KLduG

#Tech | #News | #Wordsmith

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UK publishers have been issued new protections in the AI age by the Competition and Markets Authority, which said Google must offer publishers the option to opt out of AI Overviews.

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#Tech | #News | #GoogleAI | #UK | #Copyright | #AI | #AIOverviews | #Publishers

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Nine major UK banks have just been offered access to OpenAI’s cybersecurity model GPT-5.5 Cyber after they did not gain access to Anthropic’s Claude Mythos models’ latest preview.

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#Tech | #News | #Cyber | #AI | #Finance

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Catch up on all the latest partnerships, appointments, expansions and awards in Scottish tech with the latest round of DIGIT’s Movers and Shakers.

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#Tech | #News | #ScottishTech | #ScottishBusiness

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“AI and other technologies have the power to transform our economies and create prosperity for people across all our nations,” science and technology secretary Liz Kendll said.

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#Tech | #News | #G7 | #OnlineSafety | #AI

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Glasgow-based cybersecurity firm Acumen Cyber have announced a strategic partnership with AttackIQ, a leader in adversary-informed Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM).

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https://t.co/VbsjWep4x7

#Tech | #News | #AcumenCyber | #AttackIQ

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AI firm Anthropic raised $65 billion in private funding this week, the firm said, seeing its valuation rise to $965bn.

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#Tech | #News | #AI | #AIBubble

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Commsworld has moved to strengthen its senior leadership team with the appointment of Melony Buchanan to the new role of Chief Revenue Officer.

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https://t.co/50DKrLMt3e

#Tech | #News | #Commsworld

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Glasgow-based corporate gifting platform Go Swag has raised $5 million in a funding round to support its US expansion, grow its team, and further develop its proprietary AI technology.

https://t.co/dybZO7VRpa

#Tech | #News | #GoSwag

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“Demand for AI and transformation talent is accelerating as businesses move from exploration to implementation,” Craig Freedberg, Regional Director at Robert Half, commented.

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#Tech | #News | #Hiring | #Recruitment | #AITalent

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GCHQ has announced its plans for a new national AI cyber shield as it tries to ramp up defenses amid increasingly tenuious geopolitics.

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#Tech | #News | #AICyber | #UKSecurity

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“Any company that fails to comply – or misses important deadlines when we demand information – can expect to pay the price,” George Lusty, Director of Enforcement at Ofcom, said

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#Tech | #News | #Ofcom | #OnlineSafety

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Cyber and Fraud Centre Scotland has revealed it delivered more than £3 million of cyber resilience support and community benefit across Scotland during its first full year operating as a social enterprise.

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#Tech | #News | #CyberandFraudCentre | #ScotlandCyber

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Want to speak at a DIGIT event?

We’re now inviting speaker proposals for our H2 conference calendar, including Scot-Secure West, Fintech Summit, CymruSec Summit and DIGIT Expo.

We’re looking for industry insight, research, thought leadership and best practice across cybersecurity, fintech, AI, cloud, data, infrastructure and leadership.

To express interest, email [email protected] with “Speaker Submission” in the subject line, including a short topic outline and speaker bio.

Please apply as early as possible so your submission can be considered during the planning process.

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A new paper is exposing just how much tech companies are making from internet user data.

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#Tech | #News | #BigTech | #PersonalData

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Applying uniform governance to all AI agents, regardless of their autonomy level and scope, can lead to enterprise AI agent failure, according to Gartner, Inc.

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#Tech | #News | #AI | #AIAgents | #AIGovernance