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Computer Weekly Downtime Upload

Caroline Donnelly
Artificial Intelligence
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ASOS
LEO Computer
ERP
Microsoft
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Sunrise Supercomputer
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A light-hearted look at the week in tech by the Computer Weekly team

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Latest Episodes

Getting tech infrastructure right is just one piece of a complex puzzle that needs to be solved to deploy AI safely in business

We speak to AWS’ Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec about S3 growth, DuckDB and how AI is helping people understand their data

Brian McKenna and Paul Roehrig, chief strategy officer, Ascendion discuss AI and the future of the economy, avoiding the Scylla and Charybdis of catastrophism and boosterism

We speak to Starling Bank’s deputing CIO, Fred Laurent, about smart tools for the bank’s customer facing AI agent

In June, MP Jess Asato began a legal case over AI-generated explicit images of herself generated without her permission by the xAI Grok AI engine

We speak to Peter Byford, chair of the LEO Computer Society about the world’s first business computer and his experiences programming it

We speak to Przemek Czarnecki, chief technology officer of Asos, about how the company is deploying AI and agentic AI

We speak to Reema Jain, CIO of Unilever about how to ensure IT teams remain focussed while innovating with new technology

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Przemek Czarnecki
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Amazon S3 & AI: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast
Q: What should people focus on right now to prepare for an agentic future with data?
Data is the foundation for AI models; ensure you are using the datasets you really want to drive your business, and start embracing concepts like shared memory and memory across contexts to enable personalized, context-rich interactions with agents.
Agentic AI governance: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast
Q: How does Capital One approach the balance between powerful AI capabilities and the need for responsible use?
By bolting enterprise policies on top of LLMs, implementing guardrails, data governance, and policy-as-code, and by evaluating whole agentic systems to ensure responsible autonomous decision making.
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Q: Can you describe governance for Enterprise AI in terms of what enterprises should be looking at?
Governance should cover security, data access, GDPR controls, policy management, and evaluative mechanisms that ensure agentic systems act within defined boundaries while safeguarding privacy and compliance.
Chatbots with skills: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast
Q: How did this idea come about and what inspired this shift toward skills and tools?
The idea grew from software development practices and the need to codify code-base understandings into skills for engineers, then reading across to benefits for customers and staff, with the tools designed to help users perform day-to-day tasks more efficiently.
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Q: Okay, Fred, so what is Starling Bank actually doing with AI in this particular story?
Fred explains that Starling is launching Smart Tools as part of the Starling Assistant, a culmination of customer-facing AI developments, evolving from spending intelligence to multi-modal capabilities, reasoning, and a structured 'skills' framework that encodes tasks to be performed by the AI.

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The show offers a breezy, tech-weekly roundup with a focus on practical implications of enterprise tech, AI, security, and computing history. Episodes frequently feature leaders and practitioners discussing real-world deployments, governance, and the evolving role of technology in business—ranging from historical milestones in computing to hands-on AI enablement in large organizations. A standout pattern is translating complex tech topics into approachable, actionable insights for IT leaders, developers, and operators who want to stay current without getting bogged down in theory. The format tends to mix historical anecdotes, vendor landscape context, and governance or risk considerations, making it useful for listeners who want clearer tak... more

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