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Oracle’s Q1 FY27 gives its AI infrastructure pitch firmer financial backing. Total revenue rose 30% to $19.3bn, cloud revenue was up 62% to $11.6bn, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) revenue grew 121% to $7.4bn. Remaining performance obligations (RPO) reached $664bn after more than $30bn of additional AI cloud contracts, and Oracle lifted FY27 revenue guidance to at least $90bn.

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Adobe closed its third quarter (to 28 August) with numbers most software houses would envy, yet investors remain far from convinced. Revenue reached a record $6.76bn, up 13% yoy, with non-GAAP earnings of $6.13 per share comfortably ahead of both consensus ($6.08) and last year's $5.31. Annualised recurring revenue (ARR) ended the quarter at $27.5bn, and management felt confident enough to raise full-year revenue and EPS guidance.

The National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare has published 44 recommendations intended to help define what an AI-enabled healthcare system should look like and how regulation could be used to shape that future. The recommendations are based on evidence gathered from more than 12,000 people, including patients, the public, clinicians, healthcare leaders, industry and technology developers.

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Thursday 10 September 2026 The Seven Force (7F) partnership between Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk police forces has announced its intention to award Mark43 the contract to supply its new Records Management System (RMS). The award to the New York-headquartered company is subject to a standstill period, with the contract not expected to be signed until 16 October 2026.

Thursday 10 September 2026 Struggling UK-headquartered, but New Zealand-domiciled, wealth-management platform provider FNZ Group has secured $450m in new equity. The capital will be used to support a transformation programme that aims to place the heavily loss-making fintech business back on a sustainable footing.

Thursday 10 September 2026 The Seven Force (7F) partnership between Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk police forces has announced its intention to award Mark43 the contract to supply its new Records Management System (RMS). The award to the New York-headquartered company is subject to a standstill period, with the contract not expected to be signed until 16 October 2026.

Thursday 10 September 2026 HMRC is set to award Salesforce a SaaS CRM contract worth up to £2.0bn over an initial ten years, with extension options taking the potential term to 2041. The award, published on 8 September, is still in standstill until 17 September; the earliest signature date is 28 September.

Thursday 10 September 2026 Kainos has joined Cosine’s coalition co-designing Lumen Sovereign. This is billed by the London-headquartered AI software engineering startup as Britain's first fully sovereign frontier AI model (see Cosine raises the stakes on UK sovereign AI). For Kainos, the move brings influence over the requirements Lumen Sovereign is built to meet. The company gets to shape governance, assurance, security and deployment requirements before the model is finalised.