Technology Dispatch

By Barley Laing, the UK Managing Director at Melissa Many data teams ask the same question - if a large language model (LLM) can write code, summarise contracts and hold a conversation, why can't they validate an address? While this seems like a reasonable assumption, in practice address verification is one of the few tasks where an LLM's biggest strength, generating a plausible sounding answer, becomes its biggest liability.

Medical clinics are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to manage one of healthcare’s most stubborn problems: too many patients trying to get through at the same time. For GP surgeries, hospitals and dental practices, AI voice agents and automated appointment systems are being used to answer calls, collect information, triage patients and manage bookings. The aim is simple: reduce pressure on staff while helping patients reach the right service more quickly.

Most analyses of a fast-growing technology company start in roughly the same place. Someone points to the size of the addressable market, highlights a strong revenue growth rate, and then treats everything else as supporting evidence. According to Neil Druker, Managing Member of Melanie Lane Capital Management in Boston, that's where technology investing can start to go off track. Growth matters.

The feature-length documentary on cyberwar debuted at Black Hat USA 2026 before an audience of CISOs, national security leaders and defenders — the same community whose stories it tells HOBOKEN, N.J. — Aug. 18, 2026 — Semperis, the identity-driven cyber resilience and crisis response company, today announced the Midnight in the War Room world screening tour.

The Neurometric co-founder and CEO built his latest company around a conviction that the next phase of artificial intelligence would belong to systems, not standalone models. Rob May, co-founder and chief executive officer of Neurometric, has spent much of his career recognizing changes before the market has settled on the language to describe them. That pattern began long before artificial intelligence became the focus of enterprise technology.

For many Digital Asset Treasury Companies (DATCos), simply accumulating Bitcoin on the balance sheet is no longer viewed as a complete treasury strategy. As digital asset markets mature, corporate treasuries are operating in an environment shaped by changing regulations, fluctuating market conditions, and growing investor expectations around capital efficiency.

Recognise Bank, the SME property lending bank, has announced its latest annual results, reporting a post-tax profit of £8.9 million for the year ended 31 March 2026, following a £5.3 million loss in 2025. The Bank also grew its loan book by 51.1% over the year to £461.9 million and increased deposits by 18.8% to £575.5 million. Since the year end, its loan book has grown to more than £500 million and deposits have exceeded £600 million.

CARDIFF, UK. July 21, 2026 -Critical Cloud and Tarian Labs today announced a strategic alliance to deliver Continuous Runtime Security Validation, a joint service that gives fintech firms continuous proof that production is secure, not just an annual penetration-test report that ages the moment code ships, cloud changes or AI features go live.

While nearly all businesses say they are ready for upcoming regulations, only 35% of cybersecurity managers believe their current compliance model is fully prepared and able to scale, and 33% say human oversight remains essential when interpreting complex regulatory requirements LONDON, U.K. – 17 July 2026 - With new information security, data privacy and AI governance regulations continuing to emerge across industries and regions, organisations are under increasing pressure to adapt their...

Web3 was built on a simple but powerful idea: users should not have to blindly trust centralized intermediaries. Bitcoin introduced this principle through decentralized money. Ethereum expanded it through smart contracts. DeFi proved that financial systems could operate transparently onchain. NFTs showed that digital ownership could be programmable and transferable. But as Web3 matures, the new challenge is becoming how to verify increasingly complex computation?