Universities stories

SOUTHSTART 2026 will bring OpenAI, Canva, Derek Sivers and Peter Helliar to Adelaide for a three-day tech, climate and culture forum.

BADIIS malware is hijacking over 1,800 IIS servers worldwide, quietly boosting illicit gambling and crypto phishing sites via poisoned SEO.

Blue Cloud Softech plans India-wide AI-first data centre push, investing up to USD $1bn to build 800 MW of high-density, sovereign cloud capacity.

Prism Power lifts apprentices to over 10% of staff as it tackles a deepening skills shortage in the UK’s critical power sector.

1Kosmos and Fischer link biometric ID checks with campus IAM to block enrolment and aid fraud while enabling passwordless access.

Lucion has embedded in-house AI into its NexGen platform, promising continuous, data-led compliance oversight for complex UK estates.

Australian students see generative AI as vital for careers, but most say universities lag badly in teaching workplace-ready AI skills.

Adobe and ministers launch a Barnsley Tech Towns pilot to boost AI and digital skills, and trial AI across local public services.

BoodleBox integrates Nvidia’s Nemotron 3 Nano into its collaborative AI platform, bringing open-model assistants to 1,300 campuses.

AI platform Emergent raises USD $70m Series B from Khosla Ventures and SoftBank to speed global software creation for non-coders.

US cyber security firm WitFoo shifts its global base to New Zealand, making the country the launch pad for its “Cyber Grid” defence model.

Anthropic hires former Microsoft India boss Irina Ghose as India MD to spearhead its Bengaluru office launch and wider AI expansion.

A little-known research network, built before the cloud, now underpins Canada’s AI, biotech and climate science - but its future is uncertain.

University of Leeds teams with Oakland Everything Data to build a ‘single version of the student’ and embed data in decisions campus-wide.

PebblePad acquires student portal myday in its first NorthEdge-backed deal, creating an edtech group serving over 200 institutions globally.

ScotlandIS flags AI, skills, green data centres and cyber basics as critical to Scotland’s digital economy amid 2026 uncertainty.

A new UK Institute of Innovation Management has launched to professionalise innovation, set standards and accredit innovation leaders.

UK public bodies rein in sweeping digital change for 2026, while the NHS accelerates paperless care and AI plans in Whitehall cool.

Flywire links Weixin Pay to tuition in South Korea and Malaysia, giving Chinese students in-region RMB payment for university fees.

Mitacs unveils CAD $170,000 global postdoc fellowships to lure top researchers to Canada and speed commercialisation of advanced tech.