Soaring AI ambitions are colliding with a British political and legal crisis 

Fujitsu has  become one of the biggest winners of the artificial intelligence gold rush. Its shares have jumped by nearly two-thirds since last year’s slump as the Japanese outfit pitches itself as a heavyweight in enterprise AI transformation.

Despite promise to pause government bids

Fujitsu has secured a £125 million contract from the Northern Ireland Department of Finance, despite previously pledging to halt bidding for new UK government work following the Post Office Horizon scandal.

Must tackle Horizon system replacement scandal

The Post Office has bolstered its tech leadership team by creating a new role amidst the ongoing project to replace the controversial Horizon system supplied by Fujitsu.

39 people win on appeal

More than 39 people who ran local post offices have had their convictions for theft, fraud and false accounting overturned because of what an appeals court said was clear evidence of "bugs, errors or defects" in an IT system.