businessOct 2026New
Barclays names Anita Tanna chief AI officer
Barclays appointed group chief of staff Anita Tanna as its first chief artificial intelligence officer.
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communityOct 2026New
Code For Good Now founder Zehra Chatoo is a Woman in Tech to Watch 2026
Zehra Chatoo, who founded Code For Good Now to champion responsible and inclusive AI, was named one of Computer Weekly's Women in Tech to Watch.
scienceOct 2026New
Google DeepMind's Lila Ibrahim makes the 2026 list
Lila Ibrahim, chief AI readiness officer at Google DeepMind, was named in Computer Weekly's 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech 2026.
scienceOct 2026New
Jade Leung of the AI Security Institute is named in the 2026 top 50
Jade Leung, vice-chair of the AI Security Institute and security adviser to the government AI taskforce, was named in Computer Weekly's 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech 2026.
communityOct 2026New
Karen Blake is named the most influential woman in UK tech for 2026
Karen Blake, head of EDIS and co-author of the Lovelace Report, topped Computer Weekly's list of the 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech, chosen from a longlist of more than 870 women. She argues women are adopting AI more carefully and sustainably, which organisations will be grateful for.
scienceOct 2026New
Laura Gilbert, senior director of AI at the Tony Blair Institute, makes the 2026 list
Laura Gilbert was named in Computer Weekly's 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech 2026 for her work leading AI.
scienceOct 2026New
Rosemary Francis is one of Computer Weekly's Women in Tech to Watch 2026
Rosemary Francis, a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, founded a network for AI founders this year and is its chief technology officer.
businessOct 2026New
Sovereign AI Fund's Suzanne Ashman is a Woman in Tech to Watch 2026
Suzanne Ashman, managing partner of the £500m Sovereign AI Fund and formerly a general partner at LocalGlobe, was named one of Computer Weekly's Women in Tech to Watch.
businessOct 2026New
Tommie Edwards, founder of Tech1M, is a Woman in Tech to Watch 2026
Tommie Edwards, CEO of PeopleXYZ and co-founder of the AI training and mentoring platform Tech1M, was named one of Computer Weekly's Women in Tech to Watch.
scienceOct 2026New
Zahra Shah, chair of UKAI's Women in AI Working Group, is named in the 2026 top 50
Zahra Shah, board adviser at NexaQuanta and co-founder of the AI privacy platform Seers, was seventh in Computer Weekly's 2026 list.
scienceFeb 2023
Cambridge study: only 8% of AI scientists in a century of film are women
Researchers at Cambridge's Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence found that 92% of AI scientists and engineers on screen in influential films from 1920 to 2020 were men, and argue the stereotype may deter women from AI careers.
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Anna Ridler shows Mosaic Virus
Artist Anna Ridler made Mosaic Virus, tulips generated by AI trained on photographs she took herself.