Firm secures £300m for data centre rollout in Scotland’s AI Growth Zone
Around 700 jobs are set to be created after a Scottish firm secured a £300m deal to build…
Payments giant Stripe is about to drop over $7 billion to become a gateway to AI token sales
Payments biz Stripe has reportedly finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter for at least $7 billion, signaling a…
Agentic AI costs set to balloon fivefold by 2028
AI AND ml Cheaper tokens won’t help when complex workflows consume so many more of them, Gartner warns…
Belfast bar announces ‘boycott of AI’ on its premises
It hopes other businesses will join in with the ban American Bar Belfast(Image: Google) A popular Belfast bar…
These are the tech CEOs young people trust most and least when it comes to AI
Connecting the dots: Is it surprising to know that CEOs – the profession most likely to attract or…
AI data centres are being criticised for the water they use, but one kilogram of beef can require roughly 15,000 litres to produce — a staggering reminder that some of the biggest environmental costs are still sitting on our plates
One kilogram of beef takes roughly 15,000 litres of water to produce. One medium-length chatbot reply takes about…
Lost Billy Joel interview being made into AI documentary
Credit: Raph Pour-Hashemi Mon 17 August 2026 16:48, UK An unauthorised documentary on the early career of Billy…
An AI failed to detect a bug in Snowflake’s code. Then another AI agent exploited it
Security Don’t worry, this one was via a bug bounty program Update 08/18, 0000 GMT: Following publication, Wiz…
Feedly attributes weeklong slowdown to bug, not its AI pivot
Bad news for those who get their updates through RSS feeds: Feedly, the largest stand-alone RSS reader worldwide,…
Trump bizarrely chats with President Washington in AI ballroom tour
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Claude to start watermarking AI-generated text – but will it make quality worse? | Anthropic
The world is familiar by now with the usual tropes of machine-generated text: overuse of the word “delve”,…
Wispr raises $280M at $2B valuation as it looks beyond dictation
Wispr, a startup known for its AI dictation tool, raised $280 million in Series B funding, led by…