Rate hike readjustment and AI hardware momentum: What to watch this week
Coming off a holiday-shortened week filled with tons of labor market data and a surprising jobs report, investors…
I don’t want a US tech bro as a patron – which is why artists must defend our copyright in the age of AI | Anna Funder
Last week I went to Canberra with a group of other people who live by selling our creative…
McLaren employs robot army for site quality checks
McLaren will deploy autonomous quadruped robots initially to capture 360° site imagery, generate data and support safety compliance…
‘It’s smoke and mirrors’: hope turns to fear in Scottish village chosen for AI datacentre | AI (artificial intelligence)
The promise was that a Scottish community would be transformed by massive investment and empowered to chase “the…
What are Britain’s AI growth zones and are the plans feasible or ‘complete bunk’? | AI (artificial intelligence)
The Guardian has examined government plans to build Britain’s AI infrastructure for the future, finding some of these…
Revealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise | AI (artificial intelligence)
A landmark AI development billed as delivering jobs and prosperity has misrepresented its plans to channel a nuclear…
Microsoft caves after Teams AI backlash, will let you turn off Copilot, Facilitator and Recap mid-meeting
I asked Microsoft whether it has any plans to give presenters or organizers greater control over AI features…
Google Opal solves the most serious problem non-coders face, and not even Claude or local AI could solve it better
Local AI seems to rise in popularity month after month, but yet, the question of accessibility requires an…
Your gadgets just got more expensive – and the reason is AI
Really, how could it have all been free? All that computer power, used for all that output? But…
Alibaba bans Anthropic’s Claude Code after an alleged hidden China-detection backdoor is uncovered — employees told to switch to Qoder as the rift between the firms widens
Chinese tech giant Alibaba has banned its employees from using Anthropic’s Claude Code for all work purposes, effective…
AI bubble fears, the endless K-shaped economy, and insane hyperscaler capex spending
There’s no shortage of hot topics for investors to debate at the start of summer. I heard and…
Gwent public services to invest £1.2m in AI programmes
Shared Resources Services, the technology partnership formed by a number of Gwent councils and the police, is to approve global…