Met pushes ahead with major facial-recognition expansion
The Metropolitan Police will deploy static live facial-recognition (LFR) cameras across the West End and Soho by the end of 2026, despite increased pressure for…
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Digital surveillance tech facilitates ‘arbitrary’ border abuses
The sharing of digital surveillance technologies by states looking to outsource their asylum and migration processes is contributing to human rights violations against people on…
UK’s cultural institutions failing on cyber security, warns PAC
Britain’s national museums and galleries are highly vulnerable to cyber threats and by-and-large, have failed to heed the prescient warnings from the 2023 British Library…
CFIT is ‘shaking up business models’ with UK government backing
After finishing off coalitions focused on open finance, digital ID and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) access to finance, the Center for Financial Innovation and…
Gartner: AI coding agents will cost more than real developers
Research by Gartner Peer Insights has found that 23% of tech leaders are spending $200 to $500 per developer per month on tokens for artificial…
Roundtable: UK tech chiefs on agentic AI, workforce culture and tokenomics
The shift from experimental artificial intelligence (AI) projects to enterprise-grade autonomous systems was the defining theme of the Google Cloud Summit in London last week. …
Trump directs US government focus to quantum
In two separate Executive Orders (EOs) signed on 22 June by president Trump, the US government has been instructed to take action to establish a…
Oxford and UCL labs receive £60m AI funding boost
The UK government is providing Oxford and University College London (UCL) £60m to host labs for developing the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI). Supported…
The brain was never just a language model
We have built something extraordinary, and we have already mistaken it for the destination. Large language models are the most impressive cognitive tools humanity has…
Google’s Andi Gutmans on the shift to agent-scale data management
At last week’s Google Summit in London, the company’s agentic data cloud vice-president and co-creator of web server scripting language PHP, Andi Gutmans, said enterprises…
AI’s next compute layer is likely to come from outside Silicon Valley
For years, the assumption around AI infrastructure was easy to accept. Serious compute would be built where hyperscale cloud, developer density, and capital were already…
AI-powered cyber attacks may be just months away, warn Five Eyes
Powerful AI models could be used to conduct cyber attacks within a matter of months, western intelligence agencies warned today, placing governments and businesses at…