When the intern has admin rights: GDPR in the agentic age
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was built for a world where personal data was easier to govern. You could map where it came from,…
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Lords considers government emergency AI kill switch
An amendment to the UK’s Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, currently passing through the House of Lords, proposes giving the government “last resort” powers to…
The road to digital tyranny: when AI acts autonomously
For most of the history of artificial intelligence, the direction of travel has been clear. We have tried to make machines more capable, more independent…
AWS sets 2026 opening date for Saudi cloud region
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has unveiled a series of investments and partnerships in Saudi Arabia during LEAP 2026, reinforcing its commitment to the Kingdom’s rapidly…
Datacentre water use: Not so simple a picture as often painted
Calls to halt new datacentres often focus on tales of their gargantuan appetite for water and electricity. Such arguments are magnified in current conditions. Drought was…
AI has exposed the cracks GDPR was already trying to fix
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) predates the commercial availability of large language models by several years. It forced organisations to answer questions most of…
The loop nobody’s checking the size of
AI is now doing a growing share of the frontline work inside security operations, triaging alerts, correlating signals across systems, drafting the first read on…
The Next AI Breakthrough Won’t Be a Bigger Model
For the past five years, the AI industry has pursued a remarkably simple strategy: build a bigger model. More parameters. More data. More GPUs. The…
Chancellor unveils plans to entice UK tech startups
The UK chancellor, John Healey, has unveiled the £100m Sovereign AI R&D Procurement Scheme to support British firms developing artificial intelligence (AI) for public sector…
AI and the right to resist
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Post Office Horizon replacement ‘screw-up’ ends in challenge, more cost and delay
The Post Office created a new contract and awarded it without competitive tender to an IT supplier that challenged its decision to award a £169m…
Wide misconception that AI investment information is regulated and that users are protected
Nearly half of those that use artificial intelligence (AI) to support their investment activity “mistakenly” believe the information it generates is regulated. Investors using investment…