AI Summit: 28 governments and EU agree to safe AI development
All governments participating in the UK’s AI Safety Summit have issued a joint communique on the risks and opportunities of the technology, affirming the need…
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Cloud banking fintech unicorn cuts 50 staff
UK fintech unicorn Thought Machine has cut 50 staff in roles it said were no longer needed, with sales and marketing positions mainly affected. The…
Banking should start testing out quantum ideas
Banks should be setting up a quantum computing taskforce, a report from UK Finance has concluded. The Identifying and seizing the opportunities presented by quantum…
Incident response planning is vulnerable to legacy thinking
Part of the challenge is demonstrated in the question here. Our legacy thinking may lead us into thinking about incident response in a perimeter-focused way;…
Lloyds bank kicks off Hyderabad operation
Lloyds Banking Group has described the opening of a tech delivery centre in Hyderabad, India, as a “pivotal moment” in the bank’s £3bn, three-year, digital…
Government announces millions to fund AI skills
The government has announced it will be providing £118m in funding to improve artificial intelligence (AI) skills in the UK. The plan outlined by the…
The cause of the Post Office Horizon scandal? The Law Commission? Judges? Lawyers?
From 1999, Post Office Limited prosecuted subpostmasters, subpostmistresses and employees for theft and fraud based on evidence produced by the Horizon computer system, which appeared…
Darktrace CEO Poppy Gustafsson on her AI Safety Summit goals
Poppy Gustafsson describes the past 10 years as “exhilarating”, but when asked if, when she helped set up Darktrace in 2013, she ever thought in…
The world’s most advanced Arabic LLM is now available on open source
Inception, an Abu Dhabi-based subsidiary of G42, has released an Arabic large language model (LLM) to open source. The new model, called Jais, uses 13…
We mustn’t let the return to offices kill the growth of women in tech
Slow progress on gender diversity Getting this right remains a key issue because women are still woefully under-represented in the tech industry. This year’s Digital…
How much is enough to support those who maintain open source?
The research and development team at Spotify has nominated four open source projects to receive a share of its annual €100,000 FOSS (Free and Open…
Biden’s AI plans focus on US workers’ protection
US president Joe Biden has set out the country’s strategy for artificial intelligence (AI), balancing responsible innovation with safety and security. The White House said…