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…
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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…
How can enterprise AI be made less sycophantic?
The release of ChatGPT in 2022 heralded one of the biggest step changes in technology this decade, with generative AI (GenAI) tools providing the ability…
The power crunch: How energy constraints reshape datacentre strategy
The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) is colliding with a hard physical limit. Notably, that limit is not necessarily compute capacity or silicon availability,…
Navigating the AI access control minefield
Until recently, IT departments primarily focused on providing employees with the IT systems they needed to do their jobs, which meant identity and access management…
Wimbledon’s ‘hidden court 19’ uses IBM Bob to complete 10 years’ work in months
IBM has harnessed artificial intelligence (AI) to convert feedback from tennis fans into the latest digital services that sit behind the upcoming grand slam at…
Google Cloud Summit: UK to deploy AI-powered planning system
The UK’s Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has worked with Google Cloud, Google DeepMind and Faculty – a company recently acquired by…
What are the cyber threats to the 2026 Fifa World Cup?
In the run up to the troubled Fifa World Cup 2026 in Canada, Mexico and the US, national headlines have been dominated not by cyber…