Pacing the AI Frontier: the risk of artificial unintelligence
“We must pace the frontier,” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued in a blog post published last weekend that quickly went viral. He called for “pacing…
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Nvidia Doesn’t Sell Chips. It Sells a Flywheel
Nvidia is now one of the most valuable companies in history. The standard explanation is straightforward: it built the world’s best AI chips, created CUDA,…
Hillsborough Law should catch bosses at firms like Fujitsu and Capita
Bosses of suppliers that provide services to government should be included in the scope of the law designed to get public servants to tell the…
Interview: François-Xavier Pierrel, chief data officer, TF1
François-Xavier Pierrel, group chief data and adtech officer at French TV network TF1, is an experienced executive with a background in tech-led innovation. At TF1,…
What a new ‘Nature’s Rights’ bill could mean for UK datacentres
The UK is in a hurry to build new datacentres. Not wanting to be left behind, the Starmer government green-lit plans for new sites up…
US cyber agency endorses ‘decoy’ tactics
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa) – a roughly equivalent body to GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) in the UK – has…
Data dive: London and M4 the datacentre hotspot, but not for long
The UK’s existing stock of datacentres is smaller, and more concentrated around London, than most of the numbers in circulation suggest. An analysis of the…
Capita boss gets ‘obscene’ pay packet while retired civil servants need emergency loans
Capita CEO Adolfo Hernandez earned £1.6m in his last pay packet, while thousands of retired civil servants were forced to apply for emergency loans because…
Splunk Conf 26: Splunk hopes to build confidence in agentic AI
Mere days after some of the most prominent “big AI” advocates went on record to warn of an existential threat to humanity arising from unchecked…
Interview: Stephen Wood, chief operating officer, Rathbones Asset Management
“I’m not your average COO [chief operating officer],” says Stephen Wood, COO at Rathbones Asset Management (RAM), part of the Rathbones investment group. With 28…
Home Office challenged on ‘farcical’ secrecy over Apple ‘backdoor’ order
The government’s policy to neither confirm nor deny whether it has ordered Apple to provide ‘backdoor’ access to encrypted messages and data stored on Apple’s…
MSPs reject datacentre moratorium but pause planning decisions
The Scottish Parliament this week rejected a Green motion for a moratorium on new hyperscale datacentres, but amended it with a commitment to publish national…