Europe is ruling itself out of the AI race
I recently reported on a major partnership signed by a German tech startup. Or so I thought. Not long after…
Starmer will need a miracle to boost his ‘AI growth zones’
The government has unveiled its new ‘AI Opportunities Action Plan’ – a ten-syllable, fifty-point proposal to grow the UK’s AI…
The fatal flaw in Starmer’s AI plan to save Britain
You’d be forgiven for thinking the government’s new AI Opportunities Action Plan lacks ambition. While frontier AI businesses in the…
A crackdown on AI energy consumption would be a mistake
AI has an energy problem: it consumes an awful lot of it. Firms like ChatGPT creator OpenAI demand eye-watering levels of…
Firing Sam Altman has thrown the AI race back open
Until this week, OpenAI seemed like an unstoppable force. In the space of little more than a year, the San…
WhatsApp is right to be angry about the UK’s encryption mess
The world’s biggest tech firms have lined up to lambast the latest incarnation of the Online Safety Bill and Investigatory…
Why Threads is failing to win over Twitter users
When Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta released Threads earlier this month, it looked to be the biggest threat to Twitter in the…
How Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse gamble backfired
Less than two years ago, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg bet the house on the metaverse. Zuckerberg believed that his virtual…
Is Elon Musk a genius or a dud?
When he bought Twitter in October last year, Elon Musk set out a bold vision for the bird app. The…
The EU must tread carefully in its AI crackdown
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has surged in popularity in recent months. ChatGPT alone has swelled to more than 100 million users…
