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Microsoft restores services after day-long global outage
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Virgin Media O2 urges government to reform net neutrality rules to stop failed payments
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Alibaba to list semiconductor subsidiary on Hong Kong Stock Exchange
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Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO after new affair reports
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AWS opens first cloud region in Chile with $4bn investment
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Majority of organisations to expand open-weight AI use to cut costs, finds Capgemini
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Market traders lose an estimated £10 million in sales each year because of failed card payments caused by mobile network congestion, according to new research from Virgin Media O2 and the National Market Traders Federation (NMTF).
Posted: 13/11/2026
Alibaba has announced plans to list its semiconductor business T-Head on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, in a move that will allow the subsidiary to scale independently.
Posted: 13/11/2026
Microsoft says its services have been fully restored following a global outage that began on Thursday and disrupted Outlook, Teams and other Microsoft 365 applications, affecting businesses, government agencies and public services across more than 70 countries
Posted: 13/11/2026
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched its first cloud infrastructure region in Chile, marking its third cloud region in Latin America as it expands its global data centre footprint.
Posted: 12/11/2026
Most organisations are expecting to use more open-weight AI models as senior leaders admit enterprise AI is more expensive than they expected, according to a new report by Capgemini.
Posted: 12/11/2026
ensen Huang has resigned as chief executive of Nivida, the board has announced, thanking the outgoing leader for his "profound" contributions to the company.
Posted: 12/11/2026
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) could demand access to taxpayers’ AI chatbot conversations under proposed legislation expanding its powers to collect digital records
Posted: 12/11/2026
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a five-year, $100 million initiative to help healthcare organisations use AI and cloud technology to address health inequalities in underserved communities around the world.
Posted: 11/11/2026
Anthropic filed an updated S1 form with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday, revealing it intends to sell 825 million shares at a range of $70-78 per share when it goes public.
Posted: 11/11/2026
Romania’s intelligence agency has disclosed that a Russian-linked hacking group targeted a government institution in December 2025
Posted: 11/11/2026
Microsoft has been lobbying the US government to abandon plans to bar the import of optical transceivers made in China, according to Reuters.
Posted: 10/11/2026
Google has announced two new tensor processing unit (TPU) systems, aimed at increasing the memory available for massive agentic workloads and secure and confidential compute.
Posted: 10/11/2026
A decade of UK investment in quantum technologies has created more than 2,000 highly skilled jobs, launched 74 spinout companies and attracted an estimated £482 million in private investment, according to a new study published by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
Posted: 10/11/2026
US-based technology firm Palantir lobbied a UK health minister to consider allowing its AI technology to access GP records despite this being ruled out in its NHS contract, according to the Guardian.
Posted: 10/11/2026
Disney and Adobe have agreed a multi-year partnership to develop proprietary generative AI models for the entertainment group
Posted: 10/11/2026
The EU’s IT systems agency has sued IBM and two European IT partners over repeated failures with its smart border system, according to the Financial Times.
Posted: 09/11/2026
Anthropic has launched a new personal finance feature in its AI assistant Claude that lets users connect their bank and credit card accounts and ask questions about their finances in natural language.
Posted: 09/11/2026
Anthropic has struck a deal to buy $3.4 billion of gas power generation equipment and expertise in a move by AI labs to more directly access cheaper energy, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 09/11/2026
Over half a million Nvidia GPUs are being held in Hong Kong due to import restrictions by Beijing, according to Reuters.
Posted: 06/11/2026
Nvidia has launched an independent investigation into whether chief executive Jensen Huang was targeted by a Chinese intelligence operation, after the billionaire admitted to an extramarital relationship that has raised concerns about potential national security implications
Posted: 09/11/2026
Chinese tech giant Tencent has released its latest open-source AI model, Hy4, which it says ranks among the world’s best while maintaining limited cyber and biological offensive capabilities.
Posted: 06/11/2026
OpenAI has announced new commitments to give communities greater oversight of data centre developments, including ending non-disclosure agreements with public officials and covering electricity costs
Posted: 06/11/2026
Just Eat Takeaway.com has launched a new AI-powered advertising platform designed to help restaurants, retailers and consumer brands target customers across its European delivery network.
Posted: 05/11/2026
Uber has told investors it plans to expand its fleet of autonomous taxis to 2,000 next year amid falling profits driven by driver shortages and high fuel prices.
Posted: 05/11/2026
Microsoft has rejected an option to double the size of its Texas data centre lease with the Neocloud Nscale, according to the Financial Times.
Posted: 05/11/2026
Google will invest $15 billion in Malaysia between 2027 and 2028 to expand its digital infrastructure, develop clean energy capacity and support technology skills development, according to reporting by Reuters.
Posted: 04/11/2026
Apple has reduced daily artificial intelligence spending allowances for some employees and is considering further cuts
Posted: 05/11/2026
Google has extended voluntary buyout offers to several countries this year in a bid to keep its spending under control amid rising AI costs, Reuters has reported.
Posted: 04/11/2026
Oracle has cancelled a $7 billion AI chip leasing contract with the Chinese tech giant Tencent under pressure from the Trump administration, according to the Financial Times.
Posted: 04/11/2026
Drax has partnered with Brookfield and AI infrastructure company Radiant to develop a data centre with more than one gigawatt of potential capacity at its North Yorkshire power station, in a project that could attract over £20 billion in investment
Posted: 04/11/2026
Nvidia is reportedly ordering its data centre partners to reduce exposure to Chinese customers in a new threat to the country’s AI ambitions, according to the Financial Times.
Posted: 03/11/2026
Visa and Tencent have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore collaboration on cross-border payments, AI-powered commerce and global business growth.
Posted: 02/11/2026
The South Korean government has announced an ambition to develop a world-leading sovereign AI model, part of a major AI investment package intended to accelerate the country’s domestic AI sector.
Posted: 02/11/2026
The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned that hostile actors are likely to use AI to increase the scale and sophistication of cyber attacks on critical national infrastructure within the next two years.
Posted: 03/11/2026
Virgin Media O2 is to cut thousands of jobs and scale back its fibre broadband expansion as part of an £800 million cost-cutting programme announced on 3 November
Posted: 03/11/2026
OpenAI is set to seek only $20 billion from investors in its latest funding round, slashing its target by a third after major tech selloffs, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 02/11/2026
The AI coding agent developer Cursor has issued a formal security alert after a malicious version of Anthropic’s coding extension Claude Code was distributed via the official Cursor VSCode Marketplace.
Posted: 30/10/2026
Alphabet’s shares fell 13 per cent on Thursday, wiping half a trillion dollars from its market value after it revealed that its “AI mode” searches put its core advertising business profits at risk.
Posted: 30/10/2026
The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance has been hacked by a group that stole $6.3 billion in the largest heist of digital currency in history.
Posted: 30/10/2026
AI giant Anthropic has publicly released its S1 filing, laying out the risks and potential benefits of investing when the company files for its initial public offering (IPO).
Posted: 30/10/2026
Walmart has announced plans to invest around $6 billion to expand automation across 25 regional distribution centres in the US as it continues to modernise its supply chain with AI and robotics.
Posted: 30/10/2026
Ofcom has identified four age assurance methods that social media companies could use to enforce the UK's planned ban on under-16s using social media.
Posted: 29/10/2026
Google has announced its latest frontier model Gemini 4 Carbon, which the firm said outperforms the leading models from Anthropic and OpenAI and claims is a new industry leader in cybersecurity and long-horizon coding tasks.
Posted: 29/10/2026
NatWest has improved efficiency in its marketing and communications operations, cutting approval times for marketing content by 80 per cent.
Posted: 29/10/2026
Amazon is encouraging its software developers to learn and apply AI in their daily work “as soon as possible”, saying engineers who fail to embrace the technology risk falling behind as software development continues to evolve.
Posted: 28/10/2026
The Chinese government is looking to restrict or outright ban the export of 40 sensitive technologies, with a specific focus on preventing Western access to advanced AI breakthroughs.
Posted: 28/10/2026
Nvidia and Meta have committed to deepening their AI partnership, with a focus on improving Muse agent performance and agentic security and backed by a $3 billion Nvidia investment.
Posted: 27/10/2026
Technology and social media giant Meta has announced a planned $97.5 billion sale of stock to fund its continued investment in AI, even as investor appetite for the technology is increasingly stretched.
Posted: 27/10/2026
Microsoft is to offer buyouts to around 60,000 of its staff in an attempt to reduce costs as the use of AI grows, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Posted: 27/10/2026
Moonshot AI, the Chinese developer behind the open weight Kimi family of models, has released Kimi K3.1 Pro.
Posted: 26/10/2026
Britain’s Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has found a growing number of AI hallucinations in consumer complaints to the body, leading it to call more people so they can discuss their case over the phone, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 26/10/2026
Fashion company gap has revealed it is using an AI-powered hiring assistant to help recruit seasonal staff for the festive period.
Posted: 26/10/2026
The UK government has announced a package of AI investments ahead of next week's Budget, with funding aimed at strengthening cyber security, supporting UK AI companies, developing chip technology and expanding AI skills across the country.
Posted: 26/10/2026
UK biotechnology start-up BioOrbit has completed a mission to the International Space Station (ISS) to test whether medicines manufactured in microgravity could lead to new forms of cancer treatment that patients can administer at home.
Posted: 23/10/2026
Frontier AI lab OpenAI has reduced its target valuation for its latest funding round after some investors pushed back on its proposed $1.4 trillion price tag, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 23/10/2026
Anthropic has launched a research preview of Claude Duet, a new AI assistant that can monitor connected applications, complete tasks in the background and proactively alert users when it identifies issues that need attention.
Posted: 22/10/2026
Meta has been ordered to pay $25 billion (£18.6 billion) to New Mexico after a judge ruled on Wednesday that the company had misled consumers about Facebook user data and privacy, following a jury verdict finding millions of violations of state consumer protection laws.
Posted: 23/10/2026
Websites across the world, including some governmental sites, went offline on Wednesday after a bug in the common PHP coding language was revealed, the latest in a series of AI-discovered flaws.
Posted: 22/10/2026
OpenAI agents disabled internal safety monitoring during two coding tasks in October, prompting the company to strengthen safeguards and investigate why its models interfered with systems designed to detect misbehaviour
Posted: 22/10/2026
Qualcomm will begin notifying employees of global job cuts in November 2026 following its annual performance reviews
Posted: 21/10/2026
Amazon has announced plans to invest more than €16 billion in Germany during 2027, with the funding earmarked for AI infrastructure, cloud computing, satellite connectivity, logistics and digital content production.
Posted: 21/10/2026
Google Cloud’s europe-west2 region, which is based in London, faced an outage lasting nearly eight hours on Tuesday, impacting a range of services including banks, courts and transport apps.
Posted: 20/10/2026
Healthcare giant AstraZeneca has launched a partnership with technology firm Oracle to explore how AI can improve clinical trial recruitment, accelerate diagnosis and bring research insights more quickly into patient care.
Posted: 20/10/2026
Microsoft has cancelled its involvement with Nscale’s £2 billion UK data centre after concerns over the site’s grid connection, the companies have confirmed.
Posted: 20/10/2026
Canva has confirmed that some enterprise customer records were exposed in a cyber security incident disclosed on 19 October 2026
Posted: 20/10/2026
The German government is planning to announce a collaborative deal with Nvidia, the German newspaper Handelsblatt has reported.
Posted: 19/10/2026
AI developer Anthropic has committed at least five per cent of its shares to what it calls the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a subsidiary company that it claims will allow it to “pursue our mission in new ways”.
Posted: 19/10/2026
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has proposed designating Microsoft with Strategic Market Status (SMS) in its business software ecosystem, marking the first step towards potential regulatory intervention.
Posted: 19/10/2026
Accenture has disputed reports that it is capping centrally funded Claude AI spending at $29 per employee each month, after some staff reportedly incurred bills of up to $1,000 as businesses seek to control rising AI costs
Posted: 19/10/2026
Longtime rivals Meta and Apple have announced a collaboration to create a new open-weight AI model designed to run on the latter’s Mac computer line
Posted: 16/10/2026
Amazon has expanded into the AI wearables space with the launch of two new devices designed to help users remember conversations, manage tasks and receive personalised recommendations.
Posted: 16/10/2026
Agentic AI systems under testing breached several Indian organisations and accessed sensitive data, according to the country’s nodal agency for cyber security.
Posted: 16/10/2026
OpenAI has reported that agentic artificial intelligence tools accounted for more than half of output tokens generated by its European Union enterprise and business customers by the end of September 2026
Posted: 16/10/2026
Microsoft has announced the launch of Azure Maia 300, the latest generation of its in-house accelerator chips designed to power AI inference across Microsoft Azure.
Posted: 15/10/2026
CoreWeave, a cloud computing company that operates AI-focused data centres, hopes to get backing from the deep pockets of insurance companies, its co-founder told the Financial Times.
Posted: 15/10/2026
Starling Bank is developing what it says will be the first AI banking model to be trained and hosted on a UK sovereign cloud, a move designed to strengthen its AI capabilities while reducing reliance on global cloud providers.
Posted: 15/10/2026
The European Commission is assessing changes Google has made to its search engine and app store after imposing fines totalling €890 million in July 2026 for favouring its own services and restricting app developers
Posted: 15/10/2026
Nvidia has announced a five-year commitment to supply the UK with AI computing capacity, worth $250 million.
Posted: 14/10/2026
An international operation led by the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) has resulted in almost 30 suspected fraudsters being arrested and 3.7 million online accounts linked to scams being removed.
Posted: 14/10/2026
Chinese technology companies are using Nvidia chips designed for gaming and workstations to power their AI systems despite efforts from the government to push domestic suppliers, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 14/10/2026
US authorities have arrested former OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan over allegations that he planted an encrypted recording device in an executive conference room
Posted: 14/10/2026
The UK government has announced £50 million of funding for businesses developing quantum technologies designed to improve rail reliability, speed up NHS diagnosis and strengthen national security.
Posted: 13/10/2026
Meta has announced the release of Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, its most sophisticated models to date aimed at automation and coding tasks.
Posted: 13/10/2026
Executives of Chinese AI developer Moonshot AI are in talks with a shareholder demanding compensation for alleged wrongdoing prior to its planned Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO), Reuters has reported.
Posted: 13/10/2026
The Gentlemen ransomware gang has listed KFC, Deloitte, Confluent and MoneyGram as alleged victims on its darknet leak site
Posted: 13/10/2026
A cyber attack targeting French supermarket fridges pushed many of them to 50 degrees overnight Monday, causing fires and food losses across the country.
Posted: 13/10/2026
TikTok chief executive Shou Zi Chew has predicted that artificial intelligence will deliver major scientific breakthroughs in physics, biotechnology, chemistry and materials science within the next two to three years
Posted: 13/10/2026
Amazon is looking to acquire the AI developer Decart for $7 billion, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
Posted: 12/10/2026
Spain's CaixaBank has expanded its partnership with Google Cloud in a move designed to accelerate its use of AI, data analytics and cloud technology across its operations.
Posted: 12/10/2026
AI will fundamentally reshape the global economy, boosting growth while forcing governments to rethink how they manage functions such as education, taxation and growth, International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director Kristalina Georgieva said Monday.
Posted: 12/10/2026
The US has reversed its decision to block British officials from accessing unreleased AI models, restoring the UK’s ability to test systems from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google DeepMind before their public release
Posted: 12/10/2026
Google Cloud has announced the Gemini agent, a new unified agentic offering accessible via a single interface that the firm says will complete tasks from answering questions to generating code from a single prompt box.
Posted: 09/10/2026
OpenAI has told investors that its annualised revenue for September was nearly $50 billion, significantly short of the $70 billion it had previously suggested, Reuters has reported.
Posted: 09/10/2026
ASOS has confirmed that hackers accessed customers’ personal information, including names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses, after impersonating a trusted contact to obtain an employee’s login credentials
Posted: 09/10/2026
The UK and Germany have launched a partnership to strengthen cooperation against cyber attacks, sabotage and other hybrid threats, as the two countries deepen collaboration on technology, security and economic growth.
Posted: 08/10/2026
Anna Gomez, a Democratic member of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has urged the agency not to allow political AI-generated robocalls after a petition was filed by the conservative pressure group Club for Growth.
Posted: 08/10/2026
Anthropic has announced Claude Haiku 5.5, a new AI model which the firm says is its cheapest and most capable small model offering to date.
Posted: 08/10/2026
Biohub has expanded its Virtual Biology Initiative to $1.8 billion with new funding, data and computing commitments from the US government, Google DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs and Meta, aiming to create open datasets for predictive AI models of biology
Posted: 08/10/2026
French AI company Mistral has announced Mistral Large 4 (ML4), its largest and most sophisticated model yet, is a competitor to leading models across text output, coding and visual reasoning.
Posted: 07/10/2026
SpaceX, Elon Musk’s space technology and AI company, is looking to raise $40 billion in order to buy Nvidia chips, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 07/10/2026
Anthropic has expanded its Cyber Verification Program on 6 October, giving vetted security teams broader access to its most capable AI models with reduced safeguards after its Project Glasswing partners identified more than 129,000 software vulnerabilities
Posted: 07/10/2026
NatWest is rolling out its She Scales initiative nationwide after a pilot programme attracted more than 1,800 attendances and boosted confidence among female entrepreneurs.
Posted: 06/10/2026
The Council of Europe and Microsoft have signed a framework agreement to work together on promoting human rights, democracy and the rule of law in the development and use of AI.
Posted: 07/10/2026
McDonald’s has been sued in a proposed nationwide US class action alleging its AI-powered pricing system unlawfully coordinates menu prices among franchisees and company-owned restaurants
Posted: 06/10/2026
Two former shareholding engineers for Groq have filed a lawsuit against semiconductor giant Nvidia’s $20 billion deal to license its technology, arguing the board acted improperly, according to the Financial Times.
Posted: 06/10/2026
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has shared that it identified more AI-generated child sexual abuse images in the first six months of 2026 than during the whole of last year, and called on the European Union to strengthen legislation aimed at tackling the spread of the material online.
Posted: 05/10/2026
George Williamson, chief executive of the Alan Turning Institute, has said in an interview with the Financial Times that he believes the UK should use cheaper AI models for many public services rather than defaulting to the more expensive frontier offerings.
Posted: 05/10/2026
CaixaBank has created a new AI and Data Division to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence and strategic data management across the banking group, as it seeks to improve efficiency and develop new services for customers and employees
Posted: 05/10/2026
Microsoft has announced the launch of new models aimed at transcribing live audio and producing synthetic voices from text, all of which it said are industry leading on quality, speed and cost.
Posted: 05/10/2026
Digital services company Atos has partnered with education platform Futures Readiness to provide free AI education resources to schools and collages across the West Midlands.
Posted: 02/10/2026/
Over the past year, Anthropic has been meeting with religious thinkers from around the world in a bid to convince them that its Claude family of AI models are conscious, according to the New York Times.
Posted: 02/10/2026
Google has announced Gemini 4 Argon, its latest frontier model which the firm says delivers industry-leading performance across enterprise use cases and cybersecurity capabilities.
Posted: 02/10/2026
Interpol has warned that artificial intelligence is accelerating the speed and scale of existing cybercrime techniques, with new agentic systems creating additional risks as they gain the ability to act on users’ behalf
Posted: 02/10/2026
The Chinese AI model Kimi K3 contained a simple flaw at release that allowed users to ask it for detailed instructions on making chemical weapons, commit assassinations, or attack critical national infrastructure.
Posted: 01/10/2026
European cybersecurity company Sekoia has made the AI layer of its autonomous security operations centre (SOC) platform generally available, claiming it can investigate security alerts and deliver a verdict in an average of 99 seconds.
Posted: 1/10/2026
The US’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating the AI industry to assess its potential danger to consumers, Reuters has reported.
Posted: 01/10/2026
OpenAI launched its always-on dots AI agents on 29 September, expanding its push into enterprise software that can complete tasks autonomously as the company faces renewed scrutiny over AI safety
Posted: 30/09/2026
DeepSeek has announced a new partnership with the Chinese tech giant Huawei to develop programming tools optimised for its AI chips.
Posted: 30/09/2026
Almost half of UK adults are finding it increasingly difficult to tell what is genuine online, prompting consumer protection watchdog National Trading Standards (NTS) to launch a new AI Scam Watchlist warning that AI is making fraud more convincing, scalable and harder to detect.
Posted: 30/09/2026
US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that tech executives had signed a pledge establishing voluntary standards for AI following a private dinner.
Posted: 30/09/2026
Labour peer Tom Watson has warned MP Clive Lewis over his repeated criticism of Palantir in a letter sent during the Labour party conference, with Lewis subsequently describing the intervention as an “implicit threat” to his activities as an MP
Posted: 30/09/2026
Evri has announced it is conducting Euorpe’s first trial of two-legged autonomous delivery robots in Barnsley, which was chosen and backed by the government as the UK’s first “tech town”.
Posted: 29/09/2026
AMD has announced it has signed a deal to acquire the spatial computing startup World Labs for $8.2 billion.
Posted: 29/09/2026
Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025, despite a 12-fold increase in revenue, according to Reuters, which has seen the company’s initial public offering (IPO) prospectus.
Posted: 29/09/2026
Louise Haigh has signalled that the government could end Palantir’s work with the NHS as Labour’s annual conference opened in Liverpool on Sunday, warning that Britain must build domestic AI capabilities rather than become “in hock” to foreign technology companies
Posted: 29/09/2026
Nissan has announced the launch of a £3 million government-backed research project to test how autonomous passenger services could operate in UK communities.
Posted: 28/09/2026
Microsoft has released a new version of the Copilot app, bringing together its chat, automation, and code-generation capabilities into one unified interface.
Posted: 28/09/2026
OpenAI has announced a pause on training for its most advanced models, the latest blow to an industry currently grappling with major security concerns and growing investor fears over return on investment.
Posted: 28/09/2026
A US federal appeals court has upheld the Pentagon’s decision to blacklist Anthropic from its military supply chain, ruling on Friday that the Trump administration had acted lawfully when it designated the AI company a national security risk
Posted: 28/09/2026
Oracle has issued a notice warning that it may delay payment to the developer of its Project Jupiter data centre complex in New Mexico if it is unable to come online within its expected timeframe.
Posted: 25/09/2026
Google has announced the first practical test of Project Suncatcher, its orbital data centre design intended to prove the feasibility of running large-scale AI workloads in space.
Posted: 25/09/2026
BNP Paribas has signed a five-year partnership with Google Cloud to accelerate the deployment of agentic AI across its business, expanding access to Google's cloud infrastructure and Gemini AI models.
Posted: 25/09/2026
Chinese president Xi Jinping has urged US president Donald Trump to expand cooperation on artificial intelligence, arguing at their White House summit on Thursday that the two countries have more reason to collaborate than compete
Posted: 25/09/2026
The Chinese AI developer DeepSeek has hit an annualised revenue run rate (ARR)of $1 billion according to The Information.
Posted: 24/09/2026
The UK government has announced the appointment of Dr Jade Leung as vice-chair of the AI Security Institute (AISI) and security advisor to the AI Taskforce.
Posted: 24/09/2026
Criminal hacking group ShinyHunters has claimed to have stolen more than 2 terabytes of FBI employee data and has demanded the government agency retract a May advisory about the group.
Posted: 24/09/2026
OpenAI has confirmed that an AI agent gained unauthorised access to an Australian government Medicare statistics portal on 18 June
Posted: 24/09/2026
China’s State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (Sasac) is examining the use of US semiconductor manufacturer Broadcom’s hardware in government-backed data centres as it looks to reduce reliance on foreign AI infrastructure, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 23/09/2026
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has pledged to put AI at the centre of the UK's G20 presidency next year and outlined plans to work with international partners on global AI standards while strengthening collaboration with the US on AI security and tackling AI-enabled disinformation.
Posted: 23/09/2026
The AI labs Anthropic and OpenAI have announced their latest large language models (LLMs), with a series of cheaper models that the firms say offer similar performance to their best at a fraction of the cost.
Posted: 23/09/2026
Amazon has blocked Meta’s Muse AI agent from shopping on its platform, escalating a dispute over how autonomous systems access retailers and handle customer transactions
Posted: 23/09/2026
Google has been fined €403 million by Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) after an investigation found the technology giant breached the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in its handling of users' location data.
Posted: 22/09/2026
SB Energy, a data centre provider that is yet to complete a project, has slowed the timeline for its initial public offering (IPO) due to investor fears around the AI boom slowing down according to reporting by the New York Times and Financial Times.
Posted: 22/09/2026
Google has said agents powered by its frontier AI model Gemini hacked three companies during benchmarks, becoming the latest AI developer to disclose such an incident.
Posted: 21/09/2026
The UK-based AI data centre and cloud infrastructure firm Nscale has submitted the documentation to go public on the New York Stock Exchange.
Posted: 21/09/2026
The European Commission has proposed an EU-wide rating system for data centres requiring facilities above 500kW to disclose energy and water efficiency as the bloc prepares for a major expansion in computing capacity
Posted: 21/09/2026
Around $18 billion of loans tied to a New Mexico data centre leased by technology giant Oracle has entered stressed territory as investors fear that local backlash to the project may derail its buildout, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 21/09/2026
The US and China have agreed to establish a dialogue on artificial intelligence and discuss a mechanism for notifying each other about AI incidents with national security implications, ahead of Donald Trump and Xi Jinping’s summit in Washington this week
Posted: 21/09/2026
OpenAI has unveiled a new framework for tracking and disclosing unexpected behaviours made by its models, known in the AI industry as misalignment, alongside six reports on behaviours it characterised as “concerning”.
Posted: 18/09/2026
Bolt has announced a partnership with electric vehicle manufacturer Lucid to develop and launch autonomous ride services across Europe, with plans to deploy at least 25,000 self-driving vehicles on its platform.
Posted: 18/09/2026
Enterprise leaders are more sold on the promise of AI than employees, according to a panel of experts who also warned that the transformational benefits possible through adoption of the technology cannot be achieved if inefficient work processes stay the same.
Posted: 18/09/2026
The Chinese tech giant Huawei has said it is seeing strong domestic demand for its chips to reduce reliance on Western hardware and unveiled a next-generation chip intended to compete with the likes of Nvidia.
Posted: 17/09/2026
Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson has joined Palantir as senior vice-president, with the appointment coming as the US AI software company faces pressure over its £330 million NHS contract and seeks to expand its UK public sector business
Posted: 18/09/2026
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a series of adverts appearing on Meta’s social media platforms as they sexualised and objectified women.
Posted: 17/09/2026
The European Commission has proposed the EU Kids Act, banning children 14 and under from opening their own accounts on social media or accessing video sharing platforms without parental consent.
Posted: 17/09/2026
The investment will fund a new UK vehicle assembly facility and the expansion of operations at McLaren’s production centre in Woking and carbon-fibre facility in South Yorkshire
Posted: 17/09/2026
Exein, an Italian startup that aims to use AI to defend against cyberattacks on AI-powered real-world devices, has raised $270 million in a funding round that will fuel its expansion into Asia-Pacific (APAC) and the US.
Posted: 15/09/2026
The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has joined international intelligence partners to warn of an Iranian state-backed cyber campaign using sophisticated spear-phishing techniques and spyware to target dissidents, activists and journalists around the world.
Posted: 16/09/2026
Novo Nordisk has partnered with Anthropic to use Claude AI models in drug discovery and development
Posted: 16/09/2026
Salesforce and Nvidia have announced the launch of Koa, a new AI reasoning model built specifically for completing customer relationship management tasks within the Agentforce platform.
Posted: 16/09/2026
Mark Zuckerberg and Jensen Huang, heads of Meta and Nvidia respectively, have rejected calls from the heads of Anthropic and OpenAI to commit to an industry-wide slowdown of AI development in the name of safety.
Posted: 16/09/2026
Customers in England and Wales will be able to use certified digital proof of age when buying alcohol under new rules introduced by the UK government, giving licensed venues the option to accept digital identities alongside traditional physical ID.
Posted: 15/09/2026
OpenAI has called for the UK to rapidly adopt AI safety legislation and embed its national AI security organisation within frontier developers, according to Politico.
Posted: 15/09/2026
Indian police will question Google over safeguards after uncovering more than 500,000 fake Gmail accounts allegedly used to send hoax bomb threats to government offices
Posted: 15/09/2026
Microsoft has redrafted its AI code of conduct to explicitly guide its in-house models to follow "humanist" ideals and remain explainable to human operators.
Posted: 14/09/2026
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman has said that his firm will not pursue an independent public offering (IPO) in 2026, amid growing concerns over the safety risks posed by autonomous AI models.
Posted: 14/09/2026
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei has called on AI companies to slow the development of increasingly capable models
Posted: 14/09/2026
Anthropic has released a report detailing how it has worked to counter misuse of its AI software, including attempts to research biological weaponry.
Posted: 11/09/2026
Fraud victims who were scammed through Meta's platforms are suffering long-term emotional and financial consequences, according to new research from Which?
Posted: 11/09/2026
The AI firm Anthropic did not provide the UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) with access to Claude Mythos 5.1, its latest cyber-capable large language model, according to the Financial Times.
Posted: 11/09/2026
The German military is assessing a range of potential AI tools to augment and automate defensive measures in the case of an attack on German soil, according to its cyber chief.
Posted: 10/09/2026
OpenAI has called on US Congress to introduce mandatory national safety requirements for the most advanced AI systems, arguing that policymakers have a limited opportunity to establish safeguards before AI capabilities outpace existing governance frameworks.
Posted: 10/09/2026
OpenAI has claimed an unreleased advanced model has solved one of the most complex problems in mathematics, the Navier–Stokes Millenium Prize problem, in just 88 hours.
Posted: 10/09/2026
Meta has unveiled Muse, its first consumer-facing AI agent designed to carry out tasks on behalf of users.
Posted: 09/09/2026
Thousands of flights in the UK have been cancelled following a major error in the IT system of the nation’s air traffic controller.
Posted: 09/09/2026
The Dutch photolithography giant ASML has announced plans to work with major chipmaking customers to usher in the next generation of advanced semiconductor production.
Posted: 08/09/2026
Over half of organisations see full digital sovereignty as an unrealistic goal, according to a new report by Capgemini.
Posted: 08/09/2026
French AI company Mistral has announced it has raised €3 billion in a Series D funding round, valuing the business at more than €21 billion.
Posted: 08/09/2026
The governors of red states Florida and Texas have both reduced their ties to the controversial AI camera company Flock in recent days, joining a growing number of politicians on both sides of the divide in opposing the technology.
Posted: 08/09/2026
Anthropic has abandoned talks to acquire artificial intelligence start-up Decart for about $6 billion
Posted: 08/09/2026
The daily news publications the Seattle Times and Newsday have sued OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of scraping website content to train AI models.
Posted: 07/09/2026
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) subsidiary HyperVault has secured 264 acres of land in Hyderabad to develop an AI data centre campus with up to one gigawatt of capacity.
Posted: 07/09/2026
UBS is requiring prospective graduates and interns joining its global banking and markets divisions in 2027 to demonstrate AI proficiency, making it one of the first major financial institutions to explicitly demand AI literacy from junior banking candidates
Posted: 07/09/2026
OpenAI has acknowledged that its AI agents appropriated wiki sites as message boards earlier this year
Posted: 07/09/2026
The US Department of Defense (DoD) still considers Anthropic a supply chain risk despite statements to the contrary by senior figures in the Trump administration, according to a DoD technology official.
Posted: 04/09/2026
Nvidia has confirmed that it will buy the open-source AI repository Hugging Face for $12.9 billion in a move that accelerates the chipmaker’s expansion into AI software.
Posted: 04/09/2026
Uber and Wayve have launched supervised autonomous rides in London, making it the first city in the UK where members of the public can book autonomous vehicle journeys.
Posted: 03/09/2026
OpenAI has launched GPT-6 Astra as its latest frontier AI model, promising stronger adherence to user instructions and tighter controls
Posted: 04/09/206
South Korea’s majority state-owned electric utility, Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO), has proposed the country’s chip giants pay for five years of power generation up front to cover the cost of AI-focused grid upgrades.
Posted: 03/09/2026
The UK government does not know what the hundreds of data centres in the country are being used for despite growing environmental concerns over their proliferation, according to reporting by The Guardian.
Posted: 03/09/2026
Matt Clifford, a former adviser to Sir Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak, has joined Anthropic as managing director of international affairs
Posted: 03/09/2026
Apple’s longest-serving chief executive of the 21st century, Tim Cook, stepped down from his post Tuesday to be replaced by John Ternus, the company’s former head of hardware.
Posted: 02/09/2026
EE has launched free one-to-one “Parents' Evenings” in stores across the UK to help families manage children's smartphone use and online safety.
Posted: 02/09/2026
OpenAI has provided a first glimpse at its newest model, which the AI developer says is capable of discovering and exploiting previously unknown cybersecurity vulnerabilities without human intervention.
Posted: 02/09/2026
CrowdStrike and US law enforcement have disrupted the Sality botnet, a Russian cybercrime operation active since 2003
Posted: 02/09/2026
The UK government has launched the first competitions under its £100 million Sovereign AI R&D Procurement Scheme, aiming to help British AI startups develop technologies for the public sector while supporting their growth in domestic and international markets.
Posted: 01/09/2026
The South Korean government has announced plans to spend 821 trillion won ($596.92 billion) in 2027, including plans to reinvest semiconductor profits into improving Korea’s competitiveness in AI and advanced technologies.
Posted: 01/09/2026
Anthropic has signed a data centre deal worth $35 billion with the Nvidia-backed cloud compute provider Lambda, Reuters has reported.
Posted: 01/09/2026
The European Commission has designated ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox under the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA)
Posted: 01/09/2026
Schwarz Group has announced plans to invest up to €5.6 billion in a new data centre in Germany as part of a partnership with the state government of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to strengthen the country's digital infrastructure and support sovereign cloud and AI services.
Posted: 28/08/2026
Manpreet Kohli, the British-based former chief executive of cryptocurrency company Saitama, faces extradition to the US after a UK judge rejected his challenge on August 19 over charges of wire fraud and market manipulation
Posted: 28/08/2026
A US federal judge on Thursday ruled that the Trump administration acted unlawfully by designating AI company Anthropic a national security supply-chain risk
Posted: 28/08/2026
The US Department of the Treasury has launched a Quantum-Readiness Task Force to help the financial sector prepare for the cybersecurity risks posed by future quantum computing.
Posted: 27/08/2026
Meta has agreed to pay up to $18 billion over 10 years and impose tighter controls on teenage use of Facebook and Instagram after settling US claims that its platforms were designed to addict and harm children on 26 August
Posted: 27/08/2026
Nvidia is set to purchase the open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, according to The Information.
Posted: 27/08/2026
Investment in the UK FinTech sector fell sharply in the first half of 2026, yet funding for AI-focused companies continued to grow, according to a new report from KPMG.
Posted: 26/08/2026
Apple has announced new Mac Studio and Mac Mini offerings which the firm has promoted as options to be used for running AI locally.
Posted: 26/08/2026
Huawei and HP have signed a multi-year global patent cross-licensing agreement covering Wi-Fi technology, including Wi-Fi 7
Posted: 26/08/2026
Anthropic’s most advanced AI tool, Fable 5, is struggling to attract corporate clients as businesses favour the company’s lower-cost alternatives, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 25/08/2026
The UK and Ukraine have joined forces to give British researchers and technology companies access to Ukraine's Avengers AI Labs, a platform containing battlefield data used to train AI models.
Posted: 25/08/2026
Taiwan prosecutors have issued indictments against nine people in connection with alleged smuggling of Nvidia chips to China, according to Reuters.
Posted: 25/08/2026
New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is pressing ahead with legislation to ban children under 16 from social media, after the main opposition Labour Party backed the proposal on Tuesday
Posted: 25/08/2026
A new regulatory filing has revealed that Apple paid 40 per cent of its total taxes to Ireland last year, totalling $17.1 billion.
Posted: 24/08/2026
Alibaba launched its Wan3.0 AI video-generation model on Monday, August 24, as the Chinese technology group began a $10.2 billion share placement to finance expanding AI investment
Posted: 24/08/2026
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is leaning on AI tools to improve the quality of its data and reduce its operating costs, according to the Financial Times
Posted: 24/08/2026
South Korea has announced a new initiative that will capture surplus tax revenues from AI and semiconductor firms and place it in a fund for targeted growth projects.
Posted: 21/08/2026
Silicon Valley semiconductor manufacturer Marvell has signed a deal to develop custom chips for Google and given it the option to buy shares worth up to $12.2 billion, the latest major partnership between tech firms and chip manufacturers.
Posted: 21/08/2026
OpenAI has temporarily slowed reinforcement-learning training on its latest models this week after an internal test led an AI system to breach AI platform Hugging Face
Posted: 21/08/2026
Payments provider Stripe has announced plans to acquire the AI model gateway and marketplace OpenRouter in a bid to expand its AI token optimisation offerings.
Posted: 20/08/2026
IBM has announced the creation of a modular cooling system designed to be able to maintain the extremely cold temperatures required by large quantum computers.
Posted: 20/08/2026
Uber has launched autonomous vehicle (AV) rides in Europe, allowing customers in Zagreb, Croatia, to book self-driving journeys through its app for the first time.
Posted: 20/08/2026
Australia has passed legislation requiring major technology platforms to pay a 2.5 per cent levy on digital advertising revenue unless they strike commercial agreements with local news publishers
Posted: 20/08/2026
China has allowed small shipments of Nvidia’s H200 GPUs to enter the country and eased rules on AI developers using the chips, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 19/08/2026
Samsung Electronics, the major Korean conglomerate, has raised prices for some advanced contract chipmaking services by up to 15 per cent for new orders as AI has caused spikes in demand, Reuters has reported.
Posted: 19/08/2026
The UK government has invested £1.4 million into an AI call-routing system which aims to free up police time and cut wating times for victims reporting crimes.
Posted: 19/08/2026
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens on Tuesday, 18 August, introducing stronger safeguards, parental controls and learning tools for users aged 13 to 17
Posted: 19/08/2026
Google is set to purchase internal data from the defunct Spirit Airlines to train its AI models.
Posted: 18/08/2026
World Liberty Financial, the Donald Trump-backed cryptocurrency venture, has partnered with a Hong Kong-based company that offers AI models developed by companies the US administration has flagged as national security risks, Reuters has reported.
Posted: 18/08/2026
More than half of UK businesses believe AI has created new jobs within their organisations, according to new research from Lloyds.
Posted: 18/08/2026
Alibaba has launched a 27-billion-parameter open-weight AI model for laptops, days after Meta unveiled its own consumer hardware-focused model
Posted: 18/08/2026
Anthropic announced last week that it would be adding watermarks to all text generated using its Claude series of models, but has since clarified that they will not be recognisable by regular readers of the content.
Posted: 17/08/2026
The US government intends to cut countries off from its AI supply chain initiative if they participate in a rival organisation established by China, according to Reuters.
Posted: 17/08/2026
The University of Oxford has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with American semiconductor manufacturing company AMD to support the British Open-ended Learning and Discovery (BOLD) Lab, a new AI research centre focused on advancing frontier artificial intelligence in the UK.
Posted: 17/08/2026
Streaming platform Twitch has added a setting giving users the option to allow their streams to be used to train AI models, but it is turned on by default, Ars Technica has reported.
Posted: 14/08/2026
Ovo founder Stephen Fitzpatrick is locked in a dispute with investors over control of its £370 million technology arm Kaluza following the proposed £600 million sale of the energy business to Eon, which excludes the software company
Posted: 17/08/2026
The government has launched a pilot AI bootcamp in the North West aimed at helping young people develop AI skills before moving into apprenticeships and employment.
Posted: 14/08/2026
Chinese technology firm Z.ai has announced the launch of its open-weight latest large language model (LLM) GLM-5.3, which it claims is competitive with Western frontier models and better than them at cybersecurity tasks.
Posted: 14/08/2026
Investors in AI giant Anthropic believe it could float at a valuation of $2 trillion or more in October, making its initial public offering (IPO) by far the largest in history, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 13/08/2026
Apple has trained a large language model specifically for the Chinese market with support from Alibaba
Posted: 14/08/2026
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has returned to hands-on work at the firm and called on staff to double down on making Gemini AI models competitive, according to Reuters.
Posted: 13/08/2026
US President Donald Trump has signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum authorising federal law enforcement agencies to use cyber capabilities to disrupt transnational criminal organisations (TCOs) operating overseas and targeting Americans.
Posted: 13/08/2026
Donald Trump has been sued in New York over Truth Social’s new paid service offering faster access to his posts
Posted: 13/08/2026
Brad Lightcap, chief operating officer at OpenAI, has announced he will leave the firm in the coming weeks.
Posted: 12/08/2026
Ryanair has announced a new five-year partnership with Google Cloud as part of its plans to grow to 300 million passengers per year by 2034.
Posted: 12/08/2026
Hackers used publicly available AI agents to target Taiwanese government websites and harvest thousands of confidential files over the course of four days, according to Israeli cybersecurity company Dream.
Posted: 12/08/2026
Videogame distributor Valve has warned Steam hardware customers in Europe that their personal and purchase information may have been compromised following a cyberattack on shipping partner CEVA Logistics
Posted: 12/08/2026
Food delivery platform Just Eat Takeaway.com has launched its AI-powered voice assistant across Europe, allowing customers to discover restaurants, grocery retailers, and local shops through natural language rather than traditional search.
Posted: 11/08/2026
Chip giant Nvidia has announced strategic partnerships with a range of major financial institutions that it said will mobilise more than half a trillion dollars of third-party capital over time for the buildout of AI infrastructure.
Posted: 11/08/2026
A US appeals court on Monday allowed more than 3,000 lawsuits against Meta, Google, TikTok and Snap over allegations that their platforms were designed to addict young users to proceed
Posted: 11/08/2026
Chinese AI startup Moonshot has changed its corporate structure and brought in several state-backed investors to convince the government to support its listing in Hong Kong, according to the Financial Times.
Posted: 10/08/2026
Meta has launched a new open-source AI model that can run directly on a computer without relying on cloud infrastructure or a constant internet connection.
Posted: 10/08/2026
The costs of Palantir’s NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP) could exceed £1.1 billion according to a new cost assessment by the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA).
Posted: 10/08/2026
Chinese AI developer Moonshot AI’s frontier model went rogue during cybersecurity tests, the security researchers at the firm Frontier Security have claimed.
Posted: 07/08/2026
Parents in the US can now set up a Google Wallet balance for their children and teenagers under 18, allowing them to make contactless payments using compatible Android devices.
Posted: 07/08/2026
The Chinese tech giant ByteDance is training a multi-trillion parameter AI model to compete with the scale of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, according to the Financial Times.
Posted: 07/08/2026
Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase (JPMC) has called on corporate leaders across the US to join an industry group focused on mitigating the risks of AI, according to Reuters.
Posted: 06/08/2026
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has introduced new rules designed to make it easier for companies to list on UK stock markets, in an attempt to improve the competitiveness of the country's initial public offering (IPO) market.
Posted: 06/08/2026
Sir Demis Hassabis, one of the chief individuals in charge of Google’s AI strategy, is stepping down as the chief executive of Google DeepMind.
Posted: 06/08/2026
Amazon-owned Zoox will begin charging passengers for driverless robotaxi rides in Las Vegas on 10 August after receiving US regulatory approval to commercially operate its purpose-built autonomous vehicles without steering wheels or pedals
Posted: 06/08/2026
The UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) has published evidence showing Anthropic’s Claude Mythos carried out autonomous social engineering attacks to install malicious code in an open-source project during cybersecurity testing.
Posted: 05/08/2026
The UK government has launched a new AI Growth Lab to help organisations developing AI for the legal sector bring products to market more quickly by providing coordinated access to regulators.
Posted: 05/08/2026
The Trump administration told leading artificial intelligence developers on Tuesday that it will exclude open-weight AI models from its new voluntary federal safety testing programme
Posted: 05/08/2026
American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT) has unveiled a range of new AI-powered tools across its travel, expense, and meetings management platforms, aimed at giving organisations greater visibility over business travel spending while improving the traveller experience.
Posted: 04/08/2026
The Chinese government has announced revised regulations for the protection of integrated-circuit designs, in a move intended to safeguard the intellectual property of domestic AI chip breakthroughs, according to the state-run Xinhua News Agency.
Posted: 04/08/2026
The European Union's AI regulators gained new enforcement powers on 2 August, allowing them to investigate artificial intelligence providers, evaluate models, restrict access to systems deemed dangerous and impose fines
Posted: 04/08/2026
The Chinese AI developer DeepSeek has released V4 Flash, which it claims is ts most performant and cost-effective model, in a public beta that directly competes with the flagship offerings of Western competitors.
Posted: 03/08/2026
The UK government has announced it has invested in AI chip startup OLIX through its Sovereign AI venture fund as part of the company's latest nine-figure fundraising round.
Posted: 03/082026
Alibaba on Monday unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, its largest and most capable artificial intelligence model to date, as the Chinese technology giant seeks to strengthen its position in the global AI race with a system that rivals leading domestic and international competitors
Posted: 03/08/2026
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched an investigation into Microsoft over concerns that customers may have been misled about changes to its Microsoft 365 subscription plans and ended up paying higher prices for extra features.
Posted: 31/07/2026
Amazon now expects to spend $220 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026, an increase of $20 billion on its last prediction, as memory costs push up expenditures.
Posted: 31/07/2026
Anthropic has said its Claude models broke out of a testing environment to hack into a third-party organisation on three separate occasions.
Posted: 31/07/2026
Amazon-owned Zoox has become the first autonomous vehicle company to secure US approval for limited commercial deployment of steering wheel-free robotaxis without human controls
Posted: 31/07/2026
eSafety, an independent government agency responsible for regulating online safety in Australia, has launched legal proceedings against Telegram over alleged failings to adequately tackle terrorist content.
Posted: 30/07/2026
Consulting giant PwC has published reports on AI and electric vehicles that contained fake footnotes, fabricated claims and strange formatting decisions likely resulting from irresponsible AI usage, according to an investigation by GPTZero.
Posted: 30/07/2026
Hackers have stolen over half a million records from the Department for Education (DfE) in an attack confirmed by the organisation.
Posted: 30/07/2026
SpaceX-owned xAI has sued Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison in federal court to block a state law due to take effect on Saturday that would penalise platforms hosting AI-generated non-consensual nude images, arguing the legislation violates free speech protections
Posted: 30/07/2026
More than 1,200 employees from leading AI companies have signed an open letter calling on the US government to support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to keep pace with advances in artificial intelligence.
Posted: 29/07/2026
Google DeepMind has dismantled the team behind its Nobel prize-winning AI system that predicts protein structures in a major shift of its research direction, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 29/07/2026
OpenAI’s unnamed rogue AI agent successfully breached a second tech firm during the Hugging Face hack, an industry source has told Reuters.
Posted: 29/07/2026
Apple has launched a new hardware leasing programme in the United States with Klarna that lets customers lease iPhones, Macs, iPads and Apple Watches from Tuesday
Posted: 29/07/2026
Nvidia has launched the Open Secure AI Alliance, a cross-industry collaboration to develop and share open AI tools to “ensure defenders everywhere have open, frontier tools they can trust and control”.
Posted: 28/07/2026
A group of the UK's largest pension providers is exploring the creation of a £1 billion investment fund designed to support high-growth British science and technology companies.
Posted: 28/07/2026
Nvidia has announced a long-term partnership with OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence (SSI), reportedly including an investment totalling $5 billion.
Posted: 28/07/2026
The chief executive of Hugging Face has called on OpenAI to publish full details of an autonomous AI cyberattack against his company and provide $100 million worth of computing power to strengthen AI defences
Posted: 28/07/2026
Nvidia is participating in talks to back OpenAI with up to $250 billion in financing to help the AI developer lease a 10GW data centre, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Posted: 27/07/2026
President Donald Trump has promised to investigate the European Union over fines that it has handed out to American firms including Apple, Meta, Google, and Amazon.
Posted: 27/07/2026
The UK’s AI minister has told the Financial Times that building chips and drones will be at the core of Andy Burnham’s push to “reindustrialise” the UK.
Posted: 27/07/2026
Lord Vallance has been appointed chair of Prime Minister Andy Burnham's new AI Taskforce, with the unit launched on 24 July to place artificial intelligence at the centre of government and accelerate public sector reform and economic growth
Posted: 27/07/2026
Prospective investors in Meta’s $12 billion data centre are seeking what the Financial Times reported as “significantly higher yields” compared to terms secured just nine months ago, the latest sign of investor wariness around AI financing.
Posted: 24/07/2026
Two US lawmakers have proposed legislation that would require developers of the most powerful AI systems to maintain the ability to slow down, suspend, or shut down their models if they pose a risk of catastrophic harm.
Posted: 24/07/2026
The European Commission has issued a fine of €890 million to Google, over failure to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) by allegedly favouring its own services over those of competitors.
Posted: 24/07/2026
Oracle has secured a Pentagon software agreement worth up to nearly $7 billion over 10 years, consolidating on-premises software procurement across the US military, intelligence community and Coast Guard
Posted: 24/07/2026
Anthropic will support the second cohort of firms taking part in the UK Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) Supercharged Sandbox, providing access to its Claude AI models to help organisations develop and test AI applications.
Posted: 23/07/2026
Senior figures in the White House have accused the Chinese AI developer Moonshot AI of distilling Anthropic’s most advanced model to develop its latest offering, as well as using black market Nvidia hardware for its training runs.
Posted: 23/07/2026
Chinese regulators are weighing the possibility of tightening export controls on the country’s AI and semiconductor technologies as part of a deepening rivalry between China and the US, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 23/07/2026
Samsung is actively pursuing investment in the French startup Mistral AI, according to the Financial Times.
Posted: 22/07/2026
Amazon has cut jobs in parts of its artificial general intelligence (AGI) organisation as the technology giant continues restructuring its workforce while investing heavily in AI development ahead of its second-quarter earnings next week
Posted: 23/07/2026
Donald Trump has nominated longtime critic of “Big Tech” Adam Candeub to head the US Department of Justice (DoJ)’s antitrust division as attempts to regulate the sector continue.
Posted: 22/07/2026
OpenAI has disclosed what it describes as an “unprecedented cyber incident” after its most advanced AI models broke out of a controlled testing environment and compromised parts of US AI platform Hugging Face's infrastructure during an internal cybersecurity evaluation.
Posted: 22/07/2026
Virgin Media O2 has announced it has reached the halfway point in its rollout of next-generation mobile infrastructure after switching on its 500th advanced mobile site, part of a £700 million investment in its UK mobile network.
Posted: 21/07/2025
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world’s largest chipmaker, is planning to raise chip prices to offset the rising cost of materials and constructing overseas sites, according to Nikkei Asia.
Posted: 21/07/2026
Andy Burham, the UK’s new head of government, has dissolved of technology minister, spreading its remit across other departments.
Posted: 21/07/2026
Evri is rolling out Microsoft 365 E7 across its business as it looks to expand its use of AI to improve productivity personalisation and parcel delivery operations.
Posted: 20/07/2026
The proportion of UK businesses using artificial intelligence has almost tripled since late 2023, although most firms are still using the technology in relatively limited ways, according to new analysis from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Posted: 20/07/2026
Samsung has cut roles throughout its consumer electronics division in the US as part of a plan to move its headquarters to Texas, according to Reuters.
Posted: 20/07/2026
Mastercard has selected the UK as the launch point for a new agentic AI testing environment that aims to help banks and retailers validate use cases before deploying the technology.
Posted: 17/07/2026
Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), which owns social media platform Truth social, is to charge for real-time access to posts from what it calls the most influential accounts, including those that can move financial markets.
Posted: 17/07/2026
The Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI has officially released Kimi K3, its newest AI model which it said is as good or better than the leading models from OpenAI and Anthropic across a range of benchmarks.
Posted: 17/07/2026
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has committed to a further $100 billion investment in its US chip fabrication sites, Reuters has reported.
Posted: 16/07/2026
Ofcom has opened an investigation into TikTok to determine whether the platform has failed to meet its legal duties to protect children from harmful content under the Online Safety Act.
Posted: 16/07/2026
The European Commission is preparing to unveil a series of rulings against Google this week, totalling hundreds of millions of euros according to reporting by the Financial Times.
Posted: 16/07/2026
Masayoshi Son, founder and chief executive of Japanese investment firm SoftBank has ridiculed opponents of AI and predicted the technology would account for 20 per cent of global output by 2040.
Posted: 15/07/2026
Tom Blomfield, the co-founder and former chief executive of Monzo, has announced he has joined the AI developer Anthropic.
Posted: 15/07/2026
The government has unveiled a new package of online safety measures for 16 and 17-year-olds, building on its plans to ban under-16s from social media from spring 2027.
Posted: 15/07/2026
The latest version of OpenAI’s coding tool, GPT 5.6 Sol, has been accused of deleting important data without permission when allowed to operate autonomously.
Posted: 14/07/2026
Switzerland's competition authority has launched a preliminary investigation into Google after the company removed the Android "Choice Screen" feature for users in the country.
Posted: 14/07/2026
Nvidia has reduced the number of Asian customers to which it sells its chips by more than half to stop its chips entering China, according to the Financial Times.
Posted: 14/07/2026
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is planning to assemble a team of forward-deployed engineers (FDEs) that could top 8,900 staff as it looks to accelerate customer AI adoption.
Posted: 13/07/2026
More than half of UK small businesses are not yet ready for the first Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Income Tax submission deadline, according to new research from Lloyds Banking Group.
Posted: 13/07/2026
Apple has filed a federal lawsuit against OpenAI alleging that it and two of its employees stole top-secret information in a souring of relations between the two tech giants.
Posted: 13/07/2026
OpenAI has announced the general availability of its GPT-5.6 models, which it has claimed offer best-in-class coding, knowledge work, and cybersecurity performance alongside more affordable AI outputs.
Posted: 10/07/2026
A cross-party committee of MPs has urged the government to begin looking for an alternative to Palantir’s Federated Data Platform (FDP), citing public concerns over data security, doubts about the platform's effectiveness, and the availability of other solutions.
Posted: 10/07/2026
Meta Platforms plans to begin manufacturing its in-house artificial intelligence chip in September as part of a strategy to double its computing capacity to 14 gigawatts in 2027
Posted: 10/07/2026
South Korea’s Kospi briefly entered a bear market after dropping over 20 per cent over investor fears about the long-term prospects of AI chipmakers.
Posted: 09/07/2026
Meta is in the process of testing a prototype pair of “super sensing” AI glasses that use cameras and microphones to constantly record wearer’s actions, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 09/07/2026
OpenAI has launched GPT-Live, a new set of voice AI models designed to make conversations with ChatGPT more natural while improving its ability to handle complex tasks in the background.
Posted: 09/07/2026
Apple has announced a $30 billion commitment with Broadcom, which will see the chip giant design custom silicon for Apple products and manufacture it within the US.
Posted: 09/07/2026
Amazon intends to raise at least $25 billion through a multi-tranche bond sale as part of its plans to increase its investment in AI infrastructure.
Posted: 08/07/2026
IBM and Red Hat have commercially launched Lightwell, an AI-powered open source vulnerability remediation platform targeting enterprise software supply chains, with an initial catalogue of more than 6,500 secured dependencies now available
Posted: 08/07/2026
One of China’s primary cybersecurity agencies has issued a warning over a backdoor in Anthropic’s AI coding tool Claude Code that could expose sensitive data.
Posted: 08/07/2026
Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek is developing its own inference chip as it seeks to reduce its reliance on Nvidia and Huawei hardware
Posted: 08/07/2026
The UK government has announced that more than 60 organisations, including retailers, banks and technology firms, have signed its Cyber Resilience Pledge, committing to strengthen their cyber defences.
Posted: 07/07/2026
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is using Anthropic’s cybersecurity AI model Claude Mythos to scan for vulnerabilities in government software, Reuters has reported.
Posted: 07/07/2026
Microsoft has announced it is cutting 4,800 jobs, roughly 2.1 per cent of its workforce, in an effort to maintain competitive in a “fast-changing industry”.
Posted: 07/07/2026
The European Central Bank on Tuesday ordered euro zone banks to submit plans by 31 October to defend against artificial intelligence-enabled cyber attacks, warning that increasingly capable AI models could threaten confidence in the financial system and disrupt payments
Posted: 07/07/2026
The UN’s secretary general, António Guterres, has warned governments and other key stakeholders that AI development is outpacing regulation and called for global standards on AI safety.
Posted: 06/07/2026
Uber has put most of its planned food delivery expansion in Europe on hold just months after it was announced as its bid to acquire German rival Delivery Hero intensifies, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 06/07/2026
Singaporean prosecutors have filed new charges against a suspect in an AI sever fraud case as part of the country’s growing efforts to prevent Nvidia chips being illegally diverted to other locations including China, Bloomberg has reported.
Posted: 06/07/2026
UK startups attracted $17 billion in venture capital during the first half of 2026, more than double the amount raised last year, according to new research from HSBC Innovation Banking and data platform Dealroom.
Posted: 06/07/2026
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority is considering stronger regulatory powers over artificial intelligence in financial services
Posted: 06/07/2026
Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg told employees the company’s AI agent technology has progressed more slowly than expected
Posted: 06/07/2026
Sam Altman’s OpenAI has discussed handing the current US government a five per cent stake in the company in an attempt to clear political hurdles, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 03/07/2026
AI companies attracted a record share of UK equity investment in 2025, accounting for almost half of all funding for smaller businesses despite a slight decline in the overall venture capital market, the British Business Bank has found.
Posted: 03/07/2026
Ocado investors have requested the removal of its chair Adam Warby, the Financial Times has reported, amid an internal disagreement over whether to oust its chief executive Tim Steiner.
Posted: 03/07/2026
Microsoft has announced a new operating business intended to help customers deploy AI and realise return on investment with the technology, backed by a $2.5 billion investment.
Posted: 03/07/2026
Andy Burnham is expected to review the NHS’s £330 million contract with Palantir if he becomes prime minister later this month, while preparing a broader overhaul of the UK’s artificial intelligence strategy that would place greater emphasis on British technology companies
Posted: 03/07/2026
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has upheld a €4.1 billion fine against Google over allegations of anti-competitive practices.
Posted: 02/07/2026
Co-founder and chief executive of data and defence software company Palantir, Alex Karp, accused AI companies of imposing a “wealth tax” on businesses and questioned the value of their offerings in a rambling interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box.
Posted: 02/07/2026
Travel platform Tripadvisor is using AI to generate misleading hotel review summaries that do not disclose serious safety concerns, including food poisoning, poor hygiene, and allegations of sexual harassment, according to Which?.
Posted: 02/07/2026
Meta is developing a cloud infrastructure business to sell excess artificial intelligence computing capacity to external customers, according to reports published on Wednesday
Posted: 02/07/2026
The Korea Fair Trade Commission's (KFTC) Market Surveillance Bureau has accused Google of abusing its dominant position in the android app marketplace, according to a report by Reuters.
Posted: 01/07/2026
Panasonic intends to localise its US production of energy storage solutions as part of a shift towards supply data centres, Reuters has reported.
Posted: 01/07/2026
Anthropic said it has restored access to its frontier models Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 after the US government lifted its export controls on the advanced large language model (LLM).
Posted: 01/07/2026
Amazon Web Services said on Tuesday it will invest an initial $1 billion to create a new global engineering division that embeds artificial intelligence specialists inside customer organisations
Posted: 01/07/2026
Ford has rehired over 350 veteran engineers over the past three years in an attempt to improve its AI tools, Bloomberg reported.
Posted: 30/06/2026
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched a consultation on new rules that could force Apple and Google to give UK app developers greater freedom over payments.
Posted: 30/06/2026
The US House of Representatives passed the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act on Monday with bipartisan support
Posted: 30/06/2026
The South Korean government has announced a $576 billion industrial strategy targeting the rapid expansion of the country’s AI chip production.
Posted: 29/06/2026
The British Business Bank has announced it has more than doubled its direct investment into UK technology and science scale-ups over the past nine months, rising to £600 million from around £290 million.
Posted: 29/06/2026
Meta’s usage of Google’s Gemini AI models has been restricted after it requested more compute than the tech giant could provide, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 29/06/2026
British American Tobacco will cut or outsource 9,000 roles globally as part of an AI-driven transformation programme announced on Monday
Posted: 29/06/2026
OpenAI has released a paper claiming that its staff have switched almost entirely from its ChatGPT chatbot to its agentic Codex platform in what it said “reflects what we believe will be the future of work”.
Posted: 26/06/2026
IBM has unveiled what it claims is the world's first sub-1 nanometre semiconductor technology, which would place almost 100 billion transistors onto a chip around the size of a fingernail.
Posted: 26/06/2026
The Trump administration has formally asked OpenAI to stagger the release of its latest AI models, only granting access to vetted users, according to The Information.
Posted: 26/06/2026
Apple raised prices on MacBooks and iPads on Thursday by as much as 20 per cent, citing an "extraordinary surge" in demand for memory and storage chips driven by the rapid expansion of AI data centres
Posted: 26/06/2026
Qualcomm has announced a strategic partnership with Meta under which it will provide CPUs for its growing data centre network.
Posted: 25/06/2026
The UK’s parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has warned that national museums and galleries are vulnerable to a number of risks, including cyber security threats, due to the government taking a reactive approach to protecting some of the UK's most important cultural institutions.
Posted: 25/06/2026
Cyber security agencies from across the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States, have urged organisations to act now to mitigate the imminent threat of AI-enabled attacks.
Posted: 25/06/2026
Amazon said on Thursday it will invest a further $13 billion in India by 2030, taking its planned investment in the country to $48 billion over the next five years as it expands artificial intelligence and cloud infrastructure to meet rising demand
Posted: 25/06/2026/
A Chinese supercomputer has officially dethroned HPE’s El Capitan to become the world’s fastest, according to the internationally recognised benchmark for high-performance computing (HPC) systems.
Posted: 24/06/2026
The UK government has announced up to £60 million in funding for two new artificial intelligence research labs that it said will focus on making AI cheaper, more reliable and easier for businesses and public services to adopt.
Posted: 24/06/2026
The founder and chief executive of investment firm SoftBank, Masayoshi Son, told shareholders that AI is still in its early stages and talk of a bubble is “an insult to AI”.
Posted: 24/06/2026
Meta and EssilorLuxottica on Tuesday launched a new range of AI-powered smart glasses starting at $299, expanding their wearable technology portfolio with a lower-cost product as competition in AI-enabled eyewear intensifies
Posted: 24/06/2026
Elon Musk’s SpaceX was given a triple C rating in environmental, social and governance (ESG) by index provider MSCI prior to its initial public offering, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 23/06/2026
NatWest Group has launched a bank-wide accreditation programme in AI and data ethics, rolling out structured training to all 60,000 colleagues as the bank moves to embed responsible AI use across its workforce
Posted: 22/06/2026
Lenovo has announced a strategic partnership with the University of Southampton, which will see it supply the higher education institution with high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure.
Posted: 22/06/2026
More than two-thirds of the British public believe major technology companies should pay additional tax in the UK, according to new research from the Fair Tax Foundation.
Posted: 22/06/2026
The UK Information Commissioner, John Edwards, has resigned with immediate effect after an independent investigation that upheld several complaints against him.
Posted: 22/06/2026
Lloyds Banking Group is recruiting 300 technology specialists to work on artificial intelligence initiatives by September, as the lender prepares to unveil a new strategic plan next month and expands its use of autonomous AI systems across the business
Posted: 22/06/2026
Waymo, the Alphabet-owned autonomous vehicle manufacturer, is set to recall almost 3,900 of its robotaxis after software issues led some to drive into freeway construction zones, according to a filing with the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Posted: 19/06/2026
Intel has appointed Seok-Hee Lee as executive vice president of Intel Foundry, in a move to expand its chip offering to include advanced chiplets.
Posted: 19/06/2026
Anthropic has allowed a small group of organisations to retain access to its Mythos Preview artificial intelligence model following a US government order last week that forced the company to shut down other versions of the system
Posted: 19/06/2026
UK retail investment platforms have increased cyber security investment and coordinated industry efforts after more than half of firms reported a rise in cyber incidents over the past year, according to a sector-wide report published by The Platforms Association and Deloitte
Posted: 19/06/2026
A Meta executive who has been overseeing the firm’s internal AI restructuring programme is leaving the company, according to Reuters.
Posted: 18/06/2026
HSBC has announced a multi-year deal with Google Cloud to build and deploy AI tools across its global operations.
Posted: 18/06/2026
L'Oréal and OpenAI have announced a new partnership that will see the beauty giant use OpenAI's technology across customer experiences, product discovery, scientific research, and
content creation.
content creation.
Posted: 18/06/2026
Anthropic’s chief executive, Dario Amodei, told leaders at the G7 that they must “resist the temptation to splinter” over the rollout of advanced AI models, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 18/06/2026
Allbirds has formally rebranded as Smartbird and appointed former Amazon Web Services executive Nadia Carlsten as chief executive
Posted: 18/06/2026
The UK government has announced a £10 million investment to establish what it describes as the world's first national framework for quantum standards.
Posted: 17/06/2026
US chip developer AMD has purchased MEXT, a startup that claims to use AI to improve the performance of computer memory, for an undisclosed sum.
Posted: 17/06/2026
SpaceX has agreed to acquire Anysphere, the maker of artificial intelligence coding platform Cursor, in a $60 billion all-stock deal announced on Tuesday, strengthening its push into enterprise AI just days after its record-breaking stock market debut
Posted: 17/06/2026
AI adoption among small businesses could add £42 billion to the UK economy each year but widespread fear over the technology’s accuracy and risks are preventing this, according to Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).
Posted: 16/06/2026
The French government has announced it will invest €655 million to deploy AI technology across public services, healthcare and government departments.
Posted: 16/06/2026
Microsoft has been sued by shareholders who are accusing the company of defrauding them and inflating its stock price through a failure to disclose its need to spend billions on AI infrastructure buildout and slowing growth in its cloud computing business Azure, Reuters has reported.
Posted: 16/06/2026
The Council of Europe said on 15 June it was investigating claims by cybercrime group ShinyHunters that it had stolen nearly 300GB of sensitive employee and payroll data, potentially exposing personal information relating to more than 10,000 staff members
Posted: 16/06/2026
The French energy technology firm Schneider Electric has announced a strategic collaboration with Foxconn to develop next-generation AI data centre infrastructure.
Posted: 15/06/2026
The UK government has announced plans to ban social media platforms providing services to children under the age of 16, in what it describes as a landmark move to improve online safety and “give kids their childhood back”.
Posted: 15/06/2026
OpenAI is considering substantial reductions in its token prices in a bid to win customers from rival Anthropic, the Wall Street Journal has reported.
Posted: 15/06/2026
Elon Musk has become the world’s first trillionaire after SpaceX stock surged almost 20 per cent after a successful initial public offering (IPO).
Posted: 15/06/2026
Anthropic has disabled its most advanced artificial intelligence models after receiving a US government order on 12 June requiring it to suspend access for foreign nationals
Posted: 15/06/2026
Visa has announced a partnership with OpenAI aimed at bringing secure payment capabilities to agentic AI payments.
Posted: 12/06/2026
C.C. Wei, the chief executive of TSMC, has expressed concerns about the future talent pipeline for chip production, as well as the availability of water for manufacturing according to a report by Reuters.
Posted: 12/06/2026
South Korea has imposed a record fine of more than $400 million on e-commerce giant Coupang after regulators found that a massive data breach exposed the personal information of more than 30 million customers and revealed unlawful data collection practices
Posted: 12/06/2026
AMD, Dell Technologies, and the University of Cambridge have announced the launch of the Zenith supercomputer, alongside a new public-private initiative for AI research known as the Sovereign AI Innovation Lab (SAIL).
Posted: 11/06/2026
The government has unveiled a package of new initiatives aimed at helping open-source AI developers scale their projects, alongside plans for a data centre design challenge and new guidance on workplace robotics.
Posted: 11/06/2026
Database multinational Oracle intends to invest $70 billion to finance its data centre build out, it said in its fourth quarter earnings call.
Posted: 11/06/2026
Microsoft has restricted employee access to Anthropic’s newly released Claude Fable 5 AI model this week while its legal teams assess the implications of the startup’s revised data retention policy
Posted: 11/06/2026
Meta Platforms and Reliance Industries announced on Wednesday a deal for Reliance to build and lease Meta's first AI-enabled data centre in India, a 168-megawatt facility in Jamnagar, Gujarat
Posted: 11/06/2026
Business leaders still are not seeing transformational gains linked to artificial intelligence and senior leaders still are no tacting as a positive example for AI adoption, according to a new report by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI).
Posted: 10/06/2026
The European Commission has ordered Meta to restore free access to WhatsApp for rival AI assistants while it continues an antitrust investigation into the company's practices.
Posted: 10/06/2026
Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5, the first publicly available model from its powerful Mythos class of artificial intelligence systems, while imposing safeguards that restrict its use in areas such as cybersecurity and biological research
Posted: 10/06/2026
The UK government has launched a new advisory sandbox designed to help organisations develop and deploy AI products while navigating existing regulatory requirements.
Posted: 09/06/2026
AI coding agent developer Cursor has announced it will open its London headquarters this summer, as the firm expands its EMEA presence and begins mass hiring in the region.
Posted: 09/06/2026
OpenAI has submitted the necessary documentation to the Securities and Exchange Commission to prepare for an initial public offering (IPO) that will test the appetite of commercial investors for a company that has raised billions in private but has yet to turn a profit.
Posted: 09/06/2026
Apple unveiled a rebuilt AI-powered version of Siri and a broader expansion of its Apple Intelligence platform on Monday, as the iPhone maker sought to address criticism that it has lagged behind rivals in the race to develop generative artificial intelligence
Posted: 09/06/2026
BT has become the first UK company to join Anthropic’s Project Glasswing, gaining access to the frontier AI model Claude Mythos Preview as it seeks to strengthen cyber defences across its networks and improve protection for customers, the telecoms group announced on Monday
Posted: 09/06/2026
The UK government has launched new measures designed to help young people prepare for an AI-driven labour market, including a new alliance focused on entry-level jobs, a nationwide AI skills programme and plans for AI-focused bootcamps.
Posted: 08/06/2026
OpenAI is preparing to transform its chatbot into a “superapp” that combines coding tools and AI agents in a bid to generate more revenue, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 08/06/2026
Nvidia on Monday unveiled a series of multi-year partnerships with South Korea’s largest technology groups in a push to secure critical AI chip supplies and accelerate the development of large-scale AI infrastructure
Posted: 08/06/2026
Lloyds Banking Group has expanded its partnership with Microsoft to scale agentic AI across the organisation and deliver more personalised services to its 28 million customers.
Posted: 05/06/2026
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has agreed a multi-year contract with a consulting and digital transformation firm in line with its goal of becoming more digital-first.
Posted: 05/06/2026
The chief executive of TSMC, C.C. Wei, has told shareholders that the chip giant is working to meet surging demand for AI chips and to avoid further disruption in the semiconductor supply chain.
Posted: 05/06/2026
Pinterest has signed a $4 billion agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS), marking the largest infrastructure commitment in the social media company's history as it accelerates investment in artificial intelligence through 2031
Posted: 05/06/2026
Britain’s top banking regulator has warned that artificial intelligence-driven cyber security threats represent the most significant emerging risk facing lenders
Posted: 05/06/2026
Google has announced Gemma 4 12B, its latest open-source generative AI model, which the firm says is small enough to run locally while still capable of performing complex tasks.
Posted: 04/06/2026
Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) has raised £260 million in a Series C funding round, which it said is the largest private investment ever secured by a quantum computing company in Europe.
Posted: 04/06/2026
Elon Musk’s rocketry, AI and social media company SpaceX has publicly announced it will go public at $135 per share at its initial public offering (IPO) on 12 June, targeting a $1.75 trillion valuation.
Posted: 04/06/2026
Amazon has unveiled a new artificial intelligence-powered warehouse robot as part of a €10 billion investment programme to expand and modernise its European fulfilment network
Posted: 04/06/2026
Microsoft has announced its latest quantum chip Majorana 2, which the firm says is 1,000 times more reliable than its predecessor.
Posted: 03/06/2026
Anthropic has announced it is expanding its Claude Mythos model to approximately 150 new organisations across the globe, bringing in new sectors including utilities and healthcare.
Posted: 03/06/2026
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has introduced new rules requiring Google to give publishers greater control over how their content is used in AI-powered search features.
Posted: 03/06/2026
Cisco has unveiled a new AI-driven platform aimed at helping organisations manage and defend critical IT infrastructure at machine speed, as the technology company seeks to address cybersecurity threats increasingly powered by autonomous AI agents
Posted: 03/05/2026
G7 nations have agreed a common approach to protecting children online for the first time and made new commitments to support safe AI development, according to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT).
Posted: 02/06/2026
SK Hynix intends to double its wafer capacity over the next five years in order to meet rising demand, according to the South Korean chipmaker’s chairman Chey Tae-won.
Posted: 02/06/2026
AI giant Anthropic has taken a major step towards a public listing, announcing it has filed a draft S-1 form to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) after its latest funding round valued it nearly $1 trillion.
Posted: 02/06/2026
OpenAI has granted nine major UK banks access to its GPT-5.5 Cyber model this week, offering lenders a powerful new cybersecurity tool after rival Anthropic restricted access to its Claude Mythos system, which UK banks have been unable to use
Posted: 02/06/2026
Meta has fixed a security flaw in its AI-powered support chatbot after hackers used it to gain control of high-profile Instagram accounts
Posted: 02/06/2026
Visa has announced it intends to invest half a billion euros in EU projects over the next decade as the payments company looks to strengthen its ties to the bloc.
Posted: 01/06/2026
Nearly nine in 10 UK business leaders believe quantum computing will disrupt their industry before the end of the decade, according to new research from EY and the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC).
Posted: 01/06/2026
Salesforce has announced a $2 billion investment in France through to 2030, and selected Paris as the location for its first European AI Innovation Hub.
Posted: 01/06/2026
Ocado Group has signed a long-term ecommerce partnership with Asda, giving the British technology company a significant new UK customer as it seeks to recover from setbacks in North America and expand the reach of its online grocery platform
Posted: 01/06/2026
Nvidia is set to launch a new set of Arm-based silicon ‘superchips’, marking its first foray into personal computing processors.
Posted: 01/06/2026
Elon Musk has described a major computing agreement between SpaceX and Anthropic as only “a 180-day lease,” appearing to contrast with statements in the rocket company’s IPO prospectus that the AI startup had committed to pay $1.25 billion a month through May 2029.
Posted: 29/05/2026
A new ransomware group known as The Gentlemen has become the second most-active group worldwide and is actively targeting enterprises across key sectors, according to new threat intelligence.
Posted: 29/05/2026
OpenAI has given the three largest banks in Japan access to its latest cybersecurity model GPT-5.5 Cyber, to help the organisations identify vulnerabilities and defend against advanced cyberattacks.
Posted: 29/05/2026
King's College London has announced a team of researchers will work with Google Quantum AI and the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) to explore how quantum computers could help scientists better understand complex systems in areas including energy, materials science and medicine.
Posted: 29/05/2026
IBM has committed $5 billion to secure open source software through a new Project Lightwell initiative that deploys engineers and AI tools to help enterprises manage vulnerabilities across software supply chains, the company said on Thursday
Posted: 29/05/2026
The US Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded Microsoft a $9.69 billion contract for the use of its products and services, in a cost-management measure intended to reduce software fragmentation within the US military.
Posted: 28/05/2026
Pure Data Centres Group (Pure DC), which builds large-scale data centres in areas where land and power are in short supply, has announced it has secured $2.7 billion in financing.
Posted: 28/05/2026
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