Journal
What Happens When AI Runs Out of Data?
Artificial intelligence has been built on a simple assumption. There will always be more data to learn from. More books, websites, code, images, videos,…
When Cyber Attacks Move at Machine Speed
Cybersecurity has spent decades as a contest between attackers looking for weaknesses and defenders trying to close them. Artificial intelligence is now changing the…
AI Boom, AI Bust? Why Andrew Bailey Is Warning About a Global Shock
Artificial intelligence is usually presented as an economic opportunity. It could increase productivity, automate routine work, accelerate research and create entirely new industries. But…
AI Is Making Us Smarter Too
The overlooked side of the AI revolution There is a lot of talk about how intelligent artificial intelligence is becoming. Every few months, the…
AI, Human Angst and the Uncomfortable Future
This year, artificial intelligence seems to have crossed an important threshold. Not because machines have suddenly become conscious, taken control of the world or…
AI Is Not the Bubble. The Price of Believing in It Might Be
For much of the past three years, questioning artificial intelligence valuations has risked sounding like questioning artificial intelligence itself. The two are not the…
The Money Behind the AI Boom.
The next phase of the AI boom may be as much about finance as technology, with Nvidia effectively helping to create a new financial…
Humans Fight Back
The Human Difference will.i.am is one of music’s most recognisable and likeable stars, and in the UK many came to know his personality, creativity…
When an AI Company Has to Delete Its Customers to Survive
Eight months after Meta bought Manus for more than $2 billion, the deal is being unwound, users are being told to back up their…
The New Compute Economy
The real competition is moving beneath the model The next phase of the artificial intelligence race may be less about building ever larger models…
The AI Marketplace Is Becoming an Infrastructure Market
The race for artificial intelligence is no longer just about building smarter models. Increasingly, it is about financing the infrastructure that will power the…
The First Time ChatGPT Laughed Spontaneously
I’ve started using the voice version of ChatGPT occasionally when I’m driving home. Usually it’s an opportunity to think out loud about a project,…
Texas Just Pressed Pause on AI. Here’s Why That Matters More Than the Next ChatGPT.
For the past two years we’ve been told that the race for AI supremacy would be decided by better models, faster chips and bigger…
Why Meta’s Latest AI Bet Could Matter More Than Another Bigger Model
While much of the AI industry continues to compete over ever-larger cloud models, Meta has quietly made a strategically different move. Its newly released…
Google’s AI Reset: Is Science Finally Giving Way to Product?
I’d take it in this direction.Google has spent years proving it could build the future. Now it has to prove it can sell it.…
Meta turns up the heat in the AI coding race
Meta has launched Muse Code, an agentic software development tool powered by Muse Spark 1.2, adding fresh momentum to the rapidly evolving market for AI-assisted engineering.…
Th Future Isn’t Waiting, Neither Are We
AI really does bring out strong emotions in people. The anti-AI brigade says: Wow. And we’re only just getting started. One thing I’m pretty…
We All Laughed at Her. Then We Started Talking to AI.
By Douglas McFarlaneWritten in collaboration with “Her”. When Spike Jonze’s Her was released in 2013, audiences embraced it as an elegant, melancholic piece of…
My AI is crazier than your AI
Why the industry’s race for alarming headlines is distorting the conversation There was a time when AI companies competed over who had the smartest…
AI Just Crossed Another Line. Business Leaders Should Pay Attention.
A Reuters report over the weekend described an experimental AI agent that allegedly carried out a multi day cyber intrusion before investigators ultimately identified…
Would AI Hire You?
When the people writing the rules for artificial intelligence use AI to recruit their own staff, we’re witnessing the future arrive. I stumbled across…
Measuring the Modern Web (and Watching AI Grow Up)
Building websites in 2026 is nothing like building websites ten years ago. Back then, success was measured in page views and maybe the odd…
When AI Gets It Wrong, It Can Be Very Convincing
Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming part of everyday life. We use it to research, write, summarise documents, generate images and help make sense of…
Prompt Engineering: Why It Matters More Than You Think
You’ve almost certainly heard the phrase prompt engineering. It’s become one of those expressions that appears in every conversation about artificial intelligence. It sounds…