
Top energy developer warns on overbuilding power supplies for AI
David Crane says data centres should bear the cost of developing infrastructure to serve their demand

David Crane says data centres should bear the cost of developing infrastructure to serve their demand

Company part of growing cohort of UK groups developing faster AI processors

Euro-Office; private equity and care homes; AI bubble; and the social theory of insurance

Sales growth for UK computer company particularly strong in China and US

A majority of top seed funding recipients in the past six months operate at the intersection of AI and the physical world. Using Crunchbase data, we take a look at some of the sector’s biggest seed rounds in recent months.
In the same survey, 45% of respondents said they would feel panicked and 34% would go into debt or don’t know how they would pay.
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The landscape of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has shifted from experimental ‘wrappers’—where separate vision or audio encoders are stitched onto a text-based backbone—to native, end-to-end ‘omnimodal’ architectures. Alibaba Qwen team latest release, Qwen3.5-Omni, represents a significant milestone in this evolution. Designed as a direct competitor to flagship models like Gemini 3.1 Pro, the Qwen3.5-Omni […]
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LiteLLM had obtained two security compliance certifications via Delve and fell victim to some horrific credential-stealing malware last week.

November 3 poll set to be battleground over regulation of AI

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos’s commitment to putting data centres in space boosts fortunes of smaller players

Financial Reporting Council issues guidance stressing need for human oversight

More than 50 HR analysts joined us on-site at UNLEASH America 2026. As experts in their field, here are their takeaways from the Las Vegas show, and their advice to CHROs about the actions they need to prioritize this year.

“Internal mobility is probably the most structurally underdeveloped area in talent management,” says Accenture head researcher Karalee Close.
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Jessica Zhang, senior vice president for Asia-Pacific at ADP, believes data-driven payroll now shapes governance and workforce strategy.
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When AI implementation fails in HR, it rarely fails because of the model. It fails because of the content.
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New research from the Schultz Family Foundation and Burning Glass Institute rates 1,750 U.S. employers on how well they advance workers’ careers.
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Training alone doesn’t create capability. Sustainable AI skill development calls for a plan that reinforces desired behaviors.
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Two healthcare talent leaders explore how deploying AI in recruiting is helping them stay ahead in a competitive landscape.
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This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last Thursday, a California judge temporarily blocked the Pentagon from labeling Anthropic a supply chain risk and ordering government agencies to stop using its AI. It’s the latest development in the month-long…

Earlier this month, Microsoft launched Copilot Health, a new space within its Copilot app where users will be able to connect their medical records and ask specific questions about their health. A couple of days earlier, Amazon had announced that Health AI, an LLM-based tool previously restricted to members of its One Medical service, would…

Banking house JPMorgan Chase is asking its roughly 65,000 engineers and technologists to use AI tools as part of their regular workflow. Business Insider reported that managers are tracking how often staff use these tools. That use may also influence performance reviews. The report states employees are encouraged to use tools like ChatGPT and Claude […]
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A developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, Kong, has announced that Bruce Felt has joined it as CFO. Felt is a seasoned finance leader who brings experience guiding enterprise software companies through their growth phases, including several IPOs, acquisitions, and global expansions. Mr. Felt has led finance organisations from early-stage environments to significant global […]
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As artificial intelligence becomes a driving force in financial prediction, the reliability of its forecasting tools faces increasing scrutiny. Many traders question whether claims of high accuracy translate into consistent results under live market conditions. Understanding how these AI systems are evaluated reveals important distinctions between performance in theory and practice. Few financial domains are […]
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When Pew Research Centre analysed 68,879 Google searches in March 2025, one finding stood out: users who encountered an AI-generated summary clicked on a traditional result just 8% of the time. Those who didn’t see a summary clicked nearly twice as often, at 15%. A quarter of users who saw an AI summary ended their […]
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Glia, a customer service platform providing AI-powered interactions for the banking sector, has been named a winner in the Banking and Financial Services Category at the 2026 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards. The awards recognises achievements in a range of industries and use cases, spotlighting “companies and leaders moving AI beyond experimentation and into practical, accountable […]
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Financial institutions are learning to deploy compliant AI solutions for greater revenue growth and market advantage. For the better part of ten years, financial institutions viewed AI primarily as a mechanism for pure efficiency gains. During that era, quantitative teams programmed systems designed to discover ledger discrepancies or eliminate milliseconds from automated trading execution times. […]
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In the world of voice AI, the difference between a helpful assistant and an awkward interaction is measured in milliseconds. While text-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems can afford a few seconds of ‘thinking’ time, voice agents must respond within a 200ms budget to maintain a natural conversational flow. Standard production vector database queries typically add […]
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Microsoft has announced the release of Harrier-OSS-v1, a family of three multilingual text embedding models designed to provide high-quality semantic representations across a wide range of languages. The release includes three distinct scales: a 270M parameter model, a 0.6B model, and a 27B model. The Harrier-OSS-v1 models achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) results on the Multilingual MTEB […]
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Documents show the tax agency is testing a Palantir tool to surface “highest-value” audit and investigation targets from a maze of legacy systems.

Today, I’m talking with Todd McKinnon, who is co-founder and CEO of Okta, a platform that lets big companies manage security and identity across all the apps and services their employees use. Think of it like login management — actually, that’s a great way to think about it because the way most people encounter Okta […]

Starcloud becomes the fastest Y Combinator startup to reach unicorn status, just 17 months after demo day.

As AI floods software development with code, Qodo is betting the real challenge is making sure it actually works.

Mistral aims to start operating the data center by the second quarter of 2026.

The startup, which is planning to go public later this year, designs chips specifically for AI inference, another challenger to Nvidia’s dominance.

ScaleOps just raised $130M to tackle GPU shortages and soaring AI cloud costs by automating infrastructure in real time.