Reading Time: 3 minutesMicrosoft is forming a new team to research superintelligence and other advanced forms of artificial intelligence. Mustafa Suleyman, who leads Microsoft’s AI division overseeing Bing and Copilot, announced the creation of the MAI Superintelligence Team in a blog post. He said he will head the group and that Microsoft plans to put “a lot of […]
Nvidia AI chip ban: Can tech giants navigate a geopolitical zero-sum game?
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhen Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang initially told the Financial Times that China would “win the AI race” before softening his stance, it crystallised a predicament that’s been years in the making. The world’s most valuable chipmaker now finds itself caught between two superpowers, each wielding the Nvidia AI chip ban as a weapon in a broader technological […]
Exclusive: Dubai’s Digital Government chief says speed trumps spending in AI efficiency race
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhen Dubai launched its State of AI Report in April 2025, revealing over 100 high-impact AI use cases, the emirate wasn’t just showcasing technological prowess—it was making a calculated bet that speed, not spending, would determine which cities win the global race for AI-powered governance. In an exclusive interview, Matar Al Hemeiri, Chief Executive of Digital Dubai […]
Explaining the Accessible Benefits of Using Semantic HTML Elements
Reading Time: 3 minutesHere’s something you’ll spot in the wild: <div class=”btn” role=”button”>Custom Button</div> This is one of those code smells that makes me stop in my tracks because we know there’s a semantic <button> element that we can use instead. There’s a whole other thing about conflating anchors (e.g., <a class=”btn”>) and buttons, but that’s not exactly […]
Is AI in a bubble? Succeed despite a market correction
Reading Time: 3 minutesAmid pressure to deploy generative and agentic solutions, a familiar question is surfacing: “Is there an AI bubble, and is it about to burst?” For many organisations, this new wave of generative and agentic AI is still very much in experimental stages. The primary focus, and the low-hanging fruit, has been internal. Most businesses are […]
Apple plans big Siri update with help from Google AI
Reading Time: 4 minutesApple is planning to use a custom version of Google’s Gemini model to support a major upgrade to Siri, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The company may pay Google about $1 billion each year for access to technology that can create summaries and handle planning tasks. Bloomberg says Apple will run the custom model on […]
Keep CALM: New model design could fix high enterprise AI costs
Reading Time: 3 minutesEnterprise leaders grappling with the steep costs of deploying AI models could find a reprieve thanks to a new architecture design. While the capabilities of generative AI are attractive, their immense computational demands for both training and inference result in prohibitive expenses and mounting environmental concerns. At the centre of this inefficiency is the models’ […]
The enemy within: AI as the attack surface
Reading Time: 4 minutesBoards of directors are pressing for productivity gains from large-language models and AI assistants. Yet the same features that makes AI useful – browsing live websites, remembering user context, and connecting to business apps – also expand the cyber attack surface. Tenable researchers have published a set of vulnerabilities and attacks under the title “HackedGPT”, […]
Flawed AI benchmarks put enterprise budgets at risk
Reading Time: 5 minutesA new academic review suggests AI benchmarks are flawed, potentially leading an enterprise to make high-stakes decisions on “misleading” data. Enterprise leaders are committing budgets of eight or nine figures to generative AI programmes. These procurement and development decisions often rely on public leaderboards and benchmarks to compare model capabilities. A large-scale study, ‘Measuring what […]
ClinCheck Live brings AI planning to Invisalign dental treatments
Reading Time: 2 minutesAlign Technology, a medical device company that designs, manufactures, and sells the Invisalign system of clear aligners, exocad CAD/CAM software, and iTero intra-oral scanners, has unveiled ClinCheck Live Plan, a new feature in its Invisalign digital dental treatment planning. ClinCheck Live Plan is designed to automate the creation of an initial Invisalign treatment plan that’s […]
The “Most Hated” CSS Feature: tan()
Reading Time: 8 minutesLast time, we discussed that, sadly, according to the State of CSS 2025 survey, trigonometric functions are deemed the “Most Hated” CSS feature. That shocked me. I may have even been a little offended, being a math nerd and all. So, I wrote an article that tried to showcase several uses specifically for the cos() and sin() functions. Today, […]
OpenAI spreads $600B cloud AI bet across AWS, Oracle, Microsoft
Reading Time: 3 minutesOpenAI is on a spending spree to secure its AI compute supply chain, signing a new deal with AWS as part of its multi-cloud strategy. The company recently ended its exclusive cloud-computing partnership with Microsoft. It has since allocated a reported $250 billion back to Microsoft, $300 billion to Oracle, and now, $38 billion to […]
AI browsers are a significant security threat
Reading Time: 4 minutesAmong the explosion of AI systems, AI web browsers such as Fellou and Comet from Perplexity have begun to make appearances on the corporate desktop. Such applications are described as the next evolution of the humble browser, and come with AI features built in; they can read and summarise web pages – and, at their […]
From ambition to accountability: Quantifying AI ROI in strategy
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor many UK executives, AI investment has become a necessity, not an experiment in innovation. Boards now demand evidence of measurable impact – whether through efficiency gains, revenue growth, or reduced operational risk. Yet, as Pete Smyth, CEO of Leading Resolutions notes, many SMEs treat AI as an exploratory exercise, not a structured business strategy. […]
DevOps for AI: Continuous deployment pipelines for machine learning systems
Reading Time: 3 minutesAI’s effects on continuous development and deployment pipelines are becoming difficult to ignore. However, decision-makers in software development functions need to consider a broad range of elements when considering the uses of the technology. The challenges of deploying AI at scale Deploying artificial intelligence isn’t the same as deploying, for example, a web app. Traditional […]