News
xAI’s Final Original Co-Founder Departs as Musk Rebuilds AI Startup
The departure of Ross Nordeen is a final break with the original setup of xAI
OpenAI Shuts Down Sora Video Platform, Cancels Multi-Billion Dollar Disney Deal
In a sign of tougher conditions, OpenAI cancels a landmark deal to focus on its…
Meta and Google lose landmark court case on addictive social media
A landmark US verdict holds Meta and Google liable for harmful social media addiction design
Data centers targeted in Middle East during US-Iran war
Drone strikes on Middle East data centers expose growing risks to global digital infrastructure in…
Val Kilmer lives again – thanks to AI
A new film will feature Val Kilmer through AI technology a year after his death,…
Encyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI over copyright breaches
Encyclopaedia Britannica sues OpenAI, alleging its copyrighted reference materials were used without permission to train…
Anthropic sues the Pentagon, US Government
Anthropic challenges Pentagon blacklist in court, arguing the move threatens revenue and violates free speech…
Anthropic designated a supply chain risk by the Pentagon
Pentagon labels Anthropic a supply chain risk, escalating clash over AI safeguards and military use.
AI-generated work not protected by copyright laws according to Supreme Court
High court leaves intact ruling denying copyrights for works created solely by AI systems nationwide.
Analysis & Opinion
Analysis: Social media could be facing its “Big Tobacco” moment
Landmark verdict against Meta and Google signals sweeping legal, financial and cultural reckoning for Big Tech
Analysis: Anthropic and the Pentagon – a high-stakes showdown
A bitter clash between Anthropic and the Pentagon reshapes AI’s military future and public trust.
Analysis: AI (nearly) takes centre stage at Davos
World leaders and executives at Davos confront artificial intelligence’s economic promise, social risks and geopolitical consequences as deployment accelerates worldwide.
Analysis: What does the Apple and Google AI deal really mean?
After struggling for months if not years, Apple has finally struck a deal with Google that leaves AI competitors such…
Opinion: Grok Unveiled
Grok's latest clusterf*ck shows that AI guardrails are good for business as well as ethics.
Analysis: OpenAI in 2026 – will Sam Altman hit his limit this year?
OpenAI’s leap from chatbot pioneer to industrial AI giant collides with legal, energy and competitive pressures shaping the future of…
Analysis: Google in 2026 – When you’re number 1 you can fall a long way
Google is reengineering itself around autonomous AI agents, betting infrastructure, hardware and trust define tech.
Analysis: NVIDIA in 2026 – AI factories and new threats from China
Nvidia heads into 2026 balancing AI chip dominance, infrastructure limits, geopolitical risk, and intensifying global competition.
Opinion: Will 2026 be the year when AI grows up?
Will 2026 be the year when artificial intelligence stops dazzling us and starts quietly running the world, or will it…
Opinion: AI has no common sense
In a recent podcast, AI pioneer Andrej Karpathy offers some profound insights into what will be needed to achieve AGI
Analysis: Are we in an AI bubble?
After massive investment and soaring expectations, debate is growing over whether artificial intelligence is a transformative boom or a fragile…
Analysis: Is it back to the drawing board for OpenAI?
OpenAI’s “code red” signals a strategic reset, accelerating product releases and refocusing resources as competition intensifies across the artificial intelligence…
Opinion: Hey Siri – what happened to Apple?
In the early 2000s, Apple led the way as a major tech innovator, but when it comes to AI it…
Opinion: Elon Musk wants more people to drink the Kool-Aid
In the latest of our irregular (but not irregular enough) series of what do you give the billionaire who has…
Opinion: Just what Big Media needs – another billionaire owner
The recent announcement of the sale of TikTok to controlling interests with strong ties to Donald Trump has placed billionaire…
Analysis: Trump Signs Executive Order for TikTok
A deal sees TikTok under American ownership in the USA - but while it solves one big problem for the…
Analysis: The UK-US Tech Prosperity Deal
With a new tech deal announced between the UK and US, is Britain about to become an AI superpower?
Opinion: Can ChatGPT be your research assistant? It depends on your discipline.
ChatGPT 5's research mode is really impressive - until you pay careful attention to the output.
Opinion: Big Tech’s latest excuse – we lacked intelligence
As reports emerge that Microsoft's Azure servers were used to store the personal phone calls of millions of Palestinians, Microsoft…
Analysis: The Online Safety Act – legislation and backlash
The UK Online Safety Act introduces strict regulations for digital platforms, compelling them to protect users from harmful content, ensure…
Reviews: Apps
Review: Google Antigravity
While it has a few glitches in operation, in general Antigravity is the best vibe coder out there and feels like the future of programming
Review: ChatGPT-5.2
Jumped into a quick release following the launch of Gemini 3, the latest version includes some impressive features - but casual users may find it colder…
Review: Gemini 3
It may only have been a few months since the release of Gemini 2.5, but version 3 may be the game changer that places Google ahead…
Review: Google Stitch
Stitch could democratise the world of user interface design, but experienced users will hit its limitations fairly quickly.
Review: Midjourney 7
Midjourney was in danger of being left behind, but version 7 revives one of the most popular AI image generators around. But will it survive Disney's…
Review: n8n Community Edition
n8n has built up a deserved reputation for automating workflows as an open-source, flexible tool. You can connect apps and streamline processes but even when using…
Review: OpusClip 3.0
With its third iteration, OpusClip appears to have fixed many of its earlier issues, but in terms of speed it may be a victim of its…
Review: Google Flow
Google's new video app, based on its impressive Veo 3, can create astounding results, but AI generated video is not ready to replace more traditionally made…
Review: ElevenLabs
In two years, ElevenLabs has garnered a great deal of attention both for the realism of its output and simplicity of its interface.
Review: Google AI Studio
Gemini has been gaining considerable attention from experienced users of AI, but most people don't seem to know about it. Cann AI Studio change that?
Review: ComfyUI, desktop edition
ComfyUI has been making great strides in recent months to become a flexible and capable tool for image production. The destkop version now makes it easier…
Review: SpeechNow – Simplicity over Features
With a very simple to use interface and a wide variety of voices to sample from, SpeechNow is a straightforward tool for those looking to generate…
App Review: 1min AI – your AI multi-tool
1min AI is a website offering tools for text generation, image processing, video and audio editing, and more. It brings together leading AI models such as…
Reviews: Books
Book Review: Goliath’s Curse
Luke Kemp's book is huge in scope, but almost succumbs to despair at points.
Book Review: The Thinking Machine
The rise of NVIDIA to become the world's most successful one is, in many ways, an unlikely one, but the role of Jensen Huang in its success is both engaging…
Book Review: Co-Intelligence
After all the doom and gloom about the future of AI, this book suggests that in the end we may all get along just fine - if we learn to…
Book Review: The Technological Republic
Palantir's founders are nothing if not ambitious in their scope, but the frequently murky nature of their analysis suggests their scrying stone has been captured by more malevolent forces.
Book Review: Taming Silicon Valley
In a world of AI hype, Gary Marcus has been sounding warnings about the directions of generative AI for some time.
Book Review: The Coming Wave – AI, Power and Our Future
While it gets off to a slightly shaky start, this is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future of AI from one of the founders of DeepMind.
Book Review: Genius Makers – The Mavericks who brought AI to Google, Facebook and the World
There is a huge amount of background information in this book - and ultimately that's a problem when it comes to telling the story of how generative AI came into…
Book Review: Code Dependent – How AI is Changing Our Lives
Madhumita Murgia's account is humane and wide-ranging, but sometimes a little too dependent on personal anecdotes rather than structural analysis.