Britain’s public sector has become deeply reliant on a small number of US cloud giants, and analysts warn the concentration is now a strategic risk. Nearly all UK government organisations spend on hyperscale cloud, with the dependency running into bill…
Microsoft president Brad Smith says the US is now regulating AI without a clear set of rules. The uncertainty, he warns, is a problem for the whole industry. He made the case to Fortune on the sidelines of the AI for Good Global Summit. “What we really…
France’s competition regulator has signalled that its long-running inquiry into Nvidia is drawing to a close, edging the world’s most valuable chipmaker nearer to a formal reckoning over how it wields its grip on the market for artificial intelligence …
A group of US states could sue as soon as next week to block Paramount’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, opening a fresh front against a deal that federal regulators have already wav…
NATO is building a vast AI network along its eastern flank, designed to spot an attack early and strike back fast. The plan is called the Eastern Flank Deterrence Initiative, and internal documents name one adversary outright: Russia. German tabloid BI…
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a directive on Wednesday demanding autonomous vehicle developers present solutions to a “clear pattern” of driverless vehicles interfering with first responders and law enforcement. Administrato…
A Polish billionaire has laid out plans to build a fleet of small nuclear reactors across Britain, at an estimated £35bn, TechRadar reported. Michał Sołowow’s firm, SGE, says it wants to install 14 GE Vernova Hitachi BWRX-300 reactors on three UK sites…
The smart-glasses backlash has reached the courtroom. From 20 July, New York will ban recording eyewear from every one of its 1,240 courts. It is the first US state to go that far. An internal memo from the New York State Unified Court System sets out …
A Meta contractor flushed a rare, potentially deadly bacterium into Cheyenne’s wastewater system. The Wyoming city has now suspended all data centre discharge, a fresh flashpoint in the fight over AI’s thirst for water. Officials in Cheyenne, Wyoming, …
Palmer Luckey has a blunt warning about the US-China tech race: America is losing the classroom. The Anduril founder argues that US universities have stopped teaching engineers how to build. That, he says, hands China a lead well beyond cheap labour. H…