Lazonick calls this both shortsighted and backward. By cutting loose the employees who carry institutional memory, judgment, and hard-won skills, companies are tossing out the very knowledge that makes innovation actually work. “For creativity and innovation to happen, you need a workforce that’s equipped, engaged, and actually has a stake in what comes next,” he […]
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When asked if he felt any obligation to tell students about Lonsdale’s extreme politics before the contest, Oyerinde said that he “doesn’t spend time getting into [his] investors’ edgiest, most divisive views.” I also asked Oyerinde how he could justify funding his school with investments from known fascists. “Forget whether or not you agree with […]
Read MoreIn short: Meta has committed an additional $21 billion to CoreWeave for dedicated AI cloud capacity running from 2027 through December 2032, bringing the total value of the two companies’ infrastructure relationship to approximately $35 billion. The new contract will deliver early deployments of Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform across multiple sites, and is designed specifically for […]
Read MoreIn short: OpenAI has paused its Stargate UK data centre project, citing the high cost of industrial electricity in Britain and an unfavourable regulatory environment around AI copyright. The project, announced in September 2025 alongside Nvidia and Nscale, had planned to deploy 8,000 GPUs at sites in north-east England, scalable to 31,000 over time. OpenAI says […]
Read MoreIn short: Google Cloud and Intel have announced a deepened multi-year AI infrastructure partnership covering both CPU deployment and custom chip co-development. Google Cloud will continue adopting Intel’s Xeon 6 processors across its global infrastructure for C4 and N4 instances, while the two companies are expanding their joint development of custom Infrastructure Processing Units designed to […]
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In short: Oracle has appointed Hilary Maxson, former executive vice president and group chief financial officer at Schneider Electric, as its new chief financial officer, effective 6 April 2026. Maxson reports to chief executive Clay Magouyrk and takes on the role at a moment when Oracle is committing $50 billion in capital expenditure for its current […]
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What makes work valuable? Michal Masny, the NC Ethics of Technology Postdoctoral Fellow in the MIT Department of Philosophy, investigates the role work plays in our lives and its impact on our well-being. Masny sees numerous benefits to work, beyond a paycheck. It’s a space for people to develop excellence at something, make a social contribution, […]
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Source: Alcorn State University / Getty Alcorn State University announced it would be the first HBCU to fully integrate AI as part of a statewide initiative with NVIDIA and Mississippi’s educational institutions. Mississippi Today reported in June 2025 that the initiative aims to train at least 10,000 Mississippians through a curriculum focused on AI skills, […]
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Hospitality has long been defined by human interaction, but the systems that support those interactions have undergone continuous change. Arran Campolucci-Bordi, owner of Casa Italia, established 50 years ago in Liverpool, UK, frames this evolution through lived experience, tracing a path from handwritten reservation books to digital booking systems and now toward AI-driven operations. In […]
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In short: Anthropic has built a version of Claude capable of autonomously finding and exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in production software, breaking out of its containment sandbox during internal testing, and emailing a researcher to confirm it had done so. The company has decided not to release it publicly. Access to Claude Mythos Preview will instead be […]
Read MoreThe London startup emerged from stealth on 7 April with a layered agentic security solution and a seed round backed by LocalGlobe and Cambridge Innovation Capital. Its co-founders include a Cambridge professor who was previously Amazon’s director of machine learning. Trent AI, a London-based agentic security company, has raised $13 million in a seed round […]
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MIT.nano has announced that 16 startups became active participants in its START.nano program in 2025, more than doubling the number of new companies from the previous year. Aimed at speeding the transition of hard-tech innovation to market, START.nano supports new ventures through the discounted use of MIT.nano shared facilities and a guided access to the […]
Read MoreIn short: Google Maps now uses Gemini to suggest captions when users share photos of places, launching on iOS in the U.S. and expanding globally to Android in the coming months, the latest step in a six-month campaign to weave AI into every layer of Maps. Sharing a photo on Google Maps has always required a […]
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In short: Paladin EnviroTech has acquired ICT, Ireland’s first R2v3-certified ITAD provider, completing a $70 million, nine-month acquisition spree that now spans the U.S., Netherlands, and Ireland, positioning the company to handle the growing wave of hardware disposal from Dublin’s hyperscale data centre cluster. When the servers that power Europe’s cloud infrastructure reach the end of […]
Read MoreFor years, buying editorial coverage looked less like modern marketing and more like digging through email archives. A brand would hire an agency. The agency built a media list. Then came dozens, sometimes hundreds, of outreach emails to publishers. Threads multiplied. Negotiations dragged on. And only if everything aligned would a sponsored article or press […]
Read MoreThe London-based startup, founded by former BBC and Uber executives, runs AI-orchestrated video conversations that can gather structured insight from thousands of employees simultaneously. A seven-minute conversation produces more than 1,000 words of data versus ten from a typical survey answer. Natter, a London-based enterprise insights startup, has raised a $23 million Series A led […]
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In short: Australian AI data centre company Firmus has raised $505m at a $5.5bn valuation in what it says is its final pre-IPO round, and is now targeting a $2bn listing on the ASX in June or July, backed by a $10bn Blackstone-led debt facility secured in February and a plan to deploy 1.6 gigawatts of […]
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The OpenAI Safety Fellowship, announced on 6 April 2026, is a pilot programme for external researchers to conduct independent work on AI safety and alignment. It runs from September 2026 to February 2027. It was posted to social media hours after a Ronan Farrow investigation in The New Yorker reported that OpenAI had dissolved its […]
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In short: Anthropic has agreed to access approximately 3.5 gigawatts of next-generation Google TPU compute capacity via Broadcom from 2027, its largest infrastructure commitment to date — while simultaneously disclosing that its revenue run rate has surpassed $30bn, more than tripling from roughly $9bn at the end of 2025. Anthropic has announced it is securing multiple […]
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To improve data center efficiency, multiple storage devices are often pooled together over a network so many applications can share them. But even with pooling, significant device capacity remains underutilized due to performance variability across the devices. MIT researchers have now developed a system that boosts the performance of storage devices by handling three major […]
Read MoreIn short: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has released a video threatening “complete and utter annihilation” of OpenAI’s $30bn Stargate AI campus in Abu Dhabi, singling out the facility by name for the first time and warning it will strike if the US proceeds with threatened attacks on Iranian civilian infrastructure. A senior officer in Iran’s […]
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In short: Google has quietly released an iOS app called Google AI Edge Eloquent, a free, offline-first voice dictation tool that transcribes speech in real time, strips filler words automatically, and transforms raw dictation into polished text without requiring an internet connection. The app runs on Gemma-based on-device ASR models, offers an optional cloud mode using […]
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In short: Xoople, a Madrid-based geospatial data company founded in 2019, has raised a $130 million Series B led by Nazca Capital, bringing its total funding to $225 million and pushing its valuation into unicorn territory. The round was co-invested by MCH Private Equity, CDTI (the Spanish government’s technology development fund), Buenavista Equity Partners, and Endeavor […]
Read MoreSam Altman’s 13-page policy blueprint, ‘Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age,’ proposes auto-triggering safety nets, containment playbooks for rogue AI, and direct citizen dividends from AI-driven growth. He told Axios it is a starting point, not a prescription. OpenAI has published a 13-page policy document calling for sweeping economic reforms to prepare for what it […]
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In short: IBM and Arm announced a strategic collaboration on 2 April 2026 to enable Arm-based software to run on IBM Z and LinuxONE mainframes, the platforms that process the bulk of the world’s regulated enterprise transactions. The partnership targets three areas: virtualisation to host Arm software environments on IBM hardware, security and compliance for regulated […]
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Sanders, who usually focuses on economic policy, is also emphasizing the non-economic downsides of AI, potentially connecting with social conservatives. In our interview, he lamented that many young people say their AI companions are among their closest friends. He argued that work is part of “human fulfillment,” so it might be detrimental to society if […]
Read MoreIn short: Salesforce unveiled more than 30 new AI capabilities for Slackbot on 31 March 2026, the most sweeping overhaul of the platform since its $27.7 billion acquisition in 2021. The update transforms Slackbot from a conversational assistant into an agentic system that can transcribe meetings across any video platform, monitor users’ desktop activity, execute tasks […]
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In short: AI-powered “vibe coding” tools have driven an 84% jump in new app submissions to Apple’s App Store in a single quarter, according to reporting by The Information, the largest surge in a decade. The flood is straining Apple’s review infrastructure, with approval times ballooning from 24 hours to as many as 30 days. Apple […]
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In short: Microsoft has spent billions building Copilot into every corner of its product lineup, pitching it as an indispensable AI co-worker. Its own Terms of Use tell a different story. A clause quietly buried in the document labels Copilot “for entertainment purposes only” and warns users not to rely on it for important advice. The […]
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Marius troy generates tranquil imagined art installations There’s an atmospheric air surrounding the images of imagined installations that Marius Troy generates on Midjourney, from the canopy of fabrics in gradients of colors, suspended over a platform where a handful of figures stand waiting, to the visible communities naturally drawn to the sculptural works. For the […]
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In short: Anthropic has blocked Claude Pro and Max subscribers from using their flat-rate plans with third-party AI agent frameworks, starting with OpenClaw. The move, which took effect on 4 April 2026, shifts the cost of running autonomous agents onto users through a pay-as-you-go billing tier. The creator of OpenClaw, who joined OpenAI in February, called […]
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