When AI learns to hack

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Artificial intelligence is transforming cybersecurity, but not in the way most organisations expected. The immediate danger is not machine autonomy but human intent, because AI is lowering the cost of attack, widening the pool of capable adversaries, and accelerating an arms race that was already asymmetrical. For much of the last decade, public anxiety about […]

Why business logic may matter more than AI models

The challenge facing enterprise artificial intelligence is no longer access to models. It is whether organisations can trust those models to make decisions in ways that are consistent, explainable and aligned with how their businesses actually operate. That issue sits at the heart of a new set of capabilities unveiled by Alteryx, which argues that […]

The next battle in AI is not intelligence but economics

As businesses rush to deploy autonomous AI agents across their operations, a new challenge is emerging that could determine the pace of enterprise adoption: the growing cost of running them. Much of the public conversation around artificial intelligence has focused on model capabilities and the rise of agentic AI systems capable of completing increasingly complex […]

The next AI challenge is not building agents but controlling them

The conversation around artificial intelligence is moving into a new phase. For much of the past three years, organisations have focused on experimenting with chatbots, copilots and large language models. Increasingly, attention is shifting towards a more complex question: how do businesses govern thousands of AI agents operating across critical workflows? That challenge sits at […]

Can conversational AI help keep an ageing population independent

The debate around artificial intelligence in healthcare often focuses on diagnostics, drug discovery and clinical decision-making. Increasingly, however, attention is turning to a more immediate challenge: how technology might help societies support growing numbers of older people living independently. That question is at the centre of a new pilot involving Sentai, a conversational AI platform […]

Britain is preparing to put AI on the cyber front line

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Artificial intelligence is increasingly being presented as both one of the greatest cybersecurity threats and one of the few technologies capable of defending against it. That tension sits at the heart of plans unveiled by the UK’s intelligence agency GCHQ, which has confirmed ambitions to develop a national cyber defence capability powered by AI agents […]

The future of AI may depend on the electricity grid

The conversation around artificial intelligence infrastructure has largely focused on semiconductors, data centres and computing power. Increasingly, however, the real constraint may be something far more fundamental: access to electricity. That challenge is reflected in the latest development at VIRTUS Data Centres’ Wustermark campus in Berlin-Brandenburg, where the company has installed two 185MVA super-grid transformers […]

The AI race is shifting from training models to running them

The next phase of artificial intelligence may be defined less by building larger models and more by finding efficient ways to deploy them at scale. That was one of the central messages emerging from Intel’s latest AI announcements at Computex 2026, where the company unveiled a series of infrastructure, processor and industry partnerships aimed at […]

Businesses are spending more on AI even when it disappoints

Artificial intelligence investment continues to accelerate across global businesses despite mounting evidence that many organisations are struggling to generate the returns they expected. New research from IDC, commissioned by Expereo, suggests that enthusiasm for AI is increasingly being driven by competitive pressure rather than proven business outcomes. While 70 per cent of organisations are now […]

The industry building AI now wants a way to slow it down

One of the more striking developments in the artificial intelligence sector is that some of the strongest warnings about the technology are now coming from the companies building it. Jack Clark, co-founder of Anthropic, has called for the creation of a regulatory “brake pedal” for AI development, arguing that governments and society need mechanisms capable […]

AI is forcing a rethink of the humble server rack

The artificial intelligence boom is reshaping almost every layer of digital infrastructure, from power generation and cooling systems to the design of the data centre itself. Increasingly, even the server rack is becoming a strategic consideration as operators seek to accommodate larger and heavier computing equipment. Vertiv has launched Rack Extreme, a new rack platform […]

The battle over AI governance enters a new phase

As governments around the world struggle to keep pace with the rapid development of artificial intelligence, attention is increasingly shifting from the technology itself to the institutions responsible for governing it. The International Bar Association (IBA) has announced the launch of the IBA Artificial Intelligence Institute, a new initiative intended to bring legal expertise into […]

The race to build AI is becoming a race to coordinate infrastructure

The artificial intelligence boom is creating a new class of infrastructure company as investors, technology providers and energy suppliers seek to address one of the industry’s most persistent challenges: how to build digital infrastructure at the speed demanded by hyperscale AI. KKR has launched Helix Digital Infrastructure, a new company backed by more than $10 […]

Schneider Electric launches cooling system for the AI era

The race to build AI infrastructure is forcing a rethink of one of the least glamorous but most consequential elements of the data centre: cooling. As operators deploy increasingly dense clusters of GPUs to support artificial intelligence workloads, traditional approaches to thermal management are coming under growing pressure. Against that backdrop, Schneider Electric has introduced […]