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One area in which AI can undoubtedly do good and make a difference is drug discovery. In the future, AI might genuinely help to surface a cure for some cancers, as Anthropic’s Dario Amodei has urged the industry to do. But press a button to cure every disease? Sadly,
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Bill Gates is worried about AI. Nobody’s preparing for a future of mass unemployment, inhumanly powerful cyber attacks, and a massive accumulation of power and wealth among emperors of tech. Yes, that Bill Gates. Really. A mere 25 years since the Redmond global octopus squeezed its tentacles tighter with
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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Details about the Hugging Face hack, critical infrastructure under attack, a spoofed in-flight Wi-Fi network, and more of this month's cybersecurity news 31 Aug 2026 With August coming to a close, it's time for ESET Chief Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe to look back at some of
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As noted on diginomica passim the value of AI in Life Sciences and Healthcare has been seen. That value and the policy and regulatory challenges that underpin that, were the subject of a recent Westminster Health Forum policy conference in London. The event highlighted a consensus among delegates that, while
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Anthropic has committed $35bn to a cloud provider most people have never heard of, for capacity in a Texas data centre being built by a former bitcoin miner. The Wall Street Journal reported the Lambda agreement on Monday, and Reuters confirmed it with a person familiar with the matter. Neither
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Virtzilla finding more ways to pull data out of DRAM to enable ‘densification’ and dodge the RAMpocalypse VMware is working to find new roles for its memory tiering technology, in the expectation that memory and hardware prices will remain high for years and users will therefore look for ways to
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Birla Opus Paints entered a highly competitive market with a distinctive advantage – it did not have to retrofit digital into a legacy technology environment. Instead, digital was embedded into the business from the very beginning. For Surbhi Gupta, Head – Digital, Birla Opus Paints, the opportunity was to build an integrated
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By Ashish Kumar, Managing Director, Optivalue Tek The upcoming major change in warfare technology could be a new airplane, missile or satellite. It can also be a digital twin. Digital twins are shifting from factory production to military technology, where they make digital copies of aircraft, naval platforms, military sites,
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For India’s banking sector, the AI opportunity is no longer a question of whether to adopt the technology, but where, how and how fast to deploy it. As banks move from experimentation towards scaled adoption, the next phase of AI transformation will be shaped as much by trust, governance
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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As TechRadar Australia’s resident coffee connoisseur and gatekeeper of our guide to the best coffee machines, I’m constantly on the lookout for exceptional coffee machine deals on the most talented models. This week’s search was made easy, thanks to a 26% saving on the Philips Baristina, bringing
