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Tom Blomfield built two of Britain’s best-known fintech companies. Now the Monzo founder is joining Anthropic, and his job is to help crack the AI industry’s hardest problem: compute. One of the biggest names in UK tech is heading to one of the most valuable companies in AI.
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Two hundred economists, sixteen of them Nobel laureates, have signed a statement on AI and the economy. The punchline: the smartest people in the room are telling you they cannot see the road. Economists do not usually panic in public. This week, more than 200 of them did it together.
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Meta’s Hyperion data centre in rural Louisiana has ballooned from $10bn to more than $50bn in under two years. In a parish of 20,000 people, it has made some locals a fortune and priced others out of their homes. Meta just made its biggest AI bet bigger. On
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Munich’s Helsing has raised $1.8bn at an $18bn valuation, making it Europe’s largest defence startup. The round is a bet on sovereign AI. A lot of the money paying for it is American. Europe’s biggest defence startup just got a lot bigger. On Monday Helsing said
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TL;DR The EU and UK have issued their first joint cyber sanctions package against Russia, with the EU listing nine individuals and four entities and the UK listing 24. The EU publicly attributed the Turla espionage group to FSB Centre 16, and both attributed December’s attack on Poland’
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A London startup co-founded by a former Palantir executive has raised $50m to help governments and companies use American cloud and AI without letting America reach inside. The fear driving it stopped being hypothetical this year. Valarian, a London-based sovereignty startup, has raised a $50m (£37m) Series A led by
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For the first time, bots generate more than half of all web traffic. Cloudflare Precursor, the company’s new tool, stops checking IDs at the door and starts watching how visitors behave once they are inside. The internet just passed a strange milestone. Bots now generate more web requests than
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The debate about AI and jobs has focused on graduates. New research suggests it should also be looking at people in their late fifties, CNBC reports. Workers aged 55 and over in AI-exposed occupations are now exiting work at higher rates than before ChatGPT launched. The finding comes from Geoffrey
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Microsoft’s Satya Nadella says every firm using AI is paying for it twice, once in cash, and once in the secrets it hands over to make the thing useful. He calls it the Reverse Information Paradox. He also runs the company that helped build the trap. Satya Nadella has
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* Engineers at the German Aerospace Center are developing a morphing wing currently intended to reduce drag and replace functions of other parts of the plane’s design * A drone equipped with a morphing wing has been used in testing * The Morphing Technologies and Artificial Intelligence Research (morphAIR) project has a
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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. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
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In May 2019, the government of Baltimore, Maryland, fell into chaos. Cybercriminals had locked the city out of many of its critical files and demanded payment to decrypt them. The city refused to pay ransom. The attack incapacitated a swath of services, including real estate transactions and bill payment, and
