News items from this week that didn't make the cut for full analysis, but deserve an airing. This week, Apple's new CEO hasn't fallen far from the tree, Anthropic-centered war and peace noises from the winner of the FIFA Peace Prize, and AI is tracking Meta employees at work - surely not!!!
The French Government has recently acquired all of the shares of Bull in the hopes of rebuilding a sovereign AI stack from the ground up. Bull CEO Emmanuel Le Roux explains why this time might be different from the last time this occurred and how he hopes to inspire European leadership to shape the future of AI
Even SUSE’s personable, diplomatic CEO can’t evade questions about US politics, and to his credit, he tackles them head on. But what has all this got to do with enterprise choice and resilience?
The implications of the IT services and solution vendor’s legal settlement will have repercussions not just for itself but for the rest of the market too.
The world’s musicians are all privileged and rich, and AI levels the playing field, right? No, that could not be further from the truth. More revelations from last week's Westminster Media Forum.
Just when you thought Downing Street was finally listening to Britain’s creative sectors, it seems that isn’t the case. And that is not the country’s only problem, she says.
As the AI world continues to build its own Middle Earth, are we going to leave it to ‘Samwise Altman’ to suggest what we really ought to do with the ‘Ring to rule them all’ everyone’s after?
Celonis argues that Europe's defense spending surge will fail to deliver real capability unless governments address the execution gap — the fragmented, legacy-laden industrial and logistics processes underneath the hardware
Anthropic has been granted temporary relief in the form of an injunction to prevent Trump 2.0 from following through on its threats for now.
In a landmark ruling, the State of New Mexico scored a major victory over Big Tech - and that's just the start!
A "supply chain risk designation in search of a rationale"! Anthropic might try to sabotage military systems when they do sofware upgrades! Claim and counter-claim - and it's only day one of a long running series of court appointments....
Did Hegseth and Trump 2.0 in general over-step in its punative actions towards US tech champion Anthropic? We won't find out today by any manner of means, but the conflict is moving into a new phase...
A new regular survey series from Sage, based on analysis of aggregate data from hundreds of thousands of small and medium-sized UK businesses that use its software, provides insights into the growth prospects of the UK economy.
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