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George Lawton is a technology journalist that has been covering the technology industry for the last three decades. He is currently focused on digital transformation, enterprise automation, digital twins, privacy, and sustainable development. year He has written over 3,000 stories about computers, communications, knowledge management, business, health, and other areas. In the early 1990s, he helped build Biosphere II, sailed a Chinese Junk to Antarctica, and herded cattle on a 200,000-acre ranch in Australia.

Articles by George Lawton

Monday Morning Moan - when it comes to AI safety, here's how to cultivate a felt sense of dis-empowerment, dis-respect, and algorithmic manipulation

The UK Government has released an industry-vetted academic analysis on AI Safety to guide AI policy. Some obvious risks playing out today seem glossed over in the narrow definition. Could a felt sense of disempowerment and right action help?

monday morning moan

How generative foundation models are driving autonomous embodied AI. Wayve steers the right route

Wayve has launched GAIA-3, a generative foundation model for stress testing autonomous driving models. Aniruddha Kembhavi, Director of Science Strategy at Wayve, explains how this could advance adjacent research into warehouse robotics, household humanoids, manufacturing and more.

Wayve

Something for the weekend - how ironic would it be if Trump 2.0 is actually inadvertently liberating us from Big Tech? If so, give the guy a Nobel Prize for Economic Science

General purpose computing freedom fighter Cory Doctorow argues that US President Donald Trump might be inadvertently eroding Big Tech’s moat against genuine innovation, security research, privacy, sovereignty, and prosperity. Far-fetched? Read on...

Trump 2.0

What NVIDIA Apollo means for physical/spatial AI

NVIDIA’s new Apollo platform promises to streamline AI surrogate modeling techniques for physical AI. The short-term opportunity is to speed up some engineering processes by tens to thousands of times. In the long run, it could enable new enterprise workflows more broadly.

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