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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

A UK-based digital commons could level the AI playing field. Sir Andy Hopper explains how

Sir Andy Hopper CBE helped pioneer the collaborative approaches underpinning the success of location intelligence, the ARM ecosystem, and secure hardware. He explains how a similar approach could jump-start trustworthy and high-assurance AI in the UK and EU through the stewardship of CommonAI CIC, a new non-profit community interest company.

Andy Hopper

How Wireless Power Networks can breathe new life into the original IoT vision

Recent progress in Wi-Fi for power standards promises to breathe new life into an old vision of pervasive, low-cost sensors. Energous SVP Giampaolo Marino explains how Wireless Power Networks (WPNs) are emerging as foundational infrastructure for the next generation of connected environments.

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Why better AI needs better simulators - Salesforce's AI Research Chief Scientist Silvio Savarese explains why

Salesforce’s new business simulator is a significant step in developing more capable, agentic AI. Salesforce AI Research Chief Scientist Silvio Savarese explains the challenges of building more competent simulations and their long-term vision towards closing the simulation-to-reality gap required for better AI.

Silvio Savarese

Why compliance automation needs to start with policy quality

Vanta has released several updates to its GRC automation tools to help enterprises remediate inconsistent policies, align with new compliance requirements such as the EU AI Act, and vet vendor claims. Vanta CPO Jeremy Eppling explains why better compliance automation must begin with policy quality.

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