Opinion
The human challenges of robotic process automation
"While hyperautomation and GenAI bring transformative potential, they also pose significant challenges."
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Big Ideas For 2025
Big ideas for 2025: AI will put more pressure on security teams, nation-states and the planet
An assessment of how artificial intelligence will reshape the threat landscape over the next 12 months, from multi-agent AI systems to a growing regulatory burden.
Critical National Infrastructure
UK critical national infrastructure ransomware payment ban risks creating an "underground economy"
Westminster wants to make CNI and public sector bodies "unattractive" to criminals - a plan that could have an unexpected effect.
US
EU joins Nvidia to attack Biden's "misguided" AI Diffusion rule
"In its last days in office, the Administration seeks to undermine America’s leadership with a 200+ page regulatory morass."
Persuasive Technologies
Big ideas for 2025: The Intention Economy
Preparing for a future in which machines watch our every move - then sell predictions about our future behaviour to the data-industrial complex.
AI
Tech industry responds to Labour's AI Opportunities Action Plan
"Our values of democracy, open commerce and the rule of law are crucial for the free exchange of ideas needed to maximise AI’s potential."
Alcohol
A sober look at automation in the alcohol-free beer sector
How can brewers gain a competitive edge when pursuing opportunities in the fast-growing low alcohol beer market?
UK
UK AI defence "gap" exposed as Keir Starmer vows to make Britain a world leader
Stifling bureaucracy, uncompetitive wages and a dreary lack of innovation hampering defensive and offensive artificial intelligence research.
Opinion
Is the world ready for an agentic AI revolution?
"No," says ethical AI council.
FTC
Stem cell clinics are tricking the sick and elderly into "expensive, unproven" therapies
Desperate people targeted by companies that claim to be able to cure everything from AIDS to Multiple Sclerosis.
Surveillance
Invisible "face cloaking" camouflage can dodge facial recognition, defence contractor claims
Researchers discover a new way of protecting your identity with little more than small cosmetic touches.
Meta
Meta reveals the shocking "hateful speech" it now finds totally acceptable
Warning: Offensive and potentially upsetting content.