Apps Marketed to US Troops Are Shipping Chinese and Russian Code

A first-of-its-kind analysis found more than one in eight apps built for US service members carried foreign code—some from firms in nations the Pentagon designates as adversaries.

Data centre backlash goes national as protests hit 42 US states
Data centre backlash goes national as protests hit 42 US states

On Saturday, American opposition to data centres stopped being a scatter of zoning-board arguments and started behaving like a movement. More than 140 rallies across 42 states unfolded under a single banner, in what organisers billed as the first natio…

Artificial intelligence agents need access, not secrets

AI agents need trusted access without unnecessary exposure to secrets.

Solving the energy conundrum is key to unlocking the UK’s AI economy

Recent evidence shows that energy cost pressures and a power grid capacity crunch risk becoming a bottleneck on the growth of the UK’s digital economy.

Bentley hired an orchestra to solve the EV silence problem. Drums were the answer.
Bentley hired an orchestra to solve the EV silence problem. Drums were the answer.

Bentley recorded a V8 in a studio, analysed it, and discovered that rhythm, not mechanical tone, is what makes the engine emotionally compelling. To test the theory, the team set up parabolic speakers with the V8 playing on one side and a live drummer …

Facebook and Instagram stumble for users in Sunday-morning outage
Facebook and Instagram stumble for users in Sunday-morning outage

Meta’s two biggest social networks spent part of Sunday morning refusing to behave for a good number of the people who reached for them. Facebook and Instagram both faltered on 19 July, greeting users with login failures, frozen feeds, and error screen…

UK finance chiefs are warming to AI, even as they keep spending in check
UK finance chiefs are warming to AI, even as they keep spending in check

Nearly three-quarters of the finance chiefs at Britain’s largest companies now say they are optimistic that artificial intelligence will improve business performance, a striking figure from a group not given to exuberance. In Deloitte’s latest quarterl…

The Enterprise AI Reckoning: The Next Phase Of The AI Economy

Palantir’s CEO criticized the frontier AI business model, arguing enterprises pay for “tokens that create no value” while surrendering proprietary business knowledge

goNEON Agentic Systems secures €160K to accelerate AI-powered infrastructure planning

ETH spin-off goNEON Agentic Systems has secured €160,000 (CHF150,000) in funding from Venture Kick to accelerate the development of its agentic AI platform for infrastructure planning. The funding com…

AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring

The next time you apply for a job, AI may screen your résumé before any human sees it. But there’s good reason to question whether AI will judge you fairly. Researchers already know that LLMs pick up human biases from their training data. New research suggests that LLMs can also develop their own biases from…