AI & Society

Anthropic quickly removed a tracker secretly monitoring Claude Code users in China after a security researcher exposed the hidden code and condemned the spyware-like tracking as a “serious breach of user trust.” Last week, a web developer known as “Thereallo” was researching privacy issues in Claude Code and was shocked to find that the AI […]

Regulators are in an “arms race” to keep up with the use of artificial intelligence in financial services, a senior UK official has warned, with millions of people using the technology to help them make personal finance decisions. Sheldon Mills, an executive director at the Financial Conduct Authority, told the FT the watchdog would need

Cleantech isn’t the hottest space for startup funding these days. That title obviously goes to AI. Nonetheless, amid a period of soaring electricity demand, rising EV adoption rates, and accelerating progress in fusion and other fields, cleantech investment activity isn’t slowing down. In the first half of this year, investors poured $15 billion into seed-

The moats hold, for now

The costs of remaining at the frontier of AI are punishing, but the penalties for falling behind may be even worse

The veteran investor has put himself at the centre of the global AI boom. Some think he now has too much control

The tech sector is buzzing in Britain. But can it ever be more than a US outpost?

FCA official makes case for greater powers for watchdog as millions use technology for personal finance decisions

Chinese tech giant Alibaba has ordered staff to stop using Anthropic’s Claude Code after the US coding tool was found to be flagging users’ connecting from China. But Anthropic is already trying to stop Chinese firms from using Claude at all and accuses Alibaba of running large “distillation” campaigns against it, saying that the Chinese giant

Stock market returns should not distract investors from the new AI trade taking hold