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Does your business English let you down? Turn it into pure corporate gibberish with LinkedIn Speak

Struggling to find the right buzzwords to adorn your CV, or to put a gloss on a series of professional setbacks? There’s a translation app for thatName: LinkedIn Speak.Age: One month old. Continue reading…

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Divide between Silicon Valley and ordinary people grows ever larger

Big tech believes the future is AI while everyday Americans remain wary; and the dangers of riding in a Tesla Cybertruck Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery. This week in tech, we discuss a moment of divergence between Silicon Valley and everyday people; deep cuts at Meta to maximize spending on

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As the US midterms approach, AI is going to emerge as a key issue concerning voters | Nathan E Sanders and Bruce Schneier

There is a political divide over AI but few leaders are taking a strong stand. It’s time for that to changeIn December, the Trump administration signed an executive order that neutered states’ ability to regulate AI by ordering his administration to both sue and withhold funds from states that try to do so. This action

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Amount of AI-generated child sexual abuse material found online surged in 2025

Internet Watch Foundation verified 8,029 pieces of realistic AI-made content, with 65% of videos in worst categoryThe amount of AI-generated child sexual abuse material found online rose by 14% last year, with the majority of videos showing the most extreme type of content, according to a safety watchdog.The Internet Watch Foundation said it identified 8,029

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MPs urge UK government to halt contract giving Palantir FCA data access

Awarding US spy-tech company deal involving sensitive financial data is ‘huge error of judgment’, Liberal Democrats sayMPs have urged the government to halt its latest contract with Palantir, after the Guardian revealed the US spy-tech company is to gain access to a trove of highly sensitive UK financial regulation data.The Financial Conduct Authority, the watchdog

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Do we have to keep talking about AI? The machines are always one step ahead | Zoe Williams

Whether you want to free it or regulate it into submission, one thing is clear: this new technology is moving so fast that we can’t fully grasp itAt an 80th birthday party at the weekend, I met an academic who was evasive about his field. When he finally disclosed “computer science”, I asked him why

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FCA deal gives Palantir yet more access to inner workings of power in Britain

Contract affords AI analytics firm access to trove of data on one of the most important financial centres in the worldPalantir extends reach into British state as it gets access to sensitive FCA dataPalantir’s latest UK contract takes the AI and data analytics company into the heart of one of Britain’s biggest industries: financial services,

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Palantir extends reach into British state as it gets access to sensitive FCA data

Exclusive: Allowing US tech firm to analyse intelligence in name of tackling fraud raises fresh concerns over privacyFCA deal gives Palantir yet more access to inner workings of power in BritainPalantir is to be granted access to a trove of highly sensitive UK financial regulation data, in a deal that has prompted fresh concerns about

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UK government yet to trial OpenAI tech months after signing partnership

FoI request reveals no evidence of testing despite ministers hailing agreement as key to delivering AI-led public service reformWhen the UK government signed a memorandum of understanding with OpenAI, the tech firm behind ChatGPT, the partnership was hailed as one that could harness artificial intelligence to “address society’s greatest challenges”.But eight months on from the

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Mediahuis suspends senior journalist over AI-generated quotes

Peter Vandermeersch says he ‘fell into trap of hallucinations’ after being investigated by NRC title where he had once been editor-in-chief The publisher of Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf and the Irish Independent has suspended one of its senior journalists after he admitted using AI to “wrongly put words into people’s mouths”.Peter Vandermeersch, former head of

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