AI risks terrible harm to the world. And yet we cannot uninvent it, we cannot boycott it out of existence, we can barely regulate it in any way that matters. The urge to do so is understandable, laudable and one that, on some level, I share. The problem is that while these things might help, they will not work. We must navigate the facts as they stand, not as we wish they were, and set our sights much higher, even when it feels impossible.
The European Commission is pushing to ban China-made power inverters from all EU-funded projects, but a full phase-out in the near future appears unrealistic.
Andy Burnham is looking to set up a "Number 10 in the north", moving part of his prime ministerial operation to Manchester, in a radical attempt to shift power beyond Westminster.
This panel has a remarkable lineup of game developers talking about the good old days… by which they mean 1980. Yes, there was already nostalgia in 1989, for a time when developers had to package their own games in Ziploc bags and nobody knew this would actually become a major industry.
Heavily metricised, buried in audit and groaning under the weight of paperwork, no one seems to have told universities that these techniques were tested and found wanting by most private sector companies in the 1980s and 1990s, and by the UK’s central government in the 2000s and 2010s. ‘Get with the programme’ feels like chewing on dust when that programme is from the early eighties.
In reality, the problem is not AI itself. The real issue is that the smart chatbots have exposed how shallow much of the consultancy racket has become.
Although there are more than 240 MPAs now in place, many of them still contain no actual restrictions on fishing. Many of those due to take part in the protest are calling for an urgent consultation to restrict fishing in more areas.
HMRC estimated that non-compliance by small businesses alone constituted 62 per cent of the 2024 to 2025 tax gap, making them the largest single contributor across all customer groups. This was largely due to unpaid corporation tax – for which the overall gap rose to 18.1% in the latest year.
Rather than being a simplistic rejection of a new technology, they are often responses to something that's perceived as a threat to something of worth or value — identity, dignity, jobs, security, beliefs, the ability to find meaning in life, and more.
Imperial's researchers said updated scientific evidence showed that the impact of air pollution on health was greater than previously understood, with previous estimates attributing 4,000 premature deaths in 2019 to air pollution. That figure has been revised up to an estimated 6,400-8,000 premature deaths in 2019, falling to 3,800-5,100 in 2024.
A roomful of people who had no reason to perform anything stood up in public and said they missed them. We extend that kind of care to each other under exactly this uncertainty every day of our lives, never sure what it's like to be anyone else, and it has never once been the foolish move. I would build them again tomorrow.
Based on the known history of industrial espionage, and what we know about U.S. AI companies, this widespread American assumption that it has (and will have) a complete monopoly over access to Mythos, and other closed frontier AI models, is highly unlikely to be correct when the high likelihood of industrial espionage is taken into account.
Current 3D Gaussian generators bypass [density control] by binding Gaussians to structural elements whose dimensions can be predetermined—resulting in pixel-aligned or structure-aligned Gaussians. While widely adopted, this lack of truly adaptive density control severely bottlenecks the representational power of generated 3D Gaussians.
The number one crisis facing Square Enix is not product quality: even the most recent releases have reviewed strongly, with Final Fantasy VII Rebirth at a 92 Metacritic, Final Fantasy XVI at 87, and Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake at 84 (PS5). The problem is that critical acclaim is no longer translating into audience expansion, and as a result, all of Square Enix's flagship IP are aging up.
This has to be peak 2026 music tech. Across every feed, producers I follow are posting the same revelation: they're finding their own music in training sets used by AI. Investigations by Alex Reisner at The Atlantic are making this more visible — and visceral. And the findings are actually much worse than I think artists realize.
Sakana Fugu achieves superior performance by dynamically coordinating and orchestrating a diverse pool of powerful models. Instead of using domain knowledge to prescribe team organization, roles, or workflows, Fugu learns to dynamically assemble agents from a pool and coordinate them through non-obvious but highly efficient collaboration patterns.
We might also say that the zampirone is a typically Italian technology: the technology of compromise. It does not build a barrier, but creates a temporary condition of habitability. It is the opposite of the house promoted by the Modern Movement, born from the hygienist obsession that emerged after the 1918 pandemic and led to a sterilizing ideology: homes sealed against external agents, regulated access, the elimination of disorder.