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DeepSeek’s open source, efficient AI model puts the billions spent to build similar technology in question. DeepSeek r1’s ranking in Chatbot Arena Two headlines this week almost perfectly captured the weird moment the AI field is barreling toward. First, news broke that OpenAI, Oracle,...
Here’s what that means for the company and its chances of success. Elon Musk has finally completed his US$44bn deal to acquire Twitter and take it private. The world’s...
Tech startups have been the British economic success story of the past decade. You can measure this success by the obvious metrics, like our stunning VC investment figures,...
Originally published June 2021. Prices are too high, availability too low, and the charging network is a dog’s breakfast. Hold your horses – or just get a bike. Tackling climate...
Originally published October 2019. Today is my little boy’s sixth birthday. And as I sit here waiting for him to get home from school, ready for the joy and the chaos of his...
Why tech companies must address emissions caused by streaming and scrolling. Technology companies have been having a difficult year. The increased cost of living is turning...
Kicking off a three-part series on proptech, in its very widest sense, let’s look back first of all to the Stone Age. Originally published December 2020. Urbanisation has been a...
In a sector where outdated practices are a matter of life or death, providers need to value their buildings in a way that recognises health technology. Originally published June...
Originally published May 2019. If investor confidence was affected by the stock market slides of ‘Red October’, it seemed to have returned with the arrival of spring 2019...
Originally published June 2019. One cynical – but useful – view of modern technology is that it allows us to play through the scams and mistakes of the last few millennia at warp...