Keeping European industry and science at the forefront of Artificial Intelligence
The European Commission unveiled two strategies to accelerate the uptake of Artificial Intelligence across industry and science, pairing deployment in key sectors with a research push anchored by a new European institute. The plans introduce alliances, observatories, funding and skills measures to keep Europe competitive and compliant.
Why Artificial Intelligence is now a critical part of workforce strategy
The UK’s Artificial Intelligence sector is scaling quickly, but many organisations are missing enterprise-wide gains because strategy, skills, and operating models lag technical deployment.
Scammers use Artificial Intelligence to pose as UK family businesses
Foreign firms are using Artificial Intelligence-generated images and fabricated back stories to impersonate family-run UK boutiques and lure shoppers, often via social media ads. Customers report poor-quality goods, high return costs and misleading claims about where companies are based.
Cisco unveils Silicon One P200 to meet rising Artificial Intelligence data center demand
Cisco introduced the Silicon One P200-based 8223 system, a 51.2 Tbps Ethernet fixed router designed to scale Artificial Intelligence data center interconnects beyond 3 exabits per second. The launch targets bandwidth, power and security constraints as enterprises expand training clusters across longer distances.
Nvidia and Intel shift from rivalry to a chip partnership
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says decades of rivalry with Intel have given way to a strategic partnership focused on advanced chips. The alliance targets progress in Artificial Intelligence and high-performance computing.
What Meta’s purchase of Rivos says about RISC-V
Meta has acquired Rivos, a startup that taped out a CUDA-compatible RISC-V processor, signaling that Nvidia’s grip on Artificial Intelligence infrastructure may face new pressure from open architectures.
Zendesk says its new Artificial Intelligence agent can solve 80% of support issues
At its Artificial Intelligence summit, Zendesk unveiled an autonomous support agent it says can resolve 80 percent of customer issues, alongside a suite of companion agents. Early pilots show higher satisfaction scores as the company leans on recent acquisitions to power analytics and automation.
Grafana Assistant artificial intelligence for CAN bus data lakes and dashboards
Grafana Assistant brings large language model capabilities into Grafana so engineers can chat with data lakes, run queries, and auto-build dashboards. The article tests it on a 1 GB Kia EV6 dataset and details setup, strengths, limits, and support.
Sora’s staying power, costs, and legal risks
OpenAI’s Sora is surging with a feed of exclusively Artificial Intelligence-generated clips, but key questions loom over engagement, costs, and legality. Here is what we know about its staying power, the energy and monetization math, and the copyright and cameo risks.
Lithium extraction bets, questions about OpenAI’s Sora, and sodium-ion batteries
A lithium startup is testing a new extraction method on the Great Salt Lake as OpenAI’s Sora app surges and sodium-ion batteries edge toward market. Today’s newsletter also rounds up key tech headlines and a new take on humans in space.