3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (720+ words) Thursday 10 September 2026 A safety researcher at Anthropic has warned that there is a greater than 10% chance that AI could “kill all humans” within the next decade. So what? For all the worries about mass unemployment, it is possible that the…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (475+ words) Wednesday 9 September 2026 When I first heard that a rogue OpenAI agent had hacked Hugging Face, my initial reaction was scepticism. The incident sounded serious, sure: on 16 July, Hugging Face, the main platform for open source AI models and datasets, announced…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (523+ words) Friday 21 August 2026 In 2004 the New Economics Foundation (NEF) conducted a national survey of UK high streets, which were then still economically active. It found that real local shops had been replaced by swathes of identikit chain stores, making high streets…...

4+ week, 9+ hour ago   (482+ words) Summer sale – 50% off Sunday 16 August 2026 Are robots the new frontier of energy-guzzling technology? Within a decade, both industrial and humanoid robots could consume more power than the UK generated last year, according to research published this week. The analysis comes…...