AI
Teenage founder's AI startup valued at $13.7 billion in $1 billion funding round
"We must build frontier data which is always pushing the boundaries of AI capabilities towards complex reasoning, agents, multimodality, and more."
semiconductors
UK fires up Semiconductor Institute
The institute is set to build on Britain's £1 billion strategy for the sector
UK government
UK MPs slam Big Tech for 'siloed' approach to misinformation
Government agencies build up 'Defending democracy' package, including tech and guidelines to keep bad actors at bay
ransomware
UnitedHealth confirms ransom payment, reports $872 million impact from attack in Q1
Personal data of a "substantial proportion" of Americans stolen from systems.
Cloud
Vultr launches into sovereign cloud market as CXOs, CTOs mull data localisation
More than a third of European CXOs are looking to move 25 to 27% of their assets to a sovereign cloud.
News
UK Crown Prosecution Service preps £2.5m financial analysis system procurement
As Ministry of Justice struggles with technical debt and legacy burden
News
Meta launches Llama 3: Puts its GPUs to work on Llama 4
The LLM arms race continues: Don't bet against the company spending $33 billion per year on GPUs.
MOD
MOD reopens £300m "Human-Machine Teaming" framework, with a robotics focus
"What keeps me up is the cost imposition factor that robotics systems bring"
Policy
Spying on MPs and breaking encryption: New UK legislation damned as “unprecedented” – and “deeply troubling”
Apple says new rules “significantly widen the powers and exacerbate the flaws inherent in the Investigatory Powers Act”
Zoom
Zoom turns to AI to reinvent itself as much more than just video calling
Zoom bets big on its AI powered collaborative workspace
cybersecurity
US gov tells software suppliers exactly how it wants them to develop secure code
As CISA reportedly admits two of its systems were breached in February due to Ivanti flaws
Microsoft
EDPS: European Commission breached data infringement rules over Microsoft 365 use
EU watchdog says the institution failed to take appropriate data-transfer safeguards while using Microsoft 365