Your Dark Factory Runs on a Borrowed Engine
My overnight AI model vanished with a one-line error. When the dark factory runs the economy, who owns the engine? The case for UK AI sovereignty.
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My overnight AI model vanished with a one-line error. When the dark factory runs the economy, who owns the engine? The case for UK AI sovereignty.
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Read article →Anthropic just built the digital equivalent of the atomic bomb. A model that can find and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system, autonomously. The parallels with 1945 are uncomfortable, and the differences are worse.
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Read article →The tech industry has convinced founders they need a full-time technical co-founder from day one. Here's why that's often wrong, and what you actually need instead.
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Read article →Every vendor claims to have AI now. Most of them are lying, exaggerating, or don't understand what they're selling. Here's how to tell the difference.
Read article →Most technical due diligence focuses on the wrong things. Here's what actually predicts whether a technology investment will succeed or fail.
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