Artificial intelligence (AI)
Pichai Warns Of AI Bubble
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has warned that no company would escape the impact of an AI bubble bursting, just as concerns about unsustainable valuations are resurfacing and Nvidia’s long-running rally shows signs of slowing. Pichai Raises The Alarm In a recent BBC interview, Pichai described the current phase of AI investment as an “extraordinary moment”, while…
Read MoreMagnetic Tape Proves Its Value In The AI Storage Era
Magnetic tape is experiencing a resurgence in 2025 as AI-driven data growth, cyber security pressures and new material innovations push organisations back towards a technology first introduced more than seventy years ago. What Magnetic Tape Is And How It Works Magnetic tape stores data on a long, narrow strip of plastic film coated with a…
Read MoreGemini 3 Thought It Was Still 2024
Google’s new Gemini 3 model has made headlines after AI researcher Andrej Karpathy discovered that, when left offline, it was certain the year was still 2024. How The Discovery Happened The incident emerged during Karpathy’s early access testing. A day before Gemini 3 was released publicly, Google granted him the chance to try the model…
Read MoreRightmove Shares Slide Over Major AI Investment
Rightmove’s share price has fallen by more than a quarter after the UK’s biggest property portal told investors it will slow near-term profit growth in order to fund a major new programme of artificial intelligence investment. Rightmove Shares Plunge Rightmove used its early November trading update to outline a significant shift in strategy, announcing plans…
Read MoreGoogle AI Tools Let Anyone Build Interactive Map Projects
Google has introduced a new set of AI tools that allow developers and non-technical users to build interactive map projects from simple text prompts, marking one of the biggest upgrades to Google Maps Platform in years. AI Agents Designed To Build Projects, Not Just Maps Google Maps has long been one of the world’s most…
Read MoreHow Data Centre Investment Just Overtook Oil
Global investment now favours data centres over new oil supplies, reflecting the scale of electricity demand created by AI and the increasing importance of digital infrastructure to national economies. Data Spending Overtakes Oil For The First Time The International Energy Agency has reported that global spending on data centres will reach around 580 billion US…
Read MoreAI Assistants Can Write Your Prompts And Do Your Shopping For You
Two new launches from Hero and Google show how everyday digital tasks are moving towards full automation, with prompt writing and online shopping now handled largely by AI rather than users. A Clear Move Towards Automated Digital Tasks AI tools have become familiar, yet many still require people to know how to phrase prompts or…
Read MoreShopify Reports 7× Surge in AI-Driven Traffic
Shopify says artificial intelligence (AI) is now driving record levels of shopping activity, with traffic to its merchants’ stores up sevenfold since January and AI-attributed orders rising elevenfold, claiming it marks the start of a new “agentic commerce” era. Shopify’s AI Milestone Announced Alongside Strong Financials These latest figures were unveiled on 4 November 2025 during Shopify’s…
Read MoreMicrosoft’s Fake Marketplace Reveals AI Agents Still Struggle
Microsoft has built a synthetic online marketplace to stress test AI agents in realistic buying and selling scenarios, but the early results appear to have revealed how fragile even the most advanced models remain when faced with complex, competitive environments. Why Microsoft Built A Fake Marketplace Magentic Marketplace is Microsoft’s new open source simulation environment…
Read MoreMicrosoft’s ‘Humanist Superintelligence’ For Medical Diagnosis
Microsoft has launched a new research division called the MAI Superintelligence Team, aiming to build artificial intelligence systems that surpass human capability in specific fields, beginning with medical diagnostics. AI For “Superhuman” Performance in Defined Area The new team sits within Microsoft AI and is led by Mustafa Suleyman, the company’s AI chief, with Karen…
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