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“First text, then images, now OpenAI has a model for generating videos,” screamed Mashable the other day. The makers of ChatGPT and Dall-E had...
Once upon a time, nobody outside tech circles had heard of Sam Altman. But then his company, OpenAI, launched ChatGPT, and suddenly he was everywhere...
Whenever people learn that I have an electric vehicle (EV) the conversation invariably turns to whether I suffer from “range anxiety” – the fear...
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It was plain long before the 7 October attacks that Israel badly needed a change of leadership. That need is now urgent. The prime minister, Benjamin...
The key question raised by the Horizon story is whether it’s a scandal or a crisis. Why is that important? Simply this: although scandals generate...
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It’s funny how naive smart people can be sometimes. Take the founders of Substack, a US-based online platform that enables writers to send digital...
“Innovation,” wrote the economist William Janeway in his seminal book Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy , “begins with discovery and...
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The big news last week was that a jury in San Francisco had found Google guilty on all counts of antitrust violations stemming from its dispute with...
If a week is a long time in politics, a year is an eternity in tech. Just over 12 months ago, the industry was humming along in its usual way. The big...
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