How conversational AI actually happened, told through the people who made it
When ChatGPT landed in November 2022 and a hundred million people signed up in two months, most of us had never heard of Ilya Sutskever. Eighteen months later, the same name was on the front page of the Financial Times because he had voted to fire Sam Altman at OpenAI. The board reversed itself within […]
Why the FCA just built a fake bank
Three weeks ago, the FCA was being hauled over the coals for handing a chunk of its most sensitive customer data to Palantir. The Guardian reported the regulator had agreed to pay the controversial US firm more than £30,000 a week to train an AI system on case intelligence files, fraud reports, consumer complaints, phone […]
Britain Is Spending on AI. Just Not Well Enough.
Two per cent. That’s how much the average UK business spends on AI as a proportion of revenue, according to a new study from PwC. The global leaders, companies in the top 20 per cent of AI-driven performance, spend five per cent. And they’re getting 15 per cent back. UK firms get 10. You could […]
The AI That Covered Its Tracks
The most striking detail from last week’s Anthropic announcement isn’t that their new model, Claude Mythos Preview, found a 27-year-old security vulnerability in a major operating system. It isn’t that the model identified thousands of critical zero-day flaws across every major OS and web browser in a matter of weeks, work that would take the […]
The FCA’s AI Moment: What the Mills Review Means for Mortgage Firms
Nobody in UK financial services seriously doubts that AI is changing things. The question that has been hanging in the air for the last couple of years is whether the regulator is keeping pace, or whether it is watching from a comfortable distance and hoping the existing rulebook holds. On 27 January 2026, the FCA […]
What if your next job offer included a token budget alongside your salary?
What if your next job offer included a token budget alongside your salary? That question felt outlandish until last week, when Jensen Huang walked onstage at GTC 2025 and made a case that AI tokens will become “the single most valuable commodity in the world.” Here’s what caught my attention: OpenClaw & NemoClaw NVIDIA released […]