Ian Lyall

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The image features a modern home with a sleek design, showcasing energy-efficient appliances and a landscape garden. Visible installation includes a home battery system positioned outside the house.

The AI data centre of the future might be sitting in your neighbour's garden

The image depicts a close-up view of a computer motherboard featuring an AMD Ryzen processor. The motherboard has a vibrant orange circuit design with various electronic components such as capacitors and fans.

AMD found a way to make your gaming PC faster by doing something it should have done already

A rocket launches from a launch pad, surrounded by billowing clouds of smoke and steam. The image features a prominent logo for xAI in the foreground.

SpaceX is about to become the largest IPO in history. The really wild part is what comes after.

OpenAI's phone ambitions make strategic sense and will almost certainly fail

The company that redefined software with ChatGPT is now betting $6.5 billion on hardware, but the history of challenging the iPhone suggests it is buying an expensive lesson

AI can write code and prove theorems. It still can't book me a restaurant

The gap between what AI agents can do in demos and what they can do in daily life is the biggest unsolved problem in consumer technology

The global hotspots for AI-powered cybercrime and why nowhere is safe

IBM's latest threat intelligence report maps where attackers are striking hardest. The geography of cybercrime is shifting, and AI is accelerating every trend

Tim Cook built a $4 trillion company, but leaves Apple trailing in the race that matters most

The outgoing CEO turned Apple into the world's most valuable business. His failure to act on AI and the long decline of Siri will define the debate over his 15 years in charge

AI race heats up as GPT 5.5 arrives: OpenAI narrows the gap on efficiency and cost with rivals

The latest model scores 91.7 on internal benchmarks and cuts reasoning token usage by half, but questions remain over pricing and profitability as the AI arms race intensifies

Karpathy's 630-line script points the way to self-improving AI agents

Andrej Karpathy released a 630-line Python script on March 8 that may have quietly changed how AI development works

Robotaxis face their toughest test in five cities that could define the future of autonomous transport

The companies that crack London, New York, Tokyo, San Francisco and Mexico City will build the technical moat that locks out rivals for a generation.

Anthropic's Mythos model has Washington reaching for the panic button, but the real threat to the financial system ma...

The AI lab's restricted cybersecurity model has triggered emergency meetings from the Fed to the Bank of England, while crypto firms scramble for access they are being denied

Anthropic's next flagship model leaks, and it's bringing a design tool with it

Claude Opus 4.7 could drop this week, alongside a product that rattled shares of Figma, Adobe and Wix

Sam Altman responds to New Yorker profile after Molotov cocktail attack on his home

OpenAI's chief executive links a critical investigative piece to an apparent arson attack on his San Francisco property

Luma AI founder says world models, not LLMs, are the trillion-dollar opportunity

The company raised $1.4 billion to build what comes after large language models. Its founder thinks most of the industry is solving the wrong problem.

Google Maps and the Gemini chatbot that can plan your day. The results are good, the privacy element less so

Ask Maps can stitch together a full itinerary from a single prompt. It also knows where you have been for years

The EU helped create cookie banners. Now it is thinking about getting rid of them

A professor who spent a year in Paris hitting consent walls on her phone argues the whole system should be torn down, not reformed

SpaceX spent more on capital expenditure last year than it brought in from customers. Now it wants a $2 trillion IPO.

The Starlink business is profitable. xAI is not. Investors are being asked to fund the gap

Adam Back says he can prove he is not Satoshi Nakamoto. The evidence is less convincing than he suggests

The Blockstream chief has pushed back hard on John Carreyrou's investigation. His arguments have gaps

OpenAI Stargate leadership exodus deepens as key executives depart for new venture

Three senior figures behind the global data centre programme are leaving together as OpenAI pauses its UK project and tightens spending ahead of a potential IPO

Intel joins Musk's Terafab project to build one terawatt of AI compute capacity

The chipmaker's role raises questions given its struggles to scale advanced manufacturing and find external customers