Ian Lyall
Articles
The AI data centre of the future might be sitting in your neighbour's garden
AMD found a way to make your gaming PC faster by doing something it should have done already
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