The first time I watched DeepSeek “think” inside AI coding agent Cline, it felt uncanny. It paused, reconsidered, said, “but wait,” weighed two approaches, then rewrote a script I hadn’t asked it to change. For a moment it looked like a colleague arguing with itself in the next room. It isn’t. It turned out I…
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The Meta Connect 2026 conference opened with a keynote from CEO Mark Zuckerberg, where he talked about the company’s new agentic artificial intelligence (AI) platform, Muse, which has the potential to disrupt e-commerce.The company is positioning Muse as a personal AI agent, which people can customise and use to perform tasks such as internet shopping,…
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Microsoft has unveiled a long-term framework for the Middle East that combines significant investments in cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, with a broader push to strengthen digital resilience, cyber security and workforce development across the region. Announced on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the initiative was presented by…
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When Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) acting vice-president for the worldwide public sector, David Appel, opened the firm’s UK Public Sector Symposium earlier this month, he drew a historical parallel to artificial intelligence (AI). Three miles west of the City of London venue we were at is the Crystal Palace, a million square feet of glass and…
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Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Apparently Nvidia’s not launching RTX 6000 GPUs until 2028A leaker claims that these graphics cards have been delayed from the 2027 debut Nvidia originally plannedPushing back these GPUs makes sense given the RAM crisis, and some gamers are happy to…
As the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in everyday banking continues its rapid rise, consumers want independent eyes and a human in the loop on banks using the technology. The latest survey of around 2,500 customers by NatWest bank found that 71% use AI tools at least occasionally and 40% use them most or every…
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A spectre of trust haunted last week’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. The supplier behind the conference, Salesforce, has long vaunted its trustworthiness as a software-as-a-service provider. Its thesis is that as a cloud supplier, trusted with its customers’ data and applications, Salesforce has had to put a premium on trust from its inception. It…
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XMG has announced price rises for its laptops due to the increased cost of componentsThe laptop maker points out that DDR5 RAM for laptops is now close to 6x the price it was before the memory crisisWe’re also hearing that Micron has pulled the plug on its 2GB modules of GDDR7, and Nvidia’s supply of…
A few weeks before I started as TechUK’s head of digital identity, the new prime minister Andy Burnham announced that the government was cancelling its national digital identity scheme. I will admit to a moment of anxiety. What did this mean for the sector I was about to join? Was this the end of digital…
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Nvidia Smooth Motion has been modded onto RTX 3000 series GPUsThe experimental mod allows driver-level frame generation in unsupported gamesNvidia hasn’t officially implemented this and other features on older RTX hardware yetModders continue to find new ways to implement Nvidia’s latest technologies on older hardware, and now it’s been done with Team Green’s driver-level frame…
