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With huge crowds set to descend on London for the city’s iconic marathon this weekend, IT services provider Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), in partnership with Neurun, has launched a map-based tool powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to help participants and spectators navigate the event. TCS RunConcierge is said to act as a “digital brain” for the London Marathon, bringing together official guidance, route support and course information in real time – a useful tool for this mass participation event, which saw more than 56,000 runners cross the finish line in 2025 and hundreds of thousands of spectators lining the…
Image: Generated with Google’s Nano Banana 2. America’s AI race has a new problem as Washington says foreign actors are not just competing with US models, but trying to mine them. The White House is warning that China-linked entities are running industrial-scale distillation campaigns to extract American AI breakthroughs, with OSTP Director Michael Kratsios accusing foreign actors of trying to “steal American AI.” The memo turns model extraction into a federal policy and national security issue, with the US saying it will work with industry on defenses and explore measures to hold foreign actors accountable. Not one hack, but a…
Image: Created with ChatGPT From GPT-5.5 and Google’s agentic AI push to fresh chip ambitions, humanoid robots, major breaches, and corporate turmoil, this week showed how the tech industry’s race for intelligence is also becoming a race for control — over data, infrastructure, workers, and users. Top news OpenAI and Google push the boundaries of AI OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.5, its most advanced model yet, achieving 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.0 and surpassing Anthropic’s Mythos preview. The model introduces a “Thinking” mode, improved efficiency, and Trusted Access for Cyber controls, running on NVIDIA GB200/GB300 hardware. It’s available across ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business,…
BT and mobile provider EE have now blocked over a billion clicks to malicious websites using intelligence supplied by the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), according to figures disclosed today. The NCSC’s Share and Defend programme, launched last year, protects 46 million mobile phone users and 12 million fixed line internet subscribers from websites that could deliver malicious code, malware or phishing attacks, the NCSC said. It has allowed BT to head off “early stage cyber attacks” and attempts by its customers to access scam websites. The programme provides telecoms companies with streams of alerts about malicious websites,…
Chi Onwurah, chair of the House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology committee, has released correspondence with the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) about UK technology sovereignty policy that raises fundamental questions. On 10 March 2026, Onwurah, the MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West, opened a Technology Sovereignty Debate in the House of Commons, putting into question the independence of the UK’s technology strategy and approach. During the debate, she spoke about the NHS’s involvement with US data management supplier Palantir, stating that its chairman and founder, Peter Thiel, holds “a political worldview which is…
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has made one of the boldest public sector artificial intelligence (AI) commitments globally, announcing a plan to move 50% of government sectors, services and operations to agentic AI within two years. Framed not as incremental digitisation, but as a structural redesign of government itself, the initiative signals a shift from digital government to what could become autonomous government. “AI is no longer a tool. It analyses, decides, executes and improves in real time. It will become our executive partner to enhance services, accelerate decisions and raise efficiency,” said Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum…
The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union has said government should end an outsourcing contract with Capita in its troubled civil service pension after it cut the supplier in a separate government-run scheme. After a Cabinet Office announcement that Capita is losing its contract to administer the Royal Mail pension scheme, due to “missed milestones” among other things, the PCS called for the same rationale to be applied to the troubled civil service arrangement. Capita’s failures since it took over the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS) administration in December 2025 have been aired in public, but the supplier has…
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Mother’s Day is coming up in a few weeks (Sunday, May 10th, to be exact), and we’ve pulled together a few fun gift ideas. Please feel free to skip if you have a complicated relationship with this holiday, of course. For those who are celebrating, here are 15 ideas for the moms and mother figures in your lives… A gorgeous cheese board that arrives ready to eat, with herbed chèvre, strawberry rhubarb jam, chocolate almonds, and many more sweet and savory treats. $165. (Or an avocado-toast basket, $80.) Everyday nail polish, $20, and a plan to do each other’s nails.…
Image: Craig T Fruchtman/Getty Images For the first time in its 51-year history, Microsoft is offering a one-time voluntary retirement program to select employees, sparked by the massive AI boom. US workers at the senior director level and below whose years of employment at the company and age add up to 70 or higher will be eligible for the retirement program, according to a company memo released on Thursday, as reported by CNBC. This represents an estimated 7% of Microsoft’s 125,000-person US workforce, or about 8,750 employees. Eligible employees and their managers will be notified on May 7 and will…