October 2026

For two decades, data centres were relatively safe, lucrative real estate investments. They attracted investors because they served as digital infrastructure — the essential plumbing that keeps the internet running. The growth of artificial intelligence (AI) and its increased demands on computing power has meant data centre builders are in a race to build out […]

Exclusive: Nvidia, Microsoft and Cisco taskforce urges ministers to offer areas greater benefits from tech infrastructure amid fears of US-style opposition AI companies have told ministers they have 12 months to head off public opposition to datacentres in the UK or risk US-style protests that could threaten their construction. Successive dry summers and rising energy

OpenAI will make its AI models and Codex coding agent available through Google Cloud, allowing enterprise customers to access them through Google Cloud’s Model Garden and purchase them using existing cloud spending commitments. The partnership will bring OpenAI’s models to Google Cloud’s AI platform, alongside support for Codex workflows. Customers can purchase the models through

Deeptech investments are notorious for having long investment cycles. They can take anywhere between 7–12 years from founding to a liquidity event given the intensive R&D and testing phases. This requires specialised patient capital—something not many funds are willing to dabble in. Fundamentum Frontier Advisors (F2A), the investment platform led by Ashish Kumar and anchored

The director has turned Kazuo Ishiguro’s acclaimed novel about an ailing adolescent and her glitchy robot friend into a thought-provoking film. What do the pair think this story says about tech, love and grief? In the wings of the London film festival, a group of young influencers are discussing their personal highlights. Klara and the

Amazon Web Services logged attempts to leverage the internet-melting PHP2Shell bugs four days ago. They’re now being “broadly exploited” across the internet.

Author withdrawn from France’s Prix Goncourt last month has repeatedly denied using artificial intelligence to write novel The publisher of top-selling Haitian Canadian writer Thélyson Orélien, who was removed from France’s most prestigious literary prize list last month, has confirmed the author used artificial intelligence to help write his novel C’était ça ou mourir (It

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr today warned broadcasters about airing “fake polls,” amplifying one of the many complaints that President Trump has regularly made about the news media. Carr’s post on X said, “Many journalists and broadcasters have been amplifying or airing these Polls without regard to basic journalistic ethics and without informing the

OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to make its latest large language models accessible in Google Cloud. The LLMs will be available through the Alphabet Inc.’s unit Model Garden service. It provides access to more than 200 neural networks from Google, its partners and the open-source ecosystem. The lineup includes not only LLMs but also

Ilya Pavlov / Unsplash Details have been published of a critical flaw in the programming language PHP, which is the backbone of more than 70% of all websites. Left unfixed, the flaw would allow hackers to easily take over and compromise millions of websites and the information held on their servers. In response, multiple European