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Ads in OpenAI: Can they plug the financial gap?

There's a prevailing and entirely understandable scepticism about OpenAI's prospects. In a recent interview, Sam Altman brushed of…

December 2025

October Technology Review: AI Layoffs dominate

In October, news coverage focused extensively on the impact of artificial intelligence on workforce reductions. Sam Altman contrib…

November 2025

Robots doing the laundry: A multi-billion dollar market

Morgan Stanley reckons humanoid robots will form a $5trillion market by 2050. The bulk will be chained to the factory floor. But a…

Humanoid robots provide a pragmatic fix for manufacturers

In October, reports emerged of Western business leaders returning from China deeply unsettled. The spooked execs bore testimony of…

September Technology Review: Huzzah for good ol’ cloud

September has been challenging for most of the technologies we monitor, with builder conviction generally on the decline. Notably,…

LLMs Hit the Ceiling, World Models Break Through It

Language models are reaching the edges of their training diet. After years of feeding them the internet, performance gains now arr…

Microsoft Just Accidentally Armed Voice Cloners Everywhere

Microsoft recently released, and then abruptly retracted, an open-source text-to-speech model named VibeVoice. The model was capab…

OpenAI: Their own research reveals a troubling utility challenge

OpenAI's latest research explores how people are using ChatGPT. Three big categories dominate the field. Writing (of which, thankf…

The improbable cost of AI Data Centers

Nobody can quite agree on how much we should be spending on data centres. The Economist points out that some analysts reckon by th…

Meta’s New App Lets Strangers Walk Through Your House

Meta just shipped something genuinely fresh: Hyperscape, a photorealistic scene capture for Quest 3/3S that lets you scan a real s…

Is Microsoft’s Anthropic gambit a sign of partnership panic?

Microsoft just announced it will integrate Anthropic's AI models into Office 365, marking a stunning departure from its exclusive …