2025

The latest phase of the mobile OS wars isn’t being fought over app stores or user interfaces – it’s being waged with artificial intelligence. Huawei’s latest salvo comes in the form of HarmonyOS 6, in which AI agents aren’t features but the architecture driving user interactions.The beta release to developers signals a broader industry shift where operating systems transform from passive...

‘The OpenAI Files’ report, assembling voices of concerned ex-staff, claims the world’s most prominent AI lab is betraying safety for profit. What began as a noble quest to ensure AI would serve all of humanity is now teetering on the edge of becoming just another corporate giant, chasing immense profits while leaving safety and ethics in the dust.At the core of it all is a plan to tear up the...

Apple is beginning to use generative artificial intelligence to help design the chips that power its devices. The company’s hardware chief, Johny Srouji, made that clear during a speech last month in Belgium. He said Apple is exploring AI as a way to save time and reduce complexity in chip design, especially as chips grow more advanced.“Generative AI techniques have a high potential in getting more...

AI has moved beyond experimentation to become a core part of business operations, but deployment challenges persist.Research from Zogby Analytics, on behalf of Prove AI, shows that most organisations have graduated from testing the AI waters to diving in headfirst with production-ready systems. Despite this progress, businesses are still grappling with basic challenges around data quality, security, and...

Ask Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei for his take on AI in China and the mountain of difficulties facing his company, and you get surprising answers.“I haven’t thought about it,” says Ren, in a Q&A with Chinese media outlet People’s Daily. “It’s useless to think about it.”In a world obsessed with five-year plans and crisis management, his advice is almost jarring in its simplicity: “Don’t...

Hugging Face has added Groq to its AI model inference providers, bringing lightning-fast processing to the popular model hub.Speed and efficiency have become increasingly crucial in AI development, with many organisations struggling to balance model performance against rising computational costs.Rather than using traditional GPUs, Groq has designed chips purpose-built for language models. The company’s...

Meta’s $14.8 billion investment in Scale AI – and the hiring of the startup’s CEO – is drawing attention to how US regulators will handle acquihire-style deals under the Trump administration.The deal gives Meta a 49% nonvoting stake in Scale AI, which hires gig workers to label training data for AI systems. Scale’s clients include Microsoft and OpenAI, two of Meta’s main competitors in the AI...

Ericsson’s Cognitive Network Solutions has joined forces with AWS to develop AI technologies for self-healing mobile networks.Behind every text message and video call lies a complex system that telecom companies spend billions maintaining. This partnership between Ericsson and AWS aims to make those networks not just smarter, but virtually self-sufficient.Jean-Christophe Laneri, VP and Head of Cognitive...

Back when most business applications were monolithic, ensuring their resilience was by no means easy. But given the way apps run in 2025 and what’s expected of them, maintaining monolithic apps was arguably simpler.Back then, IT staff had a finite set of criteria on which to improve an application’s resilience, and the rate of change to the application and its infrastructure was a great deal slower....

For decades, companies of all sizes have recognized that the data available to them holds significant value, for improving user and customer experiences and for developing strategic plans based on empirical evidence.As AI becomes increasingly accessible and practical for real-world business applications, the potential value of available data has grown exponentially. Successfully adopting AI requires...