2025

Germany and NVIDIA are building possibly the most ambitious European tech project of the decade: the continent’s first industrial AI cloud.NVIDIA has been on a European tour over the past month with CEO Jensen Huang charming audiences at London Tech Week before dazzling the crowds at Paris’s VivaTech. But it was his meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz that might prove the most consequential...

Modern healthcare innovations span AI, devices, software, images, and regulatory frameworks, all requiring stringent coordination. Generative AI arguably has the strongest transformative potential in healthcare technology programmes, with it already being applied across various domains, such as R&D, commercial operations, and supply chain management.Traditional models for medical appointments, like...

Enterprise artificial intelligence investment is unprecedented, with IDC projecting global spending on AI and GenAI to double to $631 billion by 2028. Yet beneath the impressive budget allocations and boardroom enthusiasm lies a troubling reality: most organisations struggle to translate their AI ambitions into operational success.The sobering statistics behind AI’s promiseModelOp’s 2025 AI Governance...

Teachers in England have been given the all-clear to use AI to help them in low-level tasks that are part of their duties, the BBC reports.Guidance from the Department for Education (DfE) says AI can be used by school teachers in England, but it should only be for ‘low stakes’ tasks, such as writing letters to parents and marking homework.The decision to approve the use of the technology follows the...

MarketsandMarkets values the global artificial intelligence market at $371.71 billion and expects it to exceed $2407.02 billion in value by 2032. The statistic clearly demonstrates how AI technology can affect many sectors, including cryptocurrency.The Business Research Company reports the generative AI market in the cryptocurrency space alone is expected to grow in value from $760 million in 2024 to $1.02...

OpenAI chief Sam Altman has declared that humanity has crossed into the era of artificial superintelligence—and there’s no turning back.“We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started,” Altman states. “Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and at least so far it’s much less weird than it seems like it should be.”The lack of visible signs – robots aren’t yet...

When ChatGPT’s user base exploded from 980,000 to over 10 million in South Korea within a year—an eleven-fold increase that outpaced growth in any other market—OpenAI’s executives knew they had discovered something extraordinary.This wasn’t just viral adoption; it was a powerful market signal that drove the company to fast-track its South Korean expansion and establish Seoul as its third...

Mistral AI has pulled back the curtain on Magistral, their first model specifically built for reasoning tasks.Magistral arrives in two flavours: a 24B parameter open-source version called Magistral Small that anyone can tinker with, and a beefier enterprise edition, Magistral Medium, aimed at commercial applications where advanced reasoning capabilities matter most.“The best human thinking isn’t...

Artificial intelligence needs no introduction, driving new innovation and transforming the way people work. But the adoption of AI and our increasing reliance on it also raises questions about the centralised nature of the infrastructure it runs on, and the risks that poses.Cryptocurrencies have taught us of the importance of decentralisation, and the dangers of concentrating compute resources and data in...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) finds itself at the centre of a perfect storm: unprecedented AI chip demand that it cannot fully satisfy, escalating trade tensions that threaten its business model, and geopolitical risks that expose the fragility of global semiconductor supply chains.Speaking at TSMC’s annual shareholders meeting in Hsinchu on Tuesday, CEO C.C. Wei delivered a confident...