The anomaly in the geographical network, which forced the organisation to halve its capacity, demonstrates that the issue to be discussed today, rather than the motive, is the architecture. The solution is not a call for diplomacy. We need truly diversified networks, failover tests under real-world load, and contracts with suppliers that price in systemic risk. And we need human capital

Documents, photographs, bank accounts and cryptocurrencies extorted from more than 600 customers: not only is an official domain name sufficient for these scams, but the relevant regulations impose severe penalties on the companies involved

Amodei, Altman and Musk have called for regulation of the artificial intelligence sector. In any other sector, such a call would already have a technical name: ‘cartel’. But when it comes to AI, most commentary merely adds fuel to the fire of fear. Economic analysis, on the other hand, has a more rigorous task

Against the political economy of AI doomsday mongering. Nine summer apocalypses prophesied without rhyme or reason, from digital feudalism to cognitive recession to mass unemployment (and no, don’t even try to enlist the Pope amongst the demonisers of AI)

Jensen Huang is calling on Washington not to shut down open models. But the real battle is being fought further down the line, in vertical niches, and it is essential not to get bogged down in excessive regulation

The causes of the breach have been identified and shared. This is how technology is advancing, countering fears of the ‘runaway machine’. Why the OpenAI incident is good news for innovation

As long as the law by which we count the votes remains a surname, rather than an institution, we shall continue to call ‘stability’ the very act that, more than any other, confirms its absence. The most costly reform is not the one that costs the most