Major Insurers Say AI Is Too Risky to Cover

Insurers on both sides of the Atlantic are warning that artificial intelligence may now be too unpredictable to insure, raising concerns about the financial fallout if widely used models fail at scale. Anxiety As recently reported in the Financial Times, it seems that anxiety across the insurance sector has grown sharply in recent months as…

Microsoft Launches Fara-7B, Its New On-Device AI Computer Agent

Microsoft has announced Fara-7B, a new “agentic” small language model built to run directly on a PC and carry out tasks on screen, marking a significant move towards practical AI agents that can operate computers rather than simply generate text. What Is Fara-7B? Fara-7B is Microsoft’s first computer-use small language model (SLM), designed to act…

GDS Local Launched To Link National And Local Services

A new GDS Local unit has been launched to give residents simpler, consistent access to both national and local government services through a single digital system. What the Government Has Announced On 22 November 2025, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) unveiled GDS Local, a dedicated team within the Government Digital Service (GDS)…

Microsoft Copilot To Leave WhatsApp In January 2026

Microsoft has announced that its Copilot chatbot will stop working on WhatsApp on 15 January 2026 after WhatsApp introduces its new restrictions on third party AI assistants. Why Copilot Was On WhatsApp In The First Place Copilot was launched on WhatsApp in late 2024 as part of Microsoft’s wider effort to meet users inside the…

How Bending Spoons Hit an $11 Billion Valuation in Just 48 Hours

Bending Spoons has completed one of the most dramatic 48-hour periods in recent European tech history after announcing an agreement to acquire AOL and revealing a $270 million funding round that has pushed its valuation from $2.55 billion to $11 billion. What is ‘Bending Spoons’? Bending Spoons is a Milan based technology company that has…

Old Smartphones Find A Second Life As Tiny Data Centres

Researchers have developed a low cost way to turn discarded smartphones into tiny data centres that can support real world environmental and civic projects. Why Old Smartphones Still Matter More than 1.2 billion smartphones are produced every year, yet most are replaced within two or three years even when they remain fully functional. The environmental…

Pichai Warns Of AI Bubble

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has warned that no company would escape the impact of an AI bubble bursting, just as concerns about unsustainable valuations are resurfacing and Nvidia’s long-running rally shows signs of slowing. Pichai Raises The Alarm In a recent BBC interview, Pichai described the current phase of AI investment as an “extraordinary moment”, while…

Magnetic Tape Proves Its Value In The AI Storage Era

Magnetic tape is experiencing a resurgence in 2025 as AI-driven data growth, cyber security pressures and new material innovations push organisations back towards a technology first introduced more than seventy years ago. What Magnetic Tape Is And How It Works Magnetic tape stores data on a long, narrow strip of plastic film coated with a…

Sanctions For “Bulletproof” Hosting Firm

The United States, United Kingdom and Australia have jointly sanctioned Russian web hosting company Media Land and several related firms, alleging that the group provided resilient infrastructure used by ransomware gangs and other cybercriminals. Coordinated Action Against a Cross Border Threat The announcements were made on 19 November by the US Treasury, the UK’s Foreign,…

Gemini 3 Thought It Was Still 2024

Google’s new Gemini 3 model has made headlines after AI researcher Andrej Karpathy discovered that, when left offline, it was certain the year was still 2024. How The Discovery Happened The incident emerged during Karpathy’s early access testing. A day before Gemini 3 was released publicly, Google granted him the chance to try the model…