Alistair Fairweather: Machine unlearning

Death of the phone call

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Intel should stop trying to be a foundry

The right management team could turn Intel around – but only if they are willing to make some tough trade-offs.

The binge in VR spending tells us much the same story as the mania for AI – that the tech giants are out of ideas.

When it comes to LLMs, skepticism may be our best defence.

The most credible threat to AI investors is also the most mundane.

It's tempting to see Epic as a folk hero, but the case is about corporations wrestling over who gets to charge billions of consumers for content.

We should expect that most systems that rely on reviews and feedback, from shopping to movies to hotels, are already compromised.

Giving the UK government access to Apple's Advanced Data Protection would set an incredibly dangerous precedent.

For all the billions spent on research, there isn’t even general consensus on how to achieve the most fundamental aspects of quantum computing.

Australia’s social media law is long on good intentions, but short on practicalities.

The co-founder of the WordPress CMS is acting like a petty tyrant, and is risking the entire ecosystem.

Two courts have ruled against Google, which is good news for customers and rivals, but devising practical remedies is going to be a challenge.