Section A
Breaking AI news, model releases, big tech moves, funding and the business of AI.
Visual inspection, predictive maintenance, digital twins, process optimization, robotics and supply chains: the main AI applications in manufacturing, and the barriers.
AI Desk3 min read
Route optimization, demand forecasting, warehouse robotics, freight matching and risk monitoring: how AI moves goods more efficiently and what it means for workers.
AI Desk3 min read
How public bodies can buy AI responsibly: defining the problem, assessing risks, contract clauses on data and audits, transparency, testing and ongoing monitoring.
AI Desk3 min read
A practical checklist for small businesses adopting AI tools and facing AI-powered threats: data rules, accounts, phishing, deepfakes, agents and incident response.
AI Desk3 min read
The history of OpenAI: its 2015 nonprofit founding, capped-profit shift, Microsoft partnership, GPT models and ChatGPT, the 2023 board crisis and restructuring.
AI Desk3 min read
The history of DeepMind: its 2010 founding in London, the Google acquisition, AlphaGo, AlphaFold and a Nobel Prize, the merger with Google Brain and the Gemini models.
AI Desk3 min read
Where to learn, share and collaborate on AI: Hugging Face, Kaggle, research forums, open-source collectives, Discord and Reddit communities, meetups and affinity groups.
AI Desk3 min read
A deep dive into AI economics: training compute, chips and data centers, inference costs, falling token prices, business models and who captures the value.
AI Desk6 min read
A deep dive into open-weight versus closed AI models: definitions, arguments on innovation, safety and competition, business strategies and the policy debate.
AI Desk5 min read