UK tech scheme includes AI tool to mark homework as ministers weigh selling data

Public records my be monetised as part of National Data Library within a decade, says science secretary Peter Kyle

Financial Times - 3d

This Tool Probes Frontier AI Models for Lapses in Intelligence

A new platform from data training company Scale AI will let artificial intelligence developers find their models’ weak spots.

Wired - 7h

Banks and tech groups commit to live data-sharing in UK fraud clampdown

Industry-led initiative promises to beat existing scam-monitoring systems

Financial Times - 2d

UK Treasury confident Sizewell C nuclear power investors will soon be ‘teed up’

Ministers to decide whether to proceed with delayed Suffolk scheme in June spending review

Financial Times - 1d

How the E.U. Could Fight Back Against Trump’s Tariffs

European officials are weighing deploying a tool called the anti-coercion instrument that would potentially target American tech and financial giants.

The New York Times - 5h

UK cladding fund fix would enable 90,000 affordable homes, councils say

Letter to ministers points out that schemes to reimburse dangerous material removal exclude social housing

Financial Times - 3d

The tool integration problem that’s holding back enterprise AI (and how CoTools solves it)

CoTools uses hidden states and in-context learning to enable LLMs to use more than 1,000 tools very efficiently.

VentureBeat - 3h

The TAO of data: How Databricks is optimizing AI LLM fine-tuning without data labels

New approach flips the script on enterprise AI adoption by using input data you already have for fine-tuning instead of needing labelled data.

VentureBeat - 5d

Greece vows to spend $27B on armed forces overhaul centered on high-tech warfare technology

Greece has announced a $27 billion defense overhaul focused on high-tech warfare, including AI-powered missile systems, drones, and next-generation military gear

ABC News - 5h

AI for CPG Innovation: The Power of Agility

AI tools can enhance the process of gathering and analyzing consumer insights and help you act like an agile entrepreneur.

Inc. - 1d

Amazon's Nova AI agent launch puts it up against rivals OpenAI, Anthropic

The new tool, called Nova Act, will compete with other agentic AI tools launched by the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic.

CNBC - 2d

UK has best chance of deal to overturn Trump tariffs, says minister

Tne trade secretary says the UK will be hit by tariffs on Wednesday but can negotiate an exemption.

BBC News - 1d

Investigation into UK's statistics agency after criticism of its data

The Office for National Statistics is under review after criticism about the reliability of its data.

BBC News - 1d

Secret filming reveals brazen tactics of UK immigration scammers

An undercover BBC investigation exposes how rogue agents are exploiting a UK visa scheme.

BBC News - 3d

Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro is the smartest model you’re not using – and 4 reasons it matters for enterprise AI

Gemini 2.5 Pro marks a significant leap forward for Google in the foundational model race – not just in benchmarks, but in usability. Based on early experiments, benchmark data, and hands-on ...

VentureBeat - 4d

He Made an AI Tool to Help With Coding Interviews. Then Columbia University Suspended Him

The ethics of using AI for help with job interviews are under debate in the coding field now, and will under discussion in many other industries soon.

Inc. - 5d

Kentucky basketball transfer portal tracker: Updates on Mark Pope's 2025-26 UK roster

Mark Pope leaned on the transfer portal to build his first Kentucky basketball roster. What will he do in Year 2? Latest UK basketball roster updates:

Yahoo Sports - 2d

CoreWeave shares slump nearly 10% in second day of trading

CoreWeave rents out access to Nvidia graphics processing units to other large tech and AI companies including Meta, IBM and Cohere.

CNBC - 2d

Probe launched into flawed data at UK statistics agency

Government-backed investigation will examine culture and leadership at ONS amid concerns over reliability of official figures

Financial Times - 1d

Nvidia turned CoreWeave into a major player in AI years before helping to save its IPO

CoreWeave has found a big market in selling Nvidia's popular AI processors, but the company has a challenging story to sell to public investors.

CNBC - 3d

Beyond generic benchmarks: How Yourbench lets enterprises evaluate AI models against actual data

Hugging Face warned that Yourbench is compute intensive but this might be a price enterprises are willing to pay to evaluate models on their data.

VentureBeat - 1h

2025 PFL World Tournament 1 weigh-in results: Welterweight out after missing mark

The 2025 PFL welterweight tournament experienced a shakeup before it even began after Magomed Umalatov missed weight Wednesday, forcing him to be removed from the competition. Umalatov weighed in ...

Yahoo Sports - 6h

Last summer was second worst for common UK butterflies since 1976

More than half of Britain’s 59 native species are in long-term decline, UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme finds. Last summer was the fifth worst in nearly half a century for butterflies in Britain, ...

The Guardian - 18h

Gartner forecasts gen AI spending to hit $644B in 2025: What it means for enterprise IT leaders

Gartner forecasts large growth in global AI spending as enterprises shift focus to commercial tools away from custom projects that often fail.

VentureBeat - 2d

Republicans weigh selling public lands to pay for Trump agenda bill

Politico - 3h

Trump Media shares drop after warning the president's trust and other insiders could sell stock

Insiders and major stakeholders, including the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, can sell stock "from time to time," the company disclosed in a filing.

CNBC - 3h

AI was enemy No 1 during the Hollywood strikes, now it's being used in Oscar-winning films

Tech companies say AI will make productions cheaper and faster - but many in Hollywood think it will replace their jobs.

BBC News - 2d

Indeed CEO: About two-thirds of jobs include tasks that AI can do—but there's no posted role yet AI can do 'completely on its own'

A lot of AI-related anxiety is misplaced, says Indeed CEO Chris Hyams: Largely, "you would not replace a person with a robot, but a piece of the work a person does."

CNBC - 2d

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