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AI
The most interesting AI story of 2026 isn't a bigger model in someone else's data centre. It's a smaller one running on the machine in front of you — and it changes the economics of everything.
James Holt · 2 July 2026
AI
Every model launch comes with a chart where the newcomer wins. A field guide to reading the small print.
James Holt · 14 July 2026
Robotics
The viral videos are real. The business case is narrower than they suggest.
Priya Sharma · 10 July 2026
AI
Strip away the demos and the funding froth, and agents genuinely do about six things well. Here they are.
Priya Sharma · 3 July 2026
AI
Software has been sold by the seat for thirty years. AI is quietly breaking that model.
James Holt · 6 July 2026
Computing
Training got the headlines. Inference gets the invoice. The chip industry has noticed.
James Holt · 7 July 2026
Computing
An open instruction set with a forgettable name is already in your earbuds, your car and possibly your SSD.
James Holt · 8 July 2026
Energy
AI's real constraint in the UK isn't chips or talent. It's a queue for grid connections stretching into the 2030s.
James Holt · 9 July 2026
Energy
The perpetual battery of tomorrow is finally in products — in small quantities, in specific places.
Priya Sharma · 9 July 2026
Robotics
While humanoids take the spotlight, unglamorous machines are quietly doing the actual work.
Priya Sharma · 10 July 2026
Future of Work
It isn't about which tools you buy. The firms doing it properly are reorganising who decides, who checks and who ships.
Priya Sharma · 13 July 2026
Future of Work
Two overhyped ideas walk into a spreadsheet. What the trial evidence actually supports.
Priya Sharma · 13 July 2026
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