Deepseek: China’s gamechanging AI system has big implications for UK tech development

The Chinese AI tool has shifted the dynamics in the AI market.

Feng Li, Chair of Information Management, Associate Dean for Research & Innovation, Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London • conversation
Jan. 28, 2025 • ~7 min

‘Sorry, I didn’t get that’: AI misunderstands some people’s words more than others

Speaking with an AI bot can be amusing and even helpful – if it understands you. How well AIs do that is a matter of whose speech they’ve been trained on.

Roberto Rey Agudo, Research Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Dartmouth College • conversation
Jan. 27, 2025 • ~7 min

UK government’s AI plan gives a glimpse of how it plans to regulate the technology

The UK approach to AI looks set to differ from the EU.

Sana Zakaria, Research Leader for Emerging Technology and RAND Global Scholar, RAND Europe • conversation
Jan. 24, 2025 • ~5 min

The technology that runs Congress lags so far behind the modern world that its flag-tracking system just caught up to 2017-era Pizza Hut

The information systems Congress uses have existed largely unchanged for decades, while the world has experienced an information revolution.

Lorelei Kelly, Research Lead, Modernizing Congress, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University • conversation
Jan. 24, 2025 • ~9 min

How AI can predict rugby injuries before they happen

Non-contact injuries are a persistent challenge in rugby union. But what if coaches could use AI to help foresee those injury risks?

Julian Owen, Senior Lecturer in Sport & Exercise Physiology, Bangor University • conversation
Jan. 22, 2025 • ~6 min

£10 million programme to use AI and state-of-the-art analytics to fight cancer

Cambridge researchers are to lead a £10million project that could result in doctors being able to predict your individual chances of getting cancer and offer

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Jan. 22, 2025 • ~5 min

Knowing less about AI makes people more open to having it in their lives – new research

People with less AI literacy often see the technology as ‘magical’ and awe-inspiring.

Stephanie Tully, Associate Professor of Marketing, USC Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California • conversation
Jan. 20, 2025 • ~5 min

Climate misinformation is rife on social media – and poised to get worse

Meta’s decision could open the floodgates to more climate misinformation on its apps, including misleading or out-of-context claims during disasters.

Jill Hopke, Associate Professor of Journalism, DePaul University • conversation
Jan. 17, 2025 • ~8 min

AI-based technology could reduce the number of controversial decisions in boxing

Arguments over scoring are a feature of boxing, but technology could make things less subjective.

Saima Sammad, PhD Student, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering and Digital Technologies, University of Bradford • conversation
Jan. 16, 2025 • ~6 min

How the UK’s plans for AI could derail net zero – the numbers explained

AI is disturbing the push to electrify vehicles, heating and other sectors running on fossil fuels.

Ian R. Hodgkinson, Professor of Strategy, Loughborough University • conversation
Jan. 16, 2025 • ~6 min

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