London AI company set to disrupt HR departments raises £5.5m March 28, 2024 London-based artificial intelligence (AI) company Metaview has raised $7m (£5.5m) as it seeks to improve the hiring process using technology.
Is AI turning recruitment into the new online dating? March 28, 2024 As businesses and job seekers alike outsource applications to AI, are we seeing the ‘Tinderfication’ of our careers? Asks Eliza Filby You crack jokes, you make small talk, and as much as it even crosses your mind you assume you are being interviewed by an actual person. But then it dawns on you, your interviewer [...]
London tech startup Oriole bags £10m seed funding for rapid AI training March 27, 2024 London tech startup Oriole Networks has secured £10m in a seed round to support its mission to speed up the training of AI models.
AI could add £144bn to GDP over next five years but millions of jobs at risk, think tank says March 27, 2024 "History show that technological transition can be a boon if well managed, or can end in disruption if left to unfold without controls," Carsten Jung, senior economist at IPPR, said.
How to invest intelligently in the age of AI March 23, 2024 AI investment could reach $200bn globally by 2025, but how do you sort the unicorns from the donkeys? Rosanne Kincaid-Smith explains AI is dominating the rhetoric of investors, business executives, and the media – everyone wants to use, invest in, or acquire this technology. AI startups attracted one out of every three dollars invested in the US [...]
Microsoft: Tech giant makes splash by tapping Deepmind founder to run AI division March 19, 2024 Microsoft has hired the co-founder of Google’s Deepmind, Mustafa Suleyman, to head up its new Artificial Intelligence division, the technology firm said this evening.
The Notebook: A plea for a little more nuance in AI discourse March 18, 2024 Marc Warner, CEO at AI firm Faculty, takes the Notebook pen to talk podcasts, good posture and the new frontier of tech.
AI is supposed to automate paperwork, not create more March 15, 2024 While ministers are issuing press releases and creating new regulations around AI, everyone else has got a head start, says Joe Hill Everyone caught the AI bug in 2023, and politicians were no exception. When I first started working on AI as a civil servant in 2017, you couldn’t fill a meeting room to talk [...]
EU AI Act: What does it mean for UK business post-Brexit? March 14, 2024 The EU AI Act, aimed at controlling AI systems on a risk-based approach, gained an overwhelming majority in favour, with 523 votes.
‘Lab to fab’: Semiconductor firms welcome UK entry to EU chip research scheme March 13, 2024 Semiconductor firms have welcomed the UK’s entry to an EU funding pot for collaboration on “critical” chip research.