OpenAI’s proposed ‘Trump stake’ raises ‘governance overhang’ fears ahead of IPO Tech OpenAI’s proposal to hand the US government a five per cent stake in the AI firm has triggered fears that the move could complicate a future public listing. The ChatGPT maker has discussed giving the Trump administration a five per cent equity stake as part of a broader proposal that would see America’s leading AI [...]
AI disputes are turning into deals Opinion Lawyer by day, rapper by night, Nick Eziefula has seen both sides of the coin when it comes to disputes over AI and art.
Book review: The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow Life&Style No subject has made me go more hot and cold than AI. Some days, I open Gemini, Claude or ChatGPT, set tough tasks and am dumbstruck by the speed and accuracy of the results. Wow, this is the future, I think to myself. On other days, I ask something simple and they get it all [...]
OpenAI listing plans hit as Altman scraps robotics spin-off idea May 5, 2026 Tech behemoth OpenAI internally shelved plans to spin off its robotics and consumer hardware divisions, as chief executive Sam Altman tightens focus ahead of a potential IPO that could value the company at up to $1 trillion (£737bn). The proposed restructure, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal, would have mirrored Alphabet’s model, separating [...]
OpenAI-linked shares plummet after it fails to hit growth targets April 28, 2026 Companies with financial ties to the fate of OpenAI sold off sharply on Tuesday after it emerged the ChatGPT maker had fallen short of internal targets for revenue and user growth. Shares in Japanese investment giant Softbank and data centre hyperscalers Coreweave and Oracle plunged by between four and eight per cent reigniting nerves over [...]
UK firms unaware of how their AI data is used overseas April 28, 2026 Most large UK firms do not fully know what happens to their data once it is processed by AI systems abroad, raising compliance and security concerns as adoption continues to rise. According to a recent Harbr Data survey, 61 peer cent of senior tech and data leaders at companies worth £100m or more lack a [...]
Former Deepmind star lands $1.1bn backing for AI startup April 27, 2026 An ex-Google DeepMind researcher has secured one of Europe’s largest AI funding rounds, as investors race to back a new generation of frontier labs beyond large language models (LLMs). David Silver has raised $1.1bn (£880m) for his London-based startup Ineffable Intelligence at a valuation of $5.1bn, in a round led by Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed [...]
Should you build an AI clone of your CEO? No! April 22, 2026 As Meta launches an AI avatar of Mark Zuckerberg, Paul Armstrong writes why cloning your boss means cloning mistakes.
OK computer: will AI be telling you how to shop? April 14, 2026 Hyped as a “seamless” user experience and an opportunity for retailers to access “hundreds of millions” of consumers via ChatGPT, OpenAI walked back from its Instant Checkout shopping function at the end of March, just months before unveiling it. The tool would have allowed users to complete purchases entirely within ChatGPT, but the Silicon Valley [...]
Fake reviews are tipping point for much bigger online trust scandal April 10, 2026 From fake reviews to ChatGPT, the decline of consumer trust is now a major online infrastructure problem, writes Paul Armstrong.