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August 2026
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- August 8
- August 7
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- Quote of the day by US President Dwight D Eisenhower: 'Public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite' — foreshadowing Silicon Valley's global domination
- I asked Gemini and ChatGPT to build OpenAI's mythical AI hardware — the results are shockingly good but still don't make me want this $300-plus device
- Poor data has become enterprise AI's weakest link
- AI was supposed kill my company but we're thriving - here's why
- Quantum's greatest breakthrough may be trust
- Why cybersecurity must evolve for the age of AI agents
- 5 ways AI is changing the way businesses recruit, hire, and train their workforce
- 'Great music is made by people' — Suno, the biggest AI music company, is finally trying to solve a problem its own success helped create
- Why AI infrastructure planning must happen now
- Behind every goal: the technology delivering the World Cup to billions
- Do you really know who is on your payroll?
- August 6
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- Quote of the day by computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton on AI: 'It is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things' — a pessimistic take on the domination of new technologies by those with ulterior motives
- Enterprise AI requires flexible orchestration over risky model lock-in
- Security's AI advantage will go to the organizations already built for accountability
- How can organizations help ensure they're optimizing ROI from their AI investments?
- Why accountability is the next battleground in UK business connectivity
- How open-source malware is re-targeting UK supply chains
- Microsoft’s EWS shutdown should be treated as a warning, not a one-off
- Identity and attack paths - can you stop hackers getting from A to B?
- Minnesota showed why Harry and Meghan are right about Grok — ‘technology should not enable predators to target children’
- August 5
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- Quote of the day by Anduril founder Palmer Lucky: 'There's no moral high ground to making a land mine that can't tell the difference between a school bus full of children and Russian armor'
- Are we vibe coding our way to a new legacy crisis?
- The cost of being half-hearted in AI and how to avoid the Solow Paradox
- Rethinking defense in the wake of OpenClaw attacks
- The quantum countdown: Are organizations ready to avoid the next Y2K
- Why AI is making work faster, not better
- The measurement challenge behind the shift to GaN in high-frequency semiconductors
- Why context engineering is AI’s next hiring challenge
- We're building the most critical infrastructure of our lifetimes. We're leaving the front door unlocked
- August 4
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- 'Tools don't have independent values — their values are human values': Quote of the day by Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li on building ethical AI
- OpenAI vs Apple text messages reveal something about Apple, but probably not what you’re thinking
- The vSphere 9 decision: migrate, modernize or maximize with purpose
- AI monocultures: the code review problem nobody's talking about
- Telemetry in AI and why it may be a ticking bomb for CTOs and CFOs
- How governance gaps are creating a shadow AI risk for finance leaders
- Why organizations are making trade-offs on software quality in the race to deliver faster
- Rethinking AI adoption: What UK retailers can learn from their US counterparts
- The democratization of AI stopped at the wrong layer
- Enabling the next generation of AI data centers
- August 3
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- Quote of the day by filmmaker James Cameron on AI: 'All of human art and human experience put into a blender' — dismissing the rise of AI in creative industries
- MySpace coming back — again — is no surprise; I’m only shocked it’s not been announced as the first all-AI social media platform
- When AI inherits your technical debt
- Why serious AI builders are skipping third-party evals
- Is AI creating the next wave of software sprawl?
- Why security debt belongs on the boardroom agenda
- The six-stage journey: Why 62% of organizations are stuck below the AI value line
- Why vertical AI is the defining opportunity for enterprise right now
- The infrastructure debt AI creates isn't in the code. It's in the operations
- Why even the biggest brands have low AI readiness
- August 2
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- I defected to the PS5 after 30 years of PC gaming — here's why I have no regrets about swapping the RAM crisis for the disc crisis
- Quote of the day by pioneer of cybernetics Norbert Wiener: 'The automated machine is the economic equivalent of slave labour' — foreshadowing the displacement of human labor in the years to come
- August 1
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- Quote of the day by investor Warren Buffett on AI capex: "That's real money... That kind of money wasn't even put in the railroad business" — outlining his bullish long-term thesis on AI
- Is bulldozing homes, seizing land, harming the climate, and replacing workers really worth everyone having an AI agent?
- There’s a micro mobility revolution underway in the USA, spurred on by a rise in popularity of golf carts — could this be a turning point for the country that pioneered gigantic SUVs?