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Featured Article: PM Warns X It Could Lose The Right To Self Regulate
21 January 2026UK Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has warned that Elon Musk’s X could lose the “right to self regulate” after its Grok AI tool was linked to the creation and circulation of illegal sexualised imagery, prompting a formal Ofcom investigation and an accelerated UK government response. Background The controversy centred on X, […]
Tagged Elon Musk, Keir Starmer, X
Tech Insight : Why Teaching AI Bad Behaviour Can Spread Beyond Its Original Task
21 January 2026New research has found that AI large language models (LLMs) trained to behave badly in a single narrow task can begin producing harmful, deceptive, or extreme outputs across completely unrelated areas, raising serious new questions about how safe AI systems are evaluated and deployed. A Surprising Safety Failure in Modern […]
Tagged AI, Behaviour, LLM
Tech News : OpenAI Invests in Sam Altman’s Brain Computer Interface Startup Merge Labs
21 January 2026OpenAI has invested in Merge Labs, a new brain computer interface research company cofounded by its chief executive Sam Altman, marking an escalation in efforts to link human cognition directly with artificial intelligence. BCIs, The Next Frontier? The investment, confirmed by OpenAI, sees the AI company participate as the largest […]
Tagged Brain Computer Interface, OpenAI, Sam Altman
Tech News : Hotels on the Moon by the Early 2030s
21 January 2026A US startup claims the first hotel on the Moon could be deployed by the early 2030s, as space agencies return to lunar missions and private companies search for commercially viable ways to support long-term human presence beyond Earth. Who Is GRU? The proposal comes from Galactic Resource Utilization Space, […]
Tagged Hotels, Moon
Company Check : Is Google Pulling Ahead of OpenAI in the AI Race?
21 January 2026Google’s expanding AI partnerships, product integration, and recent technical progress are fuelling growing debate over whether it has quietly moved ahead of OpenAI in the global race to deploy large-scale artificial intelligence. Matched Since 2022 Google and OpenAI have been closely matched since late 2022, when OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT […]
Tagged AI, Google, OpenAI
Security-in-Tech: Smart Glasses Fuel Rise in Covert Filming Risks
21 January 2026Smart glasses with built-in cameras are being increasingly misused to secretly record people in public, creating new privacy and security concerns. Cases reported in the UK, Europe and North America show women being filmed without their knowledge, with footage later posted online and attracting tens of thousands, and in some […]
Tagged Filming, Security, smart glasses
Sustainability-in-Tech : Data Centres May Shrink as On Device AI Challenges the Cloud Buildout
21 January 2026Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas has warned that if capable AI can run locally on personal devices, the economic and environmental case for endlessly expanding large data centres could start to weaken. Data Packed Locally On A Chip Instead For most users today, artificial intelligence follows a simple pattern. A request […]
Tagged Data Centres, sustainability
Video Update : Creating Quality Photos With ChatGPT 1.5
21 January 2026This video shows how you can create high quality photos and images easier than ever with the new toy from OpenAI, namely ChatGPT Image 1.5 … enjoy! [Note – To Watch This Video without glitches/interruptions, It may be best to download it first]
Tagged ChatGPT, OpenAI
Tech Tip: Give Yourself a Safety Net Before Hitting Send
21 January 2026Rushed emails are one of the easiest ways to create unnecessary confusion, embarrassment, or rework, and using delayed or scheduled sending gives you a short buffer after pressing send to catch mistakes, rethink tone, or make sure your message lands at the right moment. How to do it: Outlook Compose […]
Tagged Emails, Microsoft, Outlook
Featured Article : Grok Sparks Global Scrutiny Over AI Sexualised Deepfakes
14 January 2026Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has become the focus of political, regulatory, and international scrutiny after users exploited it to generate non-consensual sexualised images, including material involving children, triggering urgent action from regulators and reopening a heated debate over online safety and free speech. What Triggered The Controversy? The row […]
Tagged AI, Deepfakes, Grok
Tech Insight : 15 Notable Gadgets From A CES Focused On AI In Homes And Health
14 January 2026In this week’s Tech Insight, we look at 15 notable gadgets from a CES focused on how artificial intelligence is being embedded into physical products for homes, health, and everyday use. CES 2026 The Consumer Electronics Show, held each January in Las Vegas, Nevada, has long been a place where […]
Tagged AI, CES, Gadgets, Health
Tech News : WhatsApp Introduces New Tools To Bring Order To Group Chats
14 January 2026WhatsApp has rolled out a set of new group chat features designed to reduce confusion in larger conversations and make coordination easier, as the platform continues to evolve beyond simple one-to-one messaging. What Has Been Introduced? In a blog post published on 7 January, WhatsApp confirmed the launch of three […]
Tagged Group Chats, Tools, WhatsApp