All articles by Ryan Morrison
Ryan Morrison
Europe cannot go it alone in the battle to make Big Tech pay more tax
International efforts to tax the biggest tech companies are stalling, but an EU-led approach is unlikely to bear fruit either.
Microsoft ramps up pricing for Bing Search API
Microsoft says it is increasing the price of its Bing Search API to reflect the investment it has made into using AI.
OpenAI to allow ChatGPT customisation
OpenAI has struggled with its generative AI tool showing political bias and hopes to change this through better fine-tuning of reviews.
NHS digitisation progress ‘inadequate’, panel finds
The Commons Health and Care select committee treated its review of NHS digitisation like a care commission review into an NHS hospital.
FCA recruiting experts to explore the use of synthetic data in financial services
The new synthetic data group will meet every eight weeks for up to two years to report on the risks and benefits of the technology.
UK police still relying heavily on Chinese surveillance camera technology
The majority of forces reported using Chinese-made surveillance technology including for ANPR, CCTV and body-worn cameras.
Uber moves data to the public cloud with Google and Oracle
The value of the contracts hasn’t been revealed but Uber says it will be spending less than its current outlay on data centres
Akamai makes a move into cloud infrastructure market
The company plans to target large enterprise customers with aggressive cloud egress pricing, building on its edge network services.
How do you regulate advanced AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Bard?
General purpose artificial intelligence tools will provide new challenges for regulators, which they may struggle to meet.
IBM has built Vela, a cloud-native AI supercomputer
The toughest challenge for IBM engineers was matching the performance of the AI virtual machines to those of bare metal devices.