Celebrity Traitors star Hannah Fry reveals how Maya Jama and James Acaster have ‘given themselves away’ Cambridge professor was banished during last night’s episode of the BBC show The Independent UK · Oct 16
UK must not be beholden to foreign AI, says head of Alan Turing Institute George Williamson says ‘national resilience’ is key focus of ATI amid US and China’s runaway leadership in field The Guardian - UK · Oct 10
The ‘toxically competitive’ Celebrity Traitors star who’ll use Alan Turing’s maths to win Cambridge professor said she is ‘using the same bit of math that codebreaker used to crack the Enigma machine’ to give her an edge on BBC show The Independent UK · Sep 22
OpenAI may have solved the Navier-Stokes equation — but mathematics is more than $1 million trophy hunts Last week, OpenAI shared a proposed solution to the “Navier-Stokes equation” — one of the seven renowned Millenium Prize Problems chosen by the Clay Mathematics Institute that have stumped mathematicians for many years. The Conversation · Sep 17
Turing Papers Fetch £465,400: family nearly shredded historic trove; archive now likely In an unexpected turn of events, Alan Turing's personal papers were found among the belongings of a mathematician. These valuable manuscripts were nearly cast aside until an expert's evaluation revealed their importance. The collection ultimately fetched a remarkable price at auction in June 2025, far exceeding the auctioneers' initial expectations,… The Times of India · Sep 17
Pressure review – stormy weather in tense D-day forecast retelling Andrew Scott finds levels of complexity in a stoic character based on meteorologist James Stagg, the man who persuaded Eisenhower to delay Operation Overlord, for this slick wartime drama The Guardian - UK · Sep 10
AI’s worst disasters will arrive unannounced Letters: Dr Simon Nieder on the global efforts needed to curb the threats posed by AI. Plus letters from Dr Anthony Harris and David Kyler The Guardian - UK · Aug 30
AI before AI: The legacy of Norbert Wiener’s cybernetics (3/3) British mathematician Norbert Wiener, who founded the field of cybernetics in the 1940s, may deserve a place alongside artificial intelligence founders Alan Turing and John von Neumann. FRANCE 24 revisits this overlooked visionary who was also one of the first to warn against the automation of society. France 24 · Aug 5
Hold the front page! Marilyn Monroe is Dakota Johnson’s ninth cousin three times removed The vogue for celebrity ancestors can be traced back to Robert Pattinson descending from Dracula and Benedict Cumberbatch being related to just about everyone The Guardian - UK · Jul 31
Thursday news quiz: exposed bodies, racy stories, and children winning at chess Test yourself on topical news trivia, pop culture and general knowledge every Thursday. How will you fare? The Guardian - UK · Jul 30
My advice to new Tate director – show us more art Brief letters: Empty galleries | Cooking real food | Enigma of Alan Turing | DIY desperation | Futility rooms The Guardian - UK · Jul 24
Racy short story by Alan Turing offers glimpse of ‘playful, funny, cheeky’ side Writing from year after gross indecency arrest challenges ‘isolated mathematician’ image, says Cambridge academic The Guardian - UK · Jul 24
Quote of the day by Alan Turing: 'We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done' — key guidance on the road to building AI The legendary computer scientist outlined the foundations for many of the technologies we use today TechRadar · Jul 20
New Bank of England chief cashier to ‘lead work on new generation of banknotes’ Rhys Phillips will take up the role as the Bank of England’s chief cashier and director of notes in October. Evening Standard · Jul 6
The Guardian - UK · Apr 6 What can 160-million-year-old clay tell us about AI and ethics? Inside Es Devlin’s tech and pottery summit The great artist and designer has summoned spiritual leaders, AI researchers and academics to try their hands at ceramics – and debate their wide-ranging positions on where tech is taking humanity
Fortune · Mar 30 Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says ‘We’ve achieved AGI.’ But no one can agree on what AGI means. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang said last week that “AGI has already been achieved.” Recent research says it hasn’t been—and proposes new ways to measure it.
TechRadar · Mar 19 'I don’t like it when doomers are out scaring people': Nvidia on why AI rhetoric damages America's chances to lead in the AI race Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is sounding the alarm about the dangers of AI "doomerism' — and he isn't wrong
TechRadar · Mar 14 Michael Caine and Matthew McConaughey have licensed their voices to AI — but not every ‘iconic’ voice on the platform can consent ElevenLabs is turning celebrity voices into licensed products — but the real cost goes far beyond your audiobook.
TechRadar · Mar 7 Before The Matrix and The Terminator, there was 'The Creation of the Humanoids' — how an obscure 1962 B-movie set the scene for robot takeover and introduced the concept of centralized intelligence Before modern robots, a 1962 B-movie and 1990s MIT research reshaped machine intelligence.
The Conversation · Feb 20 Is AI really ‘intelligent’? This philosopher says yes Anyone who engages in serious dialogue with a Large Language Model (LLM) may get the impression they are interacting with an intelligence. But many experts in the field argue the impression is just that. In philosopher Daniel Dennett’s words, such systems display “competence without comprehension”.
TechRadar · Feb 17 The $13,500 that changed the fate of humanity: how the term Artificial Intelligence was first coined 71 years ago — but sadly without the legendary visionary soul who imagined it From Alan Turing’s early thought experiments to the Dartmouth project that coined the term, the origins of artificial intelligence is a fascinating story.
The Times of India · Feb 16 Who was Alan Turing: The man who broke German codes in World War II but was later treated as a criminal War rarely turns on one person alone, yet certain names continue to surface when the history of World War II is revisited. Alan Turing is one of them. Born in London in 1912, he was trained as a mathematician and logician, with work that moved between theory and machinery. When…
LiveScience · Dec 18, 2025 History of computers: Timeline of key events & technological breakthroughs The history of computers began with primitive designs in the early 19th century and went on to change the world during the 20th century.
Evening Standard · Dec 17, 2025 UK to rejoin EU's Erasmus scheme at huge cost of £570m: What will it mean for students? A path for UK students to participate in the European Union exchange programme from 2027 has been agreed
Fortune · Nov 13, 2025 The CEO of $2.2 billion AI company Turing can’t live without ChatGPT, swears by his Kindle, and has only taken 2 weeks of vacation in 7 years Turing cofounder and CEO Jonathan Siddharth loves his VR headset, F1 video games, and Oura ring, but says the greatest investment is “creating memories and experiences that give you perspective and keep you grounded.”