Block Nighttime Phone Telemetry and Background Data to Stop AI-Driven Profiling

Your phone talks while you sleep: how to stop background data and limit AI-driven profiling When your phone is idle it still exchanges data — a steady stream of status checks, syncs and diagnostics that keep apps working. But mixed into that traffic are identifiers and signals that advertisers, analytics vendors and sometimes device makers […]

Why AI Labs Are Partnering with the Pentagon — Governance Risks Boards Must Manage

When AI Labs Met the Pentagon: Why Tech’s Ethics Became Defense Partnerships TL;DR: In under a year, several leading AI labs shifted from public limits on military use to formal defense partnerships. The drivers were economic (very high model costs), infrastructural (cloud contracts and secure environments), human (hires and board moves), and geopolitical (US–China competition […]

NBA on Apple Vision Pro: Courtside Immersion, UX Flaws, and AI Fixes for Broadcasters

Watching the NBA on Apple Vision Pro: Courtside presence, UX headaches, and the road to mainstream TL;DR: A three-hour Lakers–Bucks replay on Apple Vision Pro (M5) often felt like a VIP courtside seat—sight, sound, and bench moments landed—yet scoreboard placement, camera blind spots, and a missing social layer keep immersive sports from being a habit […]

Royal Society & Elon Musk Grok AI Dispute: Clear AI Governance Lessons for Boards

Royal Society vs Elon Musk: What the Grok AI Row Teaches Boards About AI Governance When the Royal Society — Britain’s most venerable learned society — publicly debates whether to punish a high‑profile tech founder, the disagreement becomes a live case of AI governance and reputational risk for every board that works with or invests […]

Amazon Bedrock Cross-Region Inference (CRIS): Geographic vs Global Routing for Production

Amazon Bedrock cross‑Region inference (CRIS): Geographic vs Global routing — secure patterns for production TL;DR Amazon Bedrock cross‑Region inference (CRIS) boosts inference throughput and resilience by routing requests from a source AWS Region to destination Regions over the AWS Global Network with end‑to‑end encryption. Geographic CRIS confines routing to a defined geography (US, EU, AU, […]

Assessing ZKP: Privacy‑First Layer‑1 Promising Verifiable AI Training on Encrypted Data

TL;DR ZKP is a new Layer‑1 blockchain pitched as “privacy‑first”: it claims to run zero‑knowledge proofs natively so teams can train and verify AI models on encrypted data. The concept—verifiable computation without exposing raw inputs—matters for healthcare, finance, and any regulated AI workloads. The project’s technical and economic claims are intriguing but should be validated […]

Super-embassy row: Infrastructure security, data sovereignty and AI copyright as board‑level risks

Super‑embassy row: what leaders must do about infrastructure security, data sovereignty and AI copyright Executive summary The reported planning drawings for a large new Chinese embassy close to City of London communications cables underline how infrastructure security and data sovereignty are now board‑level risks. Fiscal pressure — illustrated by Scotland’s 2026–27 budget and the IFS […]

Physical AI: CES Signals Wearables, Edge Chips and AI Agents Ready for Business Pilots

Physical AI is the next frontier — and it’s already all around you Picture a field technician standing under a wind turbine, wearing smartglasses that overlay wiring diagrams and highlight the exact bolts to tighten. The glasses listen, see, and nudge her through the fix. Nearby, a mobile robot rearranges spare parts after sensing the […]