'A private Chinese company is giving preferential access to its technology and providing unusually beneficial payment terms on hundreds of millions of dollars worth of specialized equipment to a firm partially owned by Eric Trump'
'New data shows that half of students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teacher, and one in five students report that they or someone they know has had a romantic relationship with AI'
'Asked last year if he was creating a doomsday bunker, the Facebook founder gave a flat "no". The underground space spanning some 5,000 square feet is, he explained, "just like a little shelter, it's like a basement".'
BBC: Universities have collectively announced more than 12,000 job cuts in the last year, new analysis from the University and College Union (UCU) suggests.
'Almost one in four (37 out of 154) UK universities launched disciplinary investigations into pro-Gaza student and staff activists between October 2023 and March 2025, with up to 200 people affected, data compiled by Liberty Investigates shows.'
'Loughborough University told a recruitment firm running a “Rolls-Royce roadshow” that its security team were conducting “active monitoring of social media … to provide early intelligence about protests”. It was doing so, it wrote, as “protest has been a concern for employers in recent times”.'
'Emails from Heriot-Watt University (HWU) suggest Raytheon UK asked the university to “monitor university chat groups” on its behalf before a careers fair, prompting the university to agree to “implement the measures you have suggested”.'
'Loughborough University told a recruitment firm running a “Rolls-Royce roadshow” that its security team were conducting “active monitoring of social media … to provide early intelligence about protests”. It was doing so, it wrote, as “protest has been a concern for employers in recent times”.'
'Faith in the AI boom has recently been rattled by research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which showed that 95% of organisations are getting zero return from their investments in generative AI.'
BBC: A case involving two men accused of spying for China collapsed because evidence could not be obtained from the government referring to China as a national security threat, the UK's most senior prosecutor has said.
“You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else’s throat hoping they’ll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross."
Conservative MP Alicia Kearns, who previously employed Christopher Cash as a parliamentary researcher: "it seems very clear to me that their ability to prosecute was spiked."
