Author: Peter Bloom, Professor of Management, University of Essex

Why Keir Starmer may gamble on increasing Britain’s defence spending

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Amid rising tensions around the world, the UK government faces pressure to increase defence spending. External threats and uncertainty over the nature of peace talks with Russia over Ukraine have been in the spotlight. But there are also broader political and economic interests shaping these decisions. The UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, must navigate commitments […]

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DeepSeek: how China’s embrace of open-source AI caused a geopolitical earthquake

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Lightspring/Shutterstock We are in the early days of a seismic shift in the global AI industry. DeepSeek, a previously little-known Chinese artificial intelligence company, has produced a “game changing”“ large language model that promises to reshape the AI landscape almost overnight. But DeepSeek’s breakthrough also has wider implications for the technological arms race between the […]

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AI development works better for everyone when its workforce is well looked after

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Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock A former CEO and executive chairman of Google, recently suggested that the tech giant’s apparent lag in AI development was due to the company prioritising employees’ personal wellbeing over progress. Eric Schmidt told an audience: “Google decided that work-life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning.” Schmidt […]

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