LEADERSHIP
Editorial coverage of strategic technology shifts in banking — what's coming, who's shipping it, and what it changes.
APPLIED AI
An AI assistant worked on two problems about progression-free sets: an argument for the reciprocal-sum problem, and a quasipolynomial bound for every fixed progression length. It used Bloom and...
APPLIED AI
Financial services has spent 20 to 25 years treating modernisation as a project with an end date. Opening the Oracle Financial Services Summit in London, Dr. Leda Glyptis argued that the industry's weaker record is...
APPLIED AI
At the Economist Enterprise Physical AI and Robotics Summit in London, aerospace and manufacturing leaders dismantled the silicon-valley narrative of the general-purpose humanoid robot. While venture capital pours billions into bipedal forms, industrial reality proves that form must strictly follow function.
APPLIED AI
Physical AI cannot scale on 700W data-centre GPUs. At the Economist Enterprise Physical AI and Robotics Summit, Mythic AI Chairman and CEO Taner Ozcelik demonstrated how in-memory compute and chiplet modularity collapse the Von Neumann memory wall to deliver biological-grade efficiency at the physical edge.
APPLIED AI
Robotics development has historically been gated behind six-figure hardware and brittle, hand-crafted kinematics. At the Economist Enterprise Physical AI and Robotics Summit, Hugging Face LeRobot lead Pepijn Kooijmans demonstrated how open-source foundation models and $200 hardware are breaking the industry wide open.
APPLIED AI
Deploying autonomous physical machines alongside human workforces introduces acute psychological and legal hazards that pure software never encountered. At the Economist Enterprise Physical AI and Robotics Summit, leaders from Kier Group and the British Standards Institution (BSI) established the governance blueprint for physical AI.
APPLIED AI
Foundations of Machine Learning, second edition, defines learning as using experience to make accurate predictions, and then builds a whole curriculum around the quantities that decide whether it works: data,...
APPLIED AI
A collection of results from an internal OpenAI model spans mathematics and theoretical computer science, and its sharpest result is exact: the asymptotic strength of the Cohn-Elkies linear program is now known,...
APPLIED AI
MIT's ad hoc committee on AI doesn't treat generative AI as a tooling problem to be patched with a policy. Its report treats it as a pressure test on what an MIT education is for, and argues that uncertainty can't be...
INFRASTRUCTURE & CRYPTOGRAPHY
The first two operating nuclear clocks arrived together, from teams that didn't coordinate, and neither beats the best atomic clock. The independence of the two results is the more important fact, because it suggests...
APPLIED AI
This article delves into the work of [Yilei Chen ⧉][00], who has developed a polynomial-time quantum algorithm that could significantly impact the hardness of the Learning With Errors (LWE)…
APPLIED AI
The European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act marks a significant step in the global discourse on AI regulation. As digital technologies increasingly permeate every aspect of our lives, the…
APPLIED AI
2023 was a year of profound transformation and realisation. Motivated by curiosity and a drive to innovate, I delved into cutting-edge technology, including [Rust ⧉][06], [AI ⧉][07], and [Quantum…
APPLIED AI
As we enter the year 2024, AI redefines technology, society, and daily life. This era is not merely about technological evolution; it's a transformational journey where AI is emerging as a…
APPLIED AI
The financial landscape is poised for a groundbreaking transformation driven by the convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum algorithm design.This revolution in finance isn't raw…
APPLIED AI
The banking and financial industry is undergoing a revolutionary transformation in data security, driven by the emergence of Quantum Key Distribution (QKD). This groundbreaking innovation, based…
