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Alex Hern

Alex Hern is the Guardian's former UK technology editor

August 2024

  • Tom Cruise at the Cannes film festival.

    TechScape newsletter
    Why AI’s Tom Cruise problem means it is ‘doomed to fail’

    LLMs’ ‘reversal curse’ leads it to fail at drawing relationships between simple facts. It’s a problem that could prove fatal
  • Logos of: Nvidia, Microsoft, Tesla, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet and Meta

    Why have the big seven tech companies been hit by AI boom doubts?

    Their shares have fallen 11.8% from last month’s peak but more AI breakthroughs may reassure investors
  • The logo for CrowdStrike and a Spirit Airlines webpage with a Travel Advisory about a third Party Outage impacting their reservation system

    CrowdStrike accused of defrauding investors in class action lawsuit

    Company says it will vigorously defend claim by pension fund that its stock price was kept artificially high

30 July 2024

  • The Anthropic website shown on a desktop and mobile phone screen, which reads: 'AI research and products that put safety at the frontier' and 'Do your best work with Claude'

    UK regulator looks at Google’s partnership with Anthropic

  • Most people have used cutting-edge AI but the magic is wearing off.

    TechScape newsletter
    TechScape: Will OpenAI’s $5bn gamble on chatbots pay off? Only if you use them

26 July 2024

  • Closeup of Mark Zuckerberg

    Why Zuckerberg’s multibillion-dollar gamble doesn’t just matter to Meta

    As Llama 3.1 405B is made freely available, investors are asking when the huge industry spend will pay off

25 July 2024

  • Woman's hand pressing keys of a laptop keyboard

    North Korea-backed cyber espionage campaign targets UK military

    National Cyber Security Centre warns of global hacking effort to obtain nuclear and defence intelligence
  • Profile of a robot humanoid face surrounded by maths symbols

    Google DeepMind takes step closer to cracking top-level maths

    Team of two new AI systems score one point short of gold medal in global maths contest for gifted students
  • Buildings in Canary Wharf lit up by artificial lights

    AI could enhance almost two-thirds of British jobs, claims Google

    Research commissioned by Google estimates 31% of jobs would be insulated from AI and 61% radically transformed by it

23 July 2024

  • Keir Starmer

    UK politics: seven Labour MPs suspended after voting in favour of scrapping two-child benefit cap – as it happened

    MPs reject SNP’s amendment with 103 votes in favour and 363 against
  • A Llama by Meta logo

    Meta launches open-source AI app ‘competitive’ with closed rivals

    Tech firm says its freely available and usable Llama 3.1 405B model is comparable with likes of OpenAI and Anthropic
  • Large queues of people at Ninoy Aquino international airport in Manila, Philippines

    TechScape newsletter
    TechScape: Why CrowdStrike-style chaos is here to stay

    Countless theories for the cybersecurity firm’s outage are flying, but whatever the reason, the fact is that this sort of thing is likely to happen again

17 July 2024

  • Ben Horowitz looking at the camera

    Co-founders of Silicon Valley venture capital firm back Trump’s presidential bid

    Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen, founders of A16Z, plan to give large donations to former president’s campaign

16 July 2024

  • the entrance to Walt Disney Studios and corporate headquarters in Burbank, California: a wide driveway is seen under an arch with lettering reading The Walt Disney Co and a symbol in the shape of Mickey Mouse's head and ears. A car is coming under the arch, which has trees to either side and in an avenue leading to buildings; it looks hot and sunny with a clear blue sky above.

    Hackers claim Disney data theft in protest against AI-generated artwork

    NullBulge group said it was leaking files from Disney’s internal Slack channel to ‘protect artists’ rights’
  • Mustafa Suleyman dressed in jeans and a plain white T-shirt at the office of Inflection AI

    Microsoft deal with AI startup to be investigated by UK competition watchdog

    CMA ‘has enough evidence’ to start full probe into tech giant’s hiring of Inflection’s top staff

    • Case of man who falsely claimed to be bitcoin inventor referred to CPS

    • TechScape newsletter
      TechScape: Want to know how AI will affect government and politics? The bots have the answers

    • Science Weekly
      Can the climate survive AI’s thirst for energy? – podcast

14 July 2024

  • Renée DiResta poses outdoors in a pink fleece with strawberries on it

    Online manipulation expert Renée DiResta: ‘Conspiracy theories shape our politics in extremely mainstream ways’

  • Camera pointed at Gareth Southgate doing TV interview by the pitch while woman holds microphone to him

    Deepfake clips of Gareth Southgate swearing after England match go viral

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