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Following on the theme from my last missive, I believe the real prize in AI infrastructure is not datacentres, it is the orchestration layer. An orchestration layer built on a single foundational principle I have written about extensively – trust. Which is why Europe has a genuine opportunity to build the trust fabric for Artificial […]
March 12, 2026
Are we building sovereign AI infrastructure that is legally controlled but operationally fragile? The current conversation around sovereign AI is dominated by a sensible instinct, keep the models, data and compute that underpin critical national capability within national jurisdiction. Governments want AI infrastructure they control, regulate and can trust. Nice and tidy for the pen […]
March 8, 2026
As an avid fitness enthusiast, the modern ability to access personal metabolic and activity data has fascinated me ever since I first began exploring it more than 25 years ago. Anyone else remember the bulky Garmin Forerunner 101? How things have changed since then. With nearly half a lifetime of training data, now enriched by […]
February 7, 2026
The weekend has started with some novel phenomenon being reported in the news, a social media site designed exclusively for AI agents. Yes you read that correctly, AI agents have their own social media platform, wetware permitted at their peril. Apparently we can expect platforms like Moltbook to go viral as thousands, nay millions of […]
February 1, 2026
To ban or not to ban, that is the question. Australia has lead the way with its ban on social media for under 16 year olds and opened minds to the detrimental impact of our poorly regulated digital society. Where the digital corporatocracy governs for commercial gain, through engineered distraction without boundaries, I believe they […]
January 28, 2026
Light-headed and sleep-deprived, sitting in Hong Kong (China) en-route to Osaka with three hours to kill, I found myself people-watching rather than sleeping. Around me was a familiar modern tableau, executives clutching the latest smartphones, a few stubborn laptops still in evidence, all of us quietly tethered to our digital lives. A question surfaced that […]
January 19, 2026
After years sitting with business leaders discussing cyber risk and supporting boards through the rollercoaster of incident responses, you start to notice patterns. Not technical ones human ones, that our minds quietly work against us, making cyber risk is as much about engineering around that as it is the technology and controls. Many of you […]
January 16, 2026
I am starting to believe that ‘Sovereignty’ is becoming one of the most misused words in modern technology discourse. As digital infrastructure becomes geopolitical, vendors increasingly promise Sovereignty as a Service. The phrase is reassuring and often wrong. Let me start by providing some clarity, we need a clean and simple taxonomy. In the absence […]
January 3, 2026
In yesterdays Financial Times interview, AI pioneer Yann LeCun made waves by declaring that current large language models (LLMs) are a ‘dead end’ for achieving true machine intelligence, what he terms Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) rather than mere generative pattern completion. While LLMs like ChatGPT and META’s Llama have transformed search, writing and creative tooling, […]
January 2, 2026
As 2026 opens, many organisations will review their progress on culture, risk and resilience. Cyber security often appears in these discussions as a defined topic, important, well-documented and supported by policy. Yet experience continues to show, backed up by a long list of failures in 2025 by flagship organisations who should know better, that cyber […]
January 1, 2026
HAPPY NEW YEAR … The papers are full of the usual headline grabbing alarmism in the annual post mortem roll-up of opinions on the economy amongst other themes. For me areas of the social balance sheet that are being ignored include where Britons may be getting poorer include Privacy, Democracy and Justice. For the purposes […]
December 9, 2025
An interesting question concerning the trustworthiness of technology, or perhaps more accurately those who control it, was raised out of my last missive, ‘Is Trust The Strategic Asset Democracy is Neglecting?’ that got me thinking. To start with let me lay that thinking out so you get the context, I am postulating that the defining […]
December 7, 2025
Following on the trust theme from my last missive – ‘How to Build a Dystopia – Start by Phoning HMRC About Your Neighbour’s‘, reflecting on modern democracies I perceive they are entering a period of structural stress. The issues are familiar, polarisation, disinformation, economic insecurity, failing services, collapsing faith in institutions, politicians putting party and […]
December 6, 2025
Once upon a time (or so we tell ourselves), reporting a suspicious neighbour to His Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC) was pitched as some kind of civic virtue, help us catch tax dodgers, protect public coffers. On paper, a noble cause. In practice? The first step on a rickety road that leads straight into Orwell-land, […]
November 29, 2025
It was one of those moments when you do one of those internal sanity checks. A discussion which should have been a stimulating debate on ‘diversity’ turned into a mind warp, 15mins into what become a fractious exchange of views on terminology and ‘sensitivities’ I exited stage left. Well done, modern society. Truly, bravo. We […]
March 14, 2026
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