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Argues the Royal Navy should treat the Hybrid Navy as an ecosystem-wide technology transformation, building a maritime operating system rather than only acquiring new ships, and learning from other successful large-scale tech change programmes.
Warns that future wars dominated by AI and robotics will advantage the power that can integrate those technologies at scale; identifies China today as best placed to mass-produce such machine-centric military capabilities.
A random sample of 10,000 webpages from July 2026 finds about 10% show signs of being written or substantially edited by AI, indicating notable AI-generated presence across the observable web.
Around half of Americans now say they feel more concerned than excited about artificial intelligence, with worry rising particularly among young adults, who report increasing anxiety that AI could cost jobs and harm prospects.
An academic argues most university AI strategies focus at the institutional level—principles, goals and generic literacy—suggesting that current HEI approaches have the wrong emphasis and need rethinking.
Explains the sampling approach using Common Crawl web-archive data—monthly ‘crawls’ of the observable internet—to estimate prevalence of AI-authored content and underpin the study’s webpage sample and analysis.
The Fabian Society examines the dominance of US technology firms across email, social media, payments and workplace software, arguing the ubiquity of US tech has concentrated control over many aspects of daily digital life.
Considers whether private companies should be given limited legal authorisation to take offensive measures against organised cybercriminals as attacks threaten national security and social order, weighing operational, legal and statecraft implications.
HEPI is hosting party‑conference events examining how a proposed social media ban could affect higher education, with sessions at Labour in Liverpool (28 Sept) and Conservative in Birmingham (5 Oct).
Argues that social and cognitive sciences are essential to understanding escalation in offensive cyber operations, urging policymakers and practitioners to integrate ‘soft’ science insights into cyber strategy and operational analysis.
Chart of the week reviews how not-entirely-serious and unusually prominent candidates have performed in recent UK by-elections, alongside commentary on AI developments and a note on persistently ‘sticky’ prices in the economy.
Pew sets out current internal guidelines for using artificial intelligence, describing permitted applications, areas for experimentation and limits on AI’s role in research processes and output generation.