• From super scooters to smarter meters: six firms to watch in 2023

    Times are tough for businesses old and new, but the pace of change in many sectors this year will be relentlessThe upheavals of recent years have posed huge challenges for established companies, but for others rapid change can mean big opportunities. Entrepreneurs are breaking ground in important new areas, from artificial intelligence to biotechnology and super-smart energy meters. Here, we look at six companies making the most of the moment. Continue reading...
  • AI-assisted plagiarism? ChatGPT bot says it has an answer for that

    Silicon Valley firm insists its new text generator, which writes human-sounding essays, can overcome fears over cheating‘A confident bullshitter that can write very convincing nonsense’: not a takedown of an annoying student or a former British prime minister, but a description of an artificial intelligence writing programme that is causing headaches for its makers.With fears in academia growing about a new AI chatbot that can write convincing essays – even if some facts it use