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An airplane from Emirates standing still in an airport

HAS ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE REACHED GATWICK?

While a flight-processing failure left thousands of passengers stranded, AI claimed a 90-year-old maths breakthrough and was given a 10% chance of causing human extinction. Vânia La Rocca brings these events together to examine the gulf between frontier claims and everyday technology.
Vania La Rocca 26 Sep 2026
A street in Oxford is packed with a crowd of hundreds of people celebrating May Day.

AI MEETS UI: HOW HUMANITY CAN SUCCEED WITH TECHNOLOGY

As AI reshapes how we work, learn, decide and organise our lives, Nigel Nicholson asks whether technology will diminish what makes us human, or help us construct new environments in which our unique individuality can flourish.
Nigel Nicholson 19 Aug 2026

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