Dan Milmo

5 days ago | theguardian.com | Dan Milmo |Michael Savage

They’re a Chinese cultural phenomenon which keeps millions of viewers glued to their phones, but the runaway success of “vertical dramas” is providing an unlikely source of employment for film and TV crews here in the UK. The bite-size melodramas have breathless titles such as A Flash Marriage with the Billionaire and My Firefighter ex-Husband Burns in Regret, and are chopped into one minute episodes for avid consumption on viewers’ vertically held smartphones.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Dan Milmo

Apple researchers have found “fundamental limitations” in cutting-edge artificial intelligence models, in a paper raising doubts about the technology industry’s race to develop ever more powerful systems. Apple claimed in a paper published at the weekend that large reasoning models (LRMs) – an advanced form of AI – faced a “complete accuracy collapse” when presented with highly complex problems.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Dan Milmo

Keir Starmer has said ministers should be able to “look every parent in the eye” and pledge that tech can create a “better future” for their children. The UK prime minister opened London Tech Week with a series of policy announcements on artificial intelligence, including a boost to AI infrastructure and a new AI tool to transform the planning system. Acknowledging a “social fear” around the impact of AI, Starmer said technology would benefit all of society.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Dan Milmo

Internet safety campaigners have urged the UK’s communications watchdog to limit the use of artificial intelligence in crucial risk assessments following a report that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta was planning to automate checks. Ofcom said it was “considering the concerns” raised by the letter following a report last month that up to 90% of all risk assessments at the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp would soon be carried out by AI.

3 weeks ago | sg.yahoo.com | Adam Gabbatt |Dan Milmo

Adam Gabbatt and Dan Milmo Fri, 6 Jun 2025, 4:56 pm 4 min read In this article: Musk and Trump in a Tesla on the South Portico of the White House in March.Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Donald Trump has accused Elon Musk of “losing his mind” as the dramatic breakdown between the US’s most powerful person and the world’s richest person escalated into a full-blown feud that could have seismic political and economic consequences.