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In the world of artificial intelligence and science, MIT Technology Review is making a pointed argument: large language models are impressive, but real scientific progress demands reasoning, not just pattern recognition across vast datasets. The piece pushes back against the idea that more data alone will unlock the next era of discovery, and it is a timely caution as labs race to deploy AI across research disciplines.
Shifting to infrastructure, Britain's datacenter landscape is undergoing a quiet but meaningful transformation. London still claims nearly forty percent of facilities and roughly two-thirds of colocation capacity across a national estate of five hundred fifty five server farms totaling about one point six gigawatts of IT capacity, but regional development is accelerating, suggesting the concentration that has defined British computing for decades may finally be loosening.
And in cryptocurrency, the exchange Bybit has taken the unusual step of suing North Korea in court over February's one and a half billion dollar hack attributed to the Lazarus Group. A judge granted an asset freeze order, though the exchange has so far recovered only around forty eight million dollars, a sobering reminder of how difficult it is to claw back funds from a state-sponsored adversary.
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