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Roehampton University in London is paying students two thousand pounds a year to compete in esports alongside their regular studies. The scheme treats competitive gaming as a legitimate co-curricular pursuit, recognising that skills like teamwork, reaction time, and strategic thinking have real-world value beyond the screen.
Shifting to the enterprise world, a growing number of analysts are pointing out a fundamental flaw in how companies are building AI systems. Most enterprise AI treats knowledge as application-specific context, meaning every tool pulls from its own isolated data pipeline. The argument is that until organisations treat their knowledge as a shared asset rather than a patchwork of retrieval systems, AI agents will only ever be as reliable as the messiest document in the stack.
And on that same theme, Cloudflare has open-sourced what it calls Cloudflare OS, a corporate AI platform built around what it describes as a capability-based model. The idea is to let enterprise teams automate workflows, build customisable work software, and ground AI outputs in verified company knowledge, all within a secure sandboxed environment that keeps costs and risks in check.
Three stories, one throughline: technology is only as good as the foundations we build it on. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
