Year: 2026

New Appointments to the Advisory Council The National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA) has welcomed five distinguished individuals to its Expert Advisory Council (EAC) as part of its initiative to enhance the UK’s economic and social infrastructure and housing transformation programme. This strategic move aims to bolster the authority's capacity in implementing the government's ambitious plans. These appointments include a diverse group of specialists from various sectors, including infrastructure delivery, finance, energy, and service transformation. They join Julia Prescot CBE, who has served as the Chair since February 2026. Together, this team is poised to provide invaluable guidance and expert insights that will inform NISTA's strategic efforts. Expertise to...

Meta Introduces Muse: A Personal AI Agent Meta has unveiled Muse, a personal AI agent designed to facilitate digital task automation for users within a secure cloud environment. The company emphasises that security and privacy are "built in from the ground up." Muse is now available for download on iOS and Android through an official app, as well as via the website Muse.ai. Users can also interact with Muse directly through WhatsApp, and Meta anticipates that users of its smart glasses will soon be able to engage with the agent as well. While Muse can be tested free of charge, those interested in automating a wider array of digital tasks will need to subscribe to one of Meta’s AI subscription plans. A New Player in the AI Landscape Muse represents Meta's latest effort to enter the competit...

An ambitious startup has spent over seven years quietly reimagining computer memory architecture. Now emerging from stealth mode, it believes that its novel approach could help mitigate the global memory chip shortage, provided it can successfully scale production of its technology. Kepler Computing, a California-based startup founded in 2018 by a team of physicists and computer scientists, claims to have developed a new architecture for high-bandwidth memory (HBM). This innovation purportedly addresses some of the bottlenecks in chip supply that have been constraining the computing market. While chip manufacturers typically rely on the expensive extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography to reduce transistor sizes on chips, enabling greater technology integration within the same space, Kepler ...