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AI & Technology explores the tools, trends and emerging ideas changing how startups are built and operated. The blog covers artificial intelligence, automation, software, cybersecurity, digital products and technology strategy. It looks at practical ways founders can use AI for research, marketing, customer support, operations and product development, while also examining the limitations, risks and occasional mountain of hype.

You will find useful tool reviews, explainers and perspectives designed for both technical and non-technical founders. Whether you are developing new technology or simply want your business to work more efficiently, this blog will help you make smarter technology decisions.

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AI Safety

AI Is Eating Itself and Choking on the Output

AI is getting worse, not better. 74% of new web content is AI-generated. Models are training on their own output, causing model collapse. Chatbots are hallucinating medical information in 82% of test cases. And the industry is spending $200 billion pretending none of this is happening. I use AI every day. Let me get that out of the way before anyone accuses me of being a luddite. I use Claude for research. I've used ChatGPT for brainstorming. I've watched founders in our Startup Networks communi
Aviation Innovation

Ampaire Raises £14m for Hybrid-Electric Aircraft, and Its ‘Boring’ Retrofit Strategy Might Be the Smartest Bit

Hybrid-electric aviation startup Ampaire has raised £14 million in Series B funding to commercialise and manufacture technology that can cut the fuel burned by existing aircraft, with International Airlines Group, the owner of British Airways, investing alongside Alaska Airlines, DiamondStream Partners and other backers. The really interesting bit though isn't another futuristic electric aircraft.... Ampaire wants to retrofit planes that are already flying. And I actually think that's the smarte
AI Safety

ChatGPT for Teens Is Here. The Question Isn't Whether Kids Should Use AI Anymore

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT for Teens, a version of ChatGPT specifically designed for 13 to 17-year-olds with stronger restrictions around self-harm, sexual and romantic conversations, dangerous behaviour and unhealthy body-image content, alongside parental controls, Quiet Hours and learning tools designed to help teenagers understand schoolwork rather than just spit out the answer. If OpenAI's systems believe an account belongs to someone under 18, they can automatically put that user into the
Innovation

Sagtec Just Landed a $3m Order for 1,500 AI Food-Serving Robots, and the Robot Isn't Even the Most Interesting Bit

Sagtec Global Limited (NASDAQ: SAGT) officially launched its HALO AI food-serving robot today and, basically immediately... announced a $3 million purchase order for 1,500 units from SMD Tech, its exclusive Dubai-based distributor. The robots are intended for deployment across the Middle East and Gulf region, meaning HALO hasn't launched with a tiny restaurant trial or a handful of test units... it's launched with a proper commercial order attached to it! That's quite a launch day. I saw the hea
Climate Tech

Your Flight's Vapour Trail Is Doing More Climate Damage Than Its Engine, and Britain Just Bet £5m on an AI That Can Stop It

Your Flight's Vapour Trail Is Doing More Climate Damage Than Its Engine, and Britain Just Bet £5m on an AI That Can Stop It Next time you're on a plane and someone points at the window at that thin white line trailing behind another aircraft, here's the thing almost nobody knows. That streak is doing more damage to the climate than the fuel burning in the engine that made it. Not equal damage. More. Contrails, the wispy clouds jets leave behind, are estimated to account for a bigger share of avi
Climate Tech

The World Is Burning. Climate Tech Founders, We Need You. Now!

On the 14th of August, every phone in England and Wales screamed. The UK government issued its first ever real emergency alert for wildfires. 19 homes destroyed in Stourbridge. Record drought across three quarters of England. More wildfires already in 2026 than the entirety of 2025. And we're only halfway through August. My phone SHOUTED at me on Friday. That sound was horrific... The one they tested in 2023 and everyone joked about. Nobody was joking last night. I read it, looked out the windo
AI Tools

Google Launches Gemini 3.7 Flash for Business Automation and Coding. Here's What Founders Need to Know.

Google launched Gemini 3.7 Flash today, its latest AI model designed specifically for software coding and automated business workflows. The release landed quietly alongside the louder Anthropic IPO news, but for founders actually building products, this one matters more. What Gemini 3.7 Flash Actually Is Gemini 3.7 Flash is Google's newest model in the Flash family, optimised for speed, cost-efficiency, and agent-based task execution. Think of it as the workhorse model rather than the flagship.

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