All articles by Lara Williams
Lara Williams
Lara Williams is managing editor of Verdict technology. An experienced writer, Lara previously worked as deputy editor of the Financial Times’s fDi Magazine. Lara has a background in technology journalism writing for the UK’s Computing magazine and has spent almost a decade living in Silicon Valley.
UK Legal Aid hack highlights wider lack of national cybersecurity resilience
The UK’s public sector has serious cybersecurity vulnerabilities, say experts. And a lack of national cyber resilience may impact the private sector.
Agentic AI enterprise adoption: balancing reward against risk
Agentic AI can transform workflows to improve enterprise efficiency and decision-making. But deployment is not without risk.
Starmer steers clear of trading Big Tech digital tax breaks for favourable tariffs
Tax breaks for Big Tech in return for a favourable tariff regime across all sectors would essentially put the UK’s digital sovereignty up for sale.
Interview: Databricks UK&I managing director on why your AI transformation is only as good as your data
Databricks UK&I country manager, Michael Green, shares his view on why successful AI transformation can only happen with a good data strategy in place.
Opinion: What is coopetition? The AI space race is not a zero-sum game
Jennifer Belissent, principal data strategist at cloud data platform Snowflake, shares her view that an open source approach to AI is key to data sovereignty.
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Can the Candy Crush King’s Corpora.ai put British AI on the map?
Mel Morris CBE is CEO and co-founder of Corpora.ai, a mature British AI startup making an ambitious play to transform the market for quality and in-depth AI generated reports.
What’s next for Yahoo?
Yahoo UK country manager Steve Mchenry’s 12 year tenure at the company ends in August when he joins Sky Media. Mchenry reflects on his time at the company and what’s next for Yahoo.
Opinion: Don’t bet against climate tech despite tariff chaos and ESG backlash
Gregory Dewerpe, founder and managing partner of Europe’s largest built world venture capital fund, noa, believes that climate tech pragmatism will overcome Trump chaos and waning enthusiasm for ESG policies.
Five things Pope Francis said about AI
As mourning begins for Pope Francis, who died on Easter Monday, the world is reminded of the papacy’s impact on the cultural and political conversation, more recently its view on AI.
How can businesses solve the AI engineering talent gap?
The global AI arms race is leading to a parallel arms race for top AI engineering talent. Is the search for skills a zero sum game or can businesses deploy mitigating strategies?