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.
Is Musk and Altman’s sparring over OpenAI a meaningless battle of egos or a bid to democratise AI?
Could Musk’s latest unpredictable move be a misguided effort to democratise AI or yet another bid for control.
How can tech companies navigate Trump’s China tariff hike?
Consumer electronics makers are particularly vulnerable to global trade fluctuations. Trump’s tariff hike on imported Chinese goods is likely to hit the market hard.
Microsoft and Google AI talent war signals wider skills dearth as AI job postings rise 61% in 2024
As Big Tech competes for top AI talent how can the wider tech industry address the shortage of specialised AI skills?
Opinion: Blocking CBDCs and making the US dollar great again in Trump 2.0
FNA director for central banks and financial market infrastructure, Carlos León, outlines how US President Trump will impact the global CBDC project.
Trump tariffs: Is Taiwan next? (and what does it mean for tech companies)
If US President Trump acts upon his promise of 100% tariffs on Taiwanese made chips, global semiconductor supply chain disruption is likely to ensue.
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Enterprise GenAI: Value vs hype?
Use case fit and demonstrable value are emerging as the new tenets of a technology that had promised the world.
Opinion: Lab49’s head of data on how DeepSeek will change US GenAI forever
Yiannis Antoniou, head of AI, data and analytics at financial technology consulting firm Lab49, shares his views on how the DeepSeek has shifted the US AI industry landscape.
Opinion: 2025 will bring a more strategic approach to GenAI deployments
Rena Bhattacharyya, chief analyst and practice lead for enterprise technology at GlobalData, shares her views on how the dynamic GenAI market will evolve in the months ahead.
Did China’s DeepSeek just burst the enterprise AI bubble?
The vast cost of building LLMs in the US is passed onto business users. Has DeepSeek just demonstrated that enterprise AI should be cheaper?
What is the Stargate project and why does it matter?
The $500bn private sector project to build AI infrastructure while creating up to 100,000 jobs signals President Trump’s strongest commitment yet to the US technology industry that helped to elect him.