Council Post: The Real Reason Your Business Is Burning Too Many Tokens

Kognitos Founder & CEO Binny Gill holds nearly 100 patents in computer science.

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​The biggest worry I hear from enterprise leaders right now is the cost of AI. Teams are consuming tokens faster than their budgets anticipated, and the value coming back rarely feels commensurate. The instinct is to blame the technology or wait for prices to fall. I believe the problem is older and more familiar. Forget technology for a moment and go back 100 years.​

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Streeting confirms annual £120m payments to Mauritius on hold while Chagos Islands deal is reviewed – UK politics live

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Streeting confirms annual £120m payments to Mauritius on hold while Chagos Islands deal being reviewed

The Conservatives have urged Andy Burnham to fully drop the proposed Chagos Islands deal – giving sovereignty of the islands to Mauritius in return for guaranteed control for the Diego Garcia military base for at least another 99 years – in the light of Donald Trump calling the deal “terrible” yesterday.

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Indian billionaire’s payments firm plots biggest London flotation in years

A payments business that operates across Africa and is ultimately controlled by an Indian billionaire has announced its intention to float on the struggling London Stock Exchange.

Airtel Money, the mobile money arm of Airtel Africa, is planning one of the biggest UK listings in years, in a boost for the shrinking London market that has faced a string of recent departures.

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UK warned over ballooning debt costs and slower growth ahead of Budget

The UK has been warned over ballooning debt costs and slower economic growth ahead of Chancellor John Healey's first Budget next month.

The UK was among countries facing downgraded growth forecasts in a report by the influential Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Wednesday.

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Mozilla is plastering New York with posters mocking tech billionaires as part of a new marketing campaign

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Council Post: Why AI Teams Should Never Treat Training Data As Evidence

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In Prometheus Rising, Robert Anton Wilson described people as living inside their own “reality tunnels.” In other words, we filter reality through attention, language, memory and prior beliefs. He also wrote that “the human mind is a verbalizing circuit.” Read today, that sounds unexpectedly close to one feature of a large language model (LLM): learned relationships between symbols can produce useful language outputs.

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How to watch Meta unveil its new smart glasses at Connect 2026 - Engadget

The company is expected to reveal its first-ever camera-free glasses.

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Two weeks after Apple's long-awaited iPhone Duo reveal, Meta is next in line to deliver some new tech at Connect 2026. The two-day event will run from September 23 to 24, during which the tech giant will unveil its "latest breakthroughs in AI technologies, AI glasses and VR." 

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Dark Souls 2 seamless co-op mod is out now in alpha form, paving the way for more boss battering with mates

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A boss battle in Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin.
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The latest FromSoft game multiplayer mod is here, with Dark Souls 2 seamless co-op finally out in the wild. Modder Yui, maker of similar and very popular mods for Elden Ring, Nightreign, and the original Dark Souls, has poured a year and a bit of work into their latest creation.

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Off sick? You need to phone your boss, back-to-work adviser says

People off sick from work should keep in phone contact with their boss, government-appointed back-to-work expert Sir Charlie Mayfield has said.

Getting bosses and workers to have a conversation, rather than simply exchanging emails and sicknotes, could help get people back into work, Sir Charlie, who is leading the Keep Britain Working taskforce, said.

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UK to review Chagos Islands deal over lack of US support, Streeting tells BBC

The UK is reviewing its deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, the defence secretary has said.

Wes Streeting confirmed the deal was being looked at again after US President Donald Trump called it "terrible" at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.

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