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UK creative freelancers score a pause in AI arms race as OpenAI Freezes Stargate Project
OPINION
OpenAI’s UK Stargate project hits a wall as energy costs and copyright concerns stall the 8,000-GPU plan. Discover why this delay is a major win for creative freelancers and a stand for national intellectual property rights
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Stolen phone while travelling? 2026 digital emergency kit & recovery guide
Our mobile phones and SIM cards pretty much hold our digital worlds so what on earth do you do if your mobile phone gets lost or stolen?
If your phone is stolen while travelling in 2026:
Immediately use a secondary device, such as a…
What is the UK’s £180m atomic timing network plan and the jobs that come with it?
The government has just committed serious money to an atomic timing network most people have never heard of. Here's why it matters to all of us and where the career opportunities are emerging.
What is the National Timing Centre and why…
The AI premium rate is real: Why AI Project Managers are Banking £1,100+ Day Rates
Ever wonder why AI project managers are banking so much more than everyone else? We look at the surging demand for Machine Learning project talent and what it actually takes to level up your skills and double your daily pay
If you’re a…
Wake up call for generalist IT contractors as big tech poaches energy’s tech elite for AI boom
The UK’s IT contractor market is witnessing a brutal divide: energy-tech experts are naming their price, while generalists face a “ruthless” new reality
For years, the bottleneck for Artificial Intelligence was chips; today, it is the…
Is the ‘fractional’ economy the only safe harbour after a Big Tech layoff?
Tech titans’ whims of fancy are killing jobs and careers. If you're made redundant, should you retrain, change industries or do something else?
OPINION
The rules of redundancy are changing. Recessions, poor personal performance,…
Technical glitch? Master this offline backup plan
Don't rely solely on the cloud. Learn the offline backup strategies every digital freelancer needs, both new and old school, to protect your contacts, invoices, and work from AWS outages, viruses, or power cuts
Just this morning,…
US giants promise jobs and capital, but at what cost?
As the old saying goes, beggars can't be choosers. Hence why the UK government is hailing a fresh wave of US investment, with financial giants including Citi Group, Bank of America, and PayPal committing over £1.25 billion. We take a…
Did Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong’s AI mandate open Pandora’s box?
When Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong went “rogue” and gave engineers at the crypto trading platform an ultimatum to use AI to write code or lose their jobs, he may have set a precedent for other CEOs. But in the process, he may have just let…
AI F*ups: Freelancers find new income stream fixing machine-made mistakes. But how long will it…
Companies turn to human workers to polish AI-generated content across multiple industries
The same companies that laid off human workers in favour of AI are now hiring freelancers to fix what their algorithms got wrong, according to a…