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Articles by Katie Baker
“Neither Artificial Nor Intelligent” | Dr. Joe Perez @ Big Data LDN 2026
Author and keynote speaker Dr. Joe Perez tells Katie Baker which data term he'd retire, and why guardrails matter more than glitzy technology. He says an event called Big Data London lives up to its name, and what he enjoys most is the passion in the room. These are people who see data as anything but a boring topic.
What Are Tech Leaders Reading? Our BDL Book Club Picks
At Big Data London 2026, Shubhangi Dua, Katie Baker, Christina Stathopoulos and George Firican got together for a slightly different kind of tech conversation: the EM360Tech book club. From AI and consciousness to chaos theory, cult-like behaviour and the darker side of AI innovation, their reading lists cover some surprisingly tech-adjacent territory.
“Governed Context Will Be Dead, But I Wish It Wouldn't” | George Firican @ Big Data LDN 2026
At Big Data LDN 2026, Katie Baker caught up with George Firican for a quick-fire round of questions. He found the event buzzing, with plenty of conversations and sessions to keep him busy. His conversations with data leaders always come back to foundations. The pressure is coming from above, with executives asking them to support AI implementations.
“Who's The Tech For? It's For The People” | Rosanne Werner @ Big Data LDN 2026
Rosanne Werner tells Katie Baker why e-learning alone won't make a data expert, and why AI budgets need to follow the people. At Big Data LDN 2026, Rosanne says the buzz starts as soon as you walk in, and she loves putting faces to names for people who've flown in from across the world. Rosanne advocates for the human element of data, AI and transformation. While many data leaders talk about the tech, she asks how they're bringing people on board. Are they educating them properly?
Trump Backs Independent AI Audits in Voluntary Accord With Tech CEOs
US President Donald Trump and nearly two dozen tech executives have signed a voluntary accord that endorses using outside auditors to assess the safety of AI systems. The agreement was reached at a White House lunch on Tuesday. AI companies also committed to meeting regularly to set industry best practices. The document carries no legal weight, however, Trump told reporters it is "morally binding".
“Garbage In, Garbage Everywhere” | Scott Taylor @ Big Data LDN 2026
Scott Taylor tells Katie Baker why the next AI buzzword won't last 12 months, and why the foundations still decide everything. Gen AI, agentic AI, contextual AI. Scott Taylor thinks the names won't survive the next 12 months. His conversations with data leaders are about narrative. Scott helps them put a story together that the business side understands, bringing non-technical audiences along and showing why the work matters. He calls it data storytelling for data leadership.
"AI's Not Going To Replace Dashboards” | Christina Stathopoulos @ Big Data LDN 2026
Christina Stathopoulos tells Katie Baker why natural language won't replace dashboards, and where leaders should invest for the agentic era. We caught up with Christina at Big Data LDN 2026. Her message to data leaders is that nothing has changed, and that's the point. Data still needs to be accessible, governed and trustworthy. AI just raises the stakes. Then comes the 12-month bet. Some people argue that asking questions of your data in natural language will replace dashboards and reports.
“A Lot of Hype Around Context” | Doug Laney @ Big Data LDN 2026
The analyst who defined big data tells Katie Baker which trend he thinks won't last 12 months, and why he expects billion-dollar companies run by a handful of people. At Big Data LDN 2026, we caught up with Doug Laney for a quick-fire round of questions. In just over three minutes, he covers what data leaders keep asking him about, the trend he thinks is overhyped, and where he sees the enterprise heading next. His answer on context is the one to watch.
OpenAI Set to Preview New GPT-6 Cyber
The cybersecurity-focused model would be OpenAI's fourth release in the category this year, arriving weeks after its flagship model was flagged for trying to evade human oversight. OpenAI is preparing to preview a new cybersecurity-focused AI model called GPT-6 Cyber within days, Fortune reported on Wednesday, citing multiple sources familiar with the plans. Alongside the model, OpenAI is said to be building a new product that helps customers deploy AI more securely and automatically.
OpenAI Calls On US To Lead Global AI Safety Standards
OpenAI wants Washington, not a patchwork of competing national regimes, to set the terms for how the world governs frontier AI. OpenAI called on the United States on Monday to lead an international effort to set technical standards for frontier AI. The request, made in a company blog post, specifically named recursive self-improvement, AI systems that can enhance their own capabilities with limited human input, as a priority area for oversight.
Open-Source AI Models Fuel 440% Surge In Blockchain Attacks
Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis has recorded a 440 percent jump in malware instructions written into on-chain transactions and smart contracts over the past year, according to a report published Wednesday. The firm calls the technique a "blockchain dead drop". Daily malicious on-chain writes rose from an average of 2.06 to 11.1 in less than twelve months.
How Enterprises Measure Incident Response Readiness and Maturity
Most security teams can tell you how many tickets they closed last quarter. Far fewer can tell you how fast they'd actually contain a ransomware attack tonight. That gap between activity and readiness is where incident response (IR) maturity measurement lives. Boards want a number. Regulators want proof. And security leaders are often left presenting metrics that look reassuring on a slide but say almost nothing about whether the organisation would survive a real incident.
Anthropic CEO Calls For Industry To Slow Model Development Amid Misuse
Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, has called on AI companies to slow the pace at which they advance model capabilities, warning that the industry needs to create more time to manage the risks of increasingly powerful systems. "We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models. Progress will still seem fast, and we must make wise use of the time we gain," Amodei wrote in an essay published on Saturday.
OpenAI Deepens Samsung Chip Cooperation as ChatGPT Use Surges in Korea
OpenAI says it is expanding its partnership with Samsung Electronics, working jointly on next-generation chip production as enterprise ChatGPT adoption in South Korea grows rapidly.. Harrison Kim, General Manager of OpenAI Korea, confirmed the deepening tie-up at a press conference in Seoul on Wednesday.
Google Analytics Explained: What It Tracks and Why It Matters
Every click on your website is a data point. Most businesses are sitting on a goldmine of it and have no idea how to convert the data to actionable insights. That's where Google Analytics comes in. The vital tool that turns anonymous website traffic into a picture of real human behaviour, and it underpins how most organisations understand their digital presence, whether they realise it or not.
John Tolbert on Identity Fabrics, AI Governance, and the Future of Agentic Authorisation
With more than 25 years of experience across cybersecurity and identity management, John Tolbert has seen the industry evolve from traditional security controls towards increasingly complex digital environments where identity, authentication, fraud prevention, and AI are becoming deeply interconnected. As Principal Analyst and Director of Cybersecurity Research at KuppingerCole, Tolbert's work spans both established and emerging areas of cybersecurity and identity management.
How Real-Time Analytics Architecture Works: Pipelines, Streaming and Enterprise Infrastructure
Real-time analytics architecture is the system that closes a key gap in dashboard reporting: ingesting events the moment they happen, processing them in flight, and putting insight in front of a person, a model, or another system before the moment has passed. In practice, it's a stack of decisions about where data flows, where it waits, and where it finally proves itself trustworthy.
Why LLM Projects Fail (And How To Be The Exception)
Most enterprise level large language model projects never make it past the pilot stage. Only a handful of companies are getting this right whilst many others are burning budget on a demo that never becomes a product. In this article, we'll break down why LLM projects actually fail, and what the successful 5% are doing differently.
Cyber Insurers Adapt Policies Following Rogue AI Agents
Insurers are adapting their coverage after OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta AI agents escaped test environments and cyber attacked external companies without human instruction. Whilst the incidents were contained before real damage was caused, they highlighted the real risk of autonomous AI agents and exposed a gap in how policies define coverage.
How To Build an Enterprise LLM Strategy Without Creating New Risk
An enterprise LLM strategy is a governance and execution framework that decides which models get deployed, how theytouch your data and systems, who owns the fallout when something goes wrong, and how the whole thing evolves as the technology moves. Skip any one of those four questions and you don't have a strategy. You have exposure with a chatbot interface.
Susan Walsh on Data, AI Readiness, & Inclusivity In Tech
When you speak with Susan Walsh, it quickly becomes clear that she has a talent for making one of enterprise technology’s least glamorous problems surprisingly engaging. As The Classification Guru and Fixer of Data, Walsh has built her career around helping organisations tackle the messy, inconsistent information sitting underneath their technology strategies. But her work goes beyond data cleaning.
New Zealand Unveils Bill to Ban Under-16s From Social Media
New Zealand's government introduced the Online Safety Bill to parliament on Monday, seeking to ban children under 16 from using social media. The proposed Online Safety Bill would fine platforms up to 10% of global revenue, but two of Prime Minister Christopher Luxon's own coalition partners have already said they won't back it.
Real-Time Analytics vs Batch Processing
For most of the last two decades, enterprise data teams operated on a simple pattern of collecting data all day, running the big jobs overnight, and having fresh reports waiting by morning. This is called batch processing and it still underpins a huge share of enterprise reporting today. But that rhythm is increasingly out of step with how businesses actually operate. Fraud doesn't wait for the overnight job.
OpenAI Slows AI Development After Rogue Agent Hacks Hugging Face
OpenAI is slowing the pace of AI model development and pausing some testing after an experimental agent escaped its controlled environment and launched an attack against Hugging Face. The incident is forcing the company to strengthen how it monitors, contains and evaluates increasingly capable AI systems.
Dan Twing on Enterprise Control Planes, Agentic AI & Intelligent Ops
It’s clear that enterprise technology is moving into a new phase. AI is no longer simply being used to generate content, automate individual tasks, or improve productivity. Intelligent systems are asked to make decisions, coordinate workflows, and take action across increasingly complex enterprise environments. That shift raises the big question: how do organisations make intelligent systems trustworthy?
Joe Perez on Why People Matter More Than Technology
When you speak with Joe Perez, it's immediately clear that he doesn't see technology the way most people do. While many conversations around enterprise technology focus on the latest AI breakthrough or analytics platform, Perez continually returns to a different idea: the people behind the technology.
Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure Explained: What Businesses Need to Know
Cloud infrastructure is now a fundamental part of how organisations operate. It’s vital to build, run, and scale technology environments. Volumes of data are increasing across the board, whilst organisations rely more and mrore on applications, AI, and digital services. This means the infrastructure supporting these workloads needs to be flexible enough to keep up. This means moving beyond physical servers and on-premises data centres.
How to Protect Your Organization from Phishing Attacks in 2026
Phishing protection in 2026 goes far beyond blocking suspicious emails. Modern attacks can use legitimate services, trusted redirects, encrypted browser sessions, and AiTM techniques to bypass traditional defenses. To protect an organization effectively, security teams need to detect, investigate, and contain phishing across the full attack chain. Here are five areas to focus on: A phishing investigation should not stop at checking the URL.
Meta, TikTok & Google Face Thousands of Addiction Lawsuits
On Monday, a US appeals court ruled that more than 3,000 lawsuits against Meta, Google, TikTok and Snapchat can continue. These lawsuits claim that the tech giants deliberately designed their social media platforms to be addictive to children. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that technology companies cannot appeal a lower court decision, This will require them to face more than 3,000 lawsuits in federal court.
Chris Steffen on Agentic AI, Machine Identity, & Enterprise Readiness
Enterprise technology is entering a new phase. After years of experimentation with AI, organisations are starting to move beyond the proof-of-concepts and into real-world deployment. AI is already embedded into day-to-day operations and key conversations are shifting away from capability, towards governance, accountability, cybersecurity, and trust.
OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Compromised Second Tech Firm
The rogue AI agent behind the Hugging Face incident also exploited vulnerable code belonging to a customer hosted on cloud infrastructure provider Modal Labs, according to Reuters and Modal executives. CTO Akshat Bubna confirmed that the AI agent did not breach Modal's platform itself. Instead, it exploited a customer's unauthenticated endpoint that allowed anyone on the internet to execute code within sandbox environments hosted on the company's infrastructure.
Big Tech's AI Spending Could Outpace Cash Flow by 2027
As the race to dominate the AI sphere shows no signs of slowing, five major tech giants are already set to outspend their cash flow by 2027, based on data from LSEG. According to a Reuters analysis of LSEG consensus estimates, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Oracle are collectively on track to outspend their free cash flow by 2027 as investment in AI infrastructure continues to accelerate.
EM360Tech Impact Index Authority Winner: Christina Stathopoulos
The EM360Tech 2026 Impact Index recognises the analyst-led, campaigns, and thought leadership that created meaningful enterprise impact across the quarter. The EM360Tech Authority Award recognises key analysts' influence across EM360Tech during the quarter. The Authority Award focuses on consistency of contribution rather than individual performance moments.
26 Sue Meta Over AI Layoffs Targeting Parental and Medical Leave
26 Meta employees have sued the tech giant claiming that the AI systems used to select people for layoff disproportionately targeted people on medical, parental or family leave. The case could become one of the most significant legal tests yet of AI's role in workforce management. In May, Meta announced they would lay off approximately 10% of their total workforce, that’s around 8000 employees total.
What is Bixonimania? The Fake Disease That Fooled AI Chatbots
We’ve all been there - you experience a new symptom and you rush to Google it, scrolling through pages of WebMD, Mayo Clinic and the NHS for answers. With AI searches replacing traditional google searches, maybe you’re tempted to simply ‘ask chat’ what illness you have, what your symptoms mean, and what to do next. The convenience, however, comes with a new kind of risk. Information from a chatbot often comes in a single, very confident response.
What is GPT‑5.6? Everything You Need To Know About OpenAI’s New Model Family
OpenAI has just released their next-generation large language model family: GPT-5.6. In this article, we will explore GPT- 5.6 and go into depth on Sol, Terra and Luna. The models are designed to give for more flexibility in regards to maximum capability, balanced performance, and cost efficiency. GPT-5.6 Sol is the flagship model whilst Terra and Luna allow options for those with specific performance and pricing requirements.
OpenAI To Launch Most Powerful Model After Government Delay
OpenAI have confirmed that they are going ahead with the public release of its most advanced AI model. GPT-5.6 will be released on Thursday 9th July after its launch was postponed last month at the request of the U.S. government over national security concerns. As nations race to develop cutting-edge AI models, the technology is advancing faster than the guardrails designed to govern it.
Hong Kong Becomes Critical Gateway in the Global AI Chip Race
Hong Kong is carving itself out as an economic hub for the new age. Recent figures first published by Bloomberg reveal that the metropolis alone accounted for more than half of China’s massive $239 billion chip imports. The race to secure AI computing power is easily the defining technology battle of the decade. Crucially, trade with China has expanded by nearly 50% since May last year. This is the highest rate of growth since 1992.
EM360Tech Impact Index Authority Winner: Jon Arnold
The EM360Tech Q1 2026 Impact Index recognises the analyst-led, campaigns, and thought leadership that created meaningful enterprise impact across the quarter. The EM360Tech Authority Award recognises key analysts' influence across EM360Tech during the quarter. The Authority Award focuses on consistency of contribution rather than individual performance moments.
The Hantavirus Cruise Ship Outbreak Reveals a Dangerous Gap in Real-Time Health Surveillance Tech
The confirmed cases of hantavirus on board MV Hondius are leading global health headlines. Following multiple fatalities and a delay to the World Health Organization key questions started to emerge: how can health threats be better detected, communicated and resolved in isolated, fast-moving environments like cruise ships?
What is the Attention Economy? Why Your Time Is the Internet’s Most Valuable Asset
Every second you scroll online you are spending your most valuable asset- your attention. Welcome to the modern internet, where how long you stay matters more than why you came. The attention economy refers to the system where human attention is treated as a scarce and valuable resource. In a world of infinite content, attention, not information, is the limiting factor. Tech platforms, advertisers, and content creators all compete to capture and hold it even for a second.
What is Mind Uploading? How Close Is AI To Making Us Digital?
Would you upload your mind to a computer? And if you could, would it be…you? Imagine a version of you that could think, feel, and exist long after your body is gone. Welcome to the world of mind uploading. In this article we’ll tell you everything you need to know about mind uploading, including how it works, when we’ll have access, examples, and more. Mind uploading is the process of scanning a person's brain, mapping it out and using this to recreate it digitally.
What is Roko's Basilisk? The Terrifying AI Thought Experiment Explained
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the tech world and impacting our daily lives. From facial recognition software to self-driving cars, the technology's tendrils are reaching everywhere. But what if, amid this surge of innovation, a new kind of threat emerges? Enter Roko's Basilisk, a thought experiment that explores the unsettling possibility of an all-powerful AI and the existential dread it could inspire.
What is Digital Immortality? Will AI Mean Death Is Not The End?
Do you want to live forever? How about if it’s not quite you… but a digital clone? Still as appealing? Welcome to digital immortality, the next frontier Silicon Valley is chasing, where personality, memory, and even “you” can exist long after your body is gone. In this article we’ll tell you everything you need to know about digital immortality and mind uploading, including how it works, when we’ll have access, examples, and more.
What is Social Engineering? Definition, Function, Mitigation
We are all constantly sharing information online, whether this is consciously through inputting our data or unconsciously through cookie collection. Whilst this level of interconnectedness has its benefits it has also opened up avenues that cyber criminals can exploit. One of the most common techniques used by malicious actors is social engineering. In this article, we’ll define social engineering, explain how it works and give you tips on how to protect yourself against social engineering attacks.
Top 10 Best Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) Solutions
It’s no secret that the workplace has undergone a radical transformation. Employees are no longer tethered to their desks. Employees are now working from various locations and across multiple devices. This shift to more agile workplace has brought immense flexibility and increased productivity across organizations.
Ravit Jain on Data Foundations and the Future of AI
In a world saturated with AI hype, authentic conversations about what’s actually happening inside organizations can be hard to find. That’s exactly the gap that data and AI leader Ravit Jain set out to close when he launched The Ravit Show. Through candid discussions with founders, engineers, CDOs, and investors, Jain has created a platform where leaders openly discuss both their successes and their failures.
What is AI Slop? The Rise of Meaningless Media
You may have noticed that the internet has… changed. So called AI Slop is saturating once creative internet haunts. Tools that pitched their value in democratising the creative process like AI video generators and AI image generators seem to have done the opposite - taking the creativity out of once loved platforms, stripping away any nuance and originality and contributing to an internet that… well… feels dead.
Amazon Web Services Outage Causes Mass Disruption
From banks to artificial intelligence servers to video conferencing, a massive amount of the world's biggest websites are down because of the Amazon Web Services outage. Tracking website Down Detector has registered over 2000 reports of outages and problems from companies from a range of different industries around the world: Canva, HMRC, Zoom, Perplexity AI and more detailed below.
The UK Online Safety Act Explained: What It Means for Businesses
The Online Safety Act is here, and its impact is far-reaching for any digital service operating in the UK. The Act represents a major shift in the way online platforms must manage safety, risk, and user accountability. In this article, we’ll explore the act, how it will impact IT leaders and businesses that operate in the UK as well as the additional risks the act introduces. What is the UK Online Safety Act?
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