Since March 2020, Airmic has been issuing Friday Reading, a curated series of readings and knowledge resources sent by email to Airmic members. The objective of Airmic Friday Reading was initially to keep members informed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, Airmic Friday Reading has evolved in scope to include content on a wide range of subjects with each email edition following a theme. This page is a searchable archive of all the readings and knowledge resources that have been shared.
Friday Reading Edition 238 (28th February 2025)
Nvidia's strong growth forecast for the first quarter on Wednesday signaled that booming demand for its artificial intelligence chips was intact, and the company said orders for its new Blackwell semiconductors were "amazing."
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Friday Reading Edition 238 (28th February 2025)
As artificial intelligence reshapes our world, the demand for advanced chips is skyrocketing. Tech giants are pouring billions into new semiconductor designs, while startups race to create specialised AI chips that could make artificial intelligence as accessible as a Google search.
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Friday Reading Edition 238 (28th February 2025)
The tech sector in 2024 was dominated by discussion of the artificial intelligence (AI) megatrend. But as the excitement around AI abates somewhat and the dust starts to settle, we expect to see a Jeremy Gleeson CIO Global Tech Equity range of other providers come to the fore in 2025.
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Friday Reading Edition 238 (28th February 2025)
As the world remains fixated on the intensifying war over AI chipsets — encompassing tariffs, intellectual property restrictions, supply chain sanctions, and geopolitical battles — a critical aspect of AI's future is quietly slipping under the radar: the increasing scarcity of data available for these powerful chipsets to process.
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What is an AI chip? Text
Friday Reading Edition 238 (28th February 2025)
Unlike other kinds of chips, AI chips are often built specifically to handle AI tasks, such as machine learning (ML), data analysis and natural language processing (NLP).
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Friday Reading Edition 236 (14th February 2025)
The CMC has started officially categorise cyber events impacting UK organisations, in a world-first initiative to deliver a consistent and objective framework to assess the severity of major cyber events as they occur, categorising incidents on an easy-to-understand scale from one (least severe) to five (most severe).
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Friday Reading Edition 233 (24th January 2025)
The development and acceleration of AI has created an evolving and ambiguous landscape across many jurisdictions. Donald Trump’s return to the White House may well present a noticeable shift in US AI regulation. Researchers, practitioners and policymakers alike await how Trump’s return to office will not only impact the AI regulatory landscape in the US but the interaction with global AI governance initiatives around the world.
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Friday Reading Edition 229 (6th December 2024)
Highlights the alarming gap between growing cyber security risks and the measures currently in place to tackle them.
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Friday Reading Edition 229 (6th December 2024)
Disruptions to the global supply disruptions, particularly from cyberthreats, can have catastrophic consequences for the economy. Advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence can help uncover phishing schemes to help organisations stay on top of attempted cyberthreats.
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Friday Reading Edition 229 (6th December 2024)
[Free to download upon sharing contact details] This year’s report draws on insights directly from Google Cloud's security leaders, as well as dozens of analysts, researchers, responders, reverse engineers, and other experts on the frontlines of the latest and largest attacks.
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