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In our latest Inside View podcast, Legal IT Insider’s editor Caroline Hill sits down on our virtual sofa with Sam Dixon, a partner and UK chief innovation officer at Womble Bond Dickinson, responsible for innovation strategy. Dixon was previously an associate at Womble Bond Dickinson before he became head of innovation in 2021, and…

Tai Neilson, a senior lecturer at Macquarie University explores how data has become a ‘hot commodity’ for companies training AI systems. Read more: As sites attempt to block AI crawlers, is the ‘open web’ closing?

The company’s newly launched Wegovy weight loss pills have shown strong uptake in the US. Read more: Novo Nordisk to invest €432m in Athlone facility

The plan aims to fund 3,800 new PhDs, support 14 enhanced research centres and deliver 150 research awards in collaboration with Government departments. Read more: Research Ireland’s new five-year strategy targets talent, economy, society

Apprenticeships can last up to four years and will provide professionals with structured pathways into a range of careers. Read more: Pfizer launches science, engineering and manufacturing apprenticeship

Collaborators include BT, Cisco, Deutsche Telekom and its subsidiary T-Mobile, and Nokia. Read more: Telco giants join forces with Nvidia for AI-ready 6G infrastructure

Alongside the investment, OpenAI and Amazon have also reached a deal in which OpenAI will utilise 2GW of computing capacity powered by Amazon’s in-house Trainium chips. Read more: OpenAI raises $110bn in round double the size of previous raise

Prof Nir Eisikovits and Jacob Burley of the University of Massachusetts Boston discuss the ethics of AI in higher education and the technology’s role in ‘cognitive offloading’. Read more: AI in higher education and the ‘erosion’ of learning