The sudden and tragic death of Professor Jason Arday, a distinguished former academic at the University of Cambridge, has left a family in profound mourning and a wider community in disbelief. Prof Arday, who had become the youngest Black professor in Cambridge’s history in 2023, was pronounced dead on a Friday afternoon after emergency services were called to an address in Battersea. The Metropolitan Police responded to a report of a man found unresponsive inside a property just after 3pm. While his death is being treated as unexpected, authorities have stated that it is not believed to be suspicious. For…

It’s strange, isn’t it, how the most fascinating dinner-party topic of our lifetime turned out not to be football, or politics, or even the weather, but artificial intelligence. Nobody saw that coming. A few years ago, if you mentioned algorithms or neural networks, eyes glazed over; today, mention ChatGPT or Gemini and suddenly everyone has a story. Maybe it’s a trick, like asking the chatbot to write a poem about a traffic jam, or a genuinely moving piece of code that helped a friend draft a difficult letter. Or maybe the conversation turns to bigger things: the global race for…