All articles by Lara Williams

Lara Williams

Lara Williams is editor of Verdict technology. An experienced writer, Lara previously worked as deputy editor of the Financial Times’s fDi Magazine. Lara has a background in technology journalism writing for the UK’s Computing magazine and has spent almost a decade living in Silicon Valley.

Signal: Baidu gets AI revenue boost despite Chinese generative AI patents lagging far behind the US

The US has produced more generative AI patents by multiples of any other country or region in the world during the last year.

US space economy faces growing cyber security risk, according to intelligence community.

As the space economy is set to reach $1tn by 2024, according to GlobalData, cyber attacks on space related businesses are becoming an increasing problem.

Deal focus: Impulse Space raises $45m as space economy set to reach $1tn by 2040

The rapidly growing space economy is creating an ecosystem of companies of which Impulse Space is one.

The rise of the CTO as business leader

IPC Systems CTO Tim Carmody shares his views on the changing role of the enterprise chief technology officer.

Filing signal: Infosys leads generative AI buzz through its public filings

The Indian technology company registered 33 mentions of generative AI within its public filings throughout July 2023.

Patent signal: Huawei is lead Chinese corporation for technology patent volume in 2023

China continues to be the global location with the highest volume of technology patents published in 2023.

Jobs signal: Apple continues to buck tech layoff trend by leading Big Tech job growth

Apple continues to see job growth despite widespread layoffs in the technology sector.

Deal focus: Intel invests in humanoid robotics start-up Figure to address labour shortages

The rapidly growing robotics market will address significant demographic shifts and declining productivity in industrialised nations.

Filing signal: Indian software company Virinchi leads Q2 2023 filings

Both the biggest winner and loser from Q2 2023 technology company filings are Indian software companies.

Patent signal: Samsung files highest volume of new technology patents in 2023

Technology patents have seen the highest growth in the area of artificial intelligence.