The Hundred Trillion Parameter Question

I got curious about a number this week. If the human brain has roughly 100 trillion synapses, and each synapse is loosely analogous to a parameter in an artificial neural network, what does that tell us about where AI actually stands? The short answer: further away from the human brain than most headlines suggest, and […]

Who Regulates the Algorithms?

The FCA just sat down with KPMG and a room full of financial services practitioners to talk about AI regulation. Not in the abstract, future-gazing sense that these conversations usually take. In the practical, operational, what-are-you-actually-doing-about-it sense. The timing matters. KPMG’s joint webinar with the International Regulatory Strategy Group landed in June 2026, the same […]