The recent AWS outage affected services ranging from education platforms to cryptocurrency exchanges, exposing the extent of global reliance on Amazon’s cloud infrastructure. According to Dr. Jamie Woodcock, the incident underscores a widespread lack of public understanding about the systems underpinning the internet. He suggests it should renew consideration of stronger regulation and public accountability within digital infrastructure.

The growing importance of AI in commercial processes presents the UK’s principles-based legal system with new challenges. Existing laws assume human accountability, yet opaque algorithms increasingly influence corporate and financial decisions. Eventually, concerns over the explainability of such decisions may prompt the UK to introduce design-based regulation where AI models are expected to conform with specific, centrally defined security standards.

Explore how overcoming the grip of NIMBYism though thoughtful design, planning reform and community consent could hold the key to solving Britain’s housing crisis and unlocking economic growth.

Learn more about the geopolitics behind the newly inaugurated Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and the debate on multi-and-unilateralism surrounding its construction and use.

In our series, Leaders @Kings, the King’s Business Review editors sit down with Sarah Chen-Spellings, award-winning American entrepreneur and investor, podcast host, and global advocate for female founders, and the funds that invest in them.