IP

UK government body the Intellectual Property Office called IP infringement both a "local and global challenge" and said it worked with others to "help tackle the threat it poses to businesses and consumers".

I, too, became increasingly paranoid after I began facing hundreds of hacking attempts each day from unknown IP addresses.

Investigators suspect that some posts may have originated from London and Germany after tracing IP addresses.

But those metrics may not be as relevant to AI companies, which are seeking a wide variety of data to train their AI models, rather than just IP that they can exploit.

Apple's shift of IP assets in 2015 is widely believed to have been responsible for a wild swing in the country's GDP that year.