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Burnham pledges to end use of non-compete clauses
Prime minister says he will legislate against restrictive practices in employment contracts, which are a ‘drag on innovation’
Andy Burnham has pledged to end t...
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Japan declares cyber space emergency as attacks soar
Dozens of targets including car rental operators, barbecue chains and rail group JR East disclose data leaks
Japan’s financial services regulator has warned ba...
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Computer scientist David Silver: ‘Where are we going without AI?’
The architect of Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo on building machines that can teach themselves — and why he feels a moral obligation to advance the technology
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Ukraine strikes Russian tech giant’s data centres
Kyiv attacks facilities of Yandex, known as ‘Russia’s Google’, in retaliation for strikes on its digital infrastructure
Ukraine has struck two of Russian tech...
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Burnham set to launch crackdown on non-compete clauses
Prime minister expected to use speech to pledge action against restrictive practices in employment contracts
Andy Burnham is poised to unveil a government crac...
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Samsung profit surges ninefold to $80bn on AI chip demand
World’s largest memory-chip maker posts record earnings for the three months to September
Samsung Electronics has estimated its operating profit surged nearly...
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DRam demand and dramas are Asian obsessions
DRam demand and dramas are Asian obsessions
Hello everyone! This is Lauly, sending my warm regards from Taipei, where the leaves have started turning red and t...
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The AI Shift: The long-predicted decline in call centre jobs has finally begun
Declining employment in the sector can be attributed to reduced hirings as opposed to an increase in firings
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On the LLMternet, nobody cares you’re a plant
Are reccs set to get wrecked?
Jerry is an insurance comparison company based in Palo Alto, California. The company, which has “truth seeking” as its first bran...
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Australian data centre operator pulls $5bn IPO
Nvidia-backed Firmus abandons plan to list in Sydney, blaming ‘recent market volatility and prevailing market conditions’
A Nvidia-backed data centre operator...
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The Man Who Broke Reality: Niels Bohr and the Making of Modern Physics
Philip Ball’s entertaining biography is a guide to both the life of the Danish physicist and the mind-boggling quantum science that he, alongside Einstein, did...
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Google launches platform to create video games from text prompts
Big Tech group partners with gaming tools developer Unity as AI disrupts sector
Google is launching a platform that lets users create video games from a simple...
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The Social Reckoning film review — Facebook sequel is Jaws if the shark ate everyone and kept swimming
Follow-up to ‘The Social Network’ covers how the company was exposed for profiting from misinformation and doing users harm — but falls frustratingly flat
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Scientists unveil first ultra-accurate nuclear clocks
Countries are increasing research into timekeeping technology as risks of clock outages and sabotage threaten digital systems vital to modern life
Scientists h...
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China races to build data centres in bid for AI supremacy
Beijing is rolling out computing infrastructure at breakneck speed in Inner Mongolia
China is building data centres at rapid speed across its energy-rich hinte...
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Theo Triantafyllidis: the absurdist artist taking on the tech titans
For his award-winning Frieze London project, Triantafyllidis asks whether online worlds can be made less toxic, more playful and more communal
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Palantir’s Homes for Ukraine contract cost UK £5mn for one-year extension
Deal highlights dependence on controversial US tech group for delivery of major public programmes
The UK extended a contract with Palantir by an extra year and...
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AI upends Singapore’s ‘quant Olympics’
Nigerian student Victor Ayebameru takes first place in competition that identifies future hedge fund stars
Artificial intelligence will make hedge fund manager...
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Voice of experience: in-house legal teams face pros and cons of AI
Companies’ legal operations leaders share some realities of incorporating the latest tech into their lawyers’ repertoire
Many company lawyers have recently bee...
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Accelerating Business
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Artificial film review — Andrew Garfield is a strangely likeable Sam Altman in OpenAI origin story Artificial
Luca Guadagnino’s film of start-up fervour and betrayal charts the technology’s evolution from impressive to disturbing
Artificial retraces the 21st-century or...
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FT and Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year Award 2026 — the shortlist
Contenders include titles on weight-loss drugs, AI weaponry and forecasting
The profound disruptive challenges posed by AI dominate the shortlist of this year’...
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Artificial Intimacy — Sherry Turkle’s stark warning against AI ‘companionship’
From ChatGPT to Replika, the MIT professor illustrates an alarming rise in the use of bots as substitutes for human company — at the expense of personal growth...
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Asos investigating after app notification warned customers of ‘hack’
Shares in FTSE 250 retailer fall 11% after mobile users receive message threatening to leak unspecified material
Asos is investigating a suspected cyber attack...
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Goldman Sachs and Man Group exposed in EY data breach
Disclosures widen the circle of victims of a hacking incident earlier this year
Clients of Goldman Sachs’ wealth management division and UK-listed hedge fund M...
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There is only one trade
It’s starting to look like every market is becoming a one-trick pony. Since the summer, stock markets would have been down – were it not for the Big Tech compan...
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A Chinese billionaire reckons with the limits of building AI across borders
One-time gaming tycoon Chen Tianqiao bet billions on a second act in agentic research but ran headlong into US-China trade tensions
Chen Tianqiao launched Cali...
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Norway is first to propose temporary ban on AI glasses in public places
Law would prohibit use of the technology in parks, beaches, schools and kindergartens
Norway has become the first major country to propose a temporary ban on t...
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Schneider Electric to buy industrial software group PTC for $23.7bn
Takeover is French conglomerate’s largest and enhances its products focused on manufacturers
Schneider Electric will acquire US engineering software provider P...
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What people in AI really think about regulation
The tribalism and fragmentation we are seeing in politics may be coming for business too
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Artificial Intimacy — Sherry Turkle’s warning against AI ‘companionship’
From ChatGPT to Replika, the MIT professor illustrates an alarming rise in the use of bots as substitutes for human company — at the expense of personal growth...
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Giorgia Meloni seeks to trademark her voice to counter AI deepfakes
Italian prime minister first major politician to seek protection against misuse of her voice
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has applied to the EU’s inte...
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Insurance claims to test Altman and Amodei liability for ‘rogue’ AI
Insurers and lawyers weigh the cost of potential massive lawsuits and damages against the leaders of OpenAI and Anthropic
Insurers are preparing for multimilli...
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The bond sell-off comes for corporate America
A sharp rise in US government borrowing costs this year is bleeding into the corporate debt market and Hong Kong’s de facto central bank questioned HSBC on why...