Rio Tinto and Glencore held talks last year about combining part or all of their businesses, in an indication of how the push by mining companies to secure metals needed for the energy transition has ...

Scott Bessent also tells US senators in heated confirmation hearing that he backs tougher sanctions on Russian oil ...

Also in today’s newsletter, US blacklists China’s answer to OpenAI, and Israeli cabinet to discuss approval of Gaza ceasefire ...

This is an audio transcript of the Unhedged podcast episode: ‘Will US inflation ever go below 3%?’ ...

Reports of the demise of US inflation have been greatly exaggerated. Today on the show, Rob Armstrong and Aiden Reiter ...

Advances in brain-computer interfaces enable paralysed users to feel objects in a realistic way via a robotic limb ...

American Express will pay about $230mn to resolve a US federal investigation into allegations that it deceptively marketed ...

Most of the world’s more than 11,000 registered data centres are not yet involved in any kind of AI-related activity. Combined, their consumption of electricity (excluding cryptocurrencies) is about 1 ...

The seven-week trial is the first stemming from a wave of UK class action antitrust lawsuits brought against Big Tech. Antitrust lawyers are scrutinising the £1.5bn case in the Competition Appeal ...

Nate Anderson, founder of the activist short seller Hindenberg Research, said yesterday he was closing the firm. Its hit list includes Adani, Nikola, CloverHealth, DraftKings, Block, Icahn Enterprises ...

Waymo’s acceleration was all the more striking in a year that saw General Motors shut its Cruise robotaxi unit after pouring ...

The star reunites with Robert Zemeckis and Robin Wright but this epoch-spanning saga of a living room is less fleet-footed ...