UK officials raise hopes of reviving Edinburgh’s supercomputer dreams
UK government officials have discussed funding a supercomputer at the University of Edinburgh, just six months after axing a similar major computing project at the institution.
American Express to pay $230mn to resolve deceptive marketing allegations
American Express will pay about $230mn to resolve a US federal investigation into allegations that it deceptively marketed credit card and wire transfer products to small businesses. The Department of ...
Britain’s imperfect deal over the Chagos Islands
The resulting agreement, however, was imperfect. Mauritius is almost 1,400 miles from the Chagos and has no real links beyond the fact that both territories were transferred from France to Britain in ...
AI’s “relentless thirst for power”
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 ...
Trump ‘energy tsar’ pick warns lack of power could undermine AI race with China
Doug Burgum, a billionaire businessman and former governor of North Dakota, told senators at his confirmation hearing on Thursday that the US had an “electricity crisis” due to weaknesses in the ...
Apple CFO faces grilling in £1.5bn UK class action case
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 ...
Bank of America still paying the price for being too careful
Measured next to its rivals, America’s second-largest bank has been a third-rate investment. Bank of America stock is up 2 ...
Nate Anderson, finfluencer
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 ...
Vermiglio film review — rural Italian family drama of phenomenal visual beauty
At a crucial point, the gentle narrative of Vermiglio takes a stormy, decidedly operatic turn, although it is the Chopin ...
Waymo’s journey shows the path ahead for AI agents
Waymo’s acceleration was all the more striking in a year that saw General Motors shut its Cruise robotaxi unit after pouring ...
Here film review — folksy Tom Hanks history lesson is no Forrest Gump
The star reunites with Robert Zemeckis and Robin Wright but this epoch-spanning saga of a living room is less fleet-footed ...
Starmer must be braver when it comes to growth
That willingness to take top-level political risk to support growth is vital. Regulators will default to conservative positions without strong political support or the correct incentives to be brave.