Inside a glasshouse the size of roughly 20 football pitches, on the flat black soil of Lincolnshire, strawberry plants ride a Ferris wheel. The wheels stand about 5.5 metres tall, and each one weighs close to half a tonne. They turn slowly, all day, carrying their rows of fruit through the light like carriages at […]
Spotify has removed roughly 500,000 streams from Malcolm Todd’s song “Earrings” after the track’s sudden rise to the top of its US daily chart lined up suspiciously well with a bet on the prediction market Kalshi. The company has also asked Kalshi and Polymarket to remove its logo from their sites and make clear that neither platform […]
A 10-country analysis finds 20 million children already using AI tools, with governance struggling to keep pace with a generation growing up inside what UNICEF calls “a global experiment.” An estimated 20 million children across ten countries have already used artificial intelligence, and they are picking it up more than three times faster than the […]
Apple is preparing a refreshed iPad Pro lineup and a redesigned entry-level MacBook Pro for release in the first half of 2027, according to Bloomberg. The iPad Pro update keeps its current 11-inch and 13-inch sizes but focuses on internal changes, and the MacBook Pro overhaul brings the entry-level 14-inch model, codenamed K104, in line […]
A new report from the EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) and the French think tank Institut Montaigne warns that Europe’s semiconductor sector faces a bleak future, squeezed between Chinese export controls and a growing dependence on US technology. The study, published on Thursday, forms part of an 18-month, EU-funded project called the Chips Diplomacy […]
Every summer the world’s most powerful central bankers decamp to a hillside town outside Lisbon to argue about the economy in relative calm. This year the argument had a single organising subject, and it was not inflation in the usual sense. It was artificial intelligence, and specifically the awkward fact that nobody in the room […]
Deputy governor Sarah Breeden says autonomous trading agents could amplify volatility if they all react the same way at once, and may demand new rules. The nightmare a central banker describes is rarely a crash. It is a feedback loop. Speaking at the European Central Bank’s annual forum in Sintra, Portugal, the Bank of England’s […]
A new institute at Penn’s Basser Center will use artificial intelligence and biomarkers to intercept hereditary cancers at their earliest stages, before they become disease. The idea behind the gift is unusual enough to need its own word. Most cancer philanthropy funds treatment, the long campaign that begins once a tumour has announced itself. Jon […]
A guidance cut from Concentrix dragged the sector down and hardened a fear that automated agents are eroding the business of answering the phone. The fear that artificial intelligence would hollow out the call-centre business has been hanging over the sector for two years, more sentiment than spreadsheet. This week it acquired some numbers. A […]
David Hardoon, who left Standard Chartered after less than a year, will lead advanced AI for the region at a consultancy betting heavily on enterprise adoption. The corporate AI leadership market moves quickly enough that a year now counts as a tenure. David Hardoon, Standard Chartered’s former global head of AI enablement, has joined Accenture […]
