Starmer creates ‘Budget board’ to boost economic growth and keep businesses onside Starmer’s ‘budget board’ is part of his reset following the resignation of Angela Rayner last week The Independent UK · Sep 9, 2025
George Osborne ‘to miss out on big windfall’ from sale of investment bank Former chancellor is now partner at Robey Warshaw but is expected to move to part-time role, report says The Guardian - UK · Sep 8, 2025
'Godfather of AI' says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — 'that is the capitalist system' "We are at a point in history where something amazing is happening, and it may be amazingly good, and it may be amazingly bad." Fortune · Sep 6, 2025
‘Existential crisis’: how Google’s shift to AI has upended the online news model Media sites are taking action on several fronts as traffic referrals dry up and AI companies plunder their content The Guardian - UK · Sep 6, 2025
ExxonMobil Faces Tough Choices In Europe As Competition From China Intensifies ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM) stock is trading lower on Friday after reports indicating the company plans to sell parts of its European chemical business. The industry struggles with U.S. tariffs, high energy costs, and growing competition from China. Benzinga · Sep 5, 2025
OpenAI To Mass-Produce 1st Proprietary AI Chip With Broadcom, Secures $10 Billion Deal: Report OpenAI is set to begin mass production of its first proprietary artificial intelligence chip next year through a partnership with Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO), marking a strategic shift away from its reliance on Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) amid surging demand for artificial intelligence computing power. Benzinga · Sep 5, 2025
Giorgio Armani death latest: Julia Roberts and Donatella Versace react to legendary Italian designer’s death Tributes are pouring in for the Italian designer The Independent UK · Sep 4, 2025
Thousands of Lloyds Banking Group staff at risk of losing jobs in push for ‘high-performance culture’ The banking group plans to change how it monitors the performance of its employees and manages staff turnover The Independent UK · Sep 4, 2025
Lloyds to put thousands of staff at risk of dismissal in performance drive The banking group plans to change how it monitors the performance of its employees and manages staff turnover within the business. Evening Standard · Sep 4, 2025
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen's plane 'hit by Russian GPS jamming attack' The suspected attack disabled GPS navigation services at a Bulgarian airport forcing the pilot to land the plane using only paper maps Evening Standard · Sep 1, 2025
Ukraine-Russia war latest: Top EU leader’s plane forced to land blind after suspected Russian GPS jamming Pilots driving a plane carrying European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen were forced to use paper maps to land The Independent UK · Sep 1, 2025
Ukraine war briefing: Europe drawing up plans for troop deployment; Zelenskyy vows retaliation for drone strikes Ursula von der Leyen says troops will have backing of US capabilities; Ukrainian president says ‘new deep strikes’ planned on Russia after drone attacks on energy infrastructure The Guardian - AU · Sep 1, 2025
Banks hold FTSE 100 back on windfall tax worry The FTSE 100 index closed down 29.48 points, 0.3%, at 9,187.34. Evening Standard · Aug 29, 2025
Bankers found out they were being fired after email asking for their laptops to be returned sent by mistake The error occurred at Australian lender ANZ The Independent UK · Aug 28, 2025
Benzinga · Aug 28, 2025 Trump's First-Term Ban On EUV Tools Stalled Huawei, SMIC, Cambricon — Now China's Chip Factories Are Roaring Back, Warns David Sacks White House-appointed “Crypto Czar” David Sacks warned Wednesday that Chinese semiconductor manufacturers are surging back despite previous export controls, citing new production data showing China’s chipmakers planning to triple artificial intelligence processor output.
Benzinga · Aug 26, 2025 Temu Resumes Direct China-US Shipping, Increases Ad Spend Following Trump Trade Truce That Cuts Chinese Tariffs Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) rival bargain ecommerce platform Temu has resumed direct shipments from Chinese factories to U.S. consumers and boosted advertising spending after a trade truce between Washington and Beijing reduced tariff pressures.
PC Gamer · Aug 25, 2025 After cancelling 8 of the 12 live service games Sony promised to release by 2025, PlayStation studios boss says the number doesn't really matter: 'What is important to me is having a diverse set of player experiences' "I don't want teams to always play it safe, but I would like for us, when we fail, to fail early and cheaply."
Benzinga · Aug 21, 2025 Howard Lutnick's 'Insulting' Words Trigger Backlash In Beijing As Regulators Pressure Alibaba, ByteDance To Shun Nvidia Chips: Report Beijing has reportedly moved to curb sales of Nvidia Corporation's (NASDAQ:NVDA) China-specific AI chip after U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick made remarks about export policy that Chinese officials reportedly found "insulting."
Fortune · Aug 20, 2025 Goldman Sachs says we’re on the verge of a stablecoin gold rush worth trillions U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent believes stablecoins will buoy the market for U.S. Treasuries, and the government will sell more short-term debt to meet that demand.
Benzinga · Aug 18, 2025 Sam Altman And OpenAI Target $250M For Neuralink Rival Merge Labs, Escalating Billionaire Feud With Elon Musk Over Brain Implants Sam Altman, the OpenAI co-founder valued at the center of artificial intelligence's rapid ascent, is preparing a challenge to Elon Musk in the high-stakes brain-computer interface market. Altman is co-founding a new venture, Merge Labs, alongside Alex Blania, the chief executive of World, an iris-scanning digital ID project also backed…
Windows Central · Aug 16, 2025 NVIDIA and AMD will pay 15% for the right to sell to China in Trump's AI chip tax — "America cannot repeat 5G and lose telecommunication leadership" Just a couple of weeks after the US government rescinded the ban on NVIDIA's H20 AI chip sales to China, it was announced that both NVIDIA and AMD will hand over 15% of their revenue from specific AI GPUs in order to receive export licenses.
Tom’s Hardware · Aug 14, 2025 DeepSeek reportedly urged by Chinese authorities to train new model on Huawei hardware — after multiple failures, R2 training to switch back to Nvidia hardware while Ascend GPUs handle inference DeepSeek’s bid to train R2 on Huawei’s Ascend chips failed due to technical limits, forcing a return to Nvidia GPUs and delaying the launch.
The Guardian - UK · Aug 14, 2025 UK tax data reportedly suggests claims of non-dom exodus overblown HMRC figures appear to indicate departure of high net worth people is in line with OBR predictions, report says
Benzinga · Aug 13, 2025 IBM, Google, Amazon, Microsoft Lock Horns In Billion-Dollar Race to Build Million-Qubit Quantum Computers And End A 40-Year Tech Dream International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM), Alphabet Inc.‘s (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG) Google, Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) are intensifying their pursuit of industrial-scale quantum computers, with recent breakthroughs bringing the decades-old dream within reach by 2030.
Kiplinger · Aug 12, 2025 July CPI Report Ignites a Risk-On Rally: Stock Market Today Market participants price out worst-case scenarios for tariffs and inflation and will now turn their attention to employment and growth.