Meta: Zuckerberg’s open source gamble collides with EU regulation July 20, 2025 Meta has refused to sign the European Commission’s new AI Code of Practice, escalating tensions with Brussels just weeks before landmark regulation kicks in. The voluntary guidelines – designed to help tech giants prepare for the EU’s sweeping AI Act – were rejected outright by Meta’s global affairs chief Joel Kaplan, who warned they introduced [...]
Nvidia’s new chip aims to soften tariff blow ahead of key earnings May 26, 2025 Nvidia is moving quickly to protect its position in China with the launch of a new AI chip – a stripped down, cheaper product aimed at dodging tightening US export restrictions and softening the blow of escalating trade tensions. Set to begin mass production as early as next month, the chip will be based on [...]
US-UK tech deal falls short: trillion-dollar talk, but little digital alignment May 13, 2025 The new US-UK tech pact may offer political optics of partnership, but falls far short of real digital alignment, exposing widening policy divergence and limited strategic substance, says Paul Armstrong The recently announced US-UK trade agreement was billed as a major reset in transatlantic cooperation, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer positioning the UK as America’s [...]
The new model of American success: Win at all costs March 13, 2025 America has always been a hyper-individualistic society, but in the turbo-charged Trump era something has changed, says Lewis Liu “What happened to your country?” “Surely most Americans don’t agree with what is happening?” Every single non-American I’ve encountered over the last six weeks has asked me questions like this. Over the past month, I’ve spent [...]
Britain will miss out on the AI revolution unless it recalibrates attitudes to risk February 13, 2025 Britain is well-placed to be at the forefront of AI breakthrough but for one thing: its deep-seated culture of risk aversion. To foster a more entrepreneurial culture, there are three things the UK should do, says Lewis Z Liu The UK has a unique set of advantages to lead the AI revolution. It boasts world-class [...]
Politicians should drop their obsession with Silicon Valley January 30, 2025 Successive British politicians have reached for Silicon Valley – or the idea of Silicon Valley – every time they’ve wanted to project a vision of the future. In 2010 David Cameron set out plans to turn East London into “a world-leading tech city to rival Silicon Valley.” Seven years later, Theresa May’s government was still [...]
Hundred: Sale of franchise stakes could value cricket league at £700m January 29, 2025 English cricket is set for a major financial boost with the Hundred sale, which enters its final round of bidding, expected to value the eight franchises at as much as £700m. That figure is double the sum the England and Wales Cricket Board rejected from Bridgepoint for the whole tournament in 2022 and would therefore [...]
Rachel Reeves vows to fight for economic growth January 28, 2025 The Chancellor will declare that “growth won’t come without a fight” as she unveils her plan to turnaround Britain’s ailing economy with billions of pounds of investment and new infrastructure projects. Reeves will pledge an £80bn boom to the economy from a new Oxford-Cambridge Growth Corridor in a move that comes after the pensions industry [...]
The state is nothing like a start-up December 11, 2024 Pat McFadden wants the state to be more like a start-up, but the ‘move fast and break things’ mentality has no place in public services on which so many depend. There is, however, a better model… The government’s announcement of a £100m innovation fund to embrace a “test-and-learn” mindset is undeniably ambitious. Speaking at University [...]
Chip maker Alphawave’s profit slumps as spending surges September 23, 2024 Shares in Alphawave Semi nosedived 37 per cent after the semiconductor company reported a drop in revenue and profit for the six months to 30 June amid higher spending. The London-listed company said revenue plunged 51 per cent to $91m (£68.3m) in the first half of the year, which it blamed on a change in [...]