European lunchtime summary After a volatile morning on Europe’s financial markets, here’s a quick recap of the situation. The US dollar has tumbled today as investors fear that Donald Trump’s new trade war could trigger a recession. The dollar is …
There’s nothing more satisfying than watching a corporate giant make a stupid mistake. The behemoth in question is Meta, and when Careless People, a whistleblowing book by a former senior employee, Sarah Wynn-Williams, came out last week, its panic-stricken lawyers …
In his first full cabinet meeting of his second term, which was attended by Elon Musk, President Donald Trump praised dramatic planned cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency and his planned 25% tariffs on European Union imports. Musk, who runs …
(Image credit: Shutterstock/JR des) xAI’s debut of the Grok 3 AI model allowed CEO Elon Musk and his team to show off the power of the latest iteration of Grok. Slightly lost in the benchmarking fireworks is what happens to …
For generations, many in the Caribbean grew up believing that the United States was the world’s great benefactor – a beacon of freedom, prosperity and boundless opportunity. Carefully cultivated through cinema, television, magazines, newspapers and radio, this perception reinforced the …
I was a technophile in my early teenage days, sometimes wishing that I had been born in 2090, rather than 1990, so that I could see all the incredible technology of the future. Lately, though, I’ve become far more sceptical …
(Image credit: Apple) Apple has reportedly partnered with Alibaba to bring AI features to the iPhone in China iPhone sales have slipped in China due to a lack of AI features Alibaba’s vast consumer data and AI expertise make it …
Sovereignty matters. Except when it doesn’t. And it doesn’t when another people’s sovereignty gets in the way of your nation’s needs. Then sovereignty (for any other country or people, at least) becomes so much dust blowing in the storm. It …
Tom Phillips Donald Trump has pulled back from the brink of a trade war with Canada and Mexico, postponing sweeping new US tariffs on goods from its two closest economic partners by one month. It is the third time in …
The o3-mini AI model is now available (Image credit: OpenAI) OpenAI has pushed out o3-mini models to ChatGPT The launch has previously been teased OpenAI is facing increasing competition from China As promised last week, OpenAI has now launched its …
