Meta Bets $15bn On Scale AI
Meta plans to invest $15bn in Scale AI, the data-labelling start-up best known for supplying training materials to some ...
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Mark Read championed artificial intelligence at WPP. But with the agency’s shares languishing and rivals gaining groun... Read more
LA Riots And Global Meltdown, Not Quite
The streets of Los Angeles, more familiar as the backdrop to Hollywood blockbusters and global ad campaigns, have erupte... Read more
Swift Wins Back Her Masters
Taylor Swift has at last bought the master recordings of her first six albums from Shamrock Capital, closing a wrangle t... Read more
Bitcoin Drives Into Corporate Crypto Treasuries
A searing rise in the bitcoin price is drawing a new cohort of public companies on to Wall Street, each intent on fillin... Read more
Trump To Swell US Debt By $2.4tn
White House insists the bill will pay for itself, but fiscal hawks in the Senate are sceptical. Donald Trump’s la... Read more
Neuralink's Nine Billion Dollar Brain Gamble
Elon Musk has done it again. His brain-chip company Neuralink just raised $600 million at a $9 billion valuation, markin... Read more
China's Debt Trap Finally Springs Shut
The world's poorest countries are about to learn a harsh lesson about Chinese generosity. After a decade of playing the ... Read more
Export Controls Crush Nvidia's China Dreams
Nvidia just posted brilliant earnings of $44.1 billion in revenue, but there's a massive problem lurking beneath the sur... Read more
Bitcoin Hits Record High
Bitcoin surged to a fresh all-time high on Thursday, buoyed by rising confidence that US lawmakers are close to finalisi... Read more
Brazils Balancing Act Between US & China
As the global tussle between China and the United States intensifies, few countries have more leverage — or more to lo... Read more
Investors Turn To Non-US Equity Funds
European and Asian inflows into world ex-US funds hit record levels amid fears over US policy directionGlobal investors ... Read more
Perplexity Lifts Its Valuation To USD$14b
Perplexity, the San Francisco artificial intelligence search company that hopes to loosen Google’s long grip on web qu... Read more
Wall Streets Tariff-driven Rebound
A flimsy but welcome accord between Washington and Beijing has unleashed one of the sharpest bursts of optimism on Wall ... Read more
Trump Poised To Relax Key Bank Capital Buffer
US regulators are preparing to slash a central plank of post-crisis banking regulation, handing Wall Street its biggest ... Read more