, by Rana Foroohar. The Financial Times’ global business columnist examines why the Arctic is one of the most critical geopolitical arenas of today in a “much-needed update to post-Cold War scholarship” on the region, journalist Bobby Ghosh wrote in Foreign Policy. After US President Donald Trump threatened to annex ...
The AI boom’s next bottleneck is money, not chipsThe AI boom’s next bottleneck is money, not chips
Liz’s view The bottleneck in the AI boom was chips, then power, then memory. It’s about to become money. That might sound strange as Anthropic prepares for a $1 trillion-plus IPO and data centers keep sprouting like big-box poppies. But the fear and exasperation among the lenders whose money fuels ...
The EU’s methane rule pause may not help energy pricesThe EU’s methane rule pause may not help energy prices
The EU’s decision to delay the implementation of its methane regulations won’t help consumers much, environmental groups argued. European officials decided this week to delay the regulation — which was meant to come into effect in January 2027 to introduce stronger reporting requirements for energy companies’ methane emissions — after ...
It’s not the old two-party politics – but Labour and the Tories now know they can shun their populist challengers | Gaby HinsliffIt’s not the old two-party politics – but Labour and the Tories now know they can shun their populist challengers | Gaby Hinsliff
Though Burnham and Badenoch may still need the votes of Green and Reform supporters, both leaders have drawn clear lines in the sand Ask a straight question, get a straight answer. It’s how politics is supposed to work but almost never does, which is why on the rare occasions it ...
Trump should fear the BBC. Instead he’s picked a fight – and he seems to be losing | Emma BrockesTrump should fear the BBC. Instead he’s picked a fight – and he seems to be losing | Emma Brockes
The president is used to bullying his media targets. The quagmire that is his libel actions shows the broadcaster is working to a different script For the greatest account of the BBC’s finest hour, one must turn to Penelope Fitzgerald’s novel, Human Voices, written in 1980 and set 40 years ...
Street Fighter review – nostalgia only goes so far in junky fighting game movieStreet Fighter review – nostalgia only goes so far in junky fighting game movie
There are brief, simple pleasures in the inevitable new big screen take on the classic game but like the recent Mortal Kombat movies, it’s a largely incoherent mess We just had Resident Evil, Zach Cregger’s giddy, nasty, devilishly fun spin on Capcom’s popular zombie franchise. It gave us renewed hope ...
‘A powerful act of imagination and self-affirmation’: experts on how to start writing a book‘A powerful act of imagination and self-affirmation’: experts on how to start writing a book
Thinking about writing a book and doing it are two very different things – so how to get started and follow through? At some point in their lives, many people are confronted with a big question: what if I wrote a book? Writing a memoir, murder mystery or steamy romance ...
‘Don’t do this!’ Why Paul McCartney cares about looking shorter than John Lennon in Sam Mendes’ Beatles films‘Don’t do this!’ Why Paul McCartney cares about looking shorter than John Lennon in Sam Mendes’ Beatles films
You’re Paul McCartney. So how come you’re still getting het up at a fictional version of you being marginally smaller than a fictional version of John Lennon? There has been a lot of discourse and conjecture surrounding Sam Mendes’s forthcoming Beatles biopics. Some of this is logical (will people really ...
Accenture Tells Employees They Can Now Spend Only $29 on Claude Per MonthAccenture Tells Employees They Can Now Spend Only $29 on Claude Per Month
Consulting giant Accenture has told many employees that the company will now only spend $29 a month per person on Claude. Employees subject to the cap, some of whom had been spending as much as $1,000 monthly, are scrambling to find ways to make sure they can keep spending as ...
Video Game Reverse Engineering Community Shuts Down Because AI Has Made It Too EasyVideo Game Reverse Engineering Community Shuts Down Because AI Has Made It Too Easy
A website that was dedicated to the human endeavor of reverse engineering, “decompiling,” and modifying video games is shutting down because people using AI to clone and decompile games have fully overrun the community and are far outpacing what human software engineers alone can do. The news comes as AI-coded ...