AI 2025 trends

Cleantech isn’t the hottest space for startup funding these days. That title obviously goes to AI. Nonetheless, amid a period of soaring electricity demand, rising EV adoption rates, and accelerating progress in fusion and other fields, cleantech investment activity isn’t slowing down. In the first half of this year, investors poured $15 billion into seed- […]

The moats hold, for now

The costs of remaining at the frontier of AI are punishing, but the penalties for falling behind may be even worse

The veteran investor has put himself at the centre of the global AI boom. Some think he now has too much control

The tech sector is buzzing in Britain. But can it ever be more than a US outpost?

FCA official makes case for greater powers for watchdog as millions use technology for personal finance decisions

Chinese tech giant Alibaba has ordered staff to stop using Anthropic’s Claude Code after the US coding tool was found to be flagging users’ connecting from China. But Anthropic is already trying to stop Chinese firms from using Claude at all and accuses Alibaba of running large “distillation” campaigns against it, saying that the Chinese giant

Stock market returns should not distract investors from the new AI trade taking hold

The growing presence of AI in the industry’s design studios — and beyond — raises questions about authentic creativity

The EU is trying to assert its strategic independence in an unstable world – a world of bullies, as some members of the EU Parliament describe it. That means independence in matters of defence and energy supplies, but also in the whole field of tech. The European Commission says non-EU companies provide more than 80