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At the No 11 event on Tuesday morning, the chancellor heard from sector leaders – including the boss of Marks & Spencer, Stuart Machin, and Sainsbury's chief executive, Simon Roberts – about the impact of the rise in…
Read more“If you’re a tech start up, expect to be spied on by foreign actors and sort your cybersecurity”, he said in his annual threat update at Thames House. McCallum warned that Britain’s financial systems and supply chains…
Read moreOn a star-studded card, the aim is to hunt out a bit of ante-post value and take on the many short-priced favourites set to line up. There are races where you can’t follow that policy, however, and I do think CALANDAGAN…
Read moreStarting with the competitive Group One mile contest (3.20pm), current favourite TALK OF NEW YORK looks the bet at this stage. As is often the case at this point in the season, some runners may be feeling the effects of…
Read moreThe Independent Football Regulator has the power to disqualify City’s owners and force Sheikh Mansour to sell up following the club’s conviction for systematically breaking Premier League rules. Prime Minister Andy…
Read moreInvestment firm Ithaca Holdings is taking over the loss-making firm and it directors, Ravi Gupta and John Hegeman, will become co-chief executives of the company which once differentiated itself by having a "women-first"…
Read moreIt is inevitable that people will ask: ‘What can this film do?’ Luca Guadagnino’s eleventh film is a particularly disturbing portrait of AI, following the tech entrepreneur Sam Altman, who launched AI chatbot Chat GPT in…
Read moreIn Japan, the chip equipment maker Tokyo Electron fell 7.15%, while SoftBank Group, an OpenAI investor, lost 8.5%. On Wall Street the tech-heavy Nasdaq fell more than 100 points, or 0.35%, to 30,556 after the open.…
Read moreNon-EU citizens, including UK travellers and those from other visa-exempt countries including the US, Australia and Canada, will soon need to pay €20 (£17) for an electronic waiver to enter the Schengen zone under the…
Read moreAn iPhone is – for better or worse – an irreplaceable part of your life, an extension of your very being. It needs to look the part. The burgundy iPhone 18 Pro So I am pleased to report that the burgundy iPhone 18 Pro…
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