Tech

AI impacting labor market ‘like a tsunami’ as layoff fears mount

"Anxiety about AI will go from a low hum to a loud roar this year," Deutsche Bank said as AI layoffs dominate conversations at the World Economic Forum.

Tech stocks lead Wall Street sell-off as tensions over Greenland escalate

Tech stocks led declines Tuesday as renewed trade rhetoric tied to Greenland fueled a risk-off move across U.S. markets.

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Energy costs will decide which countries win the AI race, Microsoft’s Nadella says

The Big Tech boss also said Europe needs to have more of a global outlook to be successful.

Cosmic Princess Kaguya! review

Emojis explode all over the screen in this hyperactive adaptation of a Japanese folk tale about a princess who has run away from the moon

A simple patent fix can revive America’s innovation engine

Washington got one right for a change. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s proposed new “One Challenge” rule may finally break Big Tech’s stranglehold on innovation, revitalize our patent system, and supercharge America’s growth.

Don't risk the AI revolution over electricity populism

The United States needs more electricity now, not tomorrow. The country is locked in an existential competition with China over supremacy in artificial intelligence and the technologies that will define economic and military power in the 21st century. AI is extraordinarily electricity-intensive. Yet, America’s power grid is fragile, aging, and constrained by a political and regulatory system that makes it painfully slow to build new generation.

Afraid of dying alone? How a Chinese app exposed single people’s deepest, darkest fears

In China, marriage and birth rates have hit record lows and many people are living in isolation. Is the Are You Dead? app just a practical response to this – or something more troubling?

Cameo by Rob Doyle review

In this larky autofiction, the ups and downs of creative life are cartoonishly dramatised as the writer becomes an action hero

Release the beast! How Iron Maiden and a naked Ralph Fiennes created the ultimate big-screen needle drop

The Number of the Beast lights up an unforgettable scene in 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple thanks to director Nia DaCosta expertly blending ‘craziness and romance’

I got a fine after Cineworld cut its parking time limit

The cinema chain didn’t warn me clearly when I went to see Avatar: Fire and Ash that I needed to register my number plate

Aryan Papers review

We are in 1942 Stuttgart – though the sight of modern wheelie bins says otherwise – as a woman at a facility dedicated to breeding Aryan babies tries to smuggle two Jewish children to safety