AI firms must be clear on risks or repeat tobacco’s mistakes, says Anthropic chief

Artificial intelligence will become smarter than ‘most or all humans in most or all ways’, says Dario Amodei

WPP shares leap amid takeover bid speculation

Advertising group declines to comment on reports of interest from rival Havas and private equity groups Apollo and KKR

A new generation of younger workers are being derided as delusional and unreliable, just as millennials were

Move to give mayors powers to raise funds through levies, but industry says it will ramp up prices and inflation

Former Beatle and artists including Sam Fender, Kate Bush and Hans Zimmer record silent LP Is This What We Want

Sarah Pritchard suggests City regulator will make use of oversight powers amid growing number of outages

November drop of 1.8% is biggest for this time of year since 2012, with chancellor’s plans looming

Move threatens to throw open parts of secretive legal battle on Channel island about ex-Chelsea owner’s wealth

Other lives: Head of programme planning for Granada Television in Manchester for 20 years

Do small business owners think that Visa and Mastercard won’t just recoup their fees elsewhere?

From mobiles to insurance and subscriptions, firms are able to exploit the fact they know more than customers

The White House has made it a top priority to return the rare-earth industry to US shores. But is it really feasible?

Experts say air traffic controllers quickly returning to work, with promise of full back pay, and even $10,000 bonus

In the local authority where people have the least spare cash there are hopes the chancellor will instil change

Paul Nowak says OBR should be modernised to ditch ‘hardwired’ support for austerity economics