Tony Blair is strong on diagnosis, deluded on prescription: Britain’s ills can’t be fixed by him

The former PM’s essay rightly calls for a coherent economic plan, but then sets too much store by AI – and a worldview stuck in the past, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott

Samsung memory chip staff in line for £310,000 bonuses after AI profit-sharing deal

Agreement averts strike and shows latest impact of AI boom as two more chipmakers join $1tn club

Kiln-free recycled tile startup agrees pilot deal with major UK supplier

Dekiln to scale up its low-carbon technology with Johnson Tiles, in boost for struggling British ceramics industry

Spotify boss defends move to AI music, saying it is better than ‘slop’

Streaming platform says remix tool agreed with Universal Music Group will protect artists from piracy

Ferrari shares fall after launch of first EV as Jony Ive design proves divisive

Some analysts question whether design of Luce, starting at $640,000, lives up to sportscar car brand’s heritage

Delivery robots are spreading across LA. Residents ‘both pity and hate them’

A region known for its lack of walkability now has more obstacles for pedestrians to contend with

Revealed: the internal BHP memo that slammed the brakes on world’s biggest miner’s climate push

Exclusive: BHP once dubbed climate change an ‘existential’ threat. But leaked documents show it has backtracked on decarbonisation at a vast network of mines

BHP defies its own climate strategy to spend hundreds of millions on polluting diesel trucks in Pilbara

Exclusive: Mining giant says technology is not yet advanced enough to run a fully electrified fleet but experts say it is hooked on federal fuel tax credits

BHP quietly scrapped plan to build Pilbara plant that would have drastically cut emissions

Exclusive: Jimblebar processing facility would have produced higher quality iron ore sought by steelmakers around the world – themselves under pressure to curb pollution

Treasury rejected ministers’ plan to cut VAT on public EV charging to 5%

Department for Transport is understood to back reducing levy, which critics have called a ‘pavement tax’

Final frontier for meds? UK startup sends drug-making into space

BioOrbit hopes drug-crystallisation technology will lead to self-injected cancer treatment that could save millions

Mars colony and Grok warnings: five strange details in SpaceX’s pitch to investors

IPO filing from Elon Musk’s company reveals look at finances, cosmic ambitions and insight into tech empire’s quirks

Number of air conditioned UK homes doubles to more than 4m in three years

Greater working from home and hot summer temperatures believed to be driving increase in ownership

Philip Kraven obituary

Other lives: IT specialist in the oil industry who started out working as a geophysicist

BT warns of smartphone price rises due to chip shortages from AI boom

Telecoms company CEO says tech firms are buying up memory chips to power datacentres relied on by AI