Ministers pledge record £410m to support UK nuclear fusion energy
Ed Miliband says funding pledge means Britain within ‘grasping distance’ of ‘secure, clean, unlimited energy’
Meta to fire thousands of staff as Zuckerberg warns of ‘intense year’
Company reveals plans to cut about 5% of its global workforce days after saying it would get rid of factcheckers
Keir Starmer is right to gamble on an AI revolution, but it might not pay out in time
The cash to match the prime minister’s ambition will have to come from other budgets long before any benefits are seen, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
US sues Elon Musk for allegedly failing to disclose early Twitter stock purchase
Financial regulator alleges Musk later acquired shares of company at ‘artificially low prices’, stiffing shareholders
Could Keir Starmer’s AI dream derail his own green energy promise?
As PM pins hopes on AI, what effect will building energy-hungry datacentres have on Labour’s clean power pledge?
‘Don’t allow you to go to the bathroom’: big tech’s call center workers in Greece on strike
Workers at Teleperformance, customer support company for Apple, Google and Netflix, accuse it of union busting and surveillance
Google investigated by UK watchdog over search dominance
CMA to look at impact on consumers, businesses, advertisers and publishers, as well as collection of data
Amazon makes ‘largest ever’ UK order of electric trucks to cut carbon emissions
Online retailer will also begin its first large-scale deliveries by train and trial heavy post-style carts
No 10 says Starmer does expect Reeves to stay as chancellor until general election – UK politics live
Downing Street says prime minster has ‘full confidence’ in chancellor and will be working with her ‘in role of chancellor’ for the whole of this parliament
Water shortage fears as Labour’s first AI growth zone sited close to new reservoir
First datacentre site proposed seven miles from Abingdon reservoir planned for water-stressed south-east England
Apple asks investors to block proposal to scrap diversity programmes
Conservative thinktank wants firm to end its DEI efforts because they create ‘litigation, reputational and financial risks’
Why Starmer and Reeves are pinning their hopes on AI to drive growth in UK
The PM and chancellor believe AI will help British workers produce more, raising wages and releasing spare capital
Small businesses are not all in with artificial intelligence – yet
Reports say AI adoption is ‘surging’ among small businesses. But these likely inflated claims help boost their brands
Osamu Suzuki obituary
Suzuki chairman who over half a century grew the company into one of the world’s largest car and motorcycle manufacturers
From the Beatles to biologics – how Liverpool became a life science hotspot
The city has a long history with tropical medicine and is now home to one of the largest biotech clusters in Europe