UncategorizedIran war blows near-£12bn hole in Britain’s public finances fwadmin / October 8, 2026 FT estimates show inflation and soaring borrowing costs have slashed chancellor John Healey’s headroom in half
UncategorizedTrump’s tariffs were meant to shrink the trade deficit—but the $106 billion gap just reached its widest since before ‘Liberation Day’ fwadmin / October 8, 2026 The Trump administration has called the trade deficit a “national emergency,” but economists say it’s actually a sign of a resilient American economy.
UncategorizedOpenAI publishes solutions to more than 370 outstanding math challenges. The results divide mathematicians but most agree: Math will never be the same fwadmin / October 8, 2026 Some mathematicians celebrated OpenAI’s results. Others decried the company’s effort as an assault on their field.
UncategorizedMicrosoft shows off new Windows software, revamped for agentic AI fwadmin / October 8, 2026 At an event in San Francisco, CEO Satya Nadella showed how Microsoft’s Windows operating system will be a box for AI agents, with many tasks running locally and not on the cloud.
UncategorizedChina’s AI startups can match the U.S.’s models. They can’t yet match the U.S.’s money fwadmin / October 8, 2026 With a tenth of U.S. venture funding, China’s AI founders must find new channels to stay in the race.
UncategorizedThe important judgments for Healey in the coming Budget fwadmin / October 8, 2026 No fancy equations or AI models will illuminate the right path for the chancellor
UncategorizedChina races to build AI data centres across energy-rich hinterland fwadmin / October 8, 2026 In the first report of a three-part series, how Inner Mongolia became the engine room for the nation’s vast AI ambition
Uncategorized‘This is not sustainable’: Families with young kids are fleeing NYC’s high cost of living, and the schools are emptying out fwadmin / October 8, 2026 City Comptroller Mark Levine calls the drop from over 1 million students a decade ago as unsustainable and says affordability is a major factor.
UncategorizedKemi Badenoch’s European nightmare fwadmin / October 8, 2026 The biggest threat to this potential prime minister is that she defends an unpopular hard Brexit