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On The Record
Oct 24, 2026
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8 min read
Tariffs got suspiciously well-timed, Apple's newest phone folded in half and sold out anyway. And AI's appetite for concrete and copper just got a trillion-dollar price tag.
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Oct 23, 2026
4 min read
Washington told its federal agencies to rip out a Chinese AI model over security fears. Forty-eight hours later, the lab behind it was swimming in fresh cash. So who, exactly, just got squeezed, and what does it mean for your AI bill?
5 min read
For ten years, everyone said the safest career bet was learning to code. One of Britain's biggest banks has just complicated that advice. Here's who's exposed, who's spinning, and which small businesses might quietly come out ahead.
Twenty-six sentences. One state, one very ambitious calculator. And a bill that would make even Silicon Valley wince, plus a legal question that could turn every corporate press release into a ticking liability.
9 min read
Elon Musk pulled up a chair at Hollywood's most indebted dinner table. Meanwhile, a British banking giant decided its spreadsheets could do 5,000 people's jobs.
Oct 22, 2026
One of AI's most prominent safety signatories turns out to be one of its biggest political spenders. The hypocrisy row is the noisy part. The real fight is over who writes the rulebook, and your business will be playing by it.
Is a punt on Sunday's game a gamble or a financial derivative? One billionaire founder insists the law couldn't be clearer. Forty states, plus Washington, D.C., beg to differ, and nine Supreme Court justices may soon get the final word.
A Fortune 500 finance chief just said the quiet part out loud about bosses who never switch off. Those late-night emails are teaching your team something. It's probably not the lesson you had in mind.
OpenAI has found a way to make money from the hundreds of millions of people who never pay it a penny. The rollout is moving faster than anyone expected. And somewhere in Mountain View, Google's ad team just went very quiet.
A courtroom, a decades-old programming language and Elon Musk's latest grand plan all collided yesterday. Only one of them came with a bill big enough to fund a state's schools.
Oct 21, 2026
One of Detroit’s oldest names now wants its scorecards covered in red. Its battery chief is backing a chemistry most of the industry calls a long shot. Is this bold reinvention, or a very expensive way to stall?
One airline boss just said the quiet part about inequality out loud. The catch? His own payslip is doing a lot of the talking. Courage, hypocrisy, or a warning sign every founder should be reading closely?
While most retailers are quietly shrinking their festive hiring, one giant is doing the exact opposite. The numbers are big, the pay is pointed and the perks are new. Here's what it means for everyone chasing the same workers.
Rival banks rarely agree on anything. On Tuesday morning, they all went quiet at exactly the same moment. Here's what one London power failure reveals about the fuse box your business probably shares with them.
The rate pause everyone wanted turned out to come with a sequel. Plus: the giant hiring like it's 2021, and the morning Britain's banking apps went dark.
Oct 20, 2026
A company younger than most phone contracts has just signed one of the biggest AI infrastructure deals going. The client is a frontier lab and the sums are eye-watering. The catch is hiding in the timing.
One chipmaker has a staff retention rate the rest of tech would kill for. Is it the culture, or the share price doing the heavy lifting? We weighed both, and found lessons for firms without Nvidia money.
A New Jersey divorce is about far more than who keeps the house. It could reshape who runs an $80bn quant fund, and outside investors are watching closely. Founders, your shareholder agreement deserves a nervous second look.
One AI lab built a fund. One rocket billionaire wants to send every American kid a share of his company. Both say they're sharing the spoils of the tech boom, but neither has shown us all the paperwork yet.
Elon Musk wants to hand every American kid a slice of his rocket company. Meanwhile, the AI arms race just got a $45 billion price tag.
Oct 19, 2026
Silicon Valley’s AI plan is to build bigger. The World Bank’s is to build smaller, cheaper and offline. One of them may have misread where the next billion users actually are, and the answer isn’t obvious.
The world’s favourite toy company has found a new target customer, and they’re old enough to hire a car. Its revenue just jumped 21% on the back of it. The question is whose fans Lego is really building for.
Ford wants Europe to fall back in love with its cars, and it's promising rally-inspired fun to do it. The catch is who's actually building them. And the first ones won't land until 2028, which in car years is basically forever.
A data centre in Essex just lost its star tenant. The culprit isn't a boardroom bust-up. It's a plug socket that may not work until the 2030s, and that could matter for every British business betting on AI.
Microsoft just walked away from a giant AI bet in Britain, and the reason is painfully unglamorous. Plus: a jittery earnings week and a satellite spat with real stakes.
