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Stop shielding UK royals from parliamentary scrutiny, says Labour peer
Rules banning scrutiny of the royal family in parliament must be changed in light of the continuing scandals about Prince Andrew, a Labour peer has said. Lord Foulkes is seeking a meeting this week with the clerk of the parliaments Simon Burton, who is head of the House of Lords …
JPMorgan’s $4bn delivery of gold bullion adds to fears Trump’s tariffs will reshape global trade
US banking giant JPMorgan plans to deliver $4bn of gold bullion weighing more than 937 tons to New York this month, before an anticipated escalation of Donald Trump’s trade-rebalancing-tariff moves planned for Saturday.
The US bank, the world’s biggest bullion dealer, said it would deliver the hefty raw material, weighed …
Party central: inside the Mayfair club where Reform plotted to take on ‘the establishment’
Unstoppable Galopin Des Champs surges to Irish Gold Cup hat-trick
There was a moment just after the line in the Irish Gold Cup on Saturday, as Paul Townend stood up in the irons on Galopin Des Champs to acknowledge the acclaim from the packed stands, when the nine-year-old grabbed the bit and pulled for his head, apparently frustrated that he …
Was this the week DeepSeek started the slow unwinding of the AI bet?
At 2.16pm California time last Sunday, the US billionaire tech investor Marc Andreessen called it. “DeepSeek R1 is AI’s Sputnik moment,” he posted on X.
A Chinese startup, operating since 2023 and helmed by a millennial mathematician, had unveiled a new chatbot that seemed to equal the performance of America’s …
AI is not just powerful. What’s really worrying is that DeepSeek has made it cheap, too | John Naughton
Nothing cheers up a tech columnist more than the sight of
$600bn being wiped off the market cap of an overvalued tech giant in a single day
. And yet last Monday that’s what happened to Nvidia, the leading maker of electronic picks and shovels for the AI …DeepSeek, ChatGPT, Grok … which is the best AI assistant? We put them to the test
Barclays IT glitch locks customers out of accounts for almost 24 hours
A serious IT glitch has left some Barclays customers locked out of their accounts throughout the night and almost 24 hours on from the bank’s initial outage.
Barclays has apologised to customersand said it was “currently facing intermittent errors” with its payment system. “We’re working to fix this as quickly …
‘Dark and dingy’ or ‘a real loss’? Shoppers react to possible loss of WH Smith
Just two shop floor staff are on duty and shoppers are mostly serving themselves at shouty automated tills in WH Smith’s Stevenage branch, where there are boxes of goods on the floor, some empty shelves and missing signage.
Set in a faded shopping centre that was cutting-edge when it heralded …
Small UK businesses complain of being caught unawares by EU ‘red tape’
Small businesses are warning they have had to pause selling their products in the European Union and Northern Ireland since mid-December while they work out how to comply with new EU product safety regulations that caught many of them unawares.
Skye Weavers, a small family business on the Isle of …