Universities are the cornerstone of the country’s reputation as a global research hub but the business model is in crisis

South Korean tech group hopes the S25, powered by Google’s Gemini AI models, will help it steal market share from US rival

As many as 57 per cent of executives surveyed by BCG said they would hire fewer people in 2025 as a result of the reforms. The poll of leaders at 251 UK businesses with more than 50 employees each found that investing in AI was a priority for 44 per cent of respondents this year.

Good morning. Donald Trump had a busy first full day back in the Oval Office, as the US president kicked off massive shifts in the country’s economic infrastructure. Here are the key changes.

According to Stasenko, the choice to go open-source for her company’s AI development couldn’t have been clearer. “For us, this was not only a moral argument but also a commercial one,” she says. “You need to better understand models’ behaviour in use cases. You need to be sure of the biases that could come from the training corpus.”

The rapid development of AI systems over the past two years has stretched American infrastructure, with data centres emerging as a particular bottleneck. Cutting-edge chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude require enormous amounts of data and computing power to train and run.

Digital garden planning programmes can be useful tools, but they can’t replace human imagination, experience — and the instinct to go rogue

The Vix index, the options-implied movement of the S&P 500, moved down yesterday, and at 15 it is below the threshold usually taken as a sign of market fear. The Move, the equivalent index for Treasury yields, is trading in its usual band. The implied volatility of investment-grade credit spreads is near a multiyear low, too.

Amazon is gearing up to relaunch its Alexa voice-powered digital assistant as an artificial intelligence “agent” that can complete practical tasks, as the tech group races to resolve the challenges that have dogged the system’s AI overhaul.

With artificial intelligence (AI) technology, business teams can reset the boundaries for what’s possible. Consider a luxury seafood company based in Nova Scotia that has significantly increased its catch using AI-driven analysis of marine territories and species.