Several AI hackathons for developers from around the world are taking place this October. On 9–10 October, Barcelona hosted the AI Agentic Coding Hackathon. Teams of up to four people competed in
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A bruising week for technology stocks reached a crescendo on Friday as Intel (INTC) plummeted 30% and the Nasdaq Composite tumbled 2.7%, dragging the broader US market sharply lower. Alphabet’s 12% collapse
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Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh used Wednesday’s post-meeting press conference to quietly announce institutional changes that will reduce future rate-setting opportunities to as few as six per year. Starting in 2027, one
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Britain’s pool of available jobs has shrunk to 691,000, the steepest drop recorded since the beginning of the year, with the decline now stretching across nearly four years. The Office for National
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London’s blue-chip index closed Friday’s session 0.51% lower as investors digested a wave of UK economic data painting a mixed picture of the British economy. The GfK Consumer Confidence Barometer dropped sharply
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Ashtead Technology has agreed to a £505m takeover by New York-based private equity firm Ember Infrastructure Management, making it the latest London-listed company to be acquired at a significant premium. Ember Infrastructure
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The FTSE 100 closed sharply higher on Thursday, climbing 115.49 points, or 1.1%, to finish at 10,840.35, outperforming its European counterparts. The index benefited from relatively low exposure to technology stocks, which
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Wall Street economists are warning that the Federal Reserve’s fight against inflation is far from over after a hotter-than-expected producer price index reading. The PPI came in at 1.3% in September, the
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The UK economy grew by 0.1 per cent in August, defying forecasts from economists who had predicted a contraction of 0.1 per cent in the same period. A Bloomberg poll of economists
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Luca Guadagnino’s eleventh film arrives as one of the most unsettling and politically urgent biopics in recent cinema history. “Artificial” follows OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman, who launched AI chatbot ChatGPT in 2022,
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