Apple’s next iPad Pro and MacBook Pro redesign are coming in 2027
Apple’s next iPad Pro and MacBook Pro redesign are coming in 2027

Apple is preparing a refreshed iPad Pro lineup and a redesigned entry-level MacBook Pro for release in the first half of 2027, according to Bloomberg. The iPad Pro update keeps its current 11-inch and 13-inch sizes but focuses on internal changes, and …

China and US risks leave Europe’s chip sector facing a bleak future, report warns
China and US risks leave Europe’s chip sector facing a bleak future, report warns

A new report from the EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) and the French think tank Institut Montaigne warns that Europe’s semiconductor sector faces a bleak future, squeezed between Chinese export controls and a growing dependence on US technolo…

AI’s hopes and fears take over the world’s big central-bank gathering
AI’s hopes and fears take over the world’s big central-bank gathering

Every summer the world’s most powerful central bankers decamp to a hillside town outside Lisbon to argue about the economy in relative calm. This year the argument had a single organising subject, and it was not inflation in the usual sense. It was art…

UN’s first global AI science panel warns the window to govern the technology is closing
UN’s first global AI science panel warns the window to govern the technology is closing

Artificial intelligence is advancing faster than governments can regulate it, and the world’s first global scientific body on the technology says the moment to act is now. That is the conclusion of the preliminary report from the UN Independent Interna…

Bank of England’s Breeden warns AI agents could trigger market meltdowns
Bank of England’s Breeden warns AI agents could trigger market meltdowns

Deputy governor Sarah Breeden says autonomous trading agents could amplify volatility if they all react the same way at once, and may demand new rules. The nightmare a central banker describes is rarely a crash. It is a feedback loop. Speaking at the E…

Jon and Mindy Gray bet $55M on AI to catch cancer before it starts
Jon and Mindy Gray bet $55M on AI to catch cancer before it starts

A new institute at Penn’s Basser Center will use artificial intelligence and biomarkers to intercept hereditary cancers at their earliest stages, before they become disease. The idea behind the gift is unusual enough to need its own word. Most cancer p…

Visa says AI investment and digital commerce are carrying the global economy
Visa says AI investment and digital commerce are carrying the global economy

The payments giant’s midyear outlook forecasts 2.4% global growth in 2026, crediting an investment boom and online price competition for absorbing the strain of higher energy costs. The company that sees a slice of nearly every card swipe on the planet…

Call-centre stocks slide as investors worry AI makes them uninvestable
Call-centre stocks slide as investors worry AI makes them uninvestable

A guidance cut from Concentrix dragged the sector down and hardened a fear that automated agents are eroding the business of answering the phone. The fear that artificial intelligence would hollow out the call-centre business has been hanging over the …

StanChart’s former AI chief joins Accenture as Southeast Asia head
StanChart’s former AI chief joins Accenture as Southeast Asia head

David Hardoon, who left Standard Chartered after less than a year, will lead advanced AI for the region at a consultancy betting heavily on enterprise adoption. The corporate AI leadership market moves quickly enough that a year now counts as a tenure….

As a deadly heatwave grips Europe, Rome leans on a bracelet to watch its elderly
As a deadly heatwave grips Europe, Rome leans on a bracelet to watch its elderly

Dina Gazzella is 85, and on her wrist is a small black band that looks like a watch and does rather more than tell the time. “If I feel unwell, this is a lifesaver,” she told Reuters. In a summer that has turned lethal across Europe, that is not a figu…