Jensen Huang has heard the warnings. He is not buying them. The Nvidia chief runs the world’s most valuable company on the back of the AI boom. So when he calls the darkest predictions about that boom “complete nonsense,” it is worth asking whether he …
Denis Machuel runs the world’s largest staffing company, which makes his read on the labour market worth pausing over. This week the Adecco Group chief executive offered it plainly: artificial intelligence is remaking work, but it is not about to empty…
In 1914, Sigmund Freud borrowed a figure from Ovid and handed psychology one of its most durable terms. In his essay On Narcissism, the myth of Narcissus, the youth who fell in love with his own reflection and wasted away in front of it, became a way o…
The four largest US technology companies are on course to spend close to $700bn on artificial intelligence infrastructure this year, and the cost is starting to show up in the one figure that is hard to dress up: free cash flow. An analysis by Reuters,…
Britain wants to triple its data centre capacity by 2030. The trade body for the country’s water companies has told ministers there is not enough water to run them. Water UK, which represents England’s water suppliers, told MPs this week that the gover…
When Elizabeth Stone talks about the future of work at Netflix, she keeps circling back to a phrase that is easy to say and hard to pin down. Speaking on Lenny’s Podcast in mid-July, the streamer’s chief product and technology officer described “AI flu…
Samsung Electronics has pulled its scattered robotics work into a single business division that reports straight to the chief executive, a structural move meant to turn hardware ambition into a genuine growth engine. The new unit, called RX, or Robotic…
SpaceX has moved the next launch attempt of its Starship rocket to Thursday, 23 July, the latest delay for a flight that has now been scrubbed once and rescheduled twice. The company had been targeting Monday evening from its Starbase site at Boca Chic…
On Saturday, American opposition to data centres stopped being a scatter of zoning-board arguments and started behaving like a movement. More than 140 rallies across 42 states unfolded under a single banner, in what organisers billed as the first natio…
ASML has spent 2026 getting steadily, expensively larger. The Dutch company whose machines print the world’s most advanced chips is now Europe’s most valuable listed business, worth around $700bn (€600bn), and enough of the investors who own it now say…