Moving Markets today: FTSE 100 in red to begin the year but oil rises January 3, 2024 Moving Markets Today: Asia Stocks Mirror Wall Street Decline, Apple at Seven-Week Low, Oil Prices Rise; Focus Shifts to Fed Minutes, U.S. Jobs Report, and Eurozone Inflation
Govt boots legal but harmful provision from online safety bill November 28, 2022 The “legal but harmful” provision has been formally scrapped from the online safety bill, in a push to water down moderation and put greater focus on free speech protection. The provision, which would have allowed tech firms to remove content that wasn’t actually illegal, sparked controversy across free speech advocates raising concerns around overcensorship. However, [...]
Back to work: Musk tells Tesla staff to return to offices or face the sack June 1, 2022 Elon Musk has weighed in on the working from home debate, urging Tesla staff to get back to the office.
Monopolies hire too many pointless managers and kill off productivity growth April 19, 2023 Does your boss - or the economy - really need you?
The Notebook: Gavin Poole on AI, London’s esports crown and virtual reality skills June 7, 2023 The Notebook is where interesting people say interesting things. Today, it’s Gavin Poole, chief executive of Stratford tech hub Here East. Friend or foe? Why we should avoid snap calls on the future of artificial intelligence Last week, almost every front page of our national newspapers quoted the ‘AI pioneers’ warning us that AI advancements [...]
The recession could become an opportunity to reskill our workforce January 5, 2023 The job market has undoubtedly taken a hit over the past months. A rapidly rising cost of living has been followed by a wave of layoffs from global companies at the end of last year, including Google, Meta and Amazon. There could be more to come. Although unemployment is not at worrying levels right now, [...]
Amazon workers planning walkout at US HQ after return-to-office mandate, layoffs and environmental concerns May 31, 2023 Amazon workers upset about recent lay-offs, a return-to-office mandate and the company’s environmental impact are planning a walkout at the company’s Seattle headquarters. The lunchtime protest comes a week after Amazon’s annual shareholder meeting and a month after a policy took effect requiring workers to return to the office three days per week. “We respect [...]
The importance of building a brand in the metaverse September 6, 2022 Charles Stanton, CMO of Forj, sets out the case for why you need to get involved in the metaverse before it's too late.
WhatsApp down globally, 40m Brits and hundreds of millions impacted around the world October 25, 2022 Meta-owned messaging app WhatsApp went down for over an hour this morning in dozens of countries around the world, including the UK, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Kenya, India, France and most of the United States and Canada. City A.M. can confirm that the outage was for both personal chats as well as group chats and hundreds [...]
We can’t wait for Big Tech to monitor deepfakes, it’s on us to decipher what is real November 21, 2023 In a world of deepfakes, AI regulation can only go so far; we must also take responsibility to separate fact from fiction, writes Anna Moloney.