From ChatGPT to Replika, the MIT professor illustrates an alarming rise in the use of bots as substitutes for human company — ...

Data group behind Mergermarket and Dealogic that has made billionaire owner one of Italy’s richest men says it aims to pay back lenders in full ...

Palmer Luckey’s defence tech start-up to invest $3.7bn as Trump attempts to reduce dependence on leading ‘prime’ contractors ...

Their chagrin, as shareholders at least, is understandable. So-called “acqui-hires” are one way of buying the guts of a business without triggering antitrust processes that apply to conventional ...

Far-right presidential frontrunner wants to cap borrowing at 60% of GDP and reduce budget deficit but analysts are sceptical ...

Dublin will record another budget surplus this year but faces warnings it is too reliant on volatile tax revenues from US ...

Shares in FTSE 250 retailer fall 11% after mobile users receive message threatening to leak unspecified material ...

Archer, who has died aged 86, led a bustling life as a Conservative politician and one of the bestselling novelists of the past half century. He claimed to have sold more than 300mn books in more than ...

The new law of modern asset management seems to be that anything that can conceivably be put into an ETF will be put into an ...

Head of world’s largest independent oil trader says shipping squeeze is creating new bottleneck despite increased Gulf flows ...

Trump is fuming despite the success his administration has had before this court, including with votes from Gorsuch, ...

Secular thinkers as well have shored up the notion that we are living through the end times, from Peter Turchin’s prognosis of societal collapse to Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor’s recent warnings about ...