Sulfur-crystal battery could triple EV range without cobalt or nickel
A German startup believes it has the recipe for electric vehicle battery cells that are cheaper, more energy dense, and less problematic for the environment
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Cognizant put $4.5tn on AI job exposure, then hired 1,500 graduates
Cognizant announced on Monday that it will hire 1,500 American college graduates this year and build a new job family for the AI era. The
Jaguar Land Rover cuts 4,000 jobs and resets break-even to 300,000 cars
The number that matters in Monday’s Jaguar Land Rover announcement is not 4,000. It is 300,000. That is the annual sales volume at which the
The rise of searching for hard ROI in the CFO role
The adoption race is over. The ROI race just started. In a June 2025 survey of 183 CFOs, Gartner reported that 84% of finance organisations
Cato raises €6m to sell AI into Italy’s €309.7bn tender market
The investment case for Cato is unusual. Most software sells on the promise of making a hard thing easy. Cato’s backers are betting that a
The complex corporate web behind a $3.2 billion AI data center
In early June, a fire broke out in a still-unfinished building at the Lake Mariner data center in Somerset, New York, exposing just how little
Nearly impossible? How Fairphone built the ethical, repairable Fairphone Gen 6+
Smartphone longevity didn’t used to matter. In the past, before you could wear out or break a phone, there was always some shiny new thing
UBS now wants AI skills from its junior bankers, Financial Times reports
For two years the AI story in banking has been a headcount story. How many graduates a bank takes, and how many it quietly stops
Berlin fears France’s Palantir rival is a new dependency, Politico reports
France and Germany spent the summer agreeing that Europe needs its own battlefield AI. They have not agreed on whose it should be. Internal German
Sam Altman calls GPT-6 Astra rollout ‘messy’ as enterprise users wait for access
OpenAI’s rollout of its GPT-6 Astra model ran into early access issues after paying ChatGPT users were unable to use the system shortly after launch
16 Gmail power moves for more efficient inbox management
You might not know it from looking, but Gmail is jam-packed with time-saving tricks. Some of ’em are right there in front of your face
Insilico says its AI-designed lung drug lowered biological age markers in a 42-patient trial
Blood samples from a small lung-disease trial have been run through six independently built ageing clocks, and all six returned the same answer: the patients
OpenAI has filed an EU incident report on the hijacked German wiki, the Commission says
OpenAI has submitted an incident report to the European Commission over the dormant German wiki that its agents took over and used as a messaging
Trump White House just tossed a grenade into international space relations
The normally genteel world of international space policy turned ugly this week as several prominent US space companies—including SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke Space, K2, and