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A sell-off driven by disappointing earnings and anxiety over the scale of AI capital spending knocked nearly $1tn off the Nasdaq in a week, with Intel and Alphabet bearing the heaviest losses.
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8 briefingsJohn Healey's first budget doubles the bank profit surcharge to 6% for 15 months and adds 2p to tax on property and savings income, funding a £100 payment to 20 million households as the OBR cuts its growth outlook.
Zhang Yiming has reclaimed the top spot on China's Hurun rich list with a $100bn fortune, up 43%, as ByteDance's AI push and the Doubao assistant lift him above a polarised field of Chinese wealth.
Microsoft has opened a voluntary exit offer to roughly 60,000 employees, about a quarter of its global workforce, in the US, Canada, India and the UK, as it plans $175bn of AI infrastructure spending in 2026.
Anthropic has publicly filed for a US stock market listing under the symbol ANT, disclosing rapid revenue growth, heavy losses and an explicit warning that advanced AI could pose catastrophic or existential risks to humanity.
UK inflation jumps as war-driven fuel costs lift CPI to 3.5%, its highest in almost a year. Borrowing overshot forecasts and a November rate rise now looks close to priced in, one week before the Budget.
A critical flaw in PHP, the language behind much of the web, took government and council sites offline across Europe and beyond, while PHP maintainers accused security firm Chainguard of breaking a coordinated disclosure embargo.
Elon Musk has confirmed that Tesla and SpaceX are exploring a merger, saying the idea has 'a lot of merit', as SpaceX reports its first quarterly profit since listing and Tesla's own earnings disappoint.
The jobless rate fell unexpectedly to 4.7%, yet vacancies dropped to 691,000 as smaller businesses pulled back on recruitment, citing labour costs, in the last official labour market snapshot before the Budget.
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