In spite of glitches, the tech sector is certain that voice is the next frontier in AI

FTSE 250 company briefly hits £1bn valuation on signs of a surge in demand for its credit card-sized computers

But it has shocked Kevin Hassett to his very core

Kevin Hassett calls report showing US consumers and businesses are facing burden of levies ‘an embarrassment’

Spanish government seeks ‘influential and meaningful position’ at helm of Eurozone central bank

Move involving 6,500 claimants is set to put pressure on other universities to compensate graduates

Nationalists on the continent have historically opposed America more than anything else

Party’s new ‘shadow chancellor’ is seeking to present a more conservative economic policy platform

Ukrainian president says US will monitor future truce, but he sees no breakthrough on political issues

The founder of the $4bn UK start-up talks about his mission to reinvent content creation and how Europe can compete in the global AI race

Shipping engines and heat pumps business is being valued at between €5bn and €6bn

Data increases odds of a BoE rate reduction as soon as next month

Central banker wants to give Macron and Merz chance to pick successor before French presidential election

Regulator’s planned climbdown follows lobbying by banks and car groups with in-house lenders

Sequoia Capital leading funding deal for David Silver’s start-up Ineffable Intelligence at $4bn valuation

Arguments about the dangers of falling fertility deserve much closer scrutiny

Policy decisions grounded in Maga talking points are helping to fuel a PhD exodus from government

Bending UK’s fiscal rules would risk bond market backlash and self-defeating rise in borrowing costs

Giving birth is getting riskier, midwives are stretched to exhaustion and families must navigate a lottery of care

New ‘shadow chancellor’ Robert Jenrick to make commitment in a speech to the City as populist party seeks to calm nerves

Former prime minister Gordon Brown alleges women were trafficked in and out of Britain through facility near London

Teachers’ unions say regulators should look at private equity giant’s apparent ‘lack of candour’

Former Mobileum employees ‘inflated’ revenues to drive up valuation before buyout, prosecutors allege

Personal documents including passports belonging to hundreds of attendees of ADFW found online