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The Brexit bill comes due: ten years, seven prime ministers, and an economy 6% smaller than it should be

Ten years ago today, 52% of the British electorate voted to leave the European Union. The decade that followed delivered seven prime ministers, a permanently weakened currency, and an economy that a landmark study now estimates is between 6% and 8% smaller than it would have been had the country voted to remain. On Monday, […]

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Why corporate AI super PACs spent $27 million on a local election

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Elon Musk and the plot to hijack America’s broadband

At 9PM ET on the night of May 28th, a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket sat on the launchpad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The craft was in the middle of a hot-fire test awaiting the arrival of Amazon Leo satellites, the first of 24 batches to be shuttled into low Earth orbit […]

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China hits back at the Pentagon with curbs on 56 US firms

China’s new trade curbs target 56 US companies, from rare-earth miners to drone makers. It is direct retaliation for Washington adding Chinese firms to its military blacklist. China has answered the Pentagon’s blacklist with one of its own. On Monday, Beijing aimed trade curbs at 56 American companies. The measures hit drone makers and defence […]

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France just put another €13bn into the funding model the rest of Europe wants to copy

France has found another €13bn for its tech sector. And it barely cost the state a thing. The money comes through Tibi, a programme that nudges French insurers and pension funds to back venture and growth funds instead of safer, lower-yield assets. The finance ministry announced this third phase at VivaTech on Friday. The goal […]

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Trump mocked Zuckerberg and Bezos for ‘first-class groveling’, new book claims

A new book paints an unflattering picture of how Silicon Valley’s most powerful men handled Donald Trump’s return to power. According to its authors, they grovelled. And Trump, they write, mocked them for it behind their backs. The book is “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump”, by the New York Times reporters […]

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The US says one of ASML’s top chip tools is in China. ASML says it isn’t.

The US has accused the one company on Earth that makes the machines behind cutting-edge chips of letting one slip into China. It has not shown its proof, and the company says it never happened. In a series of recent meetings, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told ASML’s senior leaders that Washington believes one of its […]

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