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Oxford spin-off builds low-cost jet engines for drones automated-news
Oxford spin-off builds low-cost jet engines for drones

Project backed by Ministry of Defence comes as companies race to build fast interceptors to counter Russian attacks

15 Sep 2026
BYD's $34,000 Chinese SUVs Are Stirring Up German Automaker Angst automated-news
BYD's $34,000 Chinese SUVs Are Stirring Up German Automaker Angst

These are bleak times for European auto workers. Job loss announcements are coming thick and fast, with Volkswagen AG cutting 100,000 employees and Jaguar Land Rover Automotive Plc axing roughly 10% of its staff. Life is also tough for suppliers.

15 Sep 2026
Three Patrons, Three Clients: The Mecca Alliance No One Owns automated-news
Three Patrons, Three Clients: The Mecca Alliance No One Owns

Every alliance contains a struggle over who gets to decide what the alliance is for. The unusual thing about the Mecca Alliance, formally known as the “Mecca Joint Defence Agreement,” is that all three of its members appear to believe they possess something that should give them that privilege: Saud

15 Sep 2026
Anthropic's $2 Trillion IPO Is Still On. And So Is the AI Race automated-news
Anthropic's $2 Trillion IPO Is Still On. And So Is the AI Race

An essay from Anthropic PBC’s Dario Amodei saying artificial intelligence companies must “pace the frontier” has got the world talking about a slowdown in their most cutting-edge research. OpenAI’s Sam Altman and SpaceX’s Elon Musk publicly agreed with the post. But don’t expect their companies to s

15 Sep 2026
Traders Are at Odds With ECB and BOE on Scale of Rate Hikes automated-news
Traders Are at Odds With ECB and BOE on Scale of Rate Hikes

Traders are increasingly diverging from central bankers on the outlook for interest-rate hikes in Europe.

15 Sep 2026
Republicans Are Right to Be Worried About Ohio automated-news
Republicans Are Right to Be Worried About Ohio

How badly are things going for Republicans in what for more than a decade has been the reliably red state of Ohio? Just ask Jon Husted.

15 Sep 2026
Amazon's AWS is unable to restore access to Bahrain, one UAE cloud data zone after war damage - Reuters automated-news
Amazon's AWS is unable to restore access to Bahrain, one UAE cloud data zone after war damage - Reuters

Amazon's AWS is unable to restore access to Bahrain, one UAE cloud data zone after war damage Reuters

15 Sep 2026
Scott Bessent’s wobbly house automated-news
Scott Bessent’s wobbly house

Politics seems to be messing with the US Treasury secretary’s head

15 Sep 2026
UK state pension will surpass income tax threshold next year automated-news
UK state pension will surpass income tax threshold next year

Labour pledge to keep state pension out of tax puts pressure on chancellor to raise allowance or find workaround

15 Sep 2026
The Debasement Trade Splits as Gold and Bitcoin Bets Diverge automated-news
The Debasement Trade Splits as Gold and Bitcoin Bets Diverge

With Treasuries sinking and the dollar falling this year, Bitcoin and gold are again being touted as hedges against currency debasement.

15 Sep 2026
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