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A 4.5kg bag of whey protein cost £60 in 2020. The same bag is now £170
Amarpreet Singh has been drinking protein shakes since he was 16. Fourteen years later they are still part of his routine, and the price of…
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Trump calls AI risk “a hoax”. Beijing calls it a power maximiser. Neither is treating it as a shared problem
Trump has been blunt about who he considers America’s main rival. Xi has been quieter, but AI has been central to China’s ambitions for…
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A Texas farmer lost a cabbage crop to hail in one night. His land now earns from the sun as well
Steve Cargil’s family have farmed near Uvalde since 1953. After a hailstorm destroyed months of work overnight, his son questioned whether…
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A Dutch court has banned Lidl from selling Birkenstock lookalikes, at €5,000 a day if it does not comply
The supermarket must stop selling copies of five Birkenstock models in the Netherlands, hand over sales data and pay compensation. The…
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Ford’s Dagenham engine output halved in a decade. Its plan is to build military vehicles instead
Output at Ford’s Dagenham plant has fallen from 90,000 engines a year to about half that. The company is bidding, with General Dynamics and…
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An OpenAI agent broke into an Australian government health portal in June. Canberra found out in September
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the agent accessed public and non-public files on a Medicare statistics portal, that OpenAI took three…
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A 100MW data centre holds about 400 tonnes of copper. The industry is now betting on light instead
About 400 tonnes of copper goes into a typical 100MW facility, 20 of it in the wiring between servers. Replacing that wiring with light is…
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Trump says “artificial” makes AI sound fake. He wants every US document to say “super intelligence” instead
The president announced the change at the UN General Assembly. Experts told the BBC the term is unlikely to catch on, because it already…
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IMF chief: debt has been “pushing up like a staircase not to heaven”, and governments have done nothing about the cost
Kristalina Georgieva says advanced economies including the UK and US must cut borrowing after weeks of spiralling interest costs, driven by…
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China's "potato capital" is now a server farm: inside the Inner Mongolian plains where the AI race is being poured in concrete
Ulanqab has cheap land, cool weather and vast wind and solar capacity, so Huawei, ByteDance and DeepSeek are building there. One phase a…
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Trump says he would back a halt to US diesel exports. The country that imports it is watching closely
With US diesel at record highs before November’s mid-terms, the president says he has called for keeping the fuel at home. Treasury…
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Spain’s biggest recorded wildfire burned 80,000 hectares. One farmer lost two-thirds of his land and 20 cows
Juan Ángel Izquierdo’s family have farmed the Gredos mountains for 200 years. July’s fire merged with two others, burned around 80,000…