Klarna: AI lets us cut thousands of jobs
The buy now, pay later firm Klarna is seeking to get rid of almost half its employees in the coming years through efficiencies it says arise out of its investment in artificial intelligence (AI). The firm has already cut its workforce from 5,000 to 3,800 in the past year, and wants to reduce that to […]
Wales needs to ditch ‘sheep, rain and rugby’ brand
Getty Images Should Wales move away from sheep, wet weather and rugby motifs? Wales needs a rebrand in order to get away from “sheep, wet weather and… rugby,” tourism industry bosses have said. Zip World director Sean Taylor made the plea while saying the country should instead promote adventure tourism, food and drink and heritage […]
Christine Lagarde resigns as head of IMF
Getty Images Christine Lagarde has become known as the “rock star” of international finance Christine Lagarde has said she will step down as managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It comes ahead of a decision on her nomination to become head of the European Central Bank (ECB). Ms Lagarde said she would leave […]
‘Hologram’ lecturers to teach students at Imperial College London
Imperial College London University classes are set to be given a futuristic spin by letting lecturers appear as hologram-like apparitions beamed in from afar. Imperial College London will show off the technology at a special event later on Thursday before deploying it more widely. It believes it will be the first academic body to do […]
World Squash: Laura Massaro reaches last eight in Penang
English fourth seed Alison Waters suffered a shock 11-3 11-9 7-11 11-3 defeat to Egypt’s Nour El Sherbini. “Not the best after my birthday,” Waters, who turned 30 on Wednesday, told the Women’s Squash Association website., external “But Sherbini played really well. She was confident and was controlling the ‘T’. The headstart she had was […]
TikTok sparks debate on American vs European noses
Getty Images The old cliché says it’s good to stop and smell the roses. If you believe a series of viral videos, you may appreciate them more if you grew up in the US. It started with an offhand comment about the weather from a friend of Harrison Szep, a 23-year-old UK migrant living in […]
Unison endorses Sir Keir Starmer
PA Media London MP Sir Keir Starmer is a former director of public prosecutions Sir Keir Starmer has won the backing of the UK’s largest trade union, Unison, to become the next Labour leader. Unison, which has 1.3 million members, said the shadow Brexit secretary was best placed of the candidates to unite the party […]
Harassment victims at Google gain more power
Reuters Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California Google employees will now be able to more freely speak out over issues of sexual harassment at the firm. Responding to demands from the around 20,000 workers who protested last week, the company has said it will end the practice of “forced arbitration” in cases of sexual harassment. […]
Nicol David says squash’s British Open fails to showcase women
“You have a women’s world champion,” David said, referring to her English rival Laura Massaro. “Why not put them all on the glass court? That’s what makes sense.” She added: “There are also so many English players in the top 10 or top 12 and they are all here – surely you want to display […]
Are AI-created recipes hard to swallow?
Dodo Pizza Dodo Pizza did not put the AI-created blueberry and breakfast cereal pizza on sale “We asked [popular AI chatbot] ChatGPT to create a recipe – the best pizza for Dubai,” says Spartak Arutyunyan, who heads menu development for the city’s branch of restaurant and delivery chain Dodo Pizza. “And it did create a […]