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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Finland’s Down’s model Maija Mattila makes strides on catwalk
Marissa Tammisalo When a mixed-race girl with Down’s syndrome sat down to watch Finland’s Next Top Model, it might have seemed a distant world. But for Maija Mattila, it started the dream that changed her life. Maija watched in awe as the tall, dark, aspiring model walked in front of judges of the reality TV […]
AI chip giant Nvidia’s shares sink despite record sales of $30bn
Shares in Nvidia have fallen despite the artificial intelligence (AI) chip giant comfortably beating expectations after more than doubling its sales. Nvidia announced record revenues of $30bn (£24.7bn) over a three-month period. The company has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of the AI boom, with its stock market value soaring to more than $3 […]
Who are the candidates and what’s at stake?
AFP Ghana is due to get a new president after December’s election. The current vice-president, Mahamudu Bawumia, and a former head of state, John Mahama, are the two leading candidates in contention to win the poll. Nana Akufo-Addo, first elected in 2016, is coming to the end of his second and final four-year term. When […]
Chinese firm fined $1.3bn for illegal production of rabies vaccine
Getty Images This is not the first time substandard vaccines have been produced in China A Chinese vaccination firm has been fined $1.3bn (£988m) after it was found to have illegally produced the human rabies vaccine. The company also falsified production data for the vaccine. This is not the first major vaccine scandal to hit […]
Film studio launches £250,000 education fund
A Surrey film studio has launched a £250,000 fund to support film and media teaching to young people. Shepperton Studios, part of the Pinewood Group, said it wants to raise awareness of the sector and routes in to the industry for the next generation of filmmakers. The “Virtual Academy” fund of up to £50,000 per […]
UK supermarkets face tomato shortages
SWNS Supplies of some fruit and vegetables, including tomatoes, to UK supermarkets have been disrupted by poor weather in Europe and Africa. The British Retail Consortium (BRC) said that harvests had been hit by “difficult weather conditions”. Numerous pictures of empty shelves in supermarkets have been circulating on social media in recent days. Sources within […]