Accruing income at home from land and power abroad has an old name: empire

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The sector’s huge capital needs are forcing companies and countries to rethink how they borrow money

Deputy prime minister is an unabashed evangelist for the technology even as some fear it could pose catastrophic risks

Launch of Muse by Meta has provided a glimpse of how the technology could be turned into a mass-market product

Oracle’s force majeure notice on a New Mexico data center raises questions about AI demand, data center spending and the AI bubble.

The sector’s growth was built on a clear bargain with investors. That has now broken down

Wall Street finds new way to turn tech giants’ credit strength into cheaper funding for AI build-out

OpenAI’s resurgence, cheap rivals and safety fears test faith in durability of business model

Returns from funds launched during the frenzied period of 2019 to 2021 are likely to struggle to meet expectations

Games without frontiers

A change in tone

As microfinance has expanded in India, so have efforts to regulate the sector. The competing regulatory authority of the state governments and the central bank have produced unexpected refusals by ...

A thorough examination of the worldwide digital transformation of people’s everyday monetary and financial relations driven by the emergence of FinTech

Analysts say large paper windfalls on investments in OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX have muddied the tech sector’s earnings metrics

And what tech, the new black sheep, can learn from it

Payments company’s purchase of OpenRouter makes strategic sense

Deal marks largest contract awarded to Big Four firms in at least a decade

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

Shifting power from big banks to people. We collaborate with policymakers, the public and economists around the world so we can redesign our economic system for a better world and a healthy planet.

Private capital firms are wagering that the crucial hardware will hold its value for years to come

Private credit, chip leases and data centre guarantees underpin a vast new model for AI spending

Financial companies hope to modernise markets with the technology but systemic risks remain

Investors are increasingly concerned over rush of borrowing to fund huge investments in data centres