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Molten Ventures, the London-listed investor in early-stage technology companies, has joined the race to manage a £1bn government-backed fund focused on Britain’s most promising scale-ups.

The artificial intelligence boom is doing more than reshaping software, it’s cracking the foundations of America’s power grid. As data centers multiply to feed the compute needs of large language models, utilities are scrambling for new sources of baseload power, and increasingly they’re turning to an unlikely partner: fusion startups. The latest beneficiary is Realta…

Thailand’s ambition to become a high-income economy by 2037 is rapidly becoming a test of productivity rather than simple economic expansion. A World Bank Group roadmap argues that the country would need annual GDP per capita growth of about 5.4 percent to reach that threshold, requiring a decisive shift toward technology, innovation, skills and higher-value…

Agentic AI, frontier firms and the retail race to relevance | Retail Customer Experience

For most of the past three years, progress in artificial intelligence has been scored the same way. A new frontier model arrives, a benchmark chart circulates, and the industry recalculates who is ahead. For the companies that actually ship software on top of those models, that scoreboard has quietly stopped explaining very much.

A licensed carrier just began writing new business through a platform it doesn’t own, doesn’t fully control, and can’t govern the way it governs its own website, and the industry still hasn’t worked out what that means for the agent who used to own that customer relationship.

The next test for artificial intelligence (AI) is not simply whether it can make economies more productive. It is whether AI can help them produce more value while consuming fewer physical resources: a challenge that will determine whether the digital revolution strengthens or complicates the global sustainability agenda.

India’s semiconductor startups are attracting increasing investor interest, but many face a funding gap when they move from chip design to commercial production, limiting their ability to scale in a capital-intensive sector.