Trading bloc promises ‘firm and proportionate countermeasures’

The ongoing operatic rivalry between the billionaire and OpenAI chief Sam Altman remains a major subtext

Big Four firm will also ‘sunset’ its diversity goals as part of shift after Trump’s election

Lawyers, bankers and many other professionals are now using chatbots to communicate, some without company oversight

Bloc’s 50 spending programmes to be lumped into 3 funds, according to paper

Chief executive Murray Auchincloss vows to boost performance after activist Elliott takes stake

Disclosure suggests Big Four firm has lost state-owned and finance sector clients

Pforzheim is a microcosm of migration and economic debates boosting AfD ahead of Germany’s federal elections

Automated stores run by global companies such as NewCold have become critical in keeping supermarkets stocked

The effect of the provision would be reversed pending ministerial sign-off, a Treasury official said

President says move will ‘mean a lot more business for America’

Administration will grant no exclusions to any products, officials say, raising risk of trade war

MPC’s Catherine Mann says ‘demand conditions’ in economy are ‘quite a bit weaker’

Bid complicates chief Sam Altman’s plans to turn artificial intelligence group into for-profit company

Creative industries worry that generative artificial intelligence models could replicate or even replace their original works 

White House also told to unblock billions in funding for clean energy projects earmarked under Inflation Reduction Act

Judge says Iya Patarkatsishvili and husband are due ‘substantial’ damages after London property affected by millions of insects

Even before the Trump administration’s slash and burn approach, international assistance was ripe for a rethink

US president says ‘all hell’ will break out if his deadline is not met

Traders pay up to secure copper, steel and aluminium supplies before US president’s levies come into effect

Budget director is commander of Trump’s campaign to reduce the size of government

MPs on Treasury select committee request information from past two years

Brussels can’t do the rapid pre-emptive retaliation that Canada and Mexico threatened

The leaders of America, Russia and China are now all committed to territorial expansion

The White House responded to lobbying from carmakers with exemptions. The EU went after bourbon

US consulting firm is latest company to boost office space in sign of hope for UK capital’s commercial property market

Activist could push for board changes, a New York listing and sale of assets, say shareholders

It is high time the tax system encouraged more economically productive behaviour than parking funds in a cash account

Weakened by war with Israel, the group is deploying a vast patronage network to strengthen its base

Something even bigger than AI and the Trump effect is at work

Doge’s efforts to infiltrate the plumbing of the federal government should scare everyone

German luxury-car maker to continue investing in combustion engine and hybrid technology alongside full EVs

Report offers rare insight into how Moscow sees invasion of Ukraine harming ties with close allies

KPMG/REC report points to impact of tax-raising measures in October Budget on employer confidence

President’s plans hit shares of some European and Asian producers while bumping up US companies

French president speaks ahead of AI summit in Paris involving executives such as OpenAI’s Sam Altman

Beijing may be better prepared this time for renewed trade conflict with Trump, analysts say

Embracing creative destruction would revive the country’s fortunes

Busan is shrinking faster than any other metropolitan area in a country with the world’s lowest fertility rate

President says ‘fraud and abuse’ at Pentagon will be Elon Musk’s next target