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It’s there or thereabouts. A technology index by researchers at Harvard, published last month, ranked 25 countries across five sectors: artificial intelligence (AI), semiconductors, biotechnology, spa

The technology-led US stockmarket has hit another record peak. There are rumours of stonking pay packages for software developers in Silicon Valley. One of the leading tech behemoths has just achieved

“Dear President Trump: America must win the AI war,” ran a full-page advertisement in The Washington Post on the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration. Its author was Alexandr Wang – the billionaire “

I spent one of the first weeks of my summer doing something I haven’t done in years: writing computer code. As a professor, when I want to generate data, I usually have the luxury of telling my studen

Against a backdrop of economic instability, an entrepreneurial approach is vital to survival. Marie-Claire Chappet explores how women can best navigate these tumultuous times

In rude health: AstraZeneca, Britain’s biggest drugmaker, has “risen to the challenge” of US healthcare providers negotiating drug prices by posting “solid first-half sales growth”, says Derren Nathan