Ai is a big nothing

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

Artificial intelligence (AI) is – if you ask any of Silicon Valley’s top CEOs – the biggest opportunity in their company’s history. Few will tell you that it’s also their biggest threat. “For those bi

HOW AI IS SUPERCHARGING THE SECTOR

Last summer, Sachin Dev Duggal (pictured) and his family moved to Dubai leaving behind an unexploded bomb. The self-proclaimed “chief wizard” of Builder.ai – the London start-up that grew into one of

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

The US-centric nature of the world of equity investment often masks important trends or milestones elsewhere. Few noticed this week, for instance, that the Topix, Japan’s broad stockmarket index, reac