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California has built its reputation as the engine room of American innovation. From Silicon Valley to Hollywood, the state attracts founders, investors and global talent at a scale few places can match. But, it seems like that might be about to change. Has it already? A proposed wealth tax targeting billionaires has reopened an uncomfortable question: could California be pushing its most valuable economic contributors away, and what would that mean for businesses and the wider economy? The proposal, often referred to as the Billionaire Tax Act, aims to levy a one-time tax on extreme wealth to boost public finances.…

Tuesday 13 January 2026 1:53 am  |  Updated:  Monday 12 January 2026 6:21 pm By: Felix Armstrong and Simon Hunt Share Facebook Share on Facebook X Share on Twitter LinkedIn Share on LinkedIn WhatsApp Share on WhatsApp Email Share on Email East London’s Truman Brewery is among sites earmarked for a new data centre Data centre planning applications hit an all-time high in the UK in 2025, City AM can reveal, as investors rushed to gain a foothold in the burgeoning AI market.More than 60 separate planning applications for the construction of new data centres were filed in England and Wales…

Holden and Carr are known for their silly antics on their property renovation show Amanda & Alan’s Italian Job. Although Amanda is a well-known face on our TV screens, she has told the Radio Times she won’t be following in her friend’s footsteps. One reason why Amanda Holden won’t appear on Celebrity Traitors The Traitors is a popular BBC gameshow where a group of strangers must work out who among them are traitors and who are faithful. Last year, the first UK celebrity version aired and Alan was victorious, winning £87,500 for charity. While the second Celebrity Traitors series has…

The incident took place just before 5am10:50, 09 Jan 2026Updated 11:20, 09 Jan 2026Stock pic of a Translink Metro bus at City Hall(Image: Liam McBurney/PA Wire)A bus driver who was parked in West Belfast was robbed by a man armed with a crowbar this morning.The incident took place in the Lagmore area just before 5am on Friday, January 9, when a man dressed in black and armed with a crowbar approached a parked bus before making off with a sum of cash in the direction of White Rise.The suspect has been described as being between 5′ 8″ and 6′ tall…

When Justin Kim, co-founder and CEO of Hupo, first launched his company about four years ago, it wasn’t selling AI-powered sales coaching to banks, finance services, or insurance companies. The company originally began as Ami, a mental wellness platform focused on how people manage pressure, form habits, and change behavior over time. “I’ve always been a big sports fan – basketball, football, Formula One, MMA – and what draws me to all of them is performance. In my free time, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about what actually drives human performance. People are very different, but across sports,…

In early tests with a review unit of Bee, we found the device itself was easy to use. It’s just a press of a button to turn recording on or off. In the app, you can configure whether a double press bookmarks a section of the conversation, processes the current conversation, or both, and you can set whether a press and hold gesture lets you leave a voice note or chat with the AI assistant. (Bee’s companion app currently reminds you to enable voice notes, so we did.) Like many other AI products and services, such as Plaud, Granola, Fathom,…

Mounting pressure on the Federal Reserve is reviving fears over U.S. monetary stability, pushing investors to reassess trust in central banking and accelerating capital flows toward bitcoin as a hedge beyond political control. Central Bank Pressure Intensifies, Bitcoin Gains as Institutional Risk Hedge A renewed debate over U.S. monetary stability is drawing investor attention. Devere […] Source link

OpenAI announced it has acquired a tiny startup called Torch for an undisclosed sum. An unnamed source told The Information that OpenAI paid $100 million worth of equity for the startup. Torch’s four-person team is joining OpenAI, both companies said. Torch was working on an app that combined all of a person’s medical information for AI use from a range of sources such as doctor visits, lab tests, wearables, and other portals, including consumer wellness tests and the like. The Torch team called their tech “a medical memory for AI, unifying scattered records into a context engine.” The Torch team…

Using a specially designed analysis tool, scientists at Brown University have identified a brain-based biomarker that may help predict whether mild cognitive impairment will progress into Alzheimer’s disease. The approach focuses on measuring electrical activity produced by neurons, offering a new way to spot early signs of the disease directly in the brain. “We’ve detected a pattern in electrical signals of brain activity that predicts which patients are most likely to develop the disease within two and a half years,” said Stephanie Jones, a professor of neuroscience affiliated with Brown’s Carney Institute for Brain Science who co-led the research. “Being…

The host of The Traitors discovered how “beats and rhymes can build confidence and change young lives” during a visit to AudioActive, a National Lottery-funded project in Brighton.  The project, founded in 1999, aims to “make music accessible to all young people, regardless of background”. It offers free sessions in music production and genres ranging from grime to jazz for young people aged 12–25 from across Sussex. Over the years, AudioActive has supported the early journeys of several well-known artists including Jordan Stephens and Harley Alexander-Sule of Rizzle Kicks, Rag’n’Bone Man, Celeste, and ArrDee.  Claudia Winkleman visited as part of her role as The National Lottery’s…