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UK rushes forward plans for £2.5bn steel investment after Trump announces tariffs
The government has rushed forward plans for a £2.5bn investment in the UK steel industry after Donald Trump announced 25% tariffs on all imports of steel and aluminium into the US.The business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, will publish a green paper entitled Plan for Steel on Sunday – several weeks before schedule – in a sign of how Trump’s tariffs are sending shock waves through a UK government desperate to kickstart economic growth.Speaking to the Observer, Reynolds said that, even before Trump’s return to the White House, the government was determined to bolster and expand the UK steel industry, but the US president’s actions had made the need to act more urgent. “The context, both at home and abroad, is behind the sense of urgency that we are demonstrating by bringing forward publication of the strategy
Chill of inflation threatens Britain again after Europe’s long, hard winter
A scramble to heat homes during a cold winter across Europe has sent gas prices soaring from where they were six months ago. This week, that extra cost will appear in figures that City analysts say will show inflation jumped to 2.8% in January, from 2.5% in December and 1.7% last September
Global disunity, energy concerns and the shadow of Musk: key takeaways from the Paris AI summit
Political and business leaders descended on Paris this week for the third annual artificial intelligence summit with the technology causing tensions across the globe.Emmanuel Macron, who opened the summit with a montage of deepfakes of himself, acknowledged AI’s potential to “disrupt”. A day later, the schism threatened by the rapidly developing technology was apparent.The AI Action Summit ended with the US vice-president criticising European regulation and warning against cooperation with China, while leaders from Washington and London snubbed a diplomatic declaration on “inclusive and sustainable” AI. Here are some takeaways from the conference
Scarlett Johansson warns of dangers of AI after Kanye West deepfake goes viral
Scarlett Johansson has warned of the “imminent dangers of AI” after a deepfake video of her and other prominent Jewish celebrities opposing recent antisemitic remarks from Kanye West went viral this week.The video contained AI-generated versions of more than a dozen celebrities, including Johansson, David Schwimmer, Jerry Seinfeld, Drake, Adam Sandler, Stephen Spielberg, and Mila Kunis.It opened with a deepfake likeness of Johansson in a T-shirt that was emblazoned with a hand and middle finger extended, a Star of David and the name Kanye. The video was set to an electronic version of “Hava Nagila”, a Jewish folk song that is typically played at celebratory cultural events, and ended with the slogan: “Enough is enough. Join the fight against antisemitism
Hoop dreams in peril as British basketball’s crisis reaches boiling point
Clubs deeply unhappy with governing body’s handling of power transfer and are threatening to set up own leagueFrom an outsider’s perspective, British basketball has never had it so good. It is firmly established as the second most popular participation team sport in the country with more than 1.5 million people playing at least twice a month. In December 2024 the sport received a combined £4,475,000 in two grants by UK Sport and Sport England for the next four years, three times the amount it received during the previous Olympic cycle.There has been also been some good news on court, with Great Britain’s women qualifying for this summer’s European Championship with a resounding win over Denmark earlier this month, while the men will join them if they win one of their two remaining qualifiers against the Netherlands and Czech Republic next week
France hails a young heroine: Violette, conqueror of the waves
When she set sail around the world from the west coast of France three months ago, Violette Dorange was barely known outside her sport. By the time she returned last week, she was a household name in her country.At 23, Dorange has become the youngest solo sailor to complete the around-the-world race, having spent 90 days, 22 hours and 37 minutes at sea. Her diminutive figure came waving and smiling into the Atlantic port of Les Sables d’Olonne last Sunday, met by thousands of fans, fireworks and hundreds of journalists broadcasting live from speedboats.Coming 25th out of 40 in the Vendée Globe race, Dorange had no idea they were waiting, she told the Observer in her first international interview
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