Is the share market headed toward a ‘SaaS-pocalypse’ – and what would that mean?

Software companies are facing major disruption from AI and investors are pulling back, wiping off billions in value – but does it spell the end for software-as-a-service?

Nvidia reportedly plans to invest $30bn in OpenAI’s next funding round

Chip manufacturer to invest in return for stock after previous ‘circular’ $100bn deal dissolved earlier this month

Accenture ‘links staff promotions to use of AI tools’

Consulting firm keen to increase uptake of technology and is reportedly monitoring adoption by workforce

Ebay buys Depop for $1.2bn in effort to lure younger shoppers

Deal agreed to acquire British secondhand fashion resale app from Etsy as eBay attempts to fend off Amazon

Bill Gates cancels keynote speech in India amid questions over Epstein ties

Billionaire Microsoft co-founder pulls out of India’s AI Impact Summit to ‘ensure the focus’ remains on event’s ‘key priorities’

Retailers in UK plan to cut staff hours and jobs amid rising employment costs

BRC survey finds finance bosses expect technology to improve productivity, with 69% pessimistic about the economy

Countries that do not embrace AI could be left behind, says OpenAI’s George Osborne

Without AI you will be a ‘weaker and poorer nation’, says former UK chancellor two months into job at US firm

Warner Bros gives Paramount seven days to make ‘best and final’ offer

Waiver from Netflix allows film company to engage with rival bidder if it could lead to a ‘reasonably superior offer’

Wuthering slights: why are film-makers afraid of casting Yorkshire actors as Cathy Earnshaw?

Wuthering Heights is inseparable from its landscape – but northern actors seldom get the lead role, instead are pigeonholed as stereotypical or supporting characters. This Bradford-born actor objects

Openreach said yes to full fibre broadband, then branded it ‘uneconomical’

Its ‘fibre checker’ tool confirmed I could have a connection, but a month later it changed its mind

Claims that AI can help fix climate dismissed as greenwashing

Industry using ‘diversionary’ tactics, says analyst, as energy-hungry complex functions such as video generation and deep research proliferate

KPMG partner fined for using artificial intelligence to cheat in AI training test

Firm says person fined A$10,000 is one of over two dozen staff in Australia caught using AI in exams since July

TikTok creator ByteDance vows to curb AI video tool after Disney threat

Videos created by new Seedance 2.0 generator go viral, including one of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting

Arundhati Roy is right, not Wim Wenders – here are eight films that have changed politics

From ‘honour’ killings to nuclear war, some screen works have led directly legislative action – despite what jury head Wenders suggested at the Berlin film festival

AI is indeed coming – but there is also evidence to allay investor fears

Opinions are divided about the potential impact of artificial intelligence as the response to a recent viral essay shows