Palantir beats Wall Street expectations amid Trump immigration crackdown

CEO Alex Karp hails ‘iconic’ financial results despite criticism over contracts with ICE and homeland security

Barnsley rebranded UK’s first ‘tech town’ as US giants join AI push

Minister announces Microsoft, Cisco and Adobe to help apply AI to local schools, hospitals, GPs and businesses

The brutal handling of immigration raids and the killing of Alex Pretti have tested the reticence of the corporate class

Campaigners criticise use of ‘vulnerable’ devices at Salisbury Cathedral and Parthenon despite their removal from sensitive UK government sites

Rocket company examining feasibility of both options before potential $1.5tn stock market flotation, report says

The iPhone maker reported first-quarter earnings after market close

Lord Stockwood says people in government ‘definitely’ talking about idea as technology disrupts industries

The aerial-accessed service has a fast-dwindling audience but when exactly to switch the platform off is proving highly divisive

Company reports second-quarter revenues of $81.27bn but posts slowing growth in key cloud computing business

World’s richest person targeting symbolic date in June for flotation of rocket company

Owner Google moves to block Barb data access months after allowing 200 channels to be monitored

News organisations hope proposals will increase leverage to get paid if content is used in AI summaries

Workers informed after message erroneously said affected employees in US, Canada and Costa Rica had already been told

Advertising Standards Authority says firm advised by George Osborne ‘trivialised risks of cryptocurrency’

Tech chiefs waxed poetic about AI to delegates at Davos. Plus, the ‘human’ drama of AI startups and why Tesla is thriving in Texas