BHP quietly scrapped plan to build Pilbara plant that would have drastically cut emissions

Exclusive: Jimblebar processing facility would have produced higher quality iron ore sought by steelmakers around the world – themselves under pressure to curb pollution

Films more likely to star an actor called Chris or a talking animal than a woman over 60, study finds

Emma Thompson among voices supporting anti-ageism campaign, which has uncovered striking findings in top-grossing UK films over past three years

Final frontier for meds? UK startup sends drug-making into space

BioOrbit hopes drug-crystallisation technology will lead to self-injected cancer treatment that could save millions

Mars colony and Grok warnings: five strange details in SpaceX’s pitch to investors

IPO filing from Elon Musk’s company reveals look at finances, cosmic ambitions and insight into tech empire’s quirks

Number of air conditioned UK homes doubles to more than 4m in three years

Greater working from home and hot summer temperatures believed to be driving increase in ownership

Philip Kraven obituary

Other lives: IT specialist in the oil industry who started out working as a geophysicist

WiseTech begins redundancies – but omits ‘AI’ from emails to Chinese employees, workers say

ASX-listed company announced in February it would lay off almost 30% of its 7,000-strong workforce across 40 countries

BT warns of smartphone price rises due to chip shortages from AI boom

Telecoms company CEO says tech firms are buying up memory chips to power datacentres relied on by AI

The main takeaways from Elon Musk’s plans for $1.75tn SpaceX flotation

Prospectus for tycoon’s sprawling empire reveals his plan to keep control – and ambition to colonise Mars

Schools are ‘pipeline’ to joblessness for many people, says ex-Labour adviser

Ban social media and reform education to tackle scandal of young people not in work or study, says Peter Hyman

SpaceX reveals plan for $1.75tn stock market debut that could make Musk a trillionaire

Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite operations company, with extensive contracts with US, to go public next month

Nvidia’s revenue blows past Wall Street expectations as AI boom accelerates

Many analysts view company’s financial performance as a broader referendum on AI buildout

Google DeepMind in talks with UK unions amid staff concern over US and Israel’s AI use

Exclusive: Google DeepMind agrees to Acas talks after workers sign petitions about governments’ use of AI for defence and intelligence

Standard Chartered to cut more than 7,000 jobs as it steps up AI use

London-headquartered bank will reduce back-office jobs and aims to move some workers to new roles

Anthropic to share Mythos cyber flaw findings with global finance watchdog

Startup has declined to release Claude Mythos AI model publicly amid fears it could be used by hackers