Boomers think their wealth came from wise choices – this myth needs busting | Phillip Inman

The most infamous example of middle-income baby boomers seeking retribution for the loss of their accumulated wealth occurred in Germany in 2009, when a retired builder and his pensioner accomplice took their financial adviser hostage after more than £2m of stock market investments had crashed. In the UK. the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, is unlikely to…

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Ripple Expands Into Bahrain Through Partnership

Ripple is expanding its Middle East footprint through a new partnership with Bahrain Fintech Bay, the Kingdom’s main fintech incubator and ecosystem platform, as part of its push to integrate blockchain and stablecoin infrastructure into regulated financial markets. The move builds on Ripple’s Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) license obtained earlier this year and underscores…

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Databricks will bake OpenAI models into its products in $100M bet to spur enterprise adoption

Databricks said on Thursday that it is incorporating OpenAI’s models, including GPT-5, into its data platform as well as its AI product, Agent Bricks, as part of a $100 million multi-year deal that bets on the AI company’s ability to bring in enterprise customers. The deal highlights the accelerating race to bring generative AI into…

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I have now been a journalist for 40 years. The forces ranged against my profession have never been so powerful | George Monbiot

The BBC I joined on my first day of professional journalism – 40 years ago this week – is unrecognisable today. While, for most of its history, the corporation had largely defended the status quo, under the director general at the time, Alasdair Milne, its journalists were sometimes allowed to stick it to power. This,…

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The aide, the associate, the ‘Chinese agent’ – and the collapse of a long-awaited UK spy trial | UK news

Shortly before 10am on Monday, the Conservative MP Alicia Kearns received an unwelcome phone call. “I don’t know how to tell you this,” said the specialist police officer on the line. Ten minutes later the Old Bailey heard what Kearns now knew. A long-awaited trial of two men – a former parliamentary aide to Kearns,…

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