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Victoria Beckham’s fashion empire warns on ‘uncertain’ future

Victoria Beckham’s luxury fashion empire has warned on its future, cautioning that the group will have to seek emergency funding if its lenders demand their money back. The former Spice Girl‘s up-market label returned a profit for the first time in the year to December but warned that the “material uncertainties” it faces could cast [...]

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SEA’s AI boom has a water problem it cannot offset away

Every hyperscaler courting Southeast Asia now performs the same reassurance ritual. Ask Microsoft, Google, or AWS about the environmental cost of the data centres they are racing to build across the region, and the answer arrives pre-packaged: efficient cooling, renewable offsets, and community engagement.

AI

OpenAI is begging for someone to slow the AI race

AI leaders are sounding the alarm as their own breakthroughs sharpen an extraordinary dilemma: slow down and risk falling behind, or press ahead and risk losing control. Why it matters: AI executives and researchers increasingly see a race they can't safely slow on their own.

Culture

What Peatlands Can Teach Us About Time

I am sitting in a frost pocket in West Virginia, looking at a Canada warbler. It is World Migratory Bird Day in spring, the second Saturday of May, and I have spent the past week in search of warblers. The

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