Trade unions are expected to make further inroads into big tech companies in the UK after new rights for unions to access workplaces came into force, with Google UK signing an agreement on Monday. The Prospect union has reached an agreement with Google to begin organising among about 7,000 workers across its UK operations, including YouTube but excluding DeepMind . Google DeepMind is expected to strike a separate agreement, with the Communication Workers Union seeking recognition there. The deal follows a similar agreement between Prospect and Meta, which owns Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram and employs about 5,000 people in the UK. The agreements will allow unions to communicate with non-unionised workers and encourage them to join.

AI's real bottleneck is electricity. Who will pay for it? Share AI's real bottleneck is electricity. Who will pay for it? Within a week, two of the three largest cloud computing companies in the world signed 20-year contracts for nuclear electricity.

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Why Anthropic's IPO Prospectus Is Missing So Many Key Figures Anthropic's S-1 filing is hundreds of pages long--and it leaves out quite a few financial details. "Anthropic owes investors more information," one analyst tells WIRED. Anthropic filed its hotly anticipated IPO prospectus on Monday, spelling out parts of the company's business, strategy, and risk profile ahead of its public debut. Though the filing, known as an S-1, is several hundred pages long, it has some notable omissions--namely, certain financial figures. "Claude has experienced the fastest enterprise adoption of any technology in history, as demonstrated by revenue growing from $0 at commercial launch in the first quarter of 2023 to $_____ for the three months ended September 30, 2026," reads the first of dozens of such examples.

International politics today feels like a collective sleepwalk into the abyss. Three trends are particularly alarming. Artificial intelligence is globalising and turbocharging old and new threats. Meanwhile, no state is strong enough to impose order. And, as in earlier periods of global crisis, geopolitical blocs are hardening, with international cooperation increasingly portrayed as weakness. Alas, there is ample reason to fear a repetition of the worst of history.

Donald Trump's Russian diesel deal with Vladimir Putin faces bipartisan opposition as lawmakers question whether easing Russia sanctions will lower prices or aid Ukraine peace.

Democrats Are Gearing Up to Investigate the Trump Administration. As a recent government report on DOGE shows, even getting basic information out of the Trump administration will put a new Congress to the test. As polls indicate Democrats could take back the US House of Representatives, and possibly the Senate, lawmakers are gearing up to investigate the Trump administration. But that may prove to be a difficult task, even with a majority in both chambers of Congress. In late September, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report on Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency titled "DOGE: Congress and the Public Lack Assurance That Systems and Data Were Protected at Multiple Agencies."

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Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. LAPD's $235-million deal with license plate reader company put on hold by City Council This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to overrule the approval of a 10-year, $235-million contract between the LAPD and Axon Enterprise, which supplies automated license plate readers and other technologies.

I'm your host, Blake Montgomery, writing to you as I sit under yellowing leaves in New York. Donald Trump made a series of moves over the past week that make it clear his power is becoming synonymous with artificial intelligence. The new tight alliances between the White House, the Pentagon, US intelligence agencies and AI companies loom ominously over governments and companies, particularly in Europe, that rely on American AI. Last Tuesday, Trump and six AI CEOs signed what he called a "morally binding" agreement to put controls on artificial intelligence. The vague agreement stipulates a framework for what Trump called "tremendous self-policing", reiterating his point that AI companies can act as their own watchmen.