Clara Murray

Flavoured sachets have soared in popularity with biggest tobacco companies moving in

Palestinian youngsters study on phones for Maths Olympiad and dream of attending MIT amid the ruins of shattered enclave

Fierce competition for roles has been sharpest in highly paid sectors such as IT and consulting

Machine learning could have transformative effects on developing economies and societies. But some fear a deepening digital divide

The lessons learnt from drug-resistant tuberculosis offer a path to beating back the ‘silent pandemic’ of antimicrobial resistance

OECD report points to challenges in improving state-backed provision for young children

UK officials considered Rikers Island prison barge to ease capacity crisis before early release of inmates

X has been hit by stalling user growth, as the social media platform’s owner Elon Musk divides audiences and it faces new competition from the rise of Meta’s rival platform Threads. In previously unreleased figures, X said its number of global daily active users in the second quarter of this year was 251mn, a rise of 1.6 per cent from the same period the year before. This contrasts with the double-digit growth experienced in the years leading up to the acquisition by Musk, who took the listed…

Chatbots that claim to predict future share prices and evade plagiarism detectors are among the most popular on OpenAI’s new app store, according to data that provides the first glimpse into the practical ways that millions are using generative artificial intelligence. The Microsoft-backed start-up has allowed paying users to create custom versions of ChatGPT since November, with other subscribers then able to access these so-called “GPTs” through an online store. According to new data from an…

Politicians agree that shaking up the planning system is vital to the British economy, but Nimby-ism is stubbornly resilient