Sometimes the drugs do work. Rewind to June 2021 and Dame Emma Walmsley looked in need of a bucketful. Critics were lining up to trash the four-year record of the GSK boss, in charge since April 2017. Her looming demerger of the consumer health wing, now known as Haleon, had cranked up the heat. And…
Nathan Evans might still be a postman were it not for TikTok. The Scot went viral on the social media app in 2020 for his take on a traditional sea shanty, and has racked up more than 22 million views of Wellerman to date on TikTok. He landed a record deal and scored a No…
Businesses are increasingly wary of using generative AI assistants at work, with large rises in those concerned about errors and security, a survey of 79,000 companies in five countries suggests. Only one in ten of the small and medium-sized businesses polled in Britain, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia and Canada regularly made use of artificial intelligence…
In one of the richest and most powerful hedge funds in the world lurks a mysterious and glamorous woman. She loiters around the men’s luxurious bathrooms but doesn’t look like a cleaner. She wears high heels that make no sound on the expensive carpet. She moves discreetly. Her “full-time job”, says Carrie Sun, the author…
Eight months ago, Tim Cook unveiled the Apple Vision Pro, a $3,500 face-computer haughtily proclaimed by Apple’s chief executive to be “the most advanced personal electronic device ever”. It hit the shelves in America last week, sparking a downpour of (mostly fawning) reviews. Having tried it myself, one thing is inarguable: using the Vision Pro…
Elon Musk said the first human patient had received a brain implant from his Neuralink company and that the initial results were “promising”. The US Food and Drug Administration gave Neuralink permission last year to conduct its first human trials. The company hopes its technology will allow paralysed patients to control external computers using neural…
Elon Musk has revealed that the first person to be fitted with a brain implant by Neuralink, the company he founded in 2016 to fuse our minds with machines, is doing well. “Progress is good. The patient seems to have made a full recovery, with no ill effects that we are aware of,” Musk said…
Netflix’s chief executive, Ted Sarandos, was feeling sufficiently buoyed by the latest set of financial results to summon up the signature move of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, the wrestler-turned-actor. “If I could raise a single eyebrow one at a time, I would lean into the camera with the single eyebrow and do my best Dwayne,”…
Disappointing late-stage trial results for a closely watched lung cancer drug have dealt a blow to AstraZeneca. The FTSE 100 pharmaceuticals company expressed its confidence in datopotamab deruxtecan, or Dato-DXd, when it presented overall survival data for the treatment at a world lung cancer congress in San Diego, but analysts promptly questioned the strength of…
Two weeks after the launch of the Vision Pro and something unusual is happening around an Apple product: customers are declaring they will return it. Some users are taking to social media to explain why the $3,500 headset is going back to the store, citing headaches, heaviness, loneliness and even burst blood vessels. Apple allows…