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...Dylan J Williams, chief executive of Anglesey freeport — one of the two chosen Welsh sites — said Hunt’s proposal would be “positive news”....
...Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is considering the request....
...“This is a unique opportunity for funds like Mubadala to really take a leading role in the development of technology over the next 20 years,” Ajami said....
...The company last raised equity in June 2022, and said that it had since invested £2.2bn in development and £3.1bn in acquisitions, while selling £1.4bn of assets....
...George Parker William, what’s the expectation in town halls about the possibility of more money from the Treasury, in Jeremy Hunt’s Budget on March the 6th?...
...Another avenue for development lies in what Google claims are Gemini’s reasoning and planning capabilities....
...The Anglo-Swedish drugmaker has been trying to use its status as one of the largest drugmakers in China by sales to hunt for potential deals....
...“The value of the vouchers that I get per hour are worth about half of what it actually takes to deliver an hour’s care,” said Williams....
...We would favour retention of the existing approach to IP exhaustion,” said William Bain, the BCC’s head of trade policy....
...Whitehall would advise local authorities on how to “strengthen and align” their approach, it added, potentially with a view to creating local development orders, existing mechanisms used to accelerate planning...
...Lord William Hague, former Tory leader, said claims he had been approached first about taking the job, or acted as an intermediary between Sunak and Cameron, were wide of the mark....
...The company is also on the hunt for new partnerships and acquisitions in Europe and beyond to accelerate the scaling up of its space services, such as the launch and engine businesses, said Blue Origin’s...
...NatWest has appointed former Mastercard boss Rick Haythornthwaite as its new chair, the latest development in a period of leadership turmoil at the bank as it hunts for its new permanent chief executive....
...For visitors, development and investment is in evidence at the Goods Yard — an industrial, canal-side warehouse that was the site of the 2021 BCB and is undergoing a £60mn development to include housing,...
...Iacobescu’s sweep through the history of the site takes in William the Conqueror, Henry VIII and William Pitt the Younger — who moved the docks there around 1800....
...senior northern official said on Monday that there was still “no clarity” about the precise nature of the scaled-back programme, but expected it to be linked to areas with a strong focus on research and development...
...He viewed climate change and development issues as “intertwined”, he said....
...The seeds of the London dockland development’s success may have originated in Michael Heseltine’s low-tax “urban enterprise zone”....
...Officials said Hunt has put the investment zone programme under review ahead of the Autumn Statement on November 17....
...India hunts for spyware India is on the hunt for new spyware with a lower profile than the controversial Pegasus system developed by Israel’s NSO Group and blacklisted by the US government and is willing...
...Argentina diary: the hunt for inflation-proof dollars All dollars are equal, but some dollars are more equal than others....
...Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement on Thursday is expected to involve a squeeze on capital spending for infrastructure projects, on which much of levelling up relies....
...Universities and businesses that had feared cuts, also welcomed a recommitment to spending £20bn on research and development by 2024-2025....
...Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge from Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester, William Collins £25, 400 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Reducing cost is key for the compute-intensive development of large language models: estimates put the cost of running ChatGPT, assuming 10mn monthly users, at $1mn per day....
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