Making commercials has long served as a training ground for British directors such as Ridley Scott. Automated production is now cutting costs and, with them, opportunities for newcomers to learn on the job.
The WTO has raised its 2026 forecast for global merchandise trade growth to 3.9%, driven by AI-related goods. These goods make up 14.8% of trade but 47% of its growth in value in the first half, with Asia dominating and Europe’s export share small.
Wall Street firms are bringing AI data center investments to public markets. Political, liquidity and project risks are growing at the same time.
InstaDeep, founded in Tunis in 2014, was bought by BioNTech in 2023 for up to £562 million, the largest acquisition of an African startup. It has since become the group’s AI engine, with the Kyber supercomputer and genomic models such as Nucleotide Transformer.
AI is now involved in every step of holiday planning, from inspiration to booking, and hotels, agencies and destinations are trying to adapt. Le Monde notes the questions it raises about errors, standardization, jobs and environmental cost.
A drop in visits to news sites in September has heightened publishers’ concerns about the rise of AI, particularly Google’s AI Overviews in search.