Comment on G-20 challenged by growth, debt

Dutch startup Meatable has hosted the first legally approved tasting of cultivated meat in Europe. On the menu was a lab-grown pork sausage. Meatable says the produce is “indistinguishable” from traditional meat, but causes no harm to animals or the environment. To replicate the flavours and textures of livestock, Meatable first extracts a single cell sample from a pig.

AI threatens to decimate the translation profession, according to a new survey by a British union. Almost four in ten translators (36%) said they’ve already lost work due to generative AI. Nearly half of them (43%) said the tech has decreased their income. They fear far worse is to come.

California-based quantum circuitry company Rigetti has brought a commercially available quantum computer to the UK. Only the second in the country, it was installed in collaboration with Oxford Instruments NanoScience — a cryogenics company that provides the cooling needed for superconducting qubits.  The system, supported by grants from the UK government, is Rigetti’s first UK-based quantum computer and will be accessible via the company’s cloud computing services.  When it comes to quantum computing, you need the actual circuitry hardware that hosts the qubits, advanced cryogenics systems, software to run error-correcting quantum algorithms, and specialised programming languages.

Jefferies inserted a $4 million break-up fee in an offer contract and wants it to be paid. Epic Cure/ShutterstockJefferies included a $4 million break-up fee in an offer letter to a banker. The Wall Street bank is demanding payment after Dean Decker stayed with Credit Suisse after signing. A California appeals court is expected to rule shortly on whether the break-up clause was legal.

Casey Wetherbee left his corporate job and moved from Washington, DC, to Buenos Aires. Courtesy Casey WetherbeeI moved from New York to Buenos Aires in 2023 to start a new life as a freelancer. I was feeling burnt out at my corporate job in Washington, DC, and wanted to move abroad.