Sensemaker Special: A new age of robotics

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AI Boom Time

The fourth iteration of the Tortoise Global AI Index, which ranks 62 countries on their capacity for AI development, is released today. Its key finding: levels of global investment into artificial intelligence have surged to record levels

Tory MPs signed up to a conference of men’s rights activists

Tortoise has found that two Conservative parliamentarians committed to speak at an online event organised by “anti-feminists”

Under the cover of Covid, big businesses are rolling back their commitments to fair pay and the planet

The world just missed its first major vaccine target. Here’s why

Ten per cent of every country’s population was meant to be fully vaccinated by the end of this month. But poorer countries, in particular, just haven’t had the doses

The Arms Race: Beta Vaccine Tracker

CEOs facing backlash for pay hikes

A Tortoise analysis reveals that 38 companies in the FTSE 100 have awarded bigger pay packages to their CEOs during the pandemic – a time of general economic hardship and rising inequality

Sensemaker: Pandemic pay hikes

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Europe falls behind in the AI race

A weak startup ecosystem is holding the EU back from unleashing its full potential in the AI space, while the US and China still reign supreme, according to the latest release of the Tortoise Global AI Index

Sensemaker: Fossil fools

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What teenagers are telling us on Everyone’s Invited

Young people have shared 14,000 accounts of rape culture at over 600 different schools. Analysis of their testimonies reveals the challenges children face, and what they want done about it

Tax and Honour

A very British jetsetter

Sir Jim Ratcliffe owns a yacht and private planes. Do their movements provide clues about when the billionaire businessman moved to the tax haven of Monaco?

Sensemaker: Could a wealth tax pay for Covid?

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WallStreetWins

Who are WallStreetBets?

What can we say about the people posting in the Reddit forum that tied down giants of finance?

Sensemaker: Tesco’s awkward pay gap

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Sensemaker: Tesco’s awkward pay gap

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The Trump hangover

Could it happen again?

We investigate not just whether Trump might run again – but how. This is what his 2024 campaign might look like

Sensemaker: The race is on

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The Vaccine

A user’s guide

Sensemaker: DC insurrection

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Trucked off

As new paperwork checks begin on 1 January, truck queues could bring yet more chaos to Kent’s roads. Our tool lets you watch traffic build up at the border, as it happens.

Is the UK losing its edge on AI?

The country comes third in Tortoise’s AI Index, which seems impressive until you start looking closer…

Who is leading the world in AI?

The UK slips back and China gains ground on the USA

Inside the NHS: part two

Quarantines and travel corridors: a wasted summer?

Sensemaker, 29 October 2020

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