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  Listen Share Print Translate Article Settings Increase font size Decrease font size E-Mail Alerts & Support E-Mail Alerts Contact Us Feedback Why Trump’s tech dreams are quietly crum­bling Financial Times Europe Gil­lian Tett gil­lian.tett@ft.com 31 Oct 2026 Settings Print Share Copy Listen This week, Philip Wong, formerly chief sci­ent­ist of the mighty Taiwan Semi­con­ductor Man­u­fac­tur­ing Cor­por­a­tion, now a Stan­ford pro­fessor, looked at where his former PhD stu­dents now work. He found that a mere 17 per cent have jobs at com­pan­ies that actu­ally make micro­chips (like Intel, Micron, Sam­sung, SK Hynix or TSMC); the rest are at entit­ies design­ing or using them (such as Apple, Nvidia, AMD, Google and Pin­terest) or else­where (like McKin­sey). “[They] all have the skills to go inside a clean­room and make a chip from a blank piece of sil­icon [into] a work­ing tran­sistor or memory device,” he tells me. “Yet a major­ity have chosen to work in other indus­tries.”...

  Chaos devant le tribunal constitutionnel, Tusk accusé de faire un coup d’État : la Pologne en crise politique Par Jeanne Durieux avec AFP Publié le 31/10/2026 à 10h43 , mis à jour le 31/10/2026 à 11h08 Suivre Le Figaro sur : 00:00 -04:53 La crise politique sévit en Pologne alors que l’actuel gouvernement centriste piloté par Donald Tusk souhaite le départ des juges du Tribunal constitutionnel. Nommés par le précédent gouvernement nationaliste, ils ne sont reconnus ni par l’UE ni par le premier ministre polonais. Le président polonais Karol Nawrocki doit recevoir samedi les représentants des partis de la majorité et de l'opposition pour tenter de trouver une issue à la crise politique et institutionnelle, qui a pris un tour dramatique la veille avec l'intervention de la police au Tribunal constitutionnel à Varsovie . À découvrir «En raison de la menace qui pèse sur la sécurité intérieure de la République de Pologne, je convoque aujourd'hui des consultations urgentes avec...

  Tech giants keep faith in AI as cash piles burn ‘Hyperscalers’ are set to spend billions on data centres while their core businesses struggle, writes Chris Dorrell Is the party over? Jeff Bezos with his wife, Lauren Sánchez, at the 2024 Met Gala. Next image › Tech stocks have lost more than a trillion dollars in market value this week in a brutal sell-off ignited by renewed fears about the sustainability of the artificial intelligence boom. Investors dumped some of the world’s largest companies after their latest results showed they were ploughing ever-larger sums into building AI infrastructure but also suffering problems in their core businesses. The sell-off came in the same week that Anthropic released the prospectus for its hotly anticipated initial public offering. The listing, which is expected next month, is forecast to be one of the largest in history. It will act as a litmus test for an investment boom that has attracted increasing scepticism. Anthropic’s prospectus cla...

  Students fed up with bribes and beatings vow to oust PM Tough new curbs on protesters have fuelled the anger of young Albanians, writes Tom Kington in Tirana Albania’s prime minister, Edi Rama, has blamed Russia and Iran for stoking violence She is only 19 but Glevia has already dodged rubber bullets and been hit by tear gas and pepper spray so there is little chance that the £4,600 fines introduced by Edi Rama, the Albanian prime minister, will stop this young protester. “These fines change nothing — it’s just a scare tactic. I’ll be on the street on Saturday,” she said. She was chatting with her fellow architecture students outside parliament during a lull after two weeks of clashes between protesters and police that left Albania’s capital, Tirana, looking like a war zone. Shops, government buildings and bus stops have been wrecked, traffic lights decapitated to remove security cameras — causing traffic gridlock — and cobbled streets ripped up to provide stones to throw at poli...

  Kremlin kills off last free opposition newspaper Tom Parfitt In 2006, Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead for her work on the Chechnya conflict Novaya Gazeta, the most prominent independent newspaper still operating inside Russia, has said it is closing down under pressure from officials and the Federal Security Service. “Novaya Gazeta was murdered,” said its editor-in-chief, Sergei Sokolov, in an emotional video address yesterday. “On November 9 we will put out the lights in our home, where we lived for 30 years, turn off the servers and leave. The newspaper is no more. The Russian authorities and ... special services forced our editorial office to stop work.” Novaya Gazeta had its media licence revoked after opposing President Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and in September this year was made a “foreign agent”, a government designation introduced to smear critics that also imposes bureaucratic restrictions. Sokolov said the combined weight of FSB harassment, the blocking of a...

  Skip to main content Skip to navigation My account Int The Guardian - Back to home The Guardian News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle Show more Search input google-search Search Support us Print subscriptions Holidays Digital Archive Guardian Licensing Live events About Us The Guardian app Video Podcasts Pictures Newsletters Today's paper Inside the Guardian Guardian Weekly Crosswords Wordiply Corrections Tips World Europe US news Americas Asia Australia Middle East Africa Inequality Global development View image in fullscreen Poland Riot police deployed to Poland’s constitutional court after judge suspended President Karol Nawrocki seen struggling to gain entry to court building in Warsaw amid long-running row over the court’s legitimacy Jakub Krupa Sat 31 Oct 2026 04.27 GMT Share Prefer the Guardian on Google Riot police were locked in a tense standoff with protesters outside Poland’s constitutional court on Friday night after its top judge was suspended in the latest escalation...