Julian writes about money, machines and the people betting on both. He spent a decade on a trading desk before turning to journalism, and he treats every earnings call like a crime scene. He edits Meridian's Business and Tech desks.
On a visit to Auckland, India's prime minister pitched New Zealand capital on a bigger stake in Indian growth as the two countries moved to deepen trade and diplomatic ties.
Apple has filed suit against OpenAI and unnamed former employees, accusing the ChatGPT maker's hardware ambitions of relying on stolen company secrets.
Apple has filed suit against OpenAI and several former employees, alleging its nascent hardware division was built on stolen confidential designs and recruiting tactics that crossed legal lines.
At a Mumbai summit, WhatsApp unveiled a Meta-built AI agent that lets companies automate customer chats and sales, part of a broader enterprise push into India's vast messaging market.
From disturbing AI-generated images to shadow-banned health content and screen-time worries for children, a major European tech gathering highlights how innovation is outpacing oversight.
Investors sold off Union Bank of India stock even as the lender reported higher global business and deposit growth, with analysts pointing to a slowdown in loan expansion as the trigger.
Almost everything that crosses the internet travels through a thin lattice of cables on the ocean floor — and the risks to that lattice are growing faster than its defences.
After pouring hundreds of billions into chips, data centres, and power, investors are finally asking the unglamorous question: when does any of this earn a return?
A coordinated pause from three major central banks signals that the era of aggressive tightening may finally be ending — but nobody is declaring victory.
As open-weight models close the quality gap with closed ones, the centre of gravity in artificial intelligence is moving — away from a handful of labs and toward everyone else.
After decades of failed attempts to replace it, the password is finally being retired — not with a single announcement, but by a standard quietly reaching critical mass.
The drive to make supply chains resilient rather than merely cheap is reshaping global trade. It is also showing up, slowly, in prices.
By moving computation closer to where data lives, a generation of new processors aims to solve the problem that has quietly throttled performance for years.
Private credit has grown from a niche into a force that rivals the banks. Regulators are starting to ask what happens when the next downturn tests a market they cannot see.
