Isobel Asher Hamilton

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Isobel Asher Hamilton (she/her) is a senior reporter at The Daily Upside. Previously she worked at Business Insider and Mashable. She specializes in covering Big Tech, social media, and AI. Isobel is based in London.

Media & Entertainment

YouTube Is Beating Spotify in the Podcast Wars

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On Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that one billion people are watching podcasts on the Google-owned YouTube every month.

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Industries

US Defense Spending Falls Out of Lockstep With Europe

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European leaders are gearing up for the possibility of a sudden America-shaped hole in the Ukraine defense budget.

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Big Tech

Apple Plays Politics With Server Farm Announcement

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This new server farm announcement comes just after Apple CEO Tim Cook reportedly paid President Trump a visit.

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Big Tech

Apple’s Vision Pro Headset Loses 25% of App Developers

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The Vision Pro’s first year on the market — it went on sale in February last year — has not been a roaring success.

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Artificial Intelligence

Whatever Happened to All Those AI Copyright Lawsuits?

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Last Tuesday, content conglomerate Thomson Reuters notched a big legal win against AI firm ROSS. Is it a sign of what’s to come?

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Industrials

De Beers Gets a $2.9 Billion Writedown

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De Beers, one of the largest companies in the diamond mining sector, has been battered by the ascendance of cheaper lab-grown gems.

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Artificial Intelligence

AI Competition Heats Up With OpenAI Alumni On the Prowl

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The fight for AI talent is starting to look like the end of a Marvel movie — a million fighters large and small.

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Energy

A Uranium Crunch Looms Over Nuclear’s Parade

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The sector has been soaring on an atomic tailwind thanks to the energy demands of AI-hungry tech companies.

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Big Tech

Apple Signs China AI Partnership with Baidu, But Keeps its Options Open

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Out of its Silicon Valley compatriots, Apple has always been the company with the most access to the Chinese market.

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Industries

VCs are Piling into European Defense Tech

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While the continent is not on par with the US in terms of defense spending, the uptick in VC activity is mirrored across the Atlantic.

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Banking

JPMorgan Adds Buy-Now-Pay-Later Service Klarna to Payments Platform

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The news comes as Klarna is gearing up for a US IPO, and as regulation of the BNPL sector hangs in the balance post-Trump.

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Consumer

McDonald’s Sales Beat Expectations Abroad But Struggle Back Home

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McDonald’s had a good quarter, but the numbers from the US market show the value menu math isn’t quite mathing yet.

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Technology

Ransomware Payouts Tumbled Last Year

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Research from Chainalysis found that in 2024 the amount of money paid out by victims of ransomware attacks fell by 35%.

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Healthcare

Weight-Loss Giants Have Investors Back on Their Side

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It can be hard to sate investors’ appetites, but if there’s two companies who should know how to do it, it’s these two.

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Autos

Don’t Blame Musk for Tesla’s Plummeting Sales in France, Germany

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Aside from the Cybertruck, the company hasn’t had a new mass market model since 2019 when it first unveiled its popular Model Y.

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Media & Entertainment

Spotify Just Turned an Annual Profit for the First Time Ever

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To give some perspective on Spotify’s long road to steady profitability, the company was founded all the way back in 2006.

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Consumer

Shein Gets Hit with a One-Two Punch from Trump and the EU

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With his executive order, Trump nixed the de minimis tax rule that had let the companies ship their unsettlingly cheap products for so long.

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Big Tech

Amazon Data Center Project Sees 60% Cost Jump

It’s a signal that, despite the cost furor sparked last week when DeepSeek went viral, tech giants are keeping the AI investment fire hose firmly…

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Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI Suggests DeepSeek Illicitly Used ChatGPT to Build its AI

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To be clear, OpenAI has not yet come down hard saying DeepSeek definitely stole its intellectual property.

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Media & Entertainment

Spotify Wants Everyone To Know How Much It Gives the Music Industry

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On Tuesday, Spotify put out a press statement saying that its collective payments to the music industry for 2024 totaled $10 billion.

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