ASOS names insider Izzard to top finance role

There’s a big new promotion coming to the ASOS management team. The digital fashion retail giant on Tuesday (17 June) announced the “strategic leadership transition” with Aaron Izzard moving up to chief financial officer and executive director, effective 1 July, from director of group finance.  He succeeds Dave Murray who will be stepping down as…

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AI copyright anxiety will hold back creativity

During a later visit to a Picasso exhibit in Milan, I came across a famous informational diagram by the art historian Alfred Barr, mapping how modernist movements like Cubism evolved from earlier artistic traditions. Picasso is often held up as one of modern art’s most original and influential figures, but Barr’s chart made plain the…

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Western companies are experimenting with DeepSeek

Two months on from its release, DeepSeek’s R1, which wowed experts and caused American tech stocks to crash in January, is still unbeaten. The Chinese firm’s artificial-intelligence (AI) model remains the best open-source offering released by any lab, anywhere in the world. Back home it has spread like wildfire. It is catching on in the…

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