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Women make up a smaller proportion of top earners in British financial and professional services than before the COVID-19 pandemic, research from the London School of Economics and Political Science (...

German business morale stagnated in May, a survey showed on Monday, falling short of a forecast improvement and suggesting the recovery of Germany’s economy this year will be slow ...

Sir Stelios Hadji-Ioannou, renowned for establishing the easy family of brands and serving as the founder and president of the Stelios Philanthropic Foundation, has launched the second annual “Stelios Awards ...

Cyprus experienced an increase in the sales of petroleum products during April, which amounted to 115,028 tonnes, marking a 9 per cent rise compared to April 2023, according to the latest figures released ...

Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI raised $6 billion in series B funding, reaching a post-money valuation of $24 billion as investors bet big on challengers to companies like OpenAI in the ...

The Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE) and the Hellenic Energy Exchange (HEnEx) will sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) governing negotiations on the secondary market of Guarantee of Origin certificates from ...

Cypriot banks made significant repayments on loans from the European Central Bank’s (ECB) Targeted Longer-Term Refinancing Operations (TLTROs) in March of this year, according to data released on Monday ...

Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades underlined the government’s commitment to safeguarding public interest during his speech at the 29th annual general assembly of the Federation of Building Contractors Associations of ...

Deputy Minister of Tourism Kostas Koumis pointed out the imperative of preserving tourist hotspots, particularly beaches, at the Cyprus Sustainable Tourism Initiative (CSTI) event titled ‘Beach without Plastics’. The gathering ...

The Cyprus Composite Leading Economic Index (CCLEI) has maintained its annual growth rate for April, mirroring the figures recorded in March, despite significant challenges, according to a report from the ...

Europe’s landmark rules on artificial intelligence will enter into force next month after EU countries endorsed a political deal reached in December, setting a potential global benchmark for a ...

Digital records can help make European homes and offices greener and healthier. By Anthony King In the southern Italian town of Ruvo di Puglia, a school that opened in 1924 is ...

Google will start testing search and shopping ads in its AI-generated answers in the US, the Alphabet-owned (GOOGL.O) company said in an announcement, days after it rolled out the ...

Billionaire Alexey Mordashov has proposed creating a Russian consortium to invest billions in developing an alternative to the widely-used business software made by Germany’s SAP, which curtailed its operations ...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting May 20: Chief Scientist Demetris Skourides was a prominent participant in the First International Symposium: Digital Twins 4 Healthcare, according ...

European stock pickers are turning to more established sectors like utilities, professional data providers and even copper miners to tap into the next wave of the AI boom, a year ...

Microsoft has talked up new tools aimed at encouraging programmers to build AI-focused technology into Windows software as it races against Alphabet (GOOGL.O), Amazon.com (AMZN.O) and Apple (...

Amazon.com’s (AMZN.O) cloud services unit said this week that it has not halted any orders of Nvidia’s (NVDA.O) most advanced chip on the market, but ...

Rating’s agency Moody’s on Saturday upgraded the outlook on the government of Cyprus to positive from stable. The decision to improve the outlook reflects Moody’s confidence in ...

Hellenic Bank on Friday released its financial results for the first quarter of 2024, recording an after-tax profit of €93.3 million, with interim CEO Antonis Rouvas saying that the year “started on ...

OpenAI’s efforts to produce less factually false output from its ChatGPT chatbot are not enough to ensure full compliance with European Union data rules, a task force at the ...

Stellantis (STLAM.MI) expects a major battle with Chinese rivals in the European market for electric vehicles, warning of significant consequences for jobs and production as a result, the group’...

Artificial intelligence models can produce apparently brilliant responses to human queries which on closer examination reveal bits of possibly regurgitated nonsense. A similar dynamic may be at work in the ...

There was a slight increase in the absolute numbers of non-performing loans (NPLs) in Cyprus in January of this year, with the ratio of NPLs to total loans remaining stable ...