A data centre in a box and duck robots
Inside Jensen Huang’s Berlin circus.
Happy Thursday,
Today's newsletter is powered by plenty of weak coffee. We've got a report from GTC where Jensen Huang unveiled his answer to Europe's compute bottlenecks — a data centre in a shipping container, ready in 14 days. We're also covering announcements from Quantexa, Fuse and The Treasury.
Economic growth is Britain’s priority, but it is easy to overlook how much of our economy is built on small businesses.
According to Shopify, UK businesses on its platform generated more than £70 billion of economic activity last year and supported 479,000 jobs. Its data also shows UK exports are booming.
These insights are published on Shopify’s new global data hub, The Entrepreneur Effect.
For anyone working on the growth or tech agenda, it offers a useful look at where jobs are actually coming from.
Happening Today 📆
Down: AI-discovered cyber flaws have caused websites to go down globally. The UK government said it was working to identify its exposure after vulnerabilities were detected in the PHP programming language.
Parliament: Ofgem, NESO and DESNZ officials go before the Public Accounts Committee at 10am to take questions on upgrading the grid. In the Lords, peers will give their thoughts about the impact of AI and social media on children at around midday.
Messaging: Chancellor John Healey tells The Times that next Wednesday's Budget will be for "bloody-minded entrepreneurs".
In today's edition:
🎪 Inside Jensen Huang's Berlin circus
👍 Ministers defend machinery of government changes
🇬🇧 Quantexa and Fuse have some news
