The Glam

Swiss giant battery developer taps UK start-up to feed AI power boom

World’s largest vanadium flow battery project selects Invinity Energy Systems to meet data centre energy demands

Bipartisan bill aims to restrict Scott Bessent’s use of $219bn Exchange Stabilization Fund

Accenture and OneView Commerce win £500mn contracts to run and create alternative to notorious IT system

Breakaway competition races to raise up to $350mn and resolve debts to players after Saudi backers pull out

Analysts warn of risk of traders holding ‘market to ransom’ by hoarding capacity on electricity import-export lines

Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime identifies ‘clear and serious’ breaches of procurement rules

Greater Manchester Police launches probe after reports surrounding ‘concerns about candidates’ in St Peter’s ward

Shares in world’s most valuable company steady after announcing better than expected revenue and forecasts

Its decision in Louisiana vs Callais ignores the law and overturns precedent

Budget airline says UK flag carrier’s overhaul had made its programme too ‘elite’

EV maker intends to meet senior officials from the motorsport after discussions with former Red Bull Racing chief

Chancellor sets out sweeping package of measures aimed at helping businesses and families

Also in today’s newsletter, how will Donald Trump deploy his $1.8bn ‘slush fund’?

Tech titans are in many ways the intellectual heirs of the Soviet space programme

Leadership hopeful says equalising capital gains tax rates with income tax could raise £12bn a year

The market has never before had to price a stock so speculative yet so large

European group will partner with Chinese rivals and keep all of its factories under strategy laid out by chief executive

Beneficiaries include start-up backed by firm with links to the Trump family

Based on the author’s comeback novel, the play follows four office workers whose lives have stiffened into loneliness, at London’s Arcola Theatre

Popularity of UK and European funds that use derivatives contracts to generate income soars in two years

In Hwange National Park, visitors can spot big game from a small train

Productivity gains may be cancelled out by the public’s own use of the technology when interacting with authorities

A famous actor is offered a role he cannot refuse in this clear-eyed portrait of life under dictatorship