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David Whitmore
Finance & Markets Correspondent
Covers: Finance, capital markets, technology investing
10 articles
David Whitmore covers the intersection of capital and code — the funding rounds, market structures and policy moves that shape how money flows through the technology economy.
Finance
UK
Private Credit Crosses $2 Trillion: The Shadow Banking Boom Reshaping Corporate Finance
The private credit market has surpassed $2 trillion in assets under management, overtaking traditional leveraged loan...
· 6 min
AI & ML
UK
GPT-5 Is Here: OpenAI's Most Capable Model Yet Redefines What AI Can Reason Through
OpenAI's GPT-5 arrives with a one-million-token context window, native multimodality, and benchmark scores that leave...
· 5 min
Tech
UK
Quantum Computing Crosses a Critical Threshold — and the Race to Production Just Got Real
A trio of competing quantum research teams have independently demonstrated error-corrected logical qubits that outper...
· 7 min
Finance
UK
America's GENIUS Act Is Now Law — And the $230 Billion Stablecoin Market Will Never Be the Same
The GENIUS Act creates the first US federal framework for payment stablecoins, forcing Tether, Circle, and a wave of ...
· 6 min
Finance
UK
The Digital Money Race: 134 Nations Are Now Testing CBDCs as Cash Transactions Hit Historic Lows
From China's digital yuan to the European Central Bank's advancing digital euro, central bank digital currencies are ...
· 6 min
AI & ML
UK
AI's Power Problem: Data Centres Are Now Consuming Over 5% of Global Electricity
As hyperscale AI infrastructure expands at breakneck pace, the world's power grids are buckling under demand — and te...
· 5 min
Tech
UK
Chips and Sovereignty: How the Great Semiconductor Decoupling Is Reshaping the Global Tech Industry
Four years after the CHIPS Act passed with bipartisan fanfare, fabs are rising in Arizona and Ohio — but the race to ...
· 8 min
AI & ML
UK
The Agentic Workforce: How Autonomous AI Agents Are Rewriting White-Collar Work
With Salesforce reporting 5,000+ enterprise deployments and Microsoft counting 85,000 organisations running custom AI...
· 5 min
AI & ML
UK
The $25 Billion Developer Tools Arms Race: Inside AI Coding's Winner-Take-Most Market
With Cursor valued at nearly $10 billion and GitHub Copilot embedded across 50,000 organisations, the AI coding assis...
· 6 min
AI & ML
UK
EU AI Act at Eight Months: GPAI Rules Expose the Gap Between Policy and Practice
Eight months after the EU's General Purpose AI rules came into force, compliance audits are revealing a harsh truth: ...
· 6 min