Business Weekly: 10/04/2021

Artificial intelligence is developing faster than many experts predicted, bringing extraordinary opportunities as well as growing concerns. Some of the industry's leading figures are even calling for the pace of development to slow while governments and technology companies grapp ...  Show more

Headspace started life as a mindfulness app. Now it's partnering with the US Navy and investing in artificial intelligence for mental health support.The company's CEO Tom Pickett speaks to us about therapy, the increasing role of technology, and tackling burnout at scale.If you'd ...  Show more

Mining is a complicated business. It’s destructive, it’s dangerous. But in order to get the lithium we need to power the energy transition, mining could be a necessary evil.

In this episode, we go from protests in South America to a gold mine in Nevada, where we tak ...

This week: The first in a new state-of-sustainability series, Brendan May, business expert and founder of Robertsbridge, talks with Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh about the apparent current crossroads for sustainable business and why some companies are ...

For now at least. (00:21) Jason Moser and Ricky Mulvey discuss: - The economic outlook from the Federal Reserve and the new US trade deal with the UK. - How Axon Enterprise keeps posting impressive growth numbers. - What more global uncertainty means for Shopify. Then, (17:38) Ri ...  Show more

Financial News’s ESG and careers correspondent Kristen McGachey talks with Desiree Fixler, former head of sustainability at DWS, and Tariq Fancy, founder of The Rumie Initiative and ex-BlackRock exec, about the anti-ESG backlash in the US and whether this could happen in the UK a ...  Show more