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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.

Private Credit Crosses $2 Trillion: The Shadow Banking Boom Reshaping Corporate Finance
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...
GPT-5 Is Here: OpenAI's Most Capable Model Yet Redefines What AI Can Reason Through
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...
Quantum Computing Crosses a Critical Threshold — and the Race to Production Just Got Real
TechPulse 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...
America's GENIUS Act Is Now Law — And the $230 Billion Stablecoin Market Will Never Be the Same
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 ...
The Digital Money Race: 134 Nations Are Now Testing CBDCs as Cash Transactions Hit Historic Lows
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 ...
AI's Power Problem: Data Centres Are Now Consuming Over 5% of Global Electricity
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...
Chips and Sovereignty: How the Great Semiconductor Decoupling Is Reshaping the Global Tech Industry
TechPulse 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 ...
The Agentic Workforce: How Autonomous AI Agents Are Rewriting White-Collar Work
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...
The $25 Billion Developer Tools Arms Race: Inside AI Coding's Winner-Take-Most Market
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...
EU AI Act at Eight Months: GPAI Rules Expose the Gap Between Policy and Practice
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: ...