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Tuesday newspaper round-up: Nvidia, National Insurance, Heathrow third runway, Orsted

(Sharecast News) - Nvidia, the chipmaking company, will invest up to $100bn in OpenAI and provide it with data center chips, the companies said on Monday, a tie-up between two of the highest-profile leaders in the global artificial intelligence race. The deal, which will see Nvidia start delivering chips as soon as late 2026, will involve two separate but intertwined transactions, according to a person close to OpenAI. The startup will pay Nvidia in cash for chips, and Nvidia will invest in OpenAI for non-controlling shares, the person said. - Guardian Rachel Reeves has been urged to take 2p off the rate of employee national insurance and add it to income tax in her autumn budget, to raise billions of pounds while protecting workers' pay packets. Putting forward plans to raise up to £30bn, the influential Resolution Foundation thinktank called on the chancellor to "level the playing field" on how different forms of income are taxed. - Guardian

Pat McFadden, Labour's new welfare chief, has said that his first priority will be to get as many idle young people back into work as possible. In his words, the problem is that large numbers have simply fallen "out of the habit" of employment. "The big danger is if young people get out of the habit and the pattern of work as they're leaving school, then it might be hard to get them back in the future," the Work and Pensions Secretary said last week. - Telegraph

Sir Sadiq Khan has used Gatwick expansion to renew his attack on plans for a third runway at Heathrow. The Mayor of London has suggested that the second Gatwick runway, approved by the Government on Sunday, makes Heathrow's £50bn proposed extension unnecessary. - Telegraph

A federal judge has granted a request by Orsted to restart work on the Danish offshore wind developer's almost-completed Revolution Wind project off Rhode Island, which President Trump halted last month. At the end of a two-hour court hearing in Washington, District Judge Royce Lamberth issued a preliminary injunction, which blocked the Trump administration from enforcing an order it issued in August to stop construction of the project located off the northeast coast of the US. - The Times

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Thursday newspaper round-up: Youth employment, SpaceX, EY
(Sharecast News) - Britain is slipping down the global league table for youth employment amid a dramatic rise in worklessness that is putting a generation's future at risk, research has warned. Sounding the alarm over a worsening youth jobs crisis, the report from the accountancy firm PwC said Britain's economy was missing out on £26bn a year because of sharp regional divisions in youth joblessness. - Guardian
Wednesday newspaper round-up: UK borrowing costs, Channel 4, Anduril
(Sharecast News) - The "premium" that the UK pays to borrow money compared with its international peers may be coming to an end as markets grow more confident about the government's plans, a thinktank has suggested. The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) said that the chancellor Rachel Reeves's announcement in the autumn budget that she would be more than doubling the UK's financial headroom by 2030 from £9.9bn to £22bn had begun to assure bond markets about Labour's fiscal approach. - Guardian
Tuesday newspaper round-up: household spending, British Library, Jamie Dimon, WPP
(Sharecast News) - UK households cut back on spending at the fastest pace in almost five years last month as consumers put Christmas shopping on hold, according to a leading survey. Adding to concerns that uncertainty surrounding the budget has helped dampen consumer confidence, Barclays said card spending fell 1.1% year on year in November - the largest fall since February 2021. The bank said retailers still enjoyed their busiest day of the year so far on Black Friday, with transaction volumes 62.5% higher than the average day for 2025. - Guardian
Monday newspaper round-up: Neso, local authorities, Anglo American
(Sharecast News) - Britain's energy system operator is pulling the plug on hundreds of electricity generation projects to clear a huge backlog that is stopping "shovel-ready" schemes from connecting to the power grid. Developers will be told on Monday whether their plans will be dismissed by the National Energy System Operator (Neso) - or whether they will be prioritised to connect by either the end of the decade or 2035. - Guardian

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