Author: Perry

Autonomous AI agents – once a sci-fi concept – are rapidly becoming a mainstream reality. These agents don’t just chat; they plan, reason, and act across digital environments to achieve user goals independently. As we move into 2025, the race to build these agents is in full swing, with tech giants and nimble startups alike unveiling platforms that promise a new paradigm for how we interact with software. From Chatbots to Agents The rise of large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 and Claude set the stage for a shift in how AI systems interact with users. But the current wave…

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Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure In the last two months, Bitcoin price has plunged by over 23% in a prolonged market correction. Significant portions of this decline have been attributed to a series of new US tariffs announced in February, March, and most recently April.  Despite the short-term bearish effects of this macroeconomic development on the crypto market, popular crypto analyst Miles Deutscher theorizes that BTC could substantially benefit from the long-term effects of these policy decisions. Short-Term Chaos, Long-Term Clarity: Bitcoin Tipped For New ATH In a recent X post, Deutscher…

2 April 2025 On a grassy hill near Sheffield, preparations are underway for a unique space adventure. Two men fill a huge white balloon with hydrogen, someone else plugs cables into a satellite internet system, a robot arm flexes. This is the launch site for FreeAgent’s giant leap into the stratosphere. We’re about to file the first tax submission from space… and this is the story of how – and why – it happened. The daring mission comes ahead of a revolutionary modernisation of UK taxation: Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Income Tax. A year from now, MTD for Income…

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The large language models (LLMs) that power today’s chatbots have gotten so astoundingly capable, AI researchers are hard pressed to assess those capabilities—it seems that no sooner is there a new test than the AI systems ace it. But what does that performance really mean? Do these models genuinely understand our world? Or are they merely a triumph of data and calculations that simulates true understanding?To hash out these questions, IEEE Spectrum partnered with the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. to bring two opinionated experts to the stage. I was the moderator of the event, which took place…

WARREN BUFFETT must be feeling smug right now. Months before American stockmarkets started sliding from record levels in late February, as investors began to question President Donald Trump’s stewardship of the world’s largest economy, the nonagenarian billionaire was cashing out of equities. In 2024 his industrial conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway, sold a net $134bn of stocks, including two-thirds of its $174bn stake in Apple. By the end of March the S&P 500 index of America’s biggest companies was 9% down from its peak. So was the iPhone-maker. Berkshire, meanwhile, was sitting pretty on a 10% gain—and a pile of cash to…

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A 76-storey tower standing at 246 metres is being constructed by property developer Salboy Group. The building will be known as Nobu Manchester, while it will contain a 160-bedroom hotel, restaurant and 452 branded residences Simon Ismail, managing director of Salboy, said: “Manchester is a fast-expanding city that is quickly and emphatically achieving its ambitions to become a global leader in business, sport, leisure and academia. “It’s a belief that we’ve long held that Manchester deserves to be home to architectural and engineering feats that before now have been the preserve of other global cities. “As the location of not…

7 April 2025 Emily Coltman FCA Chief Accountant In the wake of recent announcements about increased tariffs imposed by the USA, FreeAgent chief accountant Emily Coltman FCA explains what this might mean for UK-based small businesses. What are tariffs? Let’s first address what tariffs are.  They’re levies governments may impose on certain goods to protect the domestic market. For instance, if the British government wanted to encourage the British people to buy wool from sheep raised in the UK, they might impose a tariff on wool imported from New Zealand, in order to make it more expensive compared to British…