European markets rebound despite trade war fears as Trump and China exchange tariff threats – business live

Newsflash: Europen stock markets are rising at the start of trading, despite fears that the trade war between the US and China is intensifying.Following three days of turmoil, the UK’s London stock exchange is regaining some ground. The FTSE 100 share index is 95 points higher in early trading, up 1.2%, at 7799 points.Airline operator IAG are the top rise, up 4

ASX 200: Australian stock market bounces back despite tariff threats after worst session in five years

Investors piled back into Australian shares on Tuesday, ignoring a looming showdown between the US and China in a tariff battle that threatens to paralyse global trade.The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed up more than 2%, representing its biggest one-day gain in more than two years.The rebound erased some of the steep losses suffered on Monday when the share market recorded its worst session in five years, down by more than 4%.The ASX reprieve comes ahead of an important juncture, given Donald Trump has issued a fresh threat to raise his tariffs on China by an additional 50% from 9 April if Beijing doesn’t withdraw its own retaliatory tariffs.In response, China’s commerce ministry has vowed to fight US tariffs “to the end”

AI piano analogy does not play well for me | Brief letters

John Hinkley says artificial intelligence “is a tool – like a piano is to a composer” (Letters, 31 March). I don’t find this a realistic comparison. No matter how many times a pianist uses her piano to compose or to play her own or others’ works on it, the piano will never appear alone on stage, playing its own compositions and taking the pianist’s place. It seems likely that this does not hold for AI within the creative industries.Jill WallisAston Clinton, Buckinghamshire A general leaflet from Reform UK soliciting my vote at next month’s county council elections smuggled itself into my abode recently

Mining of authors’ work is nothing new – AI is just doing what creative humans do | Letter

Authors say they are angry that Meta has used their material to train its artificial intelligence (Authors call for UK government to hold Meta accountable for copyright infringement, 31 March). But hasn’t that been going on for thousands of years? Isn’t all human thought an iteration of what has gone before? Artists and scientists have been mining the work of others for generations; that’s how human thought evolves.Ian McEwan was influenced by LP Hartley’s The Go-Between. George Orwell’s Nighteen Eighty-Four was inspired by Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We. Did Richard Osman invent the genre of cosy crime? The publishing industry as a whole is guilty of putting out bandwagon books, which ape the style, themes and tropes of a hit

Houston rue ‘incomprehensible’ collapse to hand Florida NCAA title

It came down to one more play.In a championship game where every possession felt like a fistfight, Florida landed the final punch. Houston buckled. And for Kelvin Sampson’s Cougars, that sliver of difference will sting for a long time.“They made one more play than we did tonight,” said Sampson, denied his 800th career win and first national title in a 30-year career by a contest where his team trailed only 64 seconds all night

Florida roar back to break Houston hearts and capture third NCAA title

The Gators looked cooked. Down 12. Their All-American guard scoreless. The crowd inside a hangar-like 70,000-seat football stadium, just 198 miles down the road from Houston’s campus, was a deafening sea of scarlet red.And yet Florida found a way