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Women who are often tempted to leave the workplace and cant get back in. but there is a serious question about funding. the sector is already underfunded. they tend to provide a subsidise, they get lower funding for three and four—year—olds then they should, they subsidise it by paying for ones and twos and they cant do that any more. child minders are leaving the profession in droves. there is a shortage of workers. so this will be the real challenge. 50 workers. so this will be the real ch...

Instead, you fill it from the ceiling. actually, i have been reassured that in the future they will still have taps. time for a look at this weeks tech news. first up, open ai has released gpt four. it is the latest version of its hugely popular artificial intelligence which powers chat box chat bbt. the new model is being used to supercharge microsofts bing search engine as well as language learning app do a lingo. meta, which owns facebook instagram and whatsapp, has announced plans to cut 10,...

Do that in an interest rate environment like this. >> i think the point for our viewers to understand is how unique this situation was at silicon valley bank. they had this exposure to the tech sector. weve seen the value of amazon and apple tumble over recent months. plus you had this situation where they bought all these so- called safe assets that lost value because the fed raised interest rates. when people started pulling their deposits out, they had to raise money, so they sold a load of t...

In place since the crisis of 2008, and from the point of view of our tech sector and the life sciences tech sector, we are the second largest behind the united states, and so we have the largest film and tv series, and we have a budding silicon valley here in the u.k., and what we realized that we need more diversity so that those very important companies have more choices to how they can scale up capitol -- capital, and that is how we want people to scale unicorns and decacorns and not to have ...

Solution to the silicon bank issue is to do with the tech sector, because amongst the u.k. subsidiary customers were 4,000 of our tech and life science companies, and we wanted to make sure that their deposits were secure, and that is the motivation, and we were very pleased to secure the sale of the u.k. sale to the hbsc. >> and in that regard to the sale of the silicon valley bang, is it your sense that the situation has been contained in the u.k.? >> yes, we believe in the u.k. that we have a...

Actually deal with free markets when those free markets turned against them on their bad decisions. weve seen time and time again that there is a lack of accountability and a lack of stewardship. so, i think when we talk about freedom in the middle east in the power of twitter to keep people informed, allow them to communicate, what we are talking, about what we saw happen with the eat the rich, with all the gamestop and all of those things, where people were able to get together to put what lit...

In my job. tech sector is a special case, but, of course, important, because these are jobs. >> it does make you wonder why they didnt do this batch with the first batch. >> right. >> what happened in this short interregnum that forced facebook to cut more? i imagine well be learning more about that in the comes days. >> its going to happen over the next year or so. so a longer time to do layoffs, theyre kind of getting ahead of it. i think theyre hedging on whats to come, guys. >> notably, they...

Microsoft, amazon. we have seen it all across the tech sector. the irony, of course, is that for most part these companies have been rewarded in terms of their share price for this efficiency that mark zuckerberg is talking about that said, important to remember that his -- some of his priorities remain in tact. his goal for the metaverse, for this universe in which we will somehow live our lives in simulation, that continues were talking now about having lost more than $10 billion on those effo...

They did before these bank failures. they do more so now. because if they keep raising interest rates, they risk causing a recession. thats been the risk all along. now they have to worry about adding more stress to the banking system. they dont want to do that. at the same time they cant accept 6% inflation. they dont want that. the jobs market outside of the tech sector remains pretty hot, uncomfortably hot if you are the fed. there is a lot of debate over whether the fed is going to raise int...

Months ago. we need to keep all of this in context. the tech sector, clearly. they are laying off workers. this shows the spike in lay-offs. we can see it really began late last year as the impact from the federal reserves interest rate hikes as the downturn of sector played out. look at all these job cuts. but when we keep it in context you have to think about the fact that the tech sector is only 0.3% of total payrolls. that means that one sector of the economy could lose jobs. overall, the jo...