Heathrow is set to announce a multibillion-pound expansion plan to create extra capacity at the airport - as it prepares its proposal for a third runway. The UK's biggest airport has announced a "once-in-a-generation investment" beginning this year to improve existing buildings and boost passenger numbers. The development is separate from a new runway -

Elon Musk's bid to buy OpenAI for $97.4bn (£78.7bn) came unsolicited on Monday night and was quickly rejected by his former friend and OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman. "The company is not for sale, neither is the mission," Mr Altman said to Sky News this morning. "We'll happily buy Twitter though." Read more: OpenAI co-founder

The entrepreneur who masterminded Deliveroo's evolution into one of Britain's biggest consumer technology businesses is preparing to hand over the reins to a new chief executive. Sky News has learnt that Will Shu, who set the company up in 2013 and participated in its delivery service himself, is contemplating stepping back as CEO as soon

The UK needs a "cool and clear-headed" response to Donald Trump imposing 25% tariffs on British steel exports, the trade minister has said. The US president announced the heavy levies on foreign steel and aluminium late on Monday, saying they will be enforced "without exceptions or exemptions". UK Steel said the tariffs "would be a

It is nearly five years to the day since Bernard Looney, the then new chief executive of BP, set out a radical strategy for the oil major to go net zero by 2050. Under that strategy , BP would invest more in low carbon energy sources and less in oil and gas, even to the

The city of Hangzhou in southern China is one of the country's leading technology hubs, and home to the groundbreaking artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSeek. Think of Hangzhou as a Chinese version of Silicon Valley. The headquarters of DeepSeek is on the twelfth floor of a modern office building. Image: The headquarters of DeepSeek are

OpenAI's chief executive and co-founder has told Sky News that his platform is "not for sale" after a group led by Elon Musk launched an unsolicited $97.4bn (£78.7bn) bid overnight. Sam Altman, who is attending the Paris AI Summit with world leaders, was asked whether he can still afford OpenAI after Mr Musk's bid .

Octopus Energy Group is wading into the battle for the future of Britain's biggest water company as part of a consortium which includes the French infrastructure giant Suez. Sky News has learnt that Octopus Energy - which recently overtook British Gas as Britian's biggest household gas and electricity supplier - has struck an agreement that

Octopus Energy Group is wading into the battle for the future of Britain’s biggest water company as part of a consortium which includes the French infrastructure giant Suez. Sky News has learnt that Octopus Energy - which recently overtook British Gas as Britian's biggest household gas and electricity supplier - has struck an agreement that

A member of the Bank of England's rate-setting committee has made a case for a steeper cut to interest rates on expectations that an inflation "hump" ahead will be temporary. Catherine Mann, an American economist, told an audience in Leeds that she currently did not see a repeat of an extended period of inflation in