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The UK government has found itself in a familiar contradiction. Despite a public pledge to cut spending on outside consultants, the Home Office has handed contracts worth up to three hundred fifty million pounds to Deloitte and PA Consulting for data and analytics work. Deloitte alone takes home up to two hundred million over four years. The gap between stated policy and actual procurement is, to put it mildly, hard to ignore.
Shifting to energy, Spain's solar boom is turning into an investor headache. Bloomberg reports that the country built so much renewable capacity so quickly that electricity prices have collapsed, squeezing returns for the investors who funded the buildout. It's a cautionary tale about what happens when infrastructure races ahead of the market structures designed to support it.
And Meta is quietly dialing back one of the more compelling features on its smart glasses. Conversation Focus, which lets the glasses tune in to whoever you're speaking with, is now capped at just three hours of free use per month. It's a reminder that hardware is increasingly just the door, and the real product lives behind a usage meter.
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