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Do you need to worry about Making Tax Digital? The This is Money podcast Has tax just got a little more taxing? Making Tax Digital has come in, meaning hundreds of thousands of people need to make their first quarterly report to HMRC this week - and during the summer holidays to boot.

Gen Z is living in an intimacy economy, where connection is commodified As AI companions grow more lifelike and more profitable, the bigger question may be what happens when technology starts replacing the human connection it claims to simulate.

Wall Street learns to love blockchain Executives compare the introduction of such digital asset technology to the sweeping changes brought by the advent of the internet and the move away from paper-based transaction systems.

The dangers of investor fatalism Reports of a Russo-Chinese plan to disable satellites underline how markets are ignoring geopolitical threats to the tech boom.

The art of sensory design: how your home can boost your wellbeing Looks aren’t everything — create a calm living space with subtle changes to acoustics, fragrance and texture.

Market Week: August 3, 2026 (Video) See key market data for the week ending July 31, 2026.

Once again we are told AI may be conscious – I study consciousness, and I have my doubts Despite Anthropic’s claims, Claude is no more likely to achieve sentience than a simulation of a weather system is likely to generate a real hurricane, says Anil Seth, professor of cognitive and computational neuroscience at the University of Sussex.

Gen Z is prioritizing saving for vacations over retirement, new report shows Most of us spend decades saving for retirement but new research shows that when it comes to actually spending that money, many retirees freeze up. Jean Chatzky and Terri Fielder offer up some advice.