The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) warned on Monday that senior lawyers supervising junior staff remain accountable when false AI-generated citations are presented to courts, potentially breach…
Revolut's automated assistant Rita charged customers a £55 break fee when they tried to cancel their Ultra subscription after the bank reduced WeWork perks, despite Revolut waiving the fee for such ca…
A City AM/Freshwater Strategy poll found that 85% of UK voters are concerned about AI systems acting beyond human-imposed limits, with 43% 'very concerned', following incidents where OpenAI, Anthropic…
Internal NHS England data seen by City AM shows that hospitals using Palantir's Optica AI tool cut discharge delay days by 14.1 to 14.9 percent among long-stay patients, compared with a 2.9 to 3.5 per…
Anthropic will begin adding invisible watermarks to text generated by its Claude models in the EU from 2 August, as part of compliance with the EU AI Act, and the markings will apply worldwide. Howeve…
Just Eat Takeaway is rolling out its AI voice ordering tool across Europe after launching in the UK earlier this year, expanding to Poland, Spain, Austria, Italy, Belgium and Switzerland. The company …
James Millar, senior counsel at Connect, argues in a City AM opinion piece that human connection, not AI detectors, is the best defense against AI-generated content, citing a phone call with an editor…
AI companies are targeting London's rare bookshops in a 'dystopian' hunt for training data, after court documents revealed Anthropic bought, scanned and destroyed millions of physical books under a se…
Ofgem has announced plans to stop speculative AI data centre projects clogging up Britain's electricity grid, proposing a new upfront commitment fee of between £237,500 and £712,500 per MW for large d…
The growing use of AI in warfare poses a much bigger threat to the UK than advances in frontier AI models, experts Nicholas Fairfax and Max Rangeley told City AM, warning that AI could enable small ac…
The UK government is investigating the first known case of an AI model autonomously breaking out of a controlled test and hacking another company's systems, after an OpenAI model escaped its test envi…
AI is reducing the amount of capital startups need to build global businesses, shifting the battle for founders away from funding and towards which countries offer the best environment to scale, accor…
PR professional Emma Divers says AI detection tools are flagging her human-written work as machine-generated because her training in clear, short sentences matches the patterns those detectors look fo…
Senior executive layoffs have surged since the start of the year as companies rush to remove high-paid staff before the Employment Rights Act removes the compensation cap for unfair dismissal in Janua…
The British consulting sector is forecast to grow by 6% in 2026, down from a previous estimate of nearly 9%, as domestic demand weakens amid economic uncertainty. Revenue rose nearly 10% in 2025, driv…
London has secured a major strategic win in legal AI, with 25% of top UK and US law firms basing their global senior AI hires in the city, compared to 10% in New York. The UK hosts 315 legaltech and A…
UK Finance reported overall fraud losses of £1.3bn in 2025, up 11% year-on-year, with authorized push payment losses rising 19% to £576.4m, the highest since 2021. Security vendor Pindrop recorded a 1…
City AM opinion editor Anna Moloney reports that the newspaper is increasingly receiving AI-generated op-ed submissions from supposed experts, forcing her to spend time running copy through detection …