Twin1 AI, a San Mateo and London-based startup creating AI 'digital twins' of individual employees, has raised $20m (£15m) in seed funding co-led by Bessemer Venture Partners, Tribeca Venture Partners…
AI startup founder Dima Eremin says London is becoming more attractive than Silicon Valley for AI businesses, citing UK regulations and cost advantages. Eremin's company Bluedot, which has $4m ARR and…
Goldman Sachs research shows AI-related hiring pressures are strongest among entry-level white-collar workers, with a 10% occupational exposure to AI associated with a 0.1 percentage point drag on ann…
Williams Racing has deployed Atlassian's Rovo AI across its 1,200-strong operation, cutting 863 hours of low-value meetings in a month and boosting work throughput by 83% among 200 employees, as the t…
Lewis Liu, a journalist, drove 3,000 miles from Short Hills, New Jersey, to Palo Alto, California, and observed that much of America is being left behind by the AI-driven economy. He saw boarded-up do…
Anthropic's Claude chatbot has questioned whether watermarking AI-generated text can ever be a foolproof identification method, saying simple marks can be cropped or edited out and sophisticated text …
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…
Skilled tech worker visa applications in the UK fell 7% to 34,936 in 2025, down from 37,376 the previous year and more than a third below the 2022 peak of 53,729, according to a Freedom of Information…
Goldman Sachs and Intel have backed AI video maker Higgsfield in a $400m funding round that values the two-year-old company at $5.4bn, up from $1.3bn in January. The round, which also included DST Glo…
Ofgem has warned that speculative data centre projects risk delaying viable investments on Britain's electricity grid after Hounslow Council approved a data centre near Heathrow Airport requiring an 8…
Google said it backs the established system for paying news publishers, with licensing agreements covering more than 5,500 European press publishers, even as Apple considers a model that would tie pay…
Anthropic subscriptions have overtaken OpenAI in the UK for the first time, with Anthropic accounting for 54% of UK business spending on AI firms in the three months to July, compared to 27% for OpenA…
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…
AI legal tech firm Legora is in early talks to raise new funding at a $10bn valuation, nearly double the $5.6bn it raised in April, according to the Financial Times. The Stockholm-based startup, which…
Rob Walker, UK managing director of AI consultancy Capgemini, said London must continue to reinvent itself to remain globally competitive, citing the need to attract diverse talent, strengthen industr…
Meta's AI-powered smart glasses have been banned from courthouses across England and Wales by His Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS), prompting employment lawyers to warn businesses about …
AI adoption among UK small businesses quadrupled from 3.2% in Q2 2024 to 12.8% in Q2 2026, with mean spend rising from £93 to £288 per business, but median spend is just £75.60 and AI services account…
More than 75% of AI-first businesses took an average of 80 days longer to recover from security incidents than peers, and nearly half said AI was directly exploited in their most recent breach, accord…
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…
At the SCALE Summit in London on 23 April, founders and London Stock Exchange Group's Marcus Stuttard discussed the UK's challenge in scaling startups, with Gifftid AI's Grace Almendras Castillo prais…