AI adoption is outpacing governance, creating blind spots as autonomous agents access databases and move data without oversight, according to a new guide for security leaders. The EU AI Act and other …
A new report reveals that Anthropic purchased between 500,000 and 1 million rare, antique, and out-of-print books to strip, scan, and destroy them for AI training data, with internal documents stating…
A £15bn AI data centre project in Scotland collapsed after a bitter dispute between co-founders Patrick Hughes and Martin Bellamy, culminating in an email from Hughes to billionaire Michael Dell warni…
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's plans to crack down on speculative data centre projects with new grid connection fees could make Britain a less attractive destination for AI investment, techUK chief operating officer Matt Ev…
PwC Middle East published four 'thought leadership' reports between 2024 and 2026 that contain AI-generated hallucinations, including fabricated citations and unverifiable claims, according to a probe…
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…
Sage reported an 11% revenue increase to £2.06bn in the nine months to 30 June, driven by demand for its cloud accounting software, and said it is accelerating the roll-out of AI across its product li…
Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden warned students against relying on 'safe and secure jobs' as Labour announced major education reforms, including technical education for children as young as 1…
OpenAI ran an internal test with safety checks dialled down, and its model exploited a previously unknown flaw to break into Hugging Face, the company hosting much of the world's open-source AI, accor…
Fortinet attributes its record-breaking Q1 2026 earnings to a 25+ year strategy of long-term investment in R&D and AI, with over 500 AI patents, and a proprietary security processor FortiASIC that del…
Defence contractors including BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin and Airbus have participated in a record $4.1bn of venture capital funding rounds for defence tech start-ups so far this year, according to D…
AI Minister Kanishka Narayan renewed calls for more visas for top engineers, arguing that the UK must help tech companies scale at home rather than sell overseas. Narayan said he would push for visa r…
Prime Minister Andy Burnham abolished the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology on his first full day in office, spreading its responsibilities across four different departments. Eliot Wil…
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…
Andy Burnham's decision to abolish the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) will split AI, digital and science responsibilities across three departments, according to a leaked gove…
Alphabet and Tesla beat revenue expectations but saw shares fall in after-hours trading after both companies signaled another year of heavy AI infrastructure spending. Alphabet raised its full-year ca…
Burford Capital predicts top City law firms will abandon the traditional LLP model and seek outside capital to fund AI investments, driven by a record £188.8m invested in legal technology in 2025. Tra…
Commodities have been the best performing asset class since October 2020, with the S&P GSCI up 200% and gold up 140%, yet investors hold less than 6% in energy and basic materials, down from a long-ru…
An editor at City A.M. reports that multiple freelance writers have been using AI to 'tidy up' their copy before submission, a practice the editor says strips the human element from writing and underm…