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  • SME solar installers left thousands out of pocket as ECO4 green energy payments stall
  • Britain has ‘lost control’ of its story to global investors, Barclays warns
  • Billions wiped off UK-listed banks as Beijing tightens grip on capital flight
  • Nissan throws open the Sunderland gates to China’s Chery in landmark contract-manufacturing deal
  • Trump opens new tariff front as US targets UK and 59 other economies over forced labour
  • Google ordered to hand UK news publishers an opt-out from AI search results
  • Virgin Atlantic crashes to £127m loss as Trump tariffs and Gulf war ground the recovery
  • UK growth set to dip below 1% and jobless rate to climb to 5.5%, OECD warns
  • Peers warn UK cannot afford to drag its feet on sterling stablecoin rules
  • Seventh carbon budget: Britain bets £105bn Net Zero economy can shield SMEs from the next fossil fuel shock
Few England or Scotland fans will be thinking about GDP when the first ball is kicked next Thursday. But over the six weeks that follow, the World Cup is expected to unleash billions of pounds in consumer spending, and for swathes of British business, the tournament could prove the trading event of the year.

Pubs, punters and pizza boxes: World Cup set to deliver £3.8bn windfall for British business

The 2026 World Cup is forecast to unleash £3.8bn in UK consumer spending, with pubs, bookmakers and food delivery firms the big winners, but not everyone will score.

Small businesses fitting solar panels, heat pumps and insulation in homes across the UK say they are owed thousands of pounds by the country's biggest energy suppliers, as a £1.3 billion-a-year government subsidy scheme draws to a close.

SME solar installers left thousands out of pocket as ECO4 green energy payments stall

Small firms installing solar panels and heat pumps under the government’s ECO4 scheme say large energy suppliers owe them thousands as the £1.3bn programme winds down.

Britain has "lost control of its international narrative" and is paying a heavy price in lost foreign investment, Barclays has warned, as the bank calls for a wholesale rethink of how the UK competes for global capital.

Britain has ‘lost control’ of its story to global investors, Barclays warns

Barclays warns the UK has “lost control of its international narrative” as its share of global foreign capital slides to 7%, costing Britain an estimated £2.5trn in investment.

John Caudwell, the billionaire founder of Phones4U and one of Labour's most high-profile business backers at the last election, has declared there is "no chance" he will vote for the party again, and revealed he is in talks with the Conservative shadow cabinet about a possible return to the Tory fold.

Caudwell turns on ‘disastrous’ Starmer: billionaire Labour backer says he was misled and may bankroll the tories again

Billionaire Phones4U founder John Caudwell tells Business Matters he was ‘misled’ by Labour’s pro-business promises and could back the Tories at the next election.

Billions of pounds were wiped off the value of London's Asia-facing financial giants after it emerged that lenders have stopped opening Hong Kong bank accounts for mainland Chinese clients, as Beijing intensifies its campaign against capital flight.

Billions wiped off UK-listed banks as Beijing tightens grip on capital flight

Shares in HSBC, Standard Chartered and Prudential tumble as Beijing curbs capital flight, with banks halting Hong Kong account openings for mainland Chinese clients.

Nissan has prised open the doors of Britain's biggest car factory to a Chinese rival, signing a non-binding agreement with Chery International UK that could see the Wuhu-based group's vehicles rolling off a Sunderland production line as early as next year.

Nissan throws open the Sunderland gates to China’s Chery in landmark contract-manufacturing deal

Nissan has signed a non-binding MoU with China’s Chery to build its cars at the Sunderland plant from 2027, securing the future of Britain’s biggest car factory and 6,000 jobs.

The business sectors set to grow post-pandemic

Most Commercial Energy Audits Miss the Real Losses

If you visit enough factories, you start to see the same patterns repeat.

ELSA: After the Letter of Intent, is Europe Finally Moving on Deep Strike Capabilities? 

As the Iranian conflict and the diplomatic tit-for-tat over the Strait of Hormuz continues, the central role played by precision strikes during the “hot” stage is clear.

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How AI Agencies Help Businesses Adopt Artificial Intelligence 

If you think artificial intelligence (AI) is something from the future or the domain of big tech companies, think again. AI is steadily becoming the norm for businesses of all sizes, across every sector.

  1. Pubs, punters and pizza boxes: World Cup set to deliver £3.8bn windfall for British business
  2. SME solar installers left thousands out of pocket as ECO4 green energy payments stall
  3. Britain has ‘lost control’ of its story to global investors, Barclays warns
  4. Caudwell turns on ‘disastrous’ Starmer: billionaire Labour backer says he was misled and may bankroll the tories again
  5. Billions wiped off UK-listed banks as Beijing tightens grip on capital flight
  6. Nissan throws open the Sunderland gates to China’s Chery in landmark contract-manufacturing deal
  7. Most Commercial Energy Audits Miss the Real Losses
  8. ELSA: After the Letter of Intent, is Europe Finally Moving on Deep Strike Capabilities? 
  9. How AI Agencies Help Businesses Adopt Artificial Intelligence 

Latest News…

Small businesses fitting solar panels, heat pumps and insulation in homes across the UK say they are owed thousands of pounds by the country's biggest energy suppliers, as a £1.3 billion-a-year government subsidy scheme draws to a close.

SME solar installers left thousands out of pocket as ECO4 green energy payments stall

Small firms installing solar panels and heat pumps under the government’s ECO4 scheme say large energy suppliers owe them thousands as the £1.3bn programme winds down.

Britain has "lost control of its international narrative" and is paying a heavy price in lost foreign investment, Barclays has warned, as the bank calls for a wholesale rethink of how the UK competes for global capital.

Britain has ‘lost control’ of its story to global investors, Barclays warns

Barclays warns the UK has “lost control of its international narrative” as its share of global foreign capital slides to 7%, costing Britain an estimated £2.5trn in investment.

Billions of pounds were wiped off the value of London's Asia-facing financial giants after it emerged that lenders have stopped opening Hong Kong bank accounts for mainland Chinese clients, as Beijing intensifies its campaign against capital flight.

Billions wiped off UK-listed banks as Beijing tightens grip on capital flight

Shares in HSBC, Standard Chartered and Prudential tumble as Beijing curbs capital flight, with banks halting Hong Kong account openings for mainland Chinese clients.

Nissan has prised open the doors of Britain's biggest car factory to a Chinese rival, signing a non-binding agreement with Chery International UK that could see the Wuhu-based group's vehicles rolling off a Sunderland production line as early as next year.

Nissan throws open the Sunderland gates to China’s Chery in landmark contract-manufacturing deal

Nissan has signed a non-binding MoU with China’s Chery to build its cars at the Sunderland plant from 2027, securing the future of Britain’s biggest car factory and 6,000 jobs.

Donald Trump's administration has opened a fresh front in its trade war with America's biggest commercial partners, proposing new tariffs of between 10 and 12.5 per cent on 60 economies, Britain among them, accused of failing to clamp down on goods made with forced labour.

Trump opens new tariff front as US targets UK and 59 other economies over forced labour

The US has proposed 10–12.5% tariffs on 60 economies, including the UK, over forced labour in global supply chains. What it means for British SMEs and exporters.

Britain's competition watchdog has fired the starting gun on a fundamental reset of the relationship between Google and the country's news publishers, ordering the search giant to give content owners a workable opt-out from its AI-powered search results for the first time.

Google ordered to hand UK news publishers an opt-out from AI search results

The CMA has ordered Google to give UK news publishers control over AI Overviews, opening the door to fairer content deals and a rebalanced digital economy for SMEs.

Sir Richard Branson's long-haul carrier warns the conflict with Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz have "upended" its plans to the end of the decade, with consumer confidence on transatlantic routes already dented by the White House trade agenda.

Virgin Atlantic crashes to £127m loss as Trump tariffs and Gulf war ground the recovery

Virgin Atlantic has slumped to a £127m pre-tax loss for 2025, blaming Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs and warning the Gulf war and Strait of Hormuz blockade have made 2026 forecasts “impossible”

Britain's economy is heading for sub-1 per cent growth this year and the unemployment rate is on course to climb to 5.5 per cent, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, which has pinned much of the blame on the fallout from the US-Iran war.

UK growth set to dip below 1% and jobless rate to climb to 5.5%, OECD warns

OECD slashes UK growth to 0.9% for 2026 and warns unemployment will hit 5.5% — the steepest jobless jump in the G7 — as the US–Iran war squeezes energy supplies and household budgets.

The House of Lords has told the Bank of England and the FCA to keep to their timetable on stablecoin regulation, arguing that further delay will hand the digital payments race to Washington and Brussels, and shut British SMEs out of a fast-moving market.

Peers warn UK cannot afford to drag its feet on sterling stablecoin rules

House of Lords committee urges Bank of England and FCA to press ahead with sterling stablecoin rules, warning UK risks losing fintech ground to the US and EU.

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Business

Few England or Scotland fans will be thinking about GDP when the first ball is kicked next Thursday. But over the six weeks that follow, the World Cup is expected to unleash billions of pounds in consumer spending, and for swathes of British business, the tournament could prove the trading event of the year.

Pubs, punters and pizza boxes: World Cup set to deliver £3.8bn windfall for British business

The 2026 World Cup is forecast to unleash £3.8bn in UK consumer spending, with pubs, bookmakers and food delivery firms the big winners, but not everyone will score.

In Can We Be Rich Again? the former chancellor delivers a refreshingly self-aware diagnosis of what has gone wrong with the British economy, and a costed prescription that SMEs, in particular, ought to read with interest.

Jeremy Hunt may have just written the growth manual Britain has been waiting for

Sir Jeremy Hunt’s Can We Be Rich Again? offers a candid, costed eight-point plan to revive UK growth. Business Matters reviews the former chancellor’s blueprint for SMEs and policymakers.

For the better part of a century, the fish and chip shop has been the most reliable barometer of British high-street health. When the chippies are thriving, the parade is alive. When they are boarded up, it is rarely a sector-specific problem. Right now, according to one of the trade's most experienced operators, the chippies are battening down the hatches at precisely the moment Westminster should be helping them grow.

In cod we trust: industry urges ministers to back Britain’s chippies before the high street loses its national dish

Britain’s £1.2bn fish and chip industry is being squeezed by NIC hikes, energy costs and cod prices driven up by Middle East tensions. Industry leaders urge ministers to back the high street’s most resilient sector.

Backed by the National Wealth Fund, the British Business Bank and M&G, Pragmatic Semiconductor is using a modular, low-capital model to scale flexible chip production at a pace Asia and the US would struggle to match.

The British chipmaker quietly building a global challenger in county Durham

Pragmatic Semiconductor, the Durham-based maker of ultra-thin flexible chips, is gearing up to become the UK’s largest chipmaker by volume — and has its sights set on an IPO.

Roughly nine in ten companies are yet to see a penny of financial benefit from artificial intelligence, despite a threefold rise in workplace usage over the past two years, according to the head of the world’s largest consulting firm in Britain and Ireland.

Nine in ten companies still waiting for AI to pay off, warns Accenture chief

Soaring adoption is failing to translate into bottom-line returns, fuelling fresh anxiety over inflated valuations across the AI sector

America remains a growth market for British businesses, but slower corporate profits, sticky inflation and a patchwork of state-level rules mean the bar for success has been raised, according to leading audit, tax and advisory firm Blick Rothenberg.

UK firms need a sharper strategy to win in a changing American economy

America is still growing, but British firms eyeing the US in 2026 need sharper regional targeting, disciplined pricing and a realistic view of cost, says Blick Rothenberg.

Christian Horner, the British motorsport executive who steered Red Bull Racing through two decades of Formula 1 dominance, has been engaged by Oakley Capital as an advisor on the firm's investments in premium sports.

Horner joins Oakley Capital to steer premium sports dealmaking

Former Red Bull boss Christian Horner has been appointed as a sports investments advisor by private equity firm Oakley Capital, signalling fresh ambitions to scale its premium sports portfolio.

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John Caudwell, the billionaire founder of Phones4U and one of Labour's most high-profile business backers at the last election, has declared there is "no chance" he will vote for the party again, and revealed he is in talks with the Conservative shadow cabinet about a possible return to the Tory fold.

Caudwell turns on ‘disastrous’ Starmer: billionaire Labour backer says he was misled and may bankroll the tories again

Billionaire Phones4U founder John Caudwell tells Business Matters he was ‘misled’ by Labour’s pro-business promises and could back the Tories at the next election.

The Lalvani family is on the brink of cashing in more than half a century of patient brand-building, with US private equity giant Bain Capital understood to be days away from sealing a near-£1 billion swoop on Vitabiotics, the UK's largest multivitamin maker.

Dragons’ Den’s Tej Lalvani lines up £900m sale of Vitabiotics to Bain Capital

Former Dragons’ Den investor Tej Lalvani is poised to sell family-owned Vitabiotics to Bain Capital in a £900m deal, ending a year-long auction for the UK’s biggest vitamin maker.

Marketing & Social Media

The owner of Facebook and Instagram will cut another 10,000 jobs, months after laying off 11,000 staff, as the technology group prepares for years of economic disruption.

Meta launches high court challenge against Ofcom over online safety act fines

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Meta to axe 8,000 jobs in May as Zuckerberg bets the house on AI

Nigel Farage has invested £215,000 in a cryptocurrency business chaired by former UK chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, underscoring the growing overlap between politics and the digital asset sector.

Reform UK becomes first British political party to launch its own podcast

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America remains a growth market for British businesses, but slower corporate profits, sticky inflation and a patchwork of state-level rules mean the bar for success has been raised, according to leading audit, tax and advisory firm Blick Rothenberg.

UK firms need a sharper strategy to win in a changing American economy

America is still growing, but British firms eyeing the US in 2026 need sharper regional targeting, disciplined pricing and a realistic view of cost, says Blick Rothenberg.

Christian Horner, the British motorsport executive who steered Red Bull Racing through two decades of Formula 1 dominance, has been engaged by Oakley Capital as an advisor on the firm's investments in premium sports.

Horner joins Oakley Capital to steer premium sports dealmaking

Former Red Bull boss Christian Horner has been appointed as a sports investments advisor by private equity firm Oakley Capital, signalling fresh ambitions to scale its premium sports portfolio.

Belgian neurotechnology business ReVision Implant has closed an oversubscribed €4 million funding round, in a deal that pushes one of Europe's most ambitious brain-interface ventures out of the laboratory and into the early stages of clinical work.

Revision Implant lands oversubscribed €4m round to take brain-powered sight implant into the clinic

Belgian neurotech ReVision Implant secures an oversubscribed €4m round to bring cortical visual prosthesis manufacturing in-house ahead of first-in-human trials in Q3 2026.

Goalhanger, the production house behind some of Britain's most successful podcasts, has formally moved into the venture business.

Goalhanger Ventures opens its chequebook to creator-led media with Invisible Media stake and Backyard Cricket deal

Goalhanger launches Goalhanger Ventures, taking an equity stake in Invisible Media and a commercial partnership with Backyard Cricket as it bets on Britain’s creator economy.

OpenAI, the San Francisco company behind ChatGPT, is preparing to file confidentially for an initial public offering within weeks, in what would rank as one of the largest flotations the artificial intelligence sector has ever seen and a defining moment in the global technology race.

OpenAI lines up confidential IPO filing as race for AI listings accelerates

OpenAI is preparing a confidential IPO filing with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, paving the way for one of the most consequential AI listings on record and raising the stakes for SpaceX, Anthropic and the wider technology sector.

For an SME, the cruellest moment in any growth story is the one when a once-in-a-generation order lands on the desk, and the cash flow simply cannot stretch to fulfil it.

Packaging power: how Cheshire’s Packaging One sealed a £4m export deal with UKEF backing

Cheshire’s Packaging One has won a £4m contract with a global tech giant after UKEF and NatWest unlocked working capital through the General Export Facility.

Britain’s artificial intelligence sector has produced its first heavyweight league table of 2026, with Barclays placing Oxford-founded chip designer Fractile and Google DeepMind spinout Isomorphic Labs at the centre of its new AI 100 ranking, a list that crystallises just how quickly the UK’s AI economy is maturing.

Barclays crowns Fractile and Isomorphic Labs in inaugural AI 100 as Britain’s tech race intensifies

Barclays Eagle Labs names Oxford chip pioneer Fractile and DeepMind spinout Isomorphic Labs among Britain’s top AI start-ups, as UK AI funding tops £8.3bn.

OpenAI has agreed a multibillion-dollar partnership with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) to secure massive computing power for its next generation of artificial intelligence models — a direct challenge to Nvidia’s dominant position in the global AI chip market.

Britain’s AI boom hits record £8.3bn as London cements European tech crown

UK AI investment hit a record £8.3bn in 2025, with London home to nearly three quarters of Britain’s AI fintech firms, Barclays Eagle Labs research reveals.

For most small and medium-sized British exporters, the painful moment is rarely the order itself. It is the phone call a few days later, when the bank politely points out that the working capital required to fulfil it sits stubbornly the wrong side of an agreed credit ceiling. A career-defining contract becomes, almost overnight, a balance-sheet problem.

Hertfordshire Pharma lands £2.3m Saudi contracts after UKEF steps in to plug working capital gap

UK Export Finance insurance has unlocked an HSBC UK credit lift, allowing Hertfordshire SME Masters Speciality Pharma to ship £2.3m of lifesaving medicines to Saudi Arabia.

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Legal

HM Revenue & Customs has fired a fresh warning shot at Britain’s flexible workforce, urging an estimated 700,000 umbrella workers, and the agencies and end-clients that engage them, to steer well clear of a rapidly growing scheme that claims, falsely, that personal IOUs can be used to settle a tax bill.

HMRC warns 700,000 umbrella workers over ‘bills of exchange’ tax avoidance scam

Promoters in the recruitment and temporary labour sector are pushing a bogus payment ‘trick’ that HMRC says has no legal foundation — and SMEs further down the supply chain risk being dragged in.

The chief executive of US fintech Bolt has mounted a robust defence of his decision to sack the company's entire human resources department, telling a Fortune audience that the team "created problems that didn't exist" and that those issues "disappeared" the moment he showed them the door.

Bolt boss defends sacking entire HR team, claiming staff ‘invented problems that didn’t exist’

Bolt chief executive Ryan Breslow has defended axing the fintech’s entire HR department, claiming the team “created problems that didn’t exist” as the firm slashes headcount and pivots to an AI-first model.

Britain's small and medium-sized businesses have been put on notice. From 19 June 2026, exactly one month from today, every organisation that handles personal data will, by law, be required to operate a formal complaints process. Those that fail to prepare risk regulatory action, reputational damage and the slow drip of customer trust eroding away.

ICO Warns SMEs: one month to comply with new Data Complaints Law

UK businesses have just four weeks to put a statutory data protection complaints process in place before the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 takes effect on 19 June 2026. Here’s what SMEs must do.

An Isle of Man trading-education platform has won a two-year trade mark battle against TikTok’s UK arm, in a ruling small business advisers say sets a powerful precedent for founders facing legal pressure from global tech giants.

How a 50-person start-up beat TikTok at the IPO – with Lord Sugar in its corner

An Isle of Man fintech start-up has beaten TikTok at the UK Intellectual Property Office, winning a two-year trade mark fight backed by Lord Sugar’s Trade Mark Wizards, and TikTok has been ordered to pay costs

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Platforms has suffered a significant legal setback in Europe after the bloc's highest court ruled that national regulators have the power to enforce compensation arrangements between online platforms and news publishers for the use of their journalism.

Meta dealt blow by EU court in landmark ruling on publisher payments

Meta has lost a pivotal EU court case after challenging Italy’s right to set compensation for press content. The ruling strengthens publishers’ hand in negotiations with Big Tech platforms over snippets and AI training data.

Tesco has suffered a significant setback in the long-running equal pay battle being waged by tens of thousands of its shop floor staff, after the Court of Appeal threw out the supermarket’s challenge to the way an Employment Tribunal had been assessing the value of jobs carried out by its customer assistants.

Tesco loses court of appeal fight over equal pay job assessment in landmark ruling for SME and retail employers

Tesco has lost its Court of Appeal challenge to the way tribunals assess job value in the £multi-million equal pay claim brought by 16,000 shop workers — with significant implications for UK employers.

Mike Ashley's retail empire has scored a notable courtroom victory after the Court of Appeal threw out a substantial damages award handed down in a protracted trademark infringement dispute, sparing the FTSE-listed group what could have proved a punishing financial blow.

Ashley’s Frasers group dodges hefty damages bill in trademark appeal victory

Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group has overturned damages in a long-running trademark battle with Beverly Hills Polo Club owner Lifestyle Equities, after the Court of Appeal ruled licensee claims were filed too late.

The owner of Facebook and Instagram will cut another 10,000 jobs, months after laying off 11,000 staff, as the technology group prepares for years of economic disruption.

Meta launches high court challenge against Ofcom over online safety act fines

Meta has launched a judicial review against Ofcom, arguing the regulator’s fees and fines regime under the Online Safety Act is disproportionate and unfairly tied to global revenue.

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Publishers take Meta to court in landmark AI copyright showdown

Five major publishers including Hachette and Macmillan have sued Meta in Manhattan federal court, alleging the tech giant pirated millions of books to train its Llama AI. Industry experts warn UK SMEs of mounting licensing risks.

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Made in Britain

An Argyll-based manufacturing firm is targeting 20 per cent year-on-year growth in the global awards sector after investing nearly half a million pounds in new production technology.

Custom acrylic manufacturer Midton targets 20% annual growth after £429,000 tech investment at Argyll foundry

Argyll-based Midton is expanding its acrylic awards manufacturing capacity following a £429,000 investment in new biomass-powered technology.

The Made in Britain organisation has raised concerns over Reform UK’s alleged use of a logo resembling its own, stressing political neutrality and lack of authorisation.

‘Made in Britain’ body challenges Reform UK over alleged unauthorised logo use

The Made in Britain organisation has raised concerns over Reform UK’s alleged use of a logo resembling its own, stressing political neutrality and lack of authorisation.

As the Labour Party Conference kicks off this weekend, Made in Britain, a trade association that unites domestic manufacturers through the official Made in Britain Trademark, has issued a cross-party call for MPs to actively support local manufacturers.

Made in Britain applications surge following Trump tariffs as businesses embrace UK-made goods

The UK’s leading manufacturing trade organisation, Made in Britain, has reported a 20% surge in membership applications in the wake of President Trump’s sweeping new tariffs on imported goods, as interest in “buying British” grows among businesses and consumers alike.

Made in Britain, the not-for-profit organisation behind the official trademark for UK manufacturing, has forged a new partnership with Lincoln-based digital marketing agency Carrington.

Made in Britain teams up with Carrington to drive UK manufacturing growth

Made in Britain, the official trademark for UK manufacturers, has appointed digital marketing agency Carrington to boost visibility for 2,100+ members, championing British-made products and sustainable growth.

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Newswire

Bitcoin has slipped below the $70,000 mark, erasing the gains made after Donald Trump’s return to the White House, as weakening investor demand and regulatory uncertainty weigh on the world’s largest cryptocurrency.

Bitcoin falls below $70,000, wiping out post-election gains

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John Caudwell, the billionaire founder of Phones4U and one of Labour's most high-profile business backers at the last election, has declared there is "no chance" he will vote for the party again, and revealed he is in talks with the Conservative shadow cabinet about a possible return to the Tory fold.

Caudwell turns on ‘disastrous’ Starmer: billionaire Labour backer says he was misled and may bankroll the tories again

Goodbye 11.35pm: Why linear TV’s biggest names are all fleeing to YouTube

ISA shake-up risks unwinding a decade of simplification, warns Charles Stanley

Technology

Britain's competition watchdog has fired the starting gun on a fundamental reset of the relationship between Google and the country's news publishers, ordering the search giant to give content owners a workable opt-out from its AI-powered search results for the first time.

Google ordered to hand UK news publishers an opt-out from AI search results

Nvidia has fired its loudest shot yet at the personal computing market, unveiling a new superchip that chief executive Jensen Huang says will turn the humble Windows PC into a "teammate" capable of running personal artificial intelligence agents.

Nvidia takes the AI war to the desktop with RTX Spark superchip

Backed by the National Wealth Fund, the British Business Bank and M&G, Pragmatic Semiconductor is using a modular, low-capital model to scale flexible chip production at a pace Asia and the US would struggle to match.

The British chipmaker quietly building a global challenger in county Durham

Business

The business sectors set to grow post-pandemic

Most Commercial Energy Audits Miss the Real Losses

If you visit enough factories, you start to see the same patterns repeat.

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