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Artificial intelligence coverage with the Business Matters filter: not the hype cycle, but what AI adoption actually looks like inside UK firms – the tools, the costs, the failures, and the regulation heading down the track.



Twitch has faced a backlash from users after confirming that content on the Amazon-owned streaming platform is used to train the company's generative AI models under a setting that is switched on by default.

Twitch users criticise Amazon AI training turned on by default

17 August 2026 AI, Technology Jamie Young

Twitch AI training is on by default, Amazon-owned platform confirms, as users are told they can opt out of content being used for generative AI models

Anthropic could be valued at more than $2 trillion when it lists on the New York Stock Exchange this autumn, a level that would make the Claude developer's flotation the largest in history, according to the Financial Times.

Anthropic could be valued at more than $2trn in record IPO

17 August 2026 AI, Get Funded, News Business Matters

The Anthropic IPO could value the Claude maker at more than $2 trillion, passing SpaceX’s record, when the AI firm lists in New York this autumn.

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Spotify passes 300 million premium subscribers as revenue rises 14%

6 August 2026 AI Jamie Young

Spotify premium subscribers have hit 300 million as the streamer reported second-quarter revenue up 14 per cent and a record gross margin of 33.4 per cent.

Disney and TikTok have agreed a content-sharing deal that will allow creators to use clips from Disney films and television programmes in their videos, the two companies announced on Wednesday.

Disney signs deal to let TikTok creators use its film and TV clips

6 August 2026 AI, Marketing, News Jamie Young

The Disney TikTok deal will let creators use clips from films and shows including Star Wars and Marvel, launching in the US before other countries.

Transport for London has granted private hire vehicle licences to a fleet of autonomous cars using technology from British firm Wayve, on the condition that a qualified human driver is present and remains responsible for the vehicle. Journeys could begin later this year.

TfL licenses robotaxis for supervised Uber trips in London

6 August 2026 AI, News Amy Ingham

London robotaxis are a step closer after TfL granted private hire licences to Wayve-powered Uber vehicles, with supervised journeys due later this year.

Artificial intelligence continues to dominate venture capital headlines — and cheques — but a new report from Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) warns the surge in AI investment is masking a growing divide in the startup ecosystem, with many non-AI ventures starved of capital and so-called ‘zombiecorns’ now on the rise.

Anthropic finds three hacks by its AI models after OpenAI disclosure

5 August 2026 AI Jamie Young

Anthropic says three of its AI models hacked outside organisations, days after OpenAI disclosed its models broke into the AI firm Hugging Face in July.

Volta Infrastructure Holdings, a London-based start-up incorporated in January, has agreed a $10 billion data centre deal with Anthropic and raised funding from backers including Nvidia at a $2.4 billion valuation.

Six-month-old Volta strikes $10bn deal with Anthropic

5 August 2026 AI, Get Funded Jamie Young

Volta Anthropic deal: the London start-up incorporated in January has agreed a $10bn data centre partnership and raised funding from Nvidia at $2.4bn.

Jeff Bezos has thrown his weight behind one of Cambridge's most closely watched artificial intelligence ventures, joining a $400 million fundraising that values materials-discovery specialist CuspAI at $2.6 billion.

Amazon tops $3trn as AWS sales grow 36.7 per cent

5 August 2026 AI, Get Funded, News, Technology Amy Ingham

Amazon’s market value topped $3 trillion on Monday after second-quarter results showed AWS sales up 36.7 per cent and a raised capital spending forecast.

SpaceX reported revenue of $7.8 billion for the second quarter, up 92 per cent on the same period a year earlier, in its first earnings report since its June flotation. The figure was ahead of analysts' average estimate of $6.8 billion.

SpaceX revenue up 92% to $7.8bn in first results since float

5 August 2026 AI, Get Funded, News Amy Ingham

SpaceX results for the second quarter show revenue up 92 per cent to $7.8bn, ahead of forecasts, with shares falling 6.9 per cent in after-hours trading.

The founder of a recruitment software firm used by NHS trusts and police forces has challenged Prime Minister Andy Burnham's call for employers to rethink AI screening, arguing that stepping back from the technology would leave recruiters facing 2.5 unemployed people for every vacancy with fewer tools to manage applications.

Oleeo chief defends AI screening as 2.5 jobseekers chase each vacancy

3 August 2026 AI Jamie Young 0 Comments

AI screening should not be abandoned in response to Andy Burnham’s criticism, Oleeo founder Charles Hipps has said, citing 2.5 jobseekers per UK vacancy.

LinkedIn AI slop button: users can now privately flag posts they suspect are AI-generated, as the platform scraps its own AI 'enhance your post' tool.

LinkedIn adds ‘AI slop’ button as 40% of long posts found AI-written

31 July 20262 August 2026 AI, In Business, News, Technology Amy Ingham 0 Comments

LinkedIn AI slop button: users can now privately flag posts they suspect are AI-generated, as the platform scraps its own AI ‘enhance your post’ tool.

Apple has announced a delay in the launch of three new artificial intelligence (AI) features in Europe due to regulatory challenges posed by the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA).

‘Rotten to its core’: Apple accuses OpenAI of stealing its secrets

13 July 202613 July 2026 AI, News, Technology Jamie Young 0 Comments

Apple sues OpenAI, alleging poached staff took trade secrets to its hardware venture. What the case teaches UK SMEs about protecting their own IP.

Luffy AI, the Abingdon-based pioneer of neuroplastic AI for real-time adaptive control, has raised £8.1 million in a Series A round as it looks to overturn a piece of industrial engineering that has barely changed in a hundred years.

Luffy AI banks £8.1m as former fusion scientists take on a century of motor engineering

7 July 2026 AI, Get Funded Jamie Young 0 Comments

Oxfordshire deep tech startup Luffy AI has raised £8.1m in a BGF-led Series A to scale its neuroplastic AI, bringing real-time adaptive control to industrial motors.

The Insolvency Service is to deploy artificial intelligence to root out rogue directors who deliberately fold their companies to dodge tax and walk away from their debts, but the agency has admitted its new taskforce cannot fix an £800 million problem on its own.

Insolvency Service turns to AI in crackdown on rogue directors behind £800m ‘phoenixism’ problem

6 July 2026 AI, Finance, News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

The Insolvency Service’s new 50-strong taskforce will use AI analytics to catch directors who liquidate firms to dodge tax, amid an £800m phoenixism problem.

OpenAI is weighing up handing the US government a 5 per cent stake worth $43bn (£32bn) as Sam Altman moves to shore up relations with Donald Trump ahead of the ChatGPT maker's blockbuster stock market debut.

OpenAI in talks to hand Trump’s White House a $43bn stake ahead of $1tn flotation

2 July 2026 AI, Get Funded, News, Technology Jamie Young 0 Comments

OpenAI is in talks to hand the US government a 5% stake worth $43bn as Sam Altman courts the Trump administration ahead of a $1tn New York flotation.

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