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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.
BCC warns nearly one in five young Britons could be out of work by 2027 as AI and tax rises bite
Youth unemployment in the UK is on course to reach 17.8% by 2027 as AI, higher national insurance and minimum wage rises squeeze entry-level hiring, the British Chambers of Commerce warns.
Nvidia takes the AI war to the desktop with RTX Spark superchip
Nvidia has unveiled the RTX Spark superchip at Computex 2026, bringing personal AI agents to Windows PCs from Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI from the autumn.
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
Britain and France strike landmark AI pact to transform women’s health and tackle drug-resistant superbugs
Britain and France ink landmark science and tech partnership using AI and supercomputing to transform women’s health, speed diagnoses and fight drug-resistant infections.
Samsung chip workers pocket £300,000 windfalls as AI memory boom rewrites the rule book
Samsung’s 78,000 semiconductor workers are in line for bonuses of up to £300,000 after a landmark profit-share deal, as the AI memory chip supercycle reshapes the global tech industry.
Altman backs away from AI ‘jobs apocalypse’ warnings as OpenAI chief admits he was ‘pretty wrong’
OpenAI’s Sam Altman concedes his predictions about AI eliminating white-collar jobs were “pretty wrong” — but with Standard Chartered, Meta and Amazon all cutting roles, UK SMEs are right to remain cautious.
Meta to axe 8,000 jobs as Zuckerberg doubles down on AI race
Meta begins 8,000 global redundancies to bankroll a $145bn AI splurge, with 350 Dublin roles in the firing line as Zuckerberg chases ‘personal superintelligence’.
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.
AI-powered nimbyism is jamming Britain’s planning system putting 1.5 million new homes at risk
AI tools such as Objector.ai and ChatGPT are helping residents flood councils with sophisticated planning objections, slowing UK approvals and putting the 1.5 million homes target at risk, warns TerraQuest chief Geoff Keal.
Standard Chartered to swap 7,800 back-office jobs for AI as UK labour market wobbles
Standard Chartered will axe almost 7,800 back-office roles by 2030, swapping ‘lower-value human capital’ for AI, as UK unemployment climbs to 5% and payrolls slide.
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.
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.
Blair family link as Suzanne Ashman takes the reins at £500m Sovereign AI fund
Venture capitalist Suzanne Ashman, wife of Euan Blair, has been appointed managing partner of the UK government’s £500m Sovereign AI fund to back homegrown British tech.
OpenAI mints hundreds of overnight millionaires as staff cash out $6.6bn in share sale
Around 600 OpenAI staff have shared a $6.6bn (£4.8bn) payout in a secondary share sale, with average proceeds of $11m and the largest sellers banking $30m apiece, as the ChatGPT maker eyes a 2027 IPO at a $1tn valuation.
