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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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…
Australian construction tech firm ProcurePro raises $11m at an $80m+ valuation, led by QIC Ventures, to scale its AI-driven procurement platform across the UK, Middle East…
American Express has unveiled free AI upskilling courses and scholarships of up to $1,000 to help small business owners and staff turn generative AI from novelty…
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…
British waste firms turn to humanoid AI robots to tackle 40% staff turnover and dangerous conditions on recycling lines. Inside Sharp Group's Rainham plant where Alpha…
Microsoft has leased the entire eight-storey Film House on Wardour Street to anchor its growing UK AI operations, as London cements its status as a global…
Meta lifts its 2026 AI capex forecast to as much as $145bn, sending shares 7% lower in after-hours trading despitMark Zuckerberg's pledge to deliver "personal superintelligence"…
British AI child safety firm SafetyMode has written to every UK MP, urging ministers to look beyond outright bans and embrace on-device technology to protect children…
British deep-tech start-up Loc.ai has raised £1m led by Fuel Ventures to shift AI inference off the cloud and onto users’ own devices, easing SaaS margin…
Ministers have written to nearly 200 UK business leaders urging them to sign a new cyber-resilience pledge as Anthropic's Mythos AI model raises hacking fears across…
Simply Business has become the first UK broker to launch a small business insurance app inside ChatGPT, giving sole traders and SMEs instant indicative quotes in…