
Disabled consumers must shape AI from the start, business leaders warned
New Business Disability Forum poll finds 40% of disabled UK adults say involving them in AI design is vital. Businesses urged to embed inclusive practice from…
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.

New Business Disability Forum poll finds 40% of disabled UK adults say involving them in AI design is vital. Businesses urged to embed inclusive practice from…

Barclays and Lloyds have joined the FCA's second AI live testing cohort alongside Experian, GoCardless and UBS, as UK banks accelerate their artificial intelligence investment.

Meta is preparing to cut roughly 10% of its global workforce from May, with further redundancies later in 2026, as Mark Zuckerberg pours hundreds of billions…

Finance ministers, central bankers and Barclays' chief executive warn that Anthropic's new Mythos AI model could expose critical vulnerabilities in the world's financial systems.

The UK government is inviting EdTech firms and AI labs to bid for £300,000 grants to co-design safe, curriculum-aligned AI tutoring tools for up to 450,000…

Britain's first nationally significant AI data centre at Wapseys Wood would be powered by a gas turbine, fuelling concern that the UK's AI ambitions are clashing…

Morrisons is putting up to 200 Bradford head office roles at risk as the debt-laden supermarket turns to AI and automation to cut costs and streamline…

British companies are spending less on AI and seeing weaker returns than global leaders, with PwC warning the next 12 months are critical for UK firms…

OpenAI has signed a lease on an 88,500 sq ft King's Cross office with capacity for 544 staff, signalling plans to more than double its UK…

Google has launched an AI-powered restaurant booking tool in the UK, pulling real-time availability directly into search and threatening platforms like OpenTable.

OpenAI has paused its Stargate UK data centre investment, citing sky-high British energy prices and copyright uncertainty, in a blow to Labour's AI superpower ambitions.

Google's UK managing director Kate Alessi dismisses fears of AI-driven mass unemployment, arguing that upskilling the workforce is the priority as the tech giant launches a…

OpenAI's flagship Stargate data centre in Tyneside has stalled with no updated timeline, casting doubt over the government's AI infrastructure ambitions and Keir Starmer's growth agenda.

Oracle begins cutting thousands of jobs as it ramps up AI spending, with analysts warning up to 30,000 roles could be affected.

WHOOP secures $575m in Series G funding at a $10.1bn valuation to expand its AI-powered personalised health platform globally.