Amy Ingham is a reporter at Business Matters, covering UK business news with a focus on breaking news, business policy, late payments and insolvency. She joined the magazine in 2026 after completing the NCTJ Diploma in Journalism at Harlow College's journalism school. Her recent reporting includes British Steel's nationalisation and its impact on SME suppliers, the decline in late payments by large firms, and Insolvency Service director disqualifications. Reach her at aingham@cbmeg.co.uk.
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Oxfordshire's Equinox 2035 strategy targets 20 unicorns, more than £1bn a year in venture investment and 30,000 new innovation jobs within a decade.
Microsoft has pulled out of Nscale's planned £2bn Loughton data centre in Essex, but Nscale says it will press on and explore other power sources.
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Nvidia chief Jensen Huang told a London event that UK firms and government should use open AI models for mission-critical tasks rather than opaque ones.
Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey says businesses are cutting costs and taking a hit to margins rather than passing rising energy costs to customers.
Intuit Sequence deal: the Nasdaq-listed group has agreed to buy the British revenue management start-up, co-founded by Riya Grover, for a reported $200m.
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