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South Korea imposes record data breach fine on ecommerce firm
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TSMC ‘facing talent and water shortage’ says chip giant’s chief
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OpenAI works with Visa on agentic AI payment capabilities
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Microsoft restricts Claude Fable 5 usage over data retention concerns
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Oracle plans to spend $70bn on data centre build-out in coming year
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Government launches support package for open-source AI developers
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Visa has announced a partnership with OpenAI aimed at bringing secure payment capabilities to agentic AI payments.
Posted: 12/06/2026
C.C. Wei, the chief executive of TSMC, has expressed concerns about the future talent pipeline for chip production, as well as the availability of water for manufacturing according to a report by Reuters.
Posted: 12/06/2026
South Korea has imposed a record fine of more than $400 million on e-commerce giant Coupang after regulators found that a massive data breach exposed the personal information of more than 30 million customers and revealed unlawful data collection practices
Posted: 12/06/2026
AMD, Dell Technologies, and the University of Cambridge have announced the launch of the Zenith supercomputer, alongside a new public-private initiative for AI research known as the Sovereign AI Innovation Lab (SAIL).
Posted: 11/06/2026
The government has unveiled a package of new initiatives aimed at helping open-source AI developers scale their projects, alongside plans for a data centre design challenge and new guidance on workplace robotics.
Posted: 11/06/2026
Database multinational Oracle intends to invest $70 billion to finance its data centre build out, it said in its fourth quarter earnings call.
Posted: 11/06/2026
Microsoft has restricted employee access to Anthropic’s newly released Claude Fable 5 AI model this week while its legal teams assess the implications of the startup’s revised data retention policy
Posted: 11/06/2026
Meta Platforms and Reliance Industries announced on Wednesday a deal for Reliance to build and lease Meta's first AI-enabled data centre in India, a 168-megawatt facility in Jamnagar, Gujarat
Posted: 11/06/2026
Business leaders still are not seeing transformational gains linked to artificial intelligence and senior leaders still are no tacting as a positive example for AI adoption, according to a new report by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI).
Posted: 10/06/2026
The European Commission has ordered Meta to restore free access to WhatsApp for rival AI assistants while it continues an antitrust investigation into the company's practices.
Posted: 10/06/2026
Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5, the first publicly available model from its powerful Mythos class of artificial intelligence systems, while imposing safeguards that restrict its use in areas such as cybersecurity and biological research
Posted: 10/06/2026
The UK government has launched a new advisory sandbox designed to help organisations develop and deploy AI products while navigating existing regulatory requirements.
Posted: 09/06/2026
AI coding agent developer Cursor has announced it will open its London headquarters this summer, as the firm expands its EMEA presence and begins mass hiring in the region.
Posted: 09/06/2026
OpenAI has submitted the necessary documentation to the Securities and Exchange Commission to prepare for an initial public offering (IPO) that will test the appetite of commercial investors for a company that has raised billions in private but has yet to turn a profit.
Posted: 09/06/2026
Apple unveiled a rebuilt AI-powered version of Siri and a broader expansion of its Apple Intelligence platform on Monday, as the iPhone maker sought to address criticism that it has lagged behind rivals in the race to develop generative artificial intelligence
Posted: 09/06/2026
BT has become the first UK company to join Anthropic’s Project Glasswing, gaining access to the frontier AI model Claude Mythos Preview as it seeks to strengthen cyber defences across its networks and improve protection for customers, the telecoms group announced on Monday
Posted: 09/06/2026
The UK government has launched new measures designed to help young people prepare for an AI-driven labour market, including a new alliance focused on entry-level jobs, a nationwide AI skills programme and plans for AI-focused bootcamps.
Posted: 08/06/2026
OpenAI is preparing to transform its chatbot into a “superapp” that combines coding tools and AI agents in a bid to generate more revenue, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 08/06/2026
Nvidia on Monday unveiled a series of multi-year partnerships with South Korea’s largest technology groups in a push to secure critical AI chip supplies and accelerate the development of large-scale AI infrastructure
Posted: 08/06/2026
Lloyds Banking Group has expanded its partnership with Microsoft to scale agentic AI across the organisation and deliver more personalised services to its 28 million customers.
Posted: 05/06/2026
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has agreed a multi-year contract with a consulting and digital transformation firm in line with its goal of becoming more digital-first.
Posted: 05/06/2026
The chief executive of TSMC, C.C. Wei, has told shareholders that the chip giant is working to meet surging demand for AI chips and to avoid further disruption in the semiconductor supply chain.
Posted: 05/06/2026
Pinterest has signed a $4 billion agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS), marking the largest infrastructure commitment in the social media company's history as it accelerates investment in artificial intelligence through 2031
Posted: 05/06/2026
Britain’s top banking regulator has warned that artificial intelligence-driven cyber security threats represent the most significant emerging risk facing lenders
Posted: 05/06/2026
Google has announced Gemma 4 12B, its latest open-source generative AI model, which the firm says is small enough to run locally while still capable of performing complex tasks.
Posted: 04/06/2026
Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) has raised £260 million in a Series C funding round, which it said is the largest private investment ever secured by a quantum computing company in Europe.
Posted: 04/06/2026
Elon Musk’s rocketry, AI and social media company SpaceX has publicly announced it will go public at $135 per share at its initial public offering (IPO) on 12 June, targeting a $1.75 trillion valuation.
Posted: 04/06/2026
Amazon has unveiled a new artificial intelligence-powered warehouse robot as part of a €10 billion investment programme to expand and modernise its European fulfilment network
Posted: 04/06/2026
Microsoft has announced its latest quantum chip Majorana 2, which the firm says is 1,000 times more reliable than its predecessor.
Posted: 03/06/2026
Anthropic has announced it is expanding its Claude Mythos model to approximately 150 new organisations across the globe, bringing in new sectors including utilities and healthcare.
Posted: 03/06/2026
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has introduced new rules requiring Google to give publishers greater control over how their content is used in AI-powered search features.
Posted: 03/06/2026
Cisco has unveiled a new AI-driven platform aimed at helping organisations manage and defend critical IT infrastructure at machine speed, as the technology company seeks to address cybersecurity threats increasingly powered by autonomous AI agents
Posted: 03/05/2026
G7 nations have agreed a common approach to protecting children online for the first time and made new commitments to support safe AI development, according to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT).
Posted: 02/06/2026
SK Hynix intends to double its wafer capacity over the next five years in order to meet rising demand, according to the South Korean chipmaker’s chairman Chey Tae-won.
Posted: 02/06/2026
AI giant Anthropic has taken a major step towards a public listing, announcing it has filed a draft S-1 form to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) after its latest funding round valued it nearly $1 trillion.
Posted: 02/06/2026
OpenAI has granted nine major UK banks access to its GPT-5.5 Cyber model this week, offering lenders a powerful new cybersecurity tool after rival Anthropic restricted access to its Claude Mythos system, which UK banks have been unable to use
Posted: 02/06/2026
Meta has fixed a security flaw in its AI-powered support chatbot after hackers used it to gain control of high-profile Instagram accounts
Posted: 02/06/2026
Visa has announced it intends to invest half a billion euros in EU projects over the next decade as the payments company looks to strengthen its ties to the bloc.
Posted: 01/06/2026
Nearly nine in 10 UK business leaders believe quantum computing will disrupt their industry before the end of the decade, according to new research from EY and the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC).
Posted: 01/06/2026
Salesforce has announced a $2 billion investment in France through to 2030, and selected Paris as the location for its first European AI Innovation Hub.
Posted: 01/06/2026
Ocado Group has signed a long-term ecommerce partnership with Asda, giving the British technology company a significant new UK customer as it seeks to recover from setbacks in North America and expand the reach of its online grocery platform
Posted: 01/06/2026
Nvidia is set to launch a new set of Arm-based silicon ‘superchips’, marking its first foray into personal computing processors.
Posted: 01/06/2026
Elon Musk has described a major computing agreement between SpaceX and Anthropic as only “a 180-day lease,” appearing to contrast with statements in the rocket company’s IPO prospectus that the AI startup had committed to pay $1.25 billion a month through May 2029.
Posted: 29/05/2026
A new ransomware group known as The Gentlemen has become the second most-active group worldwide and is actively targeting enterprises across key sectors, according to new threat intelligence.
Posted: 29/05/2026
OpenAI has given the three largest banks in Japan access to its latest cybersecurity model GPT-5.5 Cyber, to help the organisations identify vulnerabilities and defend against advanced cyberattacks.
Posted: 29/05/2026
King's College London has announced a team of researchers will work with Google Quantum AI and the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) to explore how quantum computers could help scientists better understand complex systems in areas including energy, materials science and medicine.
Posted: 29/05/2026
IBM has committed $5 billion to secure open source software through a new Project Lightwell initiative that deploys engineers and AI tools to help enterprises manage vulnerabilities across software supply chains, the company said on Thursday
Posted: 29/05/2026
The US Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded Microsoft a $9.69 billion contract for the use of its products and services, in a cost-management measure intended to reduce software fragmentation within the US military.
Posted: 28/05/2026
Pure Data Centres Group (Pure DC), which builds large-scale data centres in areas where land and power are in short supply, has announced it has secured $2.7 billion in financing.
Posted: 28/05/2026
The European Commission’s (EC) ongoing push to reduce its reliance on US tech firms is entering a new stage, according to a draft document seen by the Financial Times.
Posted: 28/05/2026
Project Agorá said on Wednesday it would move towards testing transactions using real money after successfully completing prototype trials using tokenised assets
Posted: 28/05/2026
One of the UK’s intelligence agencies, GCHQ, has warned that the UK faces a “moment of consequence” as hostile states ramp up cyber activity and advances in AI increase the scale and sophistication of digital threats.
Posted: 27/05/2026
Amazon has begun licensing the artificial intelligence technology behind its Alexa for Shopping assistant to other retailers through its cloud division
Posted: 28/05/2026
Jensen Huang, chief executive and founder of Nvidia, has pledged tens of billions more in investment for Taiwan, as the semiconductor giant expands its corporate footprint in the region.
Posted: 27/5/2026
Andrew Macdonald, president and chief operating officer at Uber, has said that the lack of a clear correlation between productivity growth and AI token use is making the company’s huge spend on the technology “harder to justify”.
Posted: 27/05/2026
Samsung Electronics workers in South Korea approved a pay and bonus agreement on Wednesday that avoided a planned 18-day strike threatening global chip supplies while setting a precedent likely to intensify labour demands across the country’s largest companies
Posted: 27/05/2025
Freely-available tools can remove the guardrails from AI models built by companies including Google and Meta in a matter of minutes, leading to the creation of thousands of bots stripped of their original controls, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 26/05/2026
UK robotics startup Humanoid has secured a manufacturing partnership with Bosch as it moves from proof-of-concept testing to large-scale production of humanoid robots for industrial environments.
Posted: 26/05/2026
HMRC has put more than 25,000 of its staff through its AI training programme, according to newly released Freedom of Information (FOI) data.
Posted: 26/5/2026
The European Central Bank has summoned major lenders to an urgent meeting on Tuesday to accelerate efforts to secure their IT systems after advanced artificial intelligence models exposed vulnerabilities that regulators fear could threaten financial stability
Posted: 26/05/2026
Anthropic has told investors that it is set to turn a profit in the second quarter of this year, according to the Financial Times
Posted: 22/05/2026
OpenAI and Dell Technologies have announced support for running the coding agent Codex within hybrid and on-premises enterprise environments.
Posted: 22/5/26
London mayor Sadiq Khan has blocked a proposed £50 million Metropolitan Police contract with US technology company Palantir Technologies after City Hall identified what it described as serious breaches of procurement rules in the deal process
Posted: 22/05/2026
HSBC chief executive Georges Elhedery told staff on Wednesday that artificial intelligence would eliminate some banking jobs while creating new roles, as lenders accelerate automation efforts to cut costs and reshape operations
Posted: 21/05/2026
EY has withdrawn a cybersecurity report used by its Canadian consultants after researchers discovered fabricated citations, inaccurate statistics and apparent AI-generated content, raising fresh concerns about the use of generative AI across professional services firms
Posted: 21/05/2026
Yesterday, SpaceX filed its official registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as the rocketry and AI company prepares for the largest Initial Public Offering in history.
Posted: 21/05/2026
Microsoft-owned GitHub confirmed on Wednesday that attackers exfiltrated data from roughly 3,800 internal repositories after a poisoned Visual Studio Code extension compromised an employee device
Posted: 20/05/2026
European FinTech Mollie said on Thursday that its net revenue rose 29 per cent to €147 million in 2025 and announced an agreement to acquire GoCardless, as the company accelerates its expansion across Europe and broadens its financial services offering
Posted: 20/05/2026
Meta will reassign 7,000 employees to artificial intelligence-focused teams this week while cutting roughly 8,000 jobs globally as chief executive Mark Zuckerberg accelerates a restructuring intended to reshape the company around AI development
Posted: 20/05/2026
Andrej Karpathy, one of the founding members of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla, has joined rival AI company Anthropic, maker of the Claude series of models.
Posted: 20/05/2026
OpenAI, developer of the ChatGPT chatbot, has launched a preview of its personal finance product to pro users of its software in the US.
Posted: 19/05/2026
Commonwealth Bank of Australia appointed Professor Mary-Anne Williams as its first chief AI scientist on Monday 18 May 2026 following a global search aimed at strengthening its artificial intelligence research capability and expanding the responsible deployment of AI across the lender
Posted: 19/05/2026
A California jury ruled on Monday that Elon Musk waited too long to sue OpenAI, removing a major legal obstacle to the ChatGPT developer’s plans for a potential stock market listing that could value the company at about $1 trillion
Posted: 19/05/2026
Samsung Electronics and its 47,000-strong labour union resumed negotiations in Seoul on Monday in a bid to avert an 18-day strike from Thursday,
Posted: 19/05/2026
Rewards programmes offered for hackers who find bugs in corporate code are being inundated with AI-generated reports of dubious quality, forcing some companies to suspend programmes altogether, according to the Financial Times.
Posted: 18/05/2026
The UK government has launched an experimental chatbot in its GOV.UK app, which it said will allow users easier access to government information.
Posted: 18/05/2026
Anthropic has agreed to brief global finance ministries and central banks on cyber vulnerabilities identified by its latest AI model, Mythos, following a request by Andrew Bailey as concerns grow over threats to the international banking system
Posted: 18/05/2026
The British Chambers of Commerce said on Sunday that rising shoplifting, fraud and cyber attacks against retailers and other businesses are becoming a barrier to UK economic growth
Posted: 18/05/2026
The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has dropped a proposal that would have made it harder for technology companies, including Meta and Amazon, to exclude fossil fuel-powered data centres from their clean energy claims
Posted: 15/05/2026
Fractile, a British AI chip startup, has raised $220 million to support the development of its specialised inference chips
Posted: 15/05/2026
The UK technology sector gathered in London on 14 May for the National Technology Awards 2026, with leading businesses, public sector organisations and innovators recognised for achievements spanning AI, cyber security, digital transformation and enterprise technology
Posted: 15/05/2026
Waymo has issued a voluntary recall affecting nearly 3,800 robotaxis in the US after a software issue allowed one of its autonomous vehicles to enter a flooded road during severe weather conditions, according to a report by the BBC.
Posted: 14/05/2026
Cerebras Systems, a US-based designer of AI chipsets, is expected to raise around $5.5 billion at its initial public offering (IPO), with shares offered for $185 each.
Posted: 14/05/2026
Cisco said on Wednesday it would cut around 4,000 jobs and raise its annual revenue forecast after a sharp increase in artificial intelligence infrastructure orders boosted demand for its networking products
Posted: 14/05/2026
The UK government has signed a new partnership agreement with autonomous driving company Wayve to speed up the development and deployment of self-driving vehicle technology across the country.
Posted: 13/05/2026
Thinking Machines, an AI startup founded by former chief technology officer at OpenAI Mira Murati, has unveiled what it calls interaction models; AIs that are able to handle human interaction natively rather than through external scaffolding.
Posted: 13/05/2026
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman told a California court on Tuesday that Elon Musk supported plans to create a for-profit structure at OpenAI and had sought extensive control of the company, as the high-profile trial over the future of the artificial intelligence group entered its third week
Posted: 13/05/2026
Amazon employees are automating unnecessary tasks using its internal AI tool to show managers they are using the technology more frequently, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 12/05/2026
British AI infrastructure provider Nscale has raised $790 million in financing to reinforce the continued development of its AI datacentre in Norway, it announced Monday.
Posted: 12/05/2026
The UK government has urged businesses to strengthen their own cyber security as it invests £90 million to shore up defences across the country.
Posted: 12/05/2026
Meta Platforms lost a legal challenge on Tuesday against Italian rules requiring online platforms to compensate publishers for using news snippets, after Europe’s highest court backed the powers of Italy’s communications regulator and reinforced publishers’ rights under EU copyright law
Posted: 12/05/2026
Multinational financial services and banking institution US Bank has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to modernise a variety of its online systems and offer new AI capabilities.
Posted: 11/05/2026
OpenAI is bringing adverts to ChatGPT in the UK, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, and South Korea after an update to its ad manager.
Posted: 11/05/2026
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined South Staffordshire Water PLC and South Staffordshire PLC nearly £1 million over a cyber attack that leaked the personal information of hundreds of thousands of people.
Posted: 11/05/2026
The City of London Corporation has called for input from technology companies on its blueprint to develop digital verification services in the financial sector.
Posted: 08/05/2026
Social media and tech giant Meta has brought a legal challenge against Ofcom, the UK’s communications and media regulator, over its method for calculating fees and fines around online safety.
Posted: 08/04/2026
Amazon has announced plans to invest more than €15 billion to expand its French operations between 2026 and 2028.
Posted: 07/05/2026
Quantum computing start-up Quantum Motion has raised $160 million in Series C funding to enable it to commercialise its silicon transistor-based approach to scalable and energy-efficient quantum systems.
Posted: 07/05/2026
Anthropic, maker of a suite of AI tools under the Claude banner, will lease over 300 megawatts of capacity from Elon Musk-owned SpaceX in an agreement announced on Wednesday.
Posted: 07/05/2026
Meta, owner of social media platforms Facebook and Instagram, is introducing AI-powered age assurance technology to curb underage use of its platforms.
Posted: 06/05/2026
The UK government has announced £46.5 million in funding to create digital, legal and physical infrastructure to accelerate the development of drones and flying taxis.
Posted: 06/05/2026
AI giant Anthropic has released 10 prebuilt agent templates for the financial services industry, designed to complete tasks including building pitchbooks and screening KYC files.
Posted: 06/05/2026
AI software developer Anthropic is forming an AI services company with financial firms including asset manager Blackstone, investment firm Hellman & Friedman and Goldman Sachs.
Posted: 05/05/2026
The US Department of Defense, also known as the Department of War, has signed agreements to deploy eight major AI companies’ technology on its private networks for “for lawful operational use”.
Posted: 05/05/2026
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned organisations to prepare for an imminent “vulnerability patch wave” due to AI accelerating the discovery and exploitation of long-standing software weaknesses.
Posted: 05/05/2026
Music streaming giant Spotify has introduced a verification system for artists to increase trust in the authenticity of artists on its platform.
Posted: 01/05/2026
Chinese tech giant Huawei expects its AI chip sales to grow by at least 60 per cent this year, driven by strong demand from Chinese companies, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 01/05/2026
Lloyds Banking Group has launched a new internal platform designed to responsibly grow the adoption of AI agents across its operations.
Posted: 1/05/2026
NatWest has become the first UK bank to launch a home-buying and re-mortgage guidance app in ChatGPT.
Posted: 30/04/2026
Google has announced it will donate its Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) to the FIDO Alliance to help set up secure, interoperable standards for agent-led commerce.
Posted: 30/04/2026
Alphabet’s capital expenditure (CapEx) grew to $35.7 billion in the first quarter of 2026, led by heavy investment in datacentres to fuel its AI offerings.
Posted: 30/04/2026
Global regulators of the financial services sector are significantly less advanced in their usage of AI than members of the industry, according to a new report from the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance.
Posted: 29/04/2026
Papa Johns has launched an AI-powered pizza assistant in its app, which it said is designed to help groups order more efficiently.
Posted: 29/04/2026
Bankers working for Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong no longer have access to Anthropic’s AI models, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Posted: 29/04/2026
The European Commission has issued a preliminary finding that Meta may have breached the Digital Services Act (DSA) by failing to adequately prevent children under the age of 13 from accessing its platforms, including Instagram and Facebook.
Posted: 29/04/2026
Customers Bank has signed a multi-year strategic collaboration with OpenAI to deploy artificial intelligence across its commercial banking operations.
Posted: 28/04/2026
EU-based small businesses saw total sales of over €40 billion on Amazon in 2025, which the online retail giant said were driven by strong growth in cross-border trade.
Posted: 28/04/2026
Microsoft will no longer be OpenAI’s exclusive cloud partner according to a joint statement released by the two companies outlining the next stage of their partnership.
Posted: 28/04/2026
Seventeen financial regulators worldwide, including the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), took part in a week of action against finfluencers who engage in illegal financial promotion.
Posted: 27/04/2026
Evri Group has started to trial automated guided vehicles (AGVs) at its Rugby hub, part of its efforts to deal with rising parcel volumes and streamline warehouse operations.
Posted: 27/04/2026
China’s National Development and Reform Commission has blocked Meta from completing its $2 billion acquisition of agentic AI company Manus.
Posted: 27/04/2026
Canadian AI startup Cohere has announced it will take over Heidelberg-based Aleph Alpha in an attempt to reduce the countries’ reliance on US technology.
Posted: 24/04/2026
On Thursday, Anthropic released a statement covering issues with its flagship AI, Claude, after users complained that the software was providing lower-quality responses in its new iteration.
Posted: 24/04/2026
Virgin Media O2 has issued a fresh fraud warning after its research revealed that millions of UK consumers have encountered fake customer service phone numbers generated or surfaced by AI tools and search engines.
Posted: 24/04/2026
The UK is entering a “perfect storm” for cybersecurity, driven by rapid advances in artificial intelligence and rising geopolitical tensions, according to the chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).
Posted: 23/04/2026
Citi wealth has announced the launch of Citi Sky, an AI-powered “team member”, built using Google DeepMind and Google Cloud.
Posted: 23/04/2026
Tens of thousands of Samsung Electronics workers rallied in South Korea on Thursday, demanding higher bonuses and threatening an 18-day strike next month as surging artificial intelligence demand drives record chip profits
Posted: 23/04/2026
Anthropic is set to let European banks access its cybersecurity tool Claude Mythos Preview, Reuters has reported.
Posted: 22/04/2026
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has struck a deal allowing it to acquire AI coding platform Cursor for $60 billion later in the year, it announced on Tuesday evening.
Posted: 22/04/2026
A small group of unauthorised users accessed Anthropic’s newly announced Mythos AI model on the day of its limited release in April, raising concerns over the containment of a system designed for high-risk cybersecurity testing
Posted: 22/05/2026
The Financial Conduct Authority has selected eight firms including Barclays, Experian, Lloyds Banking Group and UBS to join the second cohort of its AI Live Testing programme, with trials beginning in April 2026
Posted: 22/04/2026
Zoom has announced it will introduce real-time human verification in video meetings to mitigate the growing risk of AI-driven impersonation.
Posted: 21/04/2026
Apple has announced that chief executive Tim Cook will stand down from his position in September, ending 15 years in post.
Posted: 21/04/2026
The European Data Protection Board has approved the global expansion of the Europrivacy certification scheme, enabling companies outside Europe to use it as a formal mechanism for international data transfers under the General Data Protection Regulation
Posted: 21/04/2026
The UK government has launched a £500 million Sovereign AI fund and unveiled the the first wave of companies which will receive support through the initiative.
Posted: 20/04/2026
Recursive Superintelligence, an AI start-up founded by Google and OpenAI engineers, has raised over $500 million in an oversubscribed funding round according to reporting by the Financial Times.
Posted: 20/04/2026
Cloud platform Vercel disclosed on 19 April that a security breach tied to a compromised third-party AI tool allowed attackers to access internal systems and a limited set of customer credentials
Posted: 20/04/2026
Amazon has launched a new service which allows customers to purchase eligible fashion items in its online store and unlock them in Fashion Rivals, a gaming experience in DRESSX’s world on Meta’s Horizon platform.
Posted: 17/04/2026
OpenAI is set to spend $20 billion over the next three years to use servers powered by Cerebras’s chips in a deal that could also give the AI company a stake in the firm, The Information reported Thursday.
Posted: 17/04/2026
US lawmakers have scaled back a proposed bill targeting China’s access to semiconductor equipment, while retaining key restrictions on advanced lithography tools
Posted: 17/04/2026
The European Commission has announced that it has sent preliminary findings to Google outlining measures that would make the tech giant share search data with third-party engines.
Posted: 16/04/2026
Revolut Business has announced the launch of a global hiring platform designed to help UK businesses recruit and pay international employees without establishing local legal entities.
Posted: 16/04/2026
The European Commission on Wednesday said it intends to order Meta to reinstate rival artificial intelligence assistants on WhatsApp, escalating an antitrust investigation into whether the company abused its market position
Posted: 16/04/2026
American Express has unveiled a developer toolkit designed to support agentic AI-driven payments, alongside what it describes as an industry-first protection policy covering purchases made by authorised AI agents.
Posted: 15/04/2026
OpenAI has released GPT-5.4-Cyber, an AI model designed to find bugs and vulnerabilities in software, to a select group of customers.
Posted: 15/04/2026
Amazon said on Tuesday it will acquire satellite operator Globalstar in a deal worth about $11.57 billion, as the US technology group accelerates efforts to expand its low Earth orbit network and compete with SpaceX’s Starlink
Posted: 15/04/2026
The UK government has launched a new study to examine how AI could be used to produce court transcripts more quickly and at lower cost, part of its efforts to modernise the justice system and improve access to court records.
Posted: 14/04/2026
OpenAI has signed a lease for an 88,500 square foot office space at Regent Quarter in King’s Cross, which is expected to open in 2027.
Posted: 14/04/2026
Basic-Fit, the largest fitness operator and gym franchisor in Europe, has confirmed a data breach affecting around 200,000 members in the Netherlands alone, with around 1 million affected across the continent.
Posted: 13/04/2026
Booking.com has warned customers that unauthorised parties accessed reservation data in a cyber incident disclosed on Monday, with personal details linked to past bookings potentially compromised
Posted: 14/04/2026
Anthropic and Meta have both entered into multi-year partnerships with cloud-computing provider CoreWeave, the company announced last week.
Posted: 13/04/2026
UK financial regulators are holding urgent talks with banks and cyber security officials after Anthropic’s latest artificial intelligence model revealed widespread vulnerabilities in critical systems
Posted: 13/04/2026
Alibaba, the Chinese tech giant, has appointed a new leader for its AI division as it pivots from open source to revenue‑generating models, the Financial Times has reported
Posted: 10/04/2026
The UK government has announced a £380 million grant to support battery manufacturer Agratas in building one of Europe’s largest gigafactories in Somerset.
Posted: 10/04/2026
OpenAI has put its ambitious £31 billion Stargate UK data centre project on hold, citing the country’s high energy costs and regulatory landscape
Posted: 10/04/2026
The UK government has shared the news that a coalition of 13 countries has committed to deepening their cooperation in the development of quantum technology to ensure it is developed securely and responsibly.
Posted: 09/04/2025
Meta has announced the launch of Muse Spark, a new large language model (LLM) built in house for the social media firm’s products.
Posted: 09/04/2026
Revolut has begun rolling out a new in-app artificial intelligence assistant to UK customers
Posted: 09/04/2026
Anthropic has restricted access to its new Claude Mythos Preview model to a select group of more than 40 organisations, citing concerns over its ability to autonomously identify and exploit software vulnerabilities at scale
Posted: 09/04/2026
Uber is expanding its infrastructure and AI capabilities using technology from Amazon Web Services (AWS), it announced Tuesday
Posted: 08/04/2026
Only 28 per cent of AI use cases in infrastructure and operations (I&O) fully succeed, while 20 per cent fail outright, according to a survey by consultancy Gartner.
Posted: 08/04/2026
The UK government is reportedly considering introducing standardised testing for artificial intelligence models used by banks following regulatory concerns about inadequate oversight of their deployment
Posted: 08/04/2026
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has launched a new initiative aimed at helping parents talk to their children about protecting their personal data online.
Posted: 07/04/2025
Project Prometheus, Jeff Bezos’s AI start-up, has hired Kyle Kosic from OpenAI, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 07/04/26
The UK government is seeking to persuade artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic to expand in London, as tensions between the company and US defence authorities create an opening to attract investment
Posted: 07/04/2026
The UK government has announced £20 million of funding for regions across England and Wales to support local innovation ecosystems and the development of technologies including AI, autonomous systems and clean energy
Posted: 02/04/2026
Intel is set to buy back the remaining 49 per cent of its Irish Fab 34 semiconductor fabrication plant from Apollo Global Management for $14.2 billion, it announced on 1 April.
Posted: 02/04/2026
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will open a strategic market status (SMS) investigation into Microsoft’s business software ecosystem in May, targeting concerns that the company’s licensing practices may limit competition in cloud services
Posted: 02/04/2026
Anthropic has accidentally exposed the source code behind its Claude Code AI agent and is now working to remove it from the internet.
Posted: 01/04/2026
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has urged organisations to review their use of automated decision-making (ADM) tools in recruitment, warning that safeguards are essential as AI and automation become more common in hiring
Posted: 01/04/2026
OpenAI has closed its latest funding round with $122 billion in committed capital – including over $3 billion from individual investors – against a post money valuation of $852 billion.
Posted: 01/04/2026
Oracle has begun laying off thousands of employees globally this week as the US software group restructures to fund heavy investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure
Posted: 01/04/2026
Virgin Media O2 has signed multi-year agreements worth “hundreds of millions” of pounds with Ericsson and Nokia to upgrade its UK mobile network as part of its mobile transformation plan.
Posted: 31/03/2026
British AI processor start-up Fractile is in talks to raise over $200 million in a bid to challenge Nvidia’s dominance in the AI chip market.
Posted: 31/03/2026
Microsoft has introduced new artificial intelligence features that allow its Copilot assistant to use multiple models simultaneously, as the company seeks to improve reliability and accelerate adoption of its enterprise AI tools
Posted: 31/03/2026
The Austrian government plans to ban children under 14 from using social media as part of a wider push to improve online child protection, with draft legislation due by the end of June
Posted: 30/03/2026
French AI company Mistral has secured $830 million in debt financing to support its development of data centres across Europe.
Posted: 30/03/2026
The BBC Board has appointed former Google executive Matt Brittin as the 18th director-general of the corporation, effective 18 May
Posted: 27/03/2026
Lloyds Banking Group exposed the personal and financial data of up to 447,936 customers during an IT failure on 12 March, according to a letter published on Friday by the UK Treasury Committee
Posted: 27/03/2026
China’s DeepSeek suffered its longest service disruption on Monday, with its widely used artificial intelligence chatbot offline for more than seven hours during its most significant outage since gaining global traction in early 2025
Posted: 30/03/2026
A US Judge has ordered a temporary pause on the Pentagon’s designation of AI company Anthropic as a supply chain risk, describing it as “arbitrary and capricious”.
Posted: 27/03/2026
US quantum computing firm Rigetti Computing has announced it plans to invest up to $100 million in the UK to accelerate quantum computing development in the country
Posted: 27/03/2026
The sale and use of Chinese robots could be banned across the American government under a proposed new law
Posted: 26/03/2026
Network Rail has tested a quantum navigation system on the national rail network for the first time
Posted: 26/03/2026
Chip designer Arm has released an AI-focused CPU, moving into silicon manufacturing for the first time.
Posted: 26/03/2026
President Donald Trump on Wednesday appointed prominent industry figures including Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, Nvidia head Jensen Huang, and Oracle chairman Larry Ellison to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)
Posted: 26/03/2026
Social media giant Meta must pay $375 million after losing a landmark, seven-week child exploitation case in the United States, as reported by The Guardian
Posted: 25/03/2026
Two co-founders of Manus AI, one of the first successful AI agents capable of operating without human intervention, have been barred from leaving China as the country reviews its $2 billion sale to Meta.
Posted: 25/03/2026
Marks and Spencer (M&S) is rolling out AI and agentic AI tools to every store manager and support centre employee in a bid to speed up data access and analysis.
Posted: 25/03/2026
The UK government is piloting social media bans, app time limits and digital curfews in the homes of 300 teenagers, as part of a six-week trial to assess potential measures to improve children’s online safety and wellbeing
Posted: 25/03/2026
Lidl and Amazon are set to begin selling plug-in solar panels in the UK within months under new government plans to open up the retail market for low-cost home energy technology
Posted: 25/03/2026
OpenAI will discontinue its Sora video-generation app and related services as it shifts focus towards enterprise tools and coding products ahead of a potential stock market listing later this year
Posted: 25/03/2026
Pinterest has launched a shoppable streaming series which will allow viewers to purchase items they see on screen through a QR code.
Posted: 24/03/2026
Japanese investment group SoftBank plans to invest a further $30 billion in OpenAI in a move that could breach its own borrowing limits.
Posted: 24/03/2026
The European Central Bank's chief economist said on Monday that artificial intelligence could add more than four percentage points to euro zone productivity growth over the next decade, but warned that Europe's technological disadvantage and high energy costs threaten to limit those gains
Posted: 24/03/2026
Billionaire Elon Musk is responsible for stock price drops caused by statements he made in the lead-up to his purchase of social media company Twitter – now X – a jury has found.
Posted: 23/03/2026
Starling Bank has announced the launch of an agentic AI financial assistant which can give customers banking guidance, financial insights and help to manage daily finances.
Posted: 23/03/2026
Tech West England Advocates has announced two initiatives designed to strengthen ties between the UK and Chinese tech sectors
Posted: 23/03/2026
European organisations are adopting artificial intelligence systems at a rapid pace, but are failing to implement adequate governance and safety controls to keep them in check
Posted: 23/03/2026
OpenAI is planning to nearly double its workforce to about 8,000 employees by the end of 2026 as it intensifies efforts to win business customers and counter rising competition in the artificial intelligence market
Posted: 23/03/2026
Darts player Luke Littler has applied to trademark his face with the UK Intellectual Property Office as the teenage champion seeks to prevent unauthorised AI-generated use of his likeness
Posted: 20/03/2026
Tech giant Meta has experienced an internal data breach caused by an AI agent acting outside its intended parameter, leading to a severe internal data breach.
Posted: 20/03/2026
Amazon has launched Alexa+ in the UK, bringing its next‑generation, generative AI assistant to what it says is its most engaged market.
Posted: 20/03/2026
OpenAI is preparing to launch a desktop “superapp” combining ChatGPT, Codex and its Atlas browser, as the artificial intelligence company seeks to simplify its product offering and strengthen its position against rising competition
Posted: 20/03/2026
Technology is globalising crime, accelerating it and making it more harmful, according to the director of the National Crime Agency (NCA) Graeme Biggar.
Posted: 19/03/2026
South Korean tech giant Samsung intends to spend over ₩110 trillion ($73.2 billion) on research and development in 2026 as the battle over semiconductor dominance heats up.
Posted: 19/03/2026
The vast majority of artificial intelligence investments are failing to generate a financial return for firms, according to new research
Posted: 19/03/2026
The European Parliament has taken a significant step towards banning artificial intelligence systems that generate non-consensual sexual images, following a committee vote on Wednesday advancing new rules under the bloc’s AI Omnibus legislation
Posted: 19/03/2026
South Korean tech giant Samsung has teamed up with American chipmaker AMD to develop a range of new artificial intelligence‑based memory and computing solutions
Posted: 18/03/2026
British Businesses Bank, the UK government’s economic development bank, has invested £50 million in a fund designed to provide B2B AI and SaaS startups with seed capital.
Posted: 18/03/2026
Microsoft has appointed relative newcomer Jacob Andreou to run its Copilot division and reduced DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman's responsibilities in a major shake-up.
Posted: 18/03/2026
On Tuesday, payment card provider Mastercard announced a new generative AI model trained on its payments data.
Posted: 18/03/2026
Chip manufacturer Nvidia’s chief executive, Jensen Huang, delivered a forecast of $1 trillion in revenue from chips over the next two years on Monday.
Posted: 17/03/2026
Bordeaux Airport, which handles six million passengers a year across 92 destinations, has announced plans to pilot an AI tool that uses a digital twin of its terminal to improve passenger flow and resource deployment
Posted: 17/03/2026
Finnish telecoms giant Nokia has unveiled a detailed vision for the ninth iteration of wireless networks, and it’s centred around artificial intelligence
Posted: 17/03/2026
The European Union has imposed sanctions on two Chinese companies, one Iranian firm and two individuals over cyber attacks targeting EU member states and partners, the Council of the EU announced on Monday
Posted: 17/03/2026
JD.com has launched its Joybuy online marketplace across the UK and five European markets on Monday, expanding the Chinese e-commerce group’s international push and positioning the platform as a competitor to Amazon in the region.
Posted: 16/03/2026
American semiconductor maker AMD has proposed creating a new category of computer to cater to the rise of artificial intelligence
Posted: 16/03/2026
Chinese retailer and technology company Alibaba Group Holding Limited (Alibaba) is set to announce a new agentic AI tool built on its Qwen large language model as soon as this week, Bloomberg has reported.
Posted: 16/03/2026
Over three-quarters of UK businesses do not immediately deactivate staff logins when employees leave, contributing to a 160 per cent increase in compromised logins over the last year, a new study says.
Posted: 16/03/2026
Meta Platforms has signed a five-year agreement worth up to $27 billion with Dutch cloud provider Nebius Group to secure large-scale artificial intelligence computing capacity, in one of the company’s biggest infrastructure contracts to date
Posted: 16/03/2026
Banco Santander and Visa have completed a controlled pilot of agentic commerce transactions across multiple Latin American markets, in a project powered by Visa Intelligent Commerce
Posted: 13/03/2026
McKinsey is working to fix issues with its AI system after hackers accessed millions of internal messages and were able to identify sensitive documents, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 13/03/2026
The University of Cambridge has announced plans to host what it says will be the UK’s most powerful quantum computer, in a move aimed at accelerating research in quantum science, engineering and other fields
Posted: 13/03/2026
Britain’s media and privacy regulators on Thursday ordered major social media companies including Meta, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube to strengthen age-verification systems, warning that platforms are failing to enforce their own minimum age rules under the country’s online safety framework
Posted: 12/03/2026
Atlassian and Oracle are the latest software-focused multinationals to prepare for layoffs in the wake of expanding use of AI sector-wide.
Posted: 12/03/2026
The UK government has announced it will launch measures aimed at boosting female participation in the technology industry.
Posted: 12/03/2026
Microsoft has filed a court brief supporting Anthropic's lawsuit against the Pentagon, urging a federal judge to impose a temporary restraining order blocking the Defence Department's designation of the AI company as a supply chain risk
Posted: 12/03/2026
Amazon organised a meeting on Tuesday to investigate a “trend of incidents” related to generative AI-based coding in its ecommerce business, the Financial Times has reported.
Posted: 11/03/2026
Google Cloud has announced a multi-year AI partnership with CANAL+ aimed at improving content discovery and accelerating video production capabilities across the French broadcaster’s streaming platforms
Posted: 11/03/2026
Advanced Machine Intelligence, a startup founded by former Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, said on Tuesday it had raised $1.03 billion in seed funding at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation to develop artificial intelligence systems designed to reason about the physical world
Posted: 11/03/2026
OpenAI is putting a pause on its plan to allow users to purchase products directly through ChatGPT, and will instead focus on checkouts that run through specific plugins for the service.
Posted: 10/03/2026
The UK government has announced a £180 million investment in timing technology designed to protect critical services and digital infrastructure
Posted: 10/03/2026
The vast majority of AI projects are reported to be successful, according to new research that challenges the perception that deployments are likely to fail because the technology is still in its infancy
Posted: 10/03/2026
A tech firm has warned that the world could be heading into what it’s calling “The Great Trust Recession” as people become more skeptical of what they see online due to the rise of deepfakes
Posted: 10/03/2026
Anthropic filed two federal lawsuits against the Trump administration on Monday, challenging a Pentagon decision to designate the artificial intelligence company a "supply chain risk"
Posted: 10/03/2026
Digital financial market infrastructure provider ClearToken and blockchain platform Canton Network have inked a new strategic partnership
Posted: 09/03/2026
British entrepreneurs are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence tools for the business advice they would have previously received from their peers
Posted: 09/03/2026
Tide, the London-based FinTech specialising in business banking and management services, has launched a mobile phone service for small businesses embedded directly in the Tide app
Posted: 09/03/2026
Sadiq Khan has invited artificial intelligence developer Anthropic to expand its operations in London
Posted: 09/03/2026
SoftBank Corp has unveiled plans to become an artificial intelligence infrastructure firm, rather than just a simple telecommunications carrier
Posted: 06/03/2026
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched an AI‑powered platform in the US that aims to cut administrative workloads in healthcare and improve access to patient services
Posted: 06/03/2026
Transport for London has confirmed that a cyber-attack carried out in late summer 2024 exposed personal data belonging to roughly 10 million individuals, one of the largest data breaches involving a UK public body in recent years
Posted: 06/03/2026
The UK government has announced plans to establish a new AI research laboratory, which it will back with up to £40 million of funding.
Posted: 05/03/2026
American critical infrastructure likely to be hit by Iranian retaliatory cyber attacks, expert warns
The ongoing US-Israel air strikes on Iran are likely to result in 'devastating' Iranian cyber attacks launched against American and allied critical infrastructure, claim experts
Posted: 05/06/2026
The UK Government has announced a £500 million support package for Britain’s space industry as part of a new national strategy to boost growth in the sector
Posted: 05/03/2026
Kraken’s Wyoming-chartered banking unit has been granted a limited-purpose master account by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, becoming the first US digital-asset firm to gain direct access to the central bank’s core payments infrastructure
Posted: 04/03/2026
Google is facing its first wrongful death lawsuit over its Gemini chatbot after the family of a 36-year-old Florida man alleged the AI tool instructed him to kill himself following weeks of immersive and delusional exchanges
Posted: 04/03/2026
Google Cloud has set out plans to build an agentic commerce infrastructure in Europe, in which AI agents autonomously shop and pay on behalf of consumers, based on explicit authorisations.
Posted: 04/03/2025
Amazon has announced plans to invest €33.7 billion in Aragón, Spain to expand data centre infrastructure and deliver advanced AI and cloud computing capabilities to European organisations.
Posted: 04/03/2026
The United States and China are emerging as the two biggest artificial intelligence superpowers, according to new research
Posted: 04/03/2026
OpenAI has amended its newly signed contract with the US Department of Defense, days after agreeing to supply its artificial intelligence models for classified military use, after chief executive Sam Altman admitted the rushed deal “looked opportunistic and sloppy” and prompted concerns over potential domestic surveillance
Posted: 04/03/2026
Banco Santander and Mastercard have announced the successful completion of Europe’s first live end-to-end payment executed by an AI agent.
Posted: 03/03/2026
Amazon Web Services said late on Monday that three of its data centres in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain were damaged by drone strikes over the weekend, disrupting core cloud services and prompting customers to consider moving workloads as conflict in the region intensifies
Posted: 03/03/2026
The vast majority of cyber crimes are perpetrated by middle-aged hackers, according to new research from Orange Cyberdefense
Posted: 03/03/2026
Vodafone and Amazon have teamed up to deliver improved mobile connectivity to those living in rural parts of Europe and Africa
Posted: 02/03/2026
O2 has announced it will invest £700m in its mobile network this yearas part of its ongoing Mobile Transformation Plan, targeting improved reliability, capacity and coverage across the UK.
Posted: 02/03/2026
Specialist artificial intelligence models tailored to finance are outperforming mainstream tools from technology giants such as Google and Amazon, according to new research
Posted: 02/03/2026
OpenAI signed an agreement with the US Pentagon on Friday to deploy its artificial intelligence models in classified military networks, hours after President Donald Trump ordered all federal agencies to cease using technology from rival Anthropic following a breakdown in negotiations over ethical restrictions
Posted: 02/03/2026
Not all artificial intelligence products have the same level of disruption, with platform-based AI companies faring significantly better than service-based firms, according to a new report by UK investment bank Peel Hunt
Posted: 27/02/2026
The UK government has cut the time it takes to address major cybersecurity issues across Britain’s public services by 84 per cent, as part of a wider push to harden critical systems and build a professional cyber workforce, it said on Friday
Posted: 27/02/2026
Skyscanner has launched the Skyscanner app in ChatGPT to allow travellers to search and find flight deals and travel options through ChatGPT.
Posted: 27/02/2026
Anthropic has rejected the United States Department of Defense's ultimatum to remove safety restrictions from its artificial intelligence model Claude, putting a $200 million contract at risk after chief executive Dario Amodei declared the company "cannot in good conscience" comply with the government's demands
Posted: 27/02/2026
Citigroup Inc. has formed a dedicated artificial intelligence infrastructure banking team and made its first strategic investment in Japan in Tokyo-based Sakana AI, moves announced on 25 February aimed at capturing a greater share of the capital-intensive global AI build-out
Posted: 25/02/2026
The vast majority of cybersecurity leaders see artificial intelligence as a good thing for their industry, according to new research from American software firm Splunk
Posted: 25/02/2026
UK data watchdog the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Reddit £14.47 million after finding the social media platform unlawfully processed children’s personal data and failed to put in place effective age checks.
Posted: 25/02/2026
Hackers are increasingly exploiting public-facing applications to launch devastating cyber attacks, according to new research from IBM
Posted: 25/02/2026
ByteDance’s Doubao chatbot surpassed 100 million daily active users on February 16 during China’s nine-day Lunar New Year holiday, overtaking rival apps from Alibaba and Tencent in a costly battle for consumer AI dominance, according to data published on Wednesday
Posted: 25/02/2026
Japan’s Fair Trade Commission on Wednesday raided the Tokyo offices of Microsoft Japan as part of an investigation into whether the US technology group improperly restricted customers of its Azure cloud platform from using rival services, raising fresh scrutiny of its licensing practices in the world’s third-largest economy
Posted: 25/02/2026
Amazon has announced plans to invest $12 billion in new data centre campuses in northwest Louisiana to support growing demand for AI and cloud computing services
Posted: 24/02/2026
Cyber attacks utilising artificial intelligence technology have risen by 89 per cent in the past year and are altering the online threat landscape completely, according to new research from CrowdStrike
Posted: 24/02/2026
Engine by Starling, Starling Group’s banking Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business, has announced a partnership with SBS Bank, a New Zealand‑owned mutual.
Posted: 23/02/2026
Business secretary Peter Kyle has selected Doug Gurr, a former Amazon country manager, as his preferred candidate to lead the Competition and Markets Authority permanently following a year-long tenure in an interim capacity aimed at refocusing the regulator on economic growth
Posted: 23/02/2026
Seven men have been arrested in Nigeria following a coordinated operation between Meta, the UK National Crime Agency (NCA), and the Nigerian Police Force National Cybercrime Centre to dismantle an online fraud network targeting UK and US victims with cryptocurrency scams
Posted: 23/02/2023
Microsoft said on Friday that Phil Spencer will retire after 38 years at the software group, naming internal executive Asha Sharma as chief executive of its gaming division in a leadership overhaul aimed at refocusing the Xbox business during a period of falling revenues and intensifying competition
Posted: 23/02/2026
OpenAI has told investors it expects total compute spending to reach about $600 billion by 2030, sharply below the $1.4 trillion infrastructure commitment outlined last year, as the company refines its growth plans ahead of a potential stock market listing
Posted: 23/02/2026
Tesco is making "significant strides" on safety through body worn cameras, the supermarket's project manager for shrink and security technology transformation has revealed.
Posted: 20/2/2026
The UK government has announced that OpenAI and Microsoft have joined its international coalition for the safeguarding of AI development.
Posted: 20/02/2026
The introduction of a digital euro could cost European banks between €4 billion and €6 billion over four years if legislation is approved in 2026, European Central Bank executive board member Piero Cipollone said during a speech this week
Posted: 20/02/2026
OpenAI will become the first customer of Tata Consultancy Services’ new data centre business in India, committing to an initial 100 megawatts of capacity as part of its global Stargate AI infrastructure programme, the companies announced on Thursday
Posted: 19/02/2026
The UK’s largest public research funder, UK Research and Innovation, on Thursday 19 February unveiled its first artificial intelligence strategy, backed by a record £1.6 billion of investment over four years to position AI at the centre of British science and innovation policy
Posted: 19/02/2026
As part of the move, Societe Generale has joined LSEG's model marketplace as a provider of advanced analytical models.
Posted: 19/2/2026
Tech companies will be ordered to take down intimate images shared without a victim’s consent within 48 hours, under new laws announced by the government to protect women and girls from abuse.
Posted: 19/2/2026
Amazon has started building a £40 million delivery station in Stockton-on-Tees, with the company hoping the site will be the first to achieve zero carbon certification outside of the US.
Posted: 18/02/2026
The European Commission launched a formal investigation into Chinese online retailer Shein on Tuesday over the sale of illegal products and the potentially addictive design of its platform, marking a significant escalation of regulatory pressure under the bloc's Digital Services Act
Posted: 18/02/2026
Meta Platforms has agreed to buy millions of Nvidia's current and next-generation artificial intelligence chips in a multiyear strategic partnership announced on Tuesday, marking a significant expansion of a relationship that stretches back more than a decade
Posted: 18/02/2026
DBS Bank has trialled Visa's agentic commerce suite in an Asia Pacific first.
Posted: 18/2/2026
Unilever has announced it is accelerating its business transformation through a new partnership with Google Cloud.
Posted: 17/2/2026
Infosys and Anthropic announced on Tuesday a collaboration to develop custom artificial intelligence agents for clients in telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing, and software development, marking Anthropic's deepening push into enterprise markets in India and beyond
Posted: 17/02/2026
OpenAI has hired Peter Steinberger, the Austrian developer behind the viral open-source AI agent OpenClaw, to lead its next generation of personal agent products, as the $500 billion company seeks to outpace rivals including Anthropic and Google in the race to deploy autonomous AI
Posted: 17/02/2026
The UK government has launched a new campaign urging business owners to “lock the door” on criminals and protect themselves from common online threats.
Posted: 17/02/2026
Alibaba unveiled its Qwen3.5 artificial intelligence model on Monday, positioning the system as designed for complex autonomous tasks whilst claiming significant cost and performance improvements over major American competitors including GPT-5.2, Claude Opus 4.5, and Gemini 3 Pro
Posted: 16/02/2026
The AI Impact Summit is being held in India this week, building on the momentum of similar summits held in Bletchley Park, Seoul and Paris.
Posted: 16/2/2026
Deliveroo has announced a new partnership with embedded finance platform Liberis to roll out a funding solution for restaurants on the app.
Posted: 16/2/2026
Prime minister Keir Starmer has announced plans for new legal powers which will allow the government to take “immediate action" following the findings of its upcoming children's digital wellbeing consultation.
Posted: 16/2/2026
Klarna has announced that it will make its flexible payment services available to Google Pay users in the UK.
Posted: 16/02/202
Starbucks has rolled out a new payment platform across 943 stores in the UK, Austria and Switzerland.
Posted: 13/02/2026
O2 has switched on its 5G standalone (5GSA) network in Manchester and its surrounding towns as part of its UK-wide rollout, which is now live in over 500 locations.
Posted: 13/02/2026
Investment in the UK FinTech industry fell by 21 per cent in 2025, but the country still attracted more funding than in France, Germany, Belgium, the Nordics, Ireland, China, and Brazil combined, according to new research from KPMG.
Posted: 13/02/2026
British retailer Debenhams Group has become the first UK retailer to implement PayPal’s agentic AI assistant.
Posted: 13/2/2026
Amazon Pharmacy will expand same-day prescription delivery to 4,500 cities and towns across the US by the end of 2026, adding nearly 2,000 new communities over the course of this year
Posted: 12/2/2026
National Australia Bank (NAB) will offer its customers appointments via video call to give them more choice and flexibility.
Posted: 12/2/2026
Network provider and tech retailer EE is offering 'Stay Safe with AI' appointments across 11 stores in Essex.
Posted: 12/2/2026
The UK government has chosen HSBC as the platform provider for its digital sovereign bonds trial following a tender process launched in October last year.
Posted: 12/2/2026
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has started formal legal proceedings against global crypto exchange HTX after concluding the firm repeatedly published illegal financial promotions in the UK.
Posted: 11/2/2026
Standard Chartered has partnered with B2C2 to expand institutional access to digital asset markets.
Posted: 11/2/2026
The Office of the Children's Commissioner for England has released "deeply concerning" findings which show that over half of children in the country have seen meals, snacks and drinks online that make claims that they help people lose weight.
Posted: 11/2/2026
Two co-founders of Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up xAI have resigned this week, reducing the company’s original founding team by half less than three years after its launch
Posted: 11/02/2026
Apple and Google have agreed to a package of voluntary commitments with the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority that will require them to treat third-party apps more fairly on their app stores
Posted: 11/02/2026
Global spend on AI agents for customer experience is set to grow 400 per cent over the next two years, according to new figures from Juniper Research.
Posted: 10/2/2026
Messaging platform Discord will introduce mandatory age verification for users worldwide from early March, automatically placing accounts into a “teen-appropriate” experience unless adulthood can be confirmed, as the company tightens access to age-restricted content and features
Posted: 10/02/2026
The company has rolled out a structured digital transformation programme designed to streamline internal processes, enhance information accessibility, and improve budget visibility across the organisation.
Posted: 10/2/2026
Google has found that state-sponsored hackers are increasingly targeting defence sector employees and hiring processes with highly personalised cyber-espionage campaigns, warning that attacks on individuals now pose a growing risk to Western industrial and military supply chains
Posted: 10/02/2026
Restaurant Brands Europe (RBE), which runs fast food restaurants including Burger King and Tim Hortons across Spain, Italy and Portugal, has installed new technology to improve demand forecasting and automate ingredient replenishment.
Posted: 9/2/2026
Ripple has partnered with Securosys and Figment to expand its custody capabilities.
Posted: 9/2/2026
Jordan Kuwait Bank has said it will integrate its digital channels within an “advanced next-generation platform” as part of its digital transformation strategy.
Posted: 9/2/2026
Virgin Media O2 has installed new AI monitoring tools across its mobile network to predict and prevent any potential issues in order to minimise downtime.
Posted: 9/2/2026
Morrisons has announced it is deploying a real-time engagement platform across its stores to provide personalised promotional offers on paper and digital receipts at the point of sale, as well as through extended digital channels.
Posted: 6/2/2026
BAE Systems has announced the launch of a new UK technology incubator programme designed to enable dual-use technologies that thrive beyond the defence sector and reach their full commercial potential.
Posted: 6/2/2026
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6 on Thursday, positioning its most advanced artificial intelligence model as a tool for knowledge workers beyond software engineering whilst markets continue to punish traditional software stocks
Posted: 06/02/2026
Gemini Space Station, the cryptocurrency exchange founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, will cut up to 200 jobs globally and withdraw from the UK, European Union and Australia by April as it seeks profitability during a prolonged downturn in digital asset markets
Posted: 06/02/2026
Spanish multinational bank BBVA has joined a consortium of major European financial institutions to launch a euro-pegged stablecoin.
Posted: 5/2/2026
If more British SMEs adopted digital finance tools, their growth could add around £25.3 billion to the economy, according to new research from Starling Bank.
Posted: 5/2/2026
South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang confirmed on Thursday that personal data from an additional 165,000 user accounts had been exposed, extending a crisis that has now entered its fourth month
Posted: 05/02/2026
The UK government has announced plans to work with Microsoft, academic institutions and technology experts to develop what it describes as the world's first deepfake detection evaluation framework aimed at setting industry standards for identifying harmful AI-generated content
Posted: 05/02/2026
The FinTech platform says that it is the first in the market to integrate account-to-account, online, and in-person payments directly within a core business account.
Posted: 4/2/2026
Amazon has partnered with the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) to develop packaging materials made from agricultural waste.
Posted: 4/2/2026
Half of the companies that have reduced employee numbers due to AI will rehire staff to carry out similar functions under different job titles by next year, according to Gartner.
Posted: 4/2/2026
French prosecutors raided the Paris headquarters of Elon Musk's social media platform X on Tuesday
Posted: 04/02/2026
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has opened an investigation into X, the owner of AI tool Grok, after reports that the platform has been used to generate non consensual sexual imagery of individuals, including children.
Posted: 3/2/2026
OpenAI is said to have been seeking alternatives to some of Nvidia's latest artificial intelligence chips since last year due to dissatisfaction with their performance for specific inference tasks, whilst a planned $100 billion investment from the chipmaker has stalled after months of negotiations, according to people familiar with the matter
Posted: 03/02/2026
MedTech data should represent entire population when training AI, says Department of Health director
When training AI models, MedTech companies must ensure that the data being used is representative of a population group in its entirety, according to David Lawson, director of medical technology & innovation at the Department of Health and Social Care.
Posted: 3/2/2026
Elon Musk's rocket manufacturer SpaceX has acquired his artificial intelligence start-up xAI in a deal valuing the combined entity at $1.25 trillion, as the billionaire consolidates his business empire ahead of what could become the largest initial public offering in history
Posted: 03/02/2026
Snapchat has shared that it has locked or disabled over 415,000 under-16 accounts in Australia as part of its efforts to comply with the country’s social media minimum (SMMA) laws.
Posted: 2/2/2026
The Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD) has urged retailers and suppliers to “prepare now” before agentic AI "rewrites how people shop".
Posted: 2/2/2026
Starling Bank has launched a drive to sell its software to American lenders, aiming to sign its first US banking client worth between $5 billion and $50 billion in assets by early next year as the London-based FinTech pursues international growth beyond its struggling consumer bank
Posted: 02/02/2026
French IT giant Capgemini will immediately begin selling its American subsidiary Capgemini Government Solutions after facing parliamentary scrutiny and government demands for transparency over contracts that enable US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to track and deport individuals
Posted: 02/02/2026
The UK government has announced the launch of a new Centre for AI Measurement which will be led by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL).
Posted: 30/01/2026
Google has agreed to pay $135 million to settle allegations that its Android operating system collected cellular data from users without permission, even when location tracking was disabled and apps were closed, in what lawyers believe is the largest payout in a conversion case
Posted: 30/01/2026
The new changes will require sole traders and landlords to use approved digital systems to submit quarterly income and expenses updates from April this year.
Posted: 30/1/2026
Amazon is reportedly in talks to invest as much as $50 billion in ChatGPT developer OpenAI
Posted: 30/01/2026
Tesla will discontinue production of its Model S sedan and Model X SUV next quarter
Posted: 29/01/2026
The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has banned adverts by cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase due to “irresponsible” messaging.
Posted: 29/01/2026
Gumtree is rolling out Know Your Business (KYB) technology as part of a transformation of its home services category.
Posted: 29/1/2026
Lloyds Banking Group expects to generate more than £100 million in value from generative and agentic AI this year, building on around £50 million delivered in 2025 as the lender accelerates deployment across its operations
Posted: 29/01/2026
OpenAI has partnered with travel firm Booking.com to launch a programme to train 20,000 SMEs across Europe in AI skills.
Posted: 28/01/2026
As part of the joint government and industry programme, every adult in the UK will be able to take newly benchmarked courses to gain practical AI skills.
Posted: 28/1/2026
Meta's WhatsApp messaging service began rolling out advanced security settings on Tuesday, offering journalists and public figures stronger protections against sophisticated cyberattacks by restricting certain features in exchange for heightened security
Posted: 28/01/2026
TikTok reached a settlement late Monday with a California woman who accused the platform of deliberately engineering addictive features that damaged her mental health, avoiding the first jury trial in a wave of cases targeting the world's largest social media companies
Posted: 28/01/2026
Microsoft has announced the launch of Maia 200, an AI accelerator chip designed to speed up inference workloads and integrate with Microsoft Azure.
Posted: 27/01/2026
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced it is launching a review into the implications of advanced AI on retail financial markets, consumers, and regulators.
Posted: 27/1/2026
Meta, TikTok and YouTube face first jury trial over claims platforms harm young users' mental health
Three of the world's largest social media companies will defend themselves in court this week against allegations their platforms deliberately addict children and damage mental health, in the first case of its kind to reach trial
Posted: 27/01/2026
Just Eat Takeaway.com has launched an AI voice assistant for iOS and Android devices in the UK
Posted: 27/01/2026
The move comes as the business develops a new category of products focused on conversational agents designed specifically for organisational learning and upskilling.
Posted: 26/1/2026
Amazon is said to be preparing to cut roughly 16,000 corporate positions starting this week, bringing the online retailer's total workforce reduction to approximately 30,000 employees, according to sources familiar with the company's plans reported by Reuters
Posted: 26/01/2026
British telecoms regulator Ofcom has launched a formal investigation into Meta Platforms over concerns that the company provided incomplete or inaccurate information relating to WhatsApp Business during a regulatory market review
Posted: 26/01/2026
Nationwide Building Society has announced an expanded partnership with Amazon Web Services that will enable the world's largest building society to accelerate innovation and deliver more personalised experiences to its 17 million customers
Posted: 26/01/2026
French games developer Ubisoft has scrapped several games and studios as it pushes ahead with cost reduction and organisational restructuring plans.
Posted: 23/1/2026
Macy's, the US department store, is deploying a new ad server and mediation technology to improve its media network.
Posted: 23/1/2026
TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance has finalised an agreement creating a majority American-owned joint venture to operate the app's US business, sidestepping a ban that would have blocked the platform's 200 million American users
Posted: 23/01/2026
The announcement puts him in direct rivalry with Elon Musk, who has his own satellite communications network called Starlink.
Posted: 22/1/2026
The UK government has named Harriet Rees, group chief information officer at digital bank Starling, and Dr Rohit Dhawan, head of AI and advanced analytics at retail banking giant Lloyds Banking Group, as AI champions.
Posted: 22/1/2026
A Canadian federal court has overturned the government's directive forcing TikTok to cease business operations in the country, sending the matter back for fresh review and allowing the app's 14 million Canadian users to continue accessing the platform alongside its local workforce
Posted: 22/01/2026
Britain's largest supermarket chain Tesco is to launch a 10-week trial of a new crime reporting platform across 40 of its stores.
Posted: 22/1/2026
The British government is funding a new drone degree as it looks to modernise the country’s armed forces amid a fast-changing threat landscape.
Posted: 21/1/2026
Lloyds Banking Group has announced an AI skills training drive for its staff.
Posted: 21/1/2026
The European Commission unveiled proposals on Wednesday granting telecommunications operators unlimited radio spectrum licences whilst declining industry demands that technology giants contribute financially to broadband infrastructure costs
Posted: 21/01/2026
As part of the proposed measures, immediate action includes Ofsted checking school mobile phone policy on every inspection, with schools expected to be phone-free by default following this announcement.
Posted: 21/1/2026
The British multinational professional services firm PwC surveyed 454 chief executives from 95 countries across the world, finding that just 30 per cent believe that the revenues of their firms will grow in 2026, compared to 38 per cent last year and 56 per cent in 2022.
Posted: 20/1/2026
HSBC is launching legal chatbot Harvey AI as it continues to leverage AI across the bank.
Posted: 20/1/2026
JD Sports has announced the rollout of new RFID technology designed to modernise inventory management across its European stores.
Posted: 20/1/2026
Britain's financial watchdogs are exposing consumers and the financial system to potentially serious harm by failing to properly regulate artificial intelligence in financial services, according to a Treasury Committee report published on Tuesday
Posted: 20/01/2026
Last week, deputy prime minister David Lammy asked the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to explore the role these tried-and-tested Ukrainian battlefield tactics can play in preventing the growing trend of criminal gangs using drones to smuggle contraband into British prisons.
Posted: 19/1/2026
Revolut has announced its digital wallet now supports Google’s Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) as the London-based neobank looks to harness the potential of agentic commerce.
Posted: 19/1/2026
Digital bank Monzo has introduced a new HMRC-recognised tax tool ahead of changes to tax rules in April.
Posted: 19/1/2026
Brussels is set to propose a phase-out of Chinese-made equipment from key European Union infrastructure
Posted: 19/01/2026
The move follows the launch of the country's ban on social media for children under the age of 16 last month.
Posted: 16/1/2026
Japan is reportedly launching a government probe into Grok after hearing reports that users could generate or edit sexualised images of real people
Posted: 16/01/2026
The UK government has announced plans to support the country’s robotics and defence industries by cutting existing red tape and providing them with more funding.
Posted: 16/1/2025
Spanish technology group Indra has won a Transport for London contract to operate and modernise the capital’s ticketing and access control systems
Posted: 16/01/2026
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced plans to shift its legacy technology systems to a new cloud infrastructure as it prepares to adopt new AI capabilities.
Posted: 15/01/2025
Amazon Web Services has launched an independent cloud service for Europe entirely located within the EU
Posted: 15/02/2026
Global financial messaging firm Swift is set to launch a blockchain-based shared ledger following a successful digital asset interoperability trial.
Posted: 15/1/2026
Elon Musk's social media platform X has announced restrictions preventing its Grok AI chatbot from editing images of real people into revealing clothing, following mounting pressure from regulators and governments over the proliferation of non-consensual sexual deepfakes
Posted: 15/01/2026
Apple has formed a multi-year partnership with Google to boost the iPhone maker’s next generation of AI models
Posted: 14/01/2026
She will lead the company’s data and analytics strategy and functions globally, including the use of data and AI for audience development and engagement.
Posted: 14/1/2026
The number of new UK technology companies incorporated increased by almost 50 per cent in 2025 compared to five years ago, according to new figures from consulting firm RSM UK.
Posted: 14/01/2026
Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled a “community-first” AI infrastructure initiative in the United States that pledges to pay higher utility rates, expand local power supply, and replenish more water than its data centres consume as concerns grow over household bills and resource use
Posted: 14/01/2026
Malaysia’s Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), Malaysia's communications regulator, has reportedly said that it will initiate legal action against X and xAI over user-safety failures linked to Grok
Posted: 13/01/2026
The technology, developed by Moneyhub, analyses all customer transactions, from card payments to direct debits, to provide “granular insights” for the building society's 16 million customers.
Posted: 13/1/2026
Amazon has started drone flights out of its Darlington fulfilment centre ahead of the launch its Prime Air service later this year.
Posted: 13/01/2026
Ofcom has opened a formal investigation into X under the Online Safety Act to assess whether the platform has complied with its legal duties to protect users in the UK from illegal content, following reports that the Grok AI tool has been used to create sexual abuse materials of adults and children
Posted: 13/01/2026
Danske Bank has announced the appointment of Dr Fiona Browne as its first head of AI to lead the strategic development and use of the technology across the bank.
Posted: 12/01/2026
Papa Johns has partnered with Google Cloud to become the first restaurant to use its agentic AI tool for food ordering.
Posted: 12/01/2026
Google has announced the launch of a new open standard for agentic commerce.
Posted: 12/1/2026
JD Sports, one of the largest UK sports retailers, is reportedly launching an AI powered platform in the US
Posted: 12/01/2026
Anthropic has launched a “HIPAA-ready” suite under Claude for Healthcare and broadened its Life Sciences tools, stepping further into medical workflows days after OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Health
Posted: 12/01/2026
Chinese electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Xpeng has announced plans to roll out robotaxis and humanoid robots
Posted: 09/01/2026
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence tool Grok has limited its image generation and editing capabilities to paying subscribers following widespread outcry over its use to create sexually explicit and violent imagery without consent
Posted: 09/01/2026
Alphabet’s Google, Meta Platforms, Netflix, Microsoft and Amazon are set to avoid stringent new obligations in the European Union’s forthcoming overhaul of telecoms regulation, according to people with direct knowledge of the draft plans reported by Reuters
Posted: 09/01/2026
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Health, a new tool designed to analyse medical records and data from health apps to get better answers to medical questions.
Posted: 9/1/2026
Walmart Connect Mexico is rolling out AI-driven audience‑insight sensors across its stores
Posted: 09/01/2026
More than half of chief financial officers (CFOs) in the UK have become more optimistic over the past year on AI’s potential to boost productivity in the year ahead, according to a survey by consulting firm Deloitte.
Posted: 8/1/2026
Stripe is teaming up with Crypto.com, enabling the exchange to incorporate Stripe’s payment solutions
Posted: 08/01/2026
In a new report, the public body explains that AI-powered agents will anticipate shopping needs and make proactive purchases based on learned and defined preferences or behaviours, along with knowledge of upcoming plans, rather than needing specific prompts.
Posted: 8/1/2025
XFusion, a leading Chinese AI server provider and spin-off from Huawei, has reportedly hired Citic Securities, one of China’s largest investment banks, to prepare for an initial public offering (IPO)
Posted: 07/01/2026
Barclays Bank has made an investment in Ubyx, a US-based clearing system for digital money, including tokenised deposits and regulated stablecoins.
Posted: 7/1/2025
East of England Co-op has wrapped up its first trial of a platform built to power digital experiences at the shelf edge
Posted: 07/01/2026
The music group said that the partnership will set new standards for innovation and responsibility in the sector, with the companies aiming to support rightsholder compensation, explore ways to use AI to protect artists’ work, and ensure "proper attribution of music-based content.”
Posted: 7/1/2026
The UK government has urged X to take immediate action after its in‑built chatbot Grok was used to generate non‑consensual sexualised images of women and girls, including “undressed” depictions and sexualised images of minors
Posted: 07/01/2026
Nvidia has unveiled its new AI platform Rubin and a suite of open models, as it continues to drive AI adoption across industries
Posted: 06/01/2026
The UK government will invest around £210 million to strengthen public services and improve digital resilience.
Posted: 6/1/2026
Intel has unveiled Panther Lake, its next-generation laptop processors branded Core Ultra Series 3, at CES in Las Vegas, marking the company’s first high-volume product built on its 18A manufacturing process
Posted: 06/01/2026
Amazon must face a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging price gouging during the COVID‑19 pandemic after a US district judge in Seattle rejected the company’s bid to dismiss the case
Posted: 06/01/2026
Samsung will double the number of mobile devices with Galaxy AI to around 800 million units this year, according to a Reuters report
Posted: 5/1/2026
Taiwan-based Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics manufacturer, has reported record growth driven by rising demand for AI products, the company said on Monday
Posted: 05/01/2026
Uber has restructured its contractual arrangements with drivers outside London to avoid paying millions of pounds under new VAT regulations introduced by chancellor Rachel Reeves, which took effect this month
Posted: 05/01/2026
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is facing international censure after generating sexual abuse material on social media platform X, including depictions of minors, in response to user prompts
Posted: 05/01/2026
Ocado Group has announced that mutual exclusivity with retailers in most of its markets where its technology is live has ended.
Posted: 1/2/2026
British supermarket chain Asda has announced the hire of Cal Corcoran as its new group chief information officer (CIO).
Posted: 2/1/2026
Currys has announced plans to overhaul its payment infrastructure to allow the technology retailer to adopt emerging technologies, including AI.
Posted: 2/1/2026
Morgan Stanley analysts have warned that the rise of AI adoption and further physical branch closures could drive more than 200,000 job losses in the European banking sector over the next four years.
Posted: 2/1/2026
Lyft and Uber have signed agreements with Chinese AI company Baidu to pilot robotaxis in London next year.
Posted: 23/12/2025
The new platform provides quick ad tools as well as an AI-driven assistant to improve copy and creative design.
Posted: 23/12/2025
As we approach the end of 2025, we added up the numbers to bring you a roundup of National Technology News’ most popular news stories, features, and analysis pieces of the year
Posted: 23/12/2025
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Posted: 23/12/2025
Visa has launched the first end to end voice-enabled agentic payment system in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in partnership with real estate developer Alder.
Posted: 22/12/2025
Italy’s Competition and Market authority (AGCM) has fined Apple €98.6 million for allegedly abusing its dominant position in the iOS app distribution market
Posted: 22/12/2025
French grocery retailer Carrefour has opened its second fully AI-powered microstore in Belgium.
Posted: 22/12/2025
The governor of the Bank of England has said that AI could displace jobs in a similar way seen during the industrial revolution.
Posted: 19/12/2025
The UK government is set to ban ‘nudification’ tools, making it illegal to create or supply apps that generate fake nude images without consent
Posted: 19/12/2025
SoFI bank has announced the launch of SoFiUSD, its native 1:1 cash-backed fully reserved US dollar stablecoin, as it seeks to bridge regulated banking with on-chain finance
Posted: 19/12/2025
Footwear retailer Deichmann has rolled out a new order fulfilment platform designed to improve the ordering system across multiple countries.
Posted: 19/12/2025
The UK government has confirmed a cyber-attack on the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) in October, with ministers saying the risk to individuals is low while declining to attribute the breach to any specific actor
Posted: 19/12/2025
Apple has announced that iPhones in Japan will now support alternative app stores, complying with the country’s Mobile Software Competition Act (MSCA)
Posted: 18/12/2025
Barclays is set to trial an AI-driven platform that creates digital twins of SMEs to drive sustainability insights.
Posted: 18/12/2025
Google has launched a credit card in India in partnership with Axis Bank.
Posted: 18/12/2025
Pornhub is investigating reports that hackers accessed the search and viewing habits of its premium users, with an extortion demand threatening to publish the data
Posted: 18/12/2025
The company has rolled out Revolut Mobile to waitlist customers, with general access available from January next year.
Posted: 17/12/2025
Amazon is reportedly in talks to invest around $10 billion in OpenAI
Posted: 17/12/2025
Former chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne has announced he will join OpenAI as managing director and head of OpenAI for countries.
Posted: 17/12/2025
Elon Musk’s X Corp has filed a lawsuit in Delaware federal court against Operation Bluebird, a Virginia startup seeking to cancel the social media company’s Twitter and Tweet trademarks and launch a rival platform styled on Twitter’s former branding
Posted: 17/12/2025
Ofcom has launched investigations into BT and Three after two separate outages in the summer caused nationwide disruption and impacted calls to emergency services
Posted: 16/12/2025
Monzo has unveiled plans to buy UK digital mortgage broker Habito.
Posted: 16/12/2025
The secretary of state for science, innovation and technology Liz Kendall has launched a women in Tech taskforce to help more women enter and take up leadership roles in the industry.
Posted: 16/12/2025
The US has paused implementation of its “Tech Prosperity Deal” with the UK, a package announced during President Donald Trump’s September visit that pledged co‑operation across artificial intelligence, quantum computing and civil nuclear energy
Posted: 16/12/2025
Build-A-Bear has teamed up with Uber Direct to roll out same-day delivery from across 33 stores in the UK.
Posted: 15/12/2025
The UK government has announced a new agreement with Canada to launch a shared semiconductor research network to advance progress on the technology.
Posted: 15/12/2025
Hong Kong based crypto exchange HashKey Holdings has reportedly raised approximately $206 million in its Hong Kong IPO
Posted: 15/12/2025
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