Bank of England sounds alarm on ‘high risk’ AI bubble October 8, 2025 The Bank of England has warned of the potential for a “sharp correction” in global markets due to the “stretched” stock valuations from the artificial intelligence (AI) boom. The central bank’s Financial Policy Committee has warned a crash in the roaring value of US tech giants could spark trouble overseas. “A crystallisation of such global [...]
‘It’s risky to be in the UK’ – Cleo founder on unicorn status and City regulation September 30, 2025 Nine years ago entrepreneur Matt Clifford took a data scientist to a “terrible pub” to convince him to drop his PhD and create his own start-up. “You may as well just take the risk, the biggest risk is not taking the risk,” Clifford told a young Barney Hussey-Yeo. Almost a decade later in 2025, Hussey-Yeo [...]
Merge London Stock Exchange and Nasdaq to save City market, says fintech boss September 26, 2025 The boss of a UK-born fintech unicorn has called for the London Stock Exchange (LSE) to merge with New York’s Nasdaq in a bid to save the City market’s future prospects. “It’s completely broken,” Barney Hussey-Yeo, founder of AI fintech Cleo, told City AM when asked about the recent string of delistings. Hussey-Yeo, a data [...]
Nvidia-OpenAI deal raises questions over how sustainable the AI boom is September 23, 2025 Nvidia and OpenAI have unveiled what they call the largest AI infrastructure project in history, a partnership to deploy 10 gigawatts of data centres powered by millions of Nvidia’s advanced chips. The deal could see Nvidia invest up to $100bn (£73.99bn) in Sam Altman’s company, even as OpenAI spends billions of dollars buying those very [...]