Raspberry Pi shares surge as profit triples on hot demand September 24, 2026 Raspberry Pi shares jumped as much as 17 per cent on Thursday morning after the British computer maker reported record first-half results. The Cambridge-based computer maker posted pre-tax profit of $19.6m (£14.5m), up from $6.2m a year earlier, while revenue jumped 90 per cent to a record $256.9m. Shares were trading around 15 per cent [...]
Cyber insurers consider limiting coverage as sector scrambles to price agentic AI risks September 24, 2026 The cyber insurance market is facing a turbulent time as agentic AI hacks pose new challenges and threats. City AM understands underwriters and insurers are considering limiting coverage until they can quantify the risk this tech poses and price it. Cyber insurance has been a fruitful market over the past few years, with a spike [...]
Hugging Face hack spells ’emergency for the City of London’, warns top lawyer September 24, 2026 Everything companies have done to prepare for a cyber attack is now “completely old world” following the OpenAI–Hugging Face hack over the summer, a top City lawyer has warned. The “unpredecented” July hack, in which OpenAI’s model escaped a controlled test by itself and broke into the AI platform Hugging Face, prompted a probe from [...]
Closing the AI skills gap is an £80 billion opportunity September 24, 2026 Smart use of AI could add £80bn in productivity gains to the British economy by 2035, but too few businesses have the workforce to deploy it effectively, says Steve Rigby The daily AI discourse moves between a few regular topics: eye-watering investment in frontier models, soaring compute costs, crippling cyberattacks and the unknowable impact of [...]
British cybersecurity firm plots £11m Aim float as London IPOs stir September 23, 2026 British cyber security firm Chaleit Holdings is set to float on London’s junior market next month, becoming the second company to unveil plans for a City listing on Wednesday as signs of life emerge from the capital’s battered IPO market. The Cambridge-based business expects to begin trading on Aim on 7 October with a market [...]
Is Carney’s European dream pure fantasy? September 23, 2026 Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is making a bold punt for European "integration", but it risks being a fairytale, writes Tim Focas.
UK to champion global AI rulebook during G20 presidency September 23, 2026 Andy Burnham has said governments, not tech companies, must make the biggest decisions about AI, as he pledged to put AI regulation at the heart of Britain’s G20 presidency. The Prime Minister used his first address to the United Nations General Assembly to call for a single set of global standards governing frontier AI, including [...]
How AI is forcing the Big Four to rethink graduate training September 23, 2026 The Big Four giants – KPMG, Deloitte, EY, and PwC – have for decades played an important role in shaping the next generation of City workers. As one of the largest graduate trainers in the UK, their approach to restructuring graduate programmes in the age of AI will be crucial to the future of financial [...]
I’m an AI investor: here’s why I just deleted Claude September 23, 2026 Anthropic’s messianic pronouncements are no longer like a marketing strategy, but a religious playbook, says Lewis Liu I canceled my personal Claude subscription this week and deleted years of work. I don’t object to the technology (I’m an AI investor currently working at the sharp end of its capabilities) but I believe that tone and [...]
Legal AI giant Harvey picks London to lead pro bono push September 22, 2026 Legal AI firm Harvey has chosen London to launch a new product designed to help lawyers tackle pro bono work, as the US-headquartered start-up looks to accelerate its growth into new areas of the legal industry. The new pro bono offering, launched in London and available to Harvey’s customers in the UK, US and Australia [...]