Will you lose your job to AI? This tool could give you a clue March 11, 2026 A new online tool promises to show workers how exposed their job is to AI, as debate intensifies over how the technology will reshape the labour market. The platform, launched by career intelligence startup Somethingelse, allows users to test their role against an analysis of more than 5,000 jobs. It measures how much of each [...]
From toilets to MSG: Four unlikely winners of the AI boom March 11, 2026 Believe it or not, Toto, the Japanese toilet and bidet maker, has become one of the more improbable stock success stories of the AI boom. The company produces electrostatic ‘chucks’, components critical to memory chip production, and when activist fund Palliser Capital took a stake last month and called it “the most undervalued and overlooked [...]
Is AI destroying SaaS? March 10, 2026 In a world where generative AI can increasingly do the work, what will happen to Saas, asks Shamillah Bankyia.
AI is rewriting reputation – what happens when it gets you wrong? March 6, 2026 AI means companies can now lose their reputations in an instant, with brands now being defined by systems they neither control nor understand.
AI-fuelled plumbing boom is luring in private equity March 3, 2026 AI has made trades like plumbing alluring not just to jobseekers, but private equity investors, writes Susannah Streeter.
WPP shares plunge after turnaround plan targets £500m of savings February 26, 2026 WPP has promised to make £500m of cost savings by the end of 2028 as part of a root-and-branch turnaround plan after suffering a halving of profit. The FTSE 250 firm’s new boss Cindy Rose told reporters she had already “identified multiple initiatives” to deliver on its ambitious savings commitment to help turn around a [...]
The Debate: Should AI be used to make hiring decisions? February 25, 2026 Would you trust AI to pick out your CV, or should hiring be left to humans? We hear the case for and against in this week's Debate.
UK asset managers pile into cut-price software stocks after rout February 25, 2026 Two of Britain’s largest asset managers have bolstered their positions in under-fire software companies in a bet that markets are overestimating the harm that artificial intelligence will have on their business model. Aberdeen and Rathbones have both added to holdings data giants like Relx, Adobe and Experian, arguing that the firms’ cratering valuations are largely [...]
Meta strikes AMD chip deal as AI spend continues to boom February 24, 2026 Meta has agreed a multiyear deal to buy up to six gigawatts of AI computing power from AMD, in an agreement valued at more than $100bn (£74.5bn) that could see the social media group take a stake of up to 10 per cent in the US chip giant. The companies said on Tuesday that Meta [...]
Citrini Research report rattles markets as AI fears deepen tech sell-off February 24, 2026 A speculative research note imagining an AI-driven economic downturn caused a sharp sell-off in US tech stocks on Monday, adding to pressure already building from new AI tools. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 821.9 points on Monday, or 1.7 per cent, while the S&P 500 declined 1 per cent and the Nasdaq Composite slipped [...]