London Lions and NordVPN owner signs up NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal Sport Business The owners of cybersecurity firm NordVPN and British basketball champions London Lions have signed up NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal as an ambassador. The 7ft 1in O’Neal, a four-time NBA champion and member of the USA Dream Team who won Olympic gold at the Atlanta 1996 Games, is promoting NordVPN under the slogan “Go big on [...]
Apple and Google defend safety records as UK clamps down on explicit teen content Tech Apple and Google have defended their child safety records after the government said it would force tech giants to block under-18s from sending or viewing nude images on smartphones. The Silicon Valley pair told City AM they had made progress on introducing new safeguards for teenagers after three months of talks with ministers failed to [...]
Google to pay £260m to settle ‘unfair’ pricing class action lawsuit Lawsuit Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has agreed to pay £260m to settle a class action lawsuit that alleged the US company imposed “unfair and excessive” charges on app developers selling apps on the Google Play Store. The case, brought to the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) by competition law professor Barry Rodger on behalf of UK app [...]
Reform sidelines crypto industry at pivotal conference August 28, 2026 Reform UK is set to sideline crypto companies at its conference next week and cut the industry’s access to senior figures after backlash over Nigel Farage’s £5m gift from a bitcoin billionaire, City AM can reveal. Reform was an early champion of the digital currency and tokenisation industries, which have been a mainstay at previous [...]
Top FTSE headhunter rescued by rival after plunging into administration August 25, 2026 A City-based boutique headhunter which won executive-level talent for a host of FTSE 250 firms and collapsed after pumping investment into an AI platform has been purchased by one of its competitors, City AM can reveal. 6 Group, a global executive recruitment consultancy, purchased Savannah Group and its AI platform, MapX, in July after founder [...]
Google Pixel 11 review: Can this new smartphone lure away iPhone users? August 20, 2026 Two years ago I reviewed Google’s folding phone and I was blown away. The extra screen real estate was transformative, particularly for someone like me who spends most of their time on smartphones reading. So enamoured by this device did I become that I ditched my previous handset and made it my own. I confidently [...]
Google backs publisher model as Apple considers price tag for news August 14, 2026 Google said it backs the established system for paying news publishers, even as Apple considers a radically different model that would tie payments to how often its AI assistant uses journalism. The search giant considers itself the only major tech platform with a structured approach to paying publishers at scale, City AM understands, with licensing [...]
ChatGPT to follow Claude’s watermark pledge – but Grok to swerve it August 12, 2026 Elon Musk’s Grok is poised to swerve rivals’ plans to ‘watermark’ all artificially-generated content, City AM understands, after refusing to sign up to a European push forcing firms to make AI content traceable. xAI was the only major large language model maker to shun a European Union-led move to tighten AI transparency rules that means [...]
Claude to watermark AI ‘slop’ – including edited human writing August 11, 2026 Anthropic will begin adding invisible watermarks to text generated by Claude as part of new EU rules designed to make AI-generated content easier to identify. But the system will also mark some text originally written by humans if it has subsequently been edited or processed by Claude, potentially complicating efforts to determine whether material was [...]
Ordnance Survey revenue jumps as map maker goes digital August 4, 2026 Ordnance Survey has posted record revenue growth as the mapping agency takes the fight to Apple and Google with the “most detailed digital map of Britain to date”. The firm, which is Great Britain’s official mapping service, posted a 2.1 per cent jump in revenue to £199m in the year to March, driven by its [...]