Nvidia beats again – but Wall Street’s expectations keep rising May 21, 2026 Nvidia delivered another record-breaking quarter on Wednesday night, extending its dominance at the centre of the AI boom – but investors are increasingly asking how long the explosive growth can continue. The world’s most valuable company reported first-quarter revenue of $81.6bn, up 85 per cent year-on-year and ahead of Wall Street forecasts of $78.9bn. Net [...]
SpaceX IPO puts Musk’s AI empire – and ambitions – in the spotlight May 21, 2026 SpaceX has finally opened its books to public markets, revealing a company generating tens of billions in revenue, burning through cash at an extraordinary speed and betting its future on AI as much as rockets. The long-awaited Nasdaq float, expected next month, could value Elon Musk’s space and AI empire at as much as $1.75 [...]
Claude was the nice guy of AI – what changed? May 20, 2026 The narrative around Anthropic’s Claude, initially perceived as the “ethical AI company,” has recently shifted due to concerns over perceived hypocrisy, aggressive ambition, model degradation, platform restrictions, and vendor lock-in risk, causing customers and developers to seek alternatives, says Lewis Liu “You really feel like Claude is a real person that you are interacting with [...]
Britain’s data centres are eating the grid – and we underestimated the damage May 14, 2026 UK data centre emissions forecasts have been revised upward 100-fold. London’s server farms already consume more power than all its households combined. So why did it take this long to do the maths? Data centres are consuming six per cent of all UK electricity, while government emissions forecasts have been revised upward by a factor [...]
British Land and RLAM secure robotics AI firm for London ‘innovation’ cluster May 12, 2026 London’s AI property boom is gathering pace after British Land and Royal London Asset Management secured another major tech occupier at Regent’s Place, City AM can reveal. Robotics startup Humanoid has signed for 42,000 sq ft at One Triton Square, pushing the building to 94 per cent let just six months after completion, as demand [...]
Lime races SpaceX and OpenAI to IPO as revenues soar May 11, 2026 Lime, the Uber-backed e-bike giant, filed for a Nasdaq listing over the weekend, joining a growing cohort of tech giants racing toward public markets this year. The Silicon-Valley based micromobility titan, known for its ubiquitous green bikes, plans to list on Nasdaq this year, following revenues jumping 29 per cent to $886.7m (£665m) in 2025, [...]
OpenAI listing plans hit as Altman scraps robotics spin-off idea May 5, 2026 Tech behemoth OpenAI internally shelved plans to spin off its robotics and consumer hardware divisions, as chief executive Sam Altman tightens focus ahead of a potential IPO that could value the company at up to $1 trillion (£737bn). The proposed restructure, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal, would have mirrored Alphabet’s model, separating [...]
The AI bubble has a name – and it’s OpenAI April 29, 2026 For three years, Sam Altman has worn the badge of greatest pitchman in the history of tech. He sold the world a vision of artificial general intelligence – a machine that thinks, reasons and creates – and sold investors the bill to build it. The man raised more capital in a single funding round than [...]
King’s Cross puts London on the AI map April 28, 2026 A description of King’s Cross a little over 20 years ago sounds like something from a Dickens novel. It was “a place of decay, dereliction, crime and filth” – known for drugs and prostitution. Some readers may remember its rave scene but for most people it was a no-go area. That opening description comes from [...]
‘A London Marathon every weekend? I think we can get to that – and sell out’ April 24, 2026 Sam Browne, co-founder of the tech platform, Let’s Do This, which runs the London Marathon ballot, on its rapid growth… and the coming AI revolution. On Sunday 59,000 keen runners, amateur plodders and fundraisers dressed as, among other things, a pair of testicles will line up to take on the London Marathon. This year’s ballot [...]