OpenAI, SpaceX, Anthropic: the tech giants lining up blockbuster IPOs Tech For more than a decade, Silicon Valley’s most powerful companies have stayed private for longer than ever before, buoyed by deep pools of capital and sovereign wealth funding. But, as interest rates remain higher, AI infrastructure costs balloon and some of the world’s largest private firms mature into businesses of national, and increasingly geopolitical, importance, [...]
US sets AI standard, leaving Britain on the back foot When Donald Trump sat down in the Oval Office this week to sign off on a national AI framework, he delivered a global message. The US has committed to one standardised, federally regulated set of rules for AI. The executive order sweeps away the threat of 50 different state-level approaches to regulating AI – a scenario [...]
Substack implements native advertising following $1.1bn valuation Tech Substack, the historically anti-advertising newsletter platform, has announced it will pilot an advertising programme following its latest funding round. Substack was founded with the goal of providing an alternative to online advertising as a monetisation model for writers and creators. It was founded in 2017 as a website where people can write and subscribe to [...]
UK Finance warns tech giants to step up in Britain’s fraud fight December 6, 2025 UK Finance has delivered its most forceful warning yet to the world’s biggest tech platforms, with chief executive David Postings calling on Silicon Valley to “grasp the scale of the crisis” and do far more to stop fraud spreading across their networks. Speaking at the Economic Crime Congress 2025, Postings said the UK is now [...]
Silicon Valley has invented its own form of central planning December 3, 2025 With so much capital focused on a small select group of companies like OpenAI and Microsoft we’ve created our own form of central planning, just with corporate overlords instead of government ones, says Lewis Liu The US stock market continues to march toward record territory, with everyone from Big Tech CEOs to Goldman Sachs speculating [...]
What can Britain learn from Elon Musk? How to fail… November 17, 2025 British engineering needs to be a little more Musk; pragmatic, ambitious and unafraid to learn in public, says Robert Rayner Elon Musk’s rise to trillionaire status is more than a story of wealth, it is a display of how technological vision and financial resilience can merge into a new model of progress. His trillion-dollar payout [...]
Amazon to cut 10 per cent of workforce amid AI pivot October 28, 2025 Amazon is preparing to axe as many as 30,000 corporate jobs worldwide this week, in what could mark its largest round of layoffs since 2022. The Seattle-based technology giant plans to begin cuts as soon as Tuesday, according to Reuters, targeting around 10 per cent of its 350,000-strong corporate workforce. Amazon employs more than 1.5 [...]
Liz Kendall wraps cyberflashing into Online Safety Act September 29, 2025 Social media giants will be forced to crack down on cyberflashing under new duties to be announced by technology secretary Liz Kendall at the Labour Party conference. The move will see unsolicited nude images and videos classified as a “priority offence” under the Online Safety Act, placing strict new obligations on platforms to detect and [...]
Nvidia and OpenAI to join Trump in UK as questions mount over UK-US tech partnership September 9, 2025 Some of the world’s most powerful tech chiefs are expected to join US President Donald Trump on his state visit to the UK next week, raising expectations of new tie-ups and a reboot for the US-UK tech partnership. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and OpenAI’s Sam Altman will travel with Trump when he arrives on Wednesday, and [...]
Meta: Zuckerberg’s open source gamble collides with EU regulation July 20, 2025 Meta has refused to sign the European Commission’s new AI Code of Practice, escalating tensions with Brussels just weeks before landmark regulation kicks in. The voluntary guidelines – designed to help tech giants prepare for the EU’s sweeping AI Act – were rejected outright by Meta’s global affairs chief Joel Kaplan, who warned they introduced [...]