James Reed: Celebrating wealth could energise young people Opinion Fostering a more supportive and celebratory culture around wealth creation could help inspire more young people, writes James Reed.
Why London’s AI engineers are worth £360,000+ Opinion Jack & Jill co-founder Saaras Mehan just hiked the minimum salary for engineers from £240,000 to £360,000. He says that's what London’s AI talent is worth.
Domestic policies are choking UK businesses Opinion The last decade of domestic policy decisions has created a towering cost stack that is choking business growth, writes Shevaun Haviland.
Britain to offer visa refunds to woo tech scale-ups June 9, 2026 The government will reimburse visa fees for high-growth firms hiring overseas talent as ministers step up efforts to turn Britain’s most promising scale-ups into global tech champions. Business secretary Peter Kyle is set to unveil a package of measures aimed at helping fast-growing companies “start, scale and stay” in the UK, including a new concierge-style [...]
James Reed: UK needs entrepreneurs desperately. So I’m gonna fund them May 26, 2026 My father founded Reed in 1960 with just £75. My new fund will help create the next generation of entrepreneurs, says James Reed.
Atlassian AI chief: Firms still aren’t making AI ‘really productive’ May 13, 2026 Atlassian claims businesses are still struggling to turn the AI boom into real company-wide productivity gains, as the software giant pushes deeper into workplace automation with a new generation of AI agents. According to the software giant’s chief AI officer, Tamar Yehoshua, most companies have moved beyond simply experimenting with AI tools, yet many were [...]
AI’s biggest problem is that it is trained to ‘please you’, warns tech chief May 13, 2026 The biggest risk facing AI may be that it becomes too good at telling users what they want to hear. Anthony Goonetilleke, chief tech officer at software firm Amdocs, told City AM businesses rushing to deploy AI are vastly underestimating a more subtle and potentially more dangerous problem emerging inside LLMs. “There’s another bucket I [...]
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 [...]
UK firms unaware of how their AI data is used overseas April 28, 2026 Most large UK firms do not fully know what happens to their data once it is processed by AI systems abroad, raising compliance and security concerns as adoption continues to rise. According to a recent Harbr Data survey, 61 peer cent of senior tech and data leaders at companies worth £100m or more lack a [...]
RELX: FTSE 100 group says AI tools power strong start to 2026 April 23, 2026 RELX has told markets on it started 2026 strongly, with growth across all parts of the business supported by demand for AI-enabled data and analytics products. In a trading update released ahead of its annual general meeting, the FTSE 100 group said it is seeing continued growth in both revenue and profit, alongside strong new [...]