Kospi nears record 7,000 as Samsung family pay off huge inheritance tax bill May 4, 2026 South Korea’s Kospi breached the 6,900 mark for the first time on Monday, after a record rally in semiconductor stocks and the family behind tech giant Samsung paid off its inheritance tax bill. The index surged 5.1 per cent during Monday trading, closing 6,936.9 points, creeping closer to breaking the 7,000 mark after rallies by [...]
Aera Technology Introduces Agentic Reasoning for Enterprise Decisions, Moving from Situation to Action in One Conversation May 4, 2026 New capabilities deliver unified decision intelligence across the enterprise, accelerating real-time exploration, reasoning, and execution within a governed platform
UK carbon markets stand to get an AI boost May 4, 2026 The connection between AI growth and carbon market demand is one the UK is well positioned to act on, writes Chris Hayward.
Everlaw and Legora Partner to Create End-to-End AI Litigation Workflows May 4, 2026 Litigation teams will be able to access documents stored in Everlaw directly within Legora, enabling AI document review to AI output grounded in verified case evidence
OPAQUE Acquires Abu Dhabi-Developed Cryptographic AI Technology from TII, Extending Confidential AI Across the Full Lifecycle with Post-Quantum Protection May 4, 2026 New capabilities make it possible to safely deploy AI agents on the most sensitive and regulated data — with hardware-enforced, verifiable rules and cryptographic guarantees built to withstand quantum computing
Coty Partners With Pencil to Build End-to-End Gen AI Content System May 4, 2026 Coty, one of the world’s largest beauty companies, and Pencil, the world’s #1 generative AI marketing platform, today announced a partnership to put real-time, AI-powered content creation at the heart of Coty’s Consumer Beauty division. With a transformation and creative team led by sister company Jellyfish, Pencil’s end-to-end content platform will be embedded across Coty’s [...]
TIME Names Xenco Medical one of the TIME100 Most Influential Companies in the World and the Winner of the 2026 TIME100 Impact Award in Health May 1, 2026 Time Magazine has named pioneering medical technology company Xenco Medical as one of the TIME100 Most Influential Companies in the World and the Winner of the 2026 TIME100 Impact Award in Health. Widely regarded as the most prestigious recognition in business and technology, being selected to the TIME100 List remains the most coveted accolade that [...]
Millennials are best placed to navigate the AI era May 1, 2026 As Lewis Liu turns 40, he reflects on how the generation that grew up before social media will navigate the ethical challenges of AI I’m writing this column on the steps of Widener Library at Harvard, exactly where I sat solving some physics problem set as a college kid two decades ago, currently en route [...]
Hiring freezes loom as business confidence remains near record low May 1, 2026 British business leaders are bracing for hiring freezes as headcount expectations dropped into negative territory again, according to new data from the Institute of Directors. The IoD’s economic confidence Index edged up to -64 in April from -76 in March, remaining close to historic lows. But headcount expectations slipped to minus three from zero in [...]
Pyxis Group Appoints Kunal Ramtri and Tun Win as Managing Directors to Lead Global Commodities Trading and Risk Practice and Accelerate AI-Driven Growth April 30, 2026 Pyxis Group, a diversified advisory firm serving the global industrial and commodities sectors, today announced the appointments of Kunal Ramtri and Tun Win as Managing Directors and co-heads of the firm’s Global Commodities Trading & Risk practice and Trading AI practice. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260430123690/en/ Kunal Ramtri brings [...]