IMU Biosciences announces oversubscribed financing round, bringing its Series A to over $53M as it accelerates its work to decode the immune system with unprecedented resolution and scale, to transform how we understand, diagnose and treat disease June 2, 2026 IMU has built the world’s largest immune dataset and can use a simple blood sample to measure over 100 million immune data points, providing precise actionable insights for patients and healthcare providers Proceeds from the latest round will support IMU’s operational expansion and development of clinical platform and infrastructure, alongside advancing the Company’s clinical programmes
Smartstream Launches Smart Agents for Back-Office Operations, Proven Across Tier 1 Pilots June 2, 2026 Key Facts Smart Agents is now widely available to Smart Reconciliations clients, covering bank reconciliations, cash breaks, settlement exceptions, and post-trade investigations — combining client institutional knowledge with Smartstream’s domain expertise to deliver value from day one. Pilot results demonstrate a 97% reduction in investigation time per exception, from 14 minutes manually to 30 seconds, with Tier 1 clients projecting 50–70% automation in year one. Smart Agents surfaces the steps requiring human action and executes everything else autonomously — including counterparty and internal communications, available in assistive and autonomous operating modes with human-in-the-loop oversight, full audit trail, step-by-step explainability, complete data privacy, and intelligence that compounds continuously over time.
ThetaRay Gamifies Financial Defense at Money20/20 Europe with a Compliance Twist on “Where’s Waldo” June 2, 2026 With “Spot The Money Mule”, ThetaRay unites Agentic AI and public education to disrupt criminal recruitment; pushing for an ecosystem-wide stand against illicit finance.
Liverpool have the most valuable front-of-shirt deal in the Premier League June 2, 2026 Liverpool have the most valuable front-of-shirt sponsorship deal in the Premier League, a new fair market report has revealed. The Reds’ reported £50m-per-season deal with financial services group Standard Chartered is actually undervalued by over £10m and should be worth £61m, according to The Sponsor’s “Premier league Fair Market Sponsorship Values 2026” report. It sees [...]
Wayve: London robotaxis will make passengers forget there’s no driver June 2, 2026 Wayve believes Londoners will stop noticing they are sitting in driverless cars within minutes of using them, as the British AI startup prepares to launch autonomous vehicles on Uber’s network in the capital. Kaity Fischer, Wayve’s vice president of commercial and operations, said the company expected passengers to move quickly from novelty to habit once [...]
Quantum could be Britain’s next tech breakthrough June 2, 2026 Britain's next tech titan could be a quantum company. That’s not a sentence I'd have said five years ago, writes Carolyn Dawson.
Bluesky bets on the end of X and Meta’s social media grip June 2, 2026 Social media is moving beyond platforms controlled by a “few billionaires”, according to Bluesky’s chief operating officer, as governments in the UK and Europe step up scrutiny of X, Meta, and other Big Techs. Speaking at SXSW London, Rose Wang said Bluesky was built in response to a social media market dominated by a handful [...]
Blackstone Raises its Largest Asia Private Equity Fund at $13.1 Billion June 2, 2026 Oversubscribed Fund More than Doubles Capital Raised for Predecessor Vehicle
Anthropic files for IPO as race with OpenAI heats up June 1, 2026 Anthropic has confidentially filed for a US stock market listing, setting up what could become one of the biggest technology IPOs in history and intensifying its rivalry with OpenAI. The Claude maker confirmed on Monday that it had submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1 to the Securities and Exchange Commission, giving the company [...]
Deloitte UK appoints first chief AI officer in drive for ‘AI-enabled’ services June 1, 2026 Deloitte has appointed its first chief AI officer in the UK in a push to become the country’s leading professional services firm, integrating AI into both client services and internal operations. The Big Four giant said it has selected Hayley McKelvey for the newly-created role where she will be responsible for “accelerating the firm’s progress [...]