FTSE 100 Live: Stocks jittery amid oil tensions; Khan woos Anthropic AI March 6, 2026 Good morning and welcome back to the City AM liveblog. Inflation fears have dominated the week and as for the time being, they don’t look to be heading anywhere. The FTSE 100 ended Thursday’s session slipping 1.5 per cent to 10,413.94p as markets battled renewed fears of an energy crisis. Brent crude futures – the international [...]
How geopolitics is influencing investment March 6, 2026 The UK’s classification of AI as critical infrastructure is being paradoxically balanced by increasingly strict national security scrutiny on ownership, investment, and partnerships, introducing political risk into the innovation pipeline, says Claire Trachet Britain classified AI as critical national infrastructure last September, sitting it alongside defence, energy and telecommunications. At Davos this year, former UK [...]
AI is rewriting reputation – what happens when it gets you wrong? March 6, 2026 AI means companies can now lose their reputations in an instant, with brands now being defined by systems they neither control nor understand.
2PointZero Group Completes Majority Acquisition in Italy-Based ISEM Packaging Group for AED 704 Million March 5, 2026 Transaction results in 60.8% ownership by 2PointZero Packaging becomes the sixth consumer-focused vertical with ISEM as an anchor
Luma Launches Luma Agents Powered by Unified Intelligence for Creative Work March 5, 2026 Built on Luma’s new Unified Intelligence architecture, Luma Agents introduce a new category of AI collaborators and are deployed today with global enterprise partners, including Publicis Groupe and Serviceplan Group
Banks push for tech giants to share scam ad costs March 5, 2026 Social media companies are facing renewed calls to help pay for tackling online fraud, as the UK prepares to unveil its updated national fraud strategy. The Payments Association said platforms like Meta Platforms and X should take greater responsibility for scam adverts that appear on their sites, arguing they profit from the ads, while banks [...]
MyHeritage Launches Scribe AI to Transcribe, Interpret, and Reveal New Insights from Historical Documents and Photos March 5, 2026 MyHeritage, the leading global platform for family history, announced today the release of Scribe AI, a powerful new feature that uses AI technology to analyze historical documents and images. Scribe AI helps people better understand and preserve their family history by transcribing, translating, and interpreting documents, letters, photos, and other family records. This press release [...]
Adaptive announces strategic investment from HSBC and Citi to fuel capital markets technology innovation March 5, 2026 Investment capitalizes on significant technological shifts in capital markets driven by cloud, open-source and AI Funding to scale Adaptive’s development of next-gen cloud-enabled front office solutions, centered around its Aeron® technology
Procurement Teams Using AI Are 3x More Resilient to Market Shocks, Keelvar’s 2026 Annual Survey Finds March 5, 2026 New research of global procurement leaders reveals a widening performance gap between technology adopters and laggards – and warns that the biggest avoidable barrier to AI adoption is overconfidence.
Worley Consulting and Bloomfire Partner to Bring Enterprise Intelligence to Energy, Chemicals, and Resources Sectors March 5, 2026 Collaboration to deliver AI-powered infrastructure for industries facing critical challenges