Copyright isn’t dead in the age of AI, it’s key to growing UK creative industries May 14, 2026 Copyright is not a brake on innovation. It is the market mechanism that turns British creativity into investment and the route to responsible AI, says Ed Vaizey The creative industries are not a side hustle for the British economy. They are a serious growth engine. The UK’s music industry alone generates around £8bn in GVA [...]
HSBC is the only UK name on $13 trillion list of top global brands May 14, 2026 The rise of AI has shaken up an influential ranking of global big-name firms, as the competition to become one of the world’s elite brands becomes fiercer than ever, according to an influential index tracking the corporate elite. The Kantar Brandz Top 100 – which ranks the value of brands – unveiled on Thursday, is [...]
Britain’s data centres are eating the grid – and we underestimated the damage May 14, 2026 UK data centre emissions forecasts have been revised upward 100-fold. London’s server farms already consume more power than all its households combined. So why did it take this long to do the maths? Data centres are consuming six per cent of all UK electricity, while government emissions forecasts have been revised upward by a factor [...]
Is it Jeff Bezos? How Devil Wears Prada 2 created its tech bro villains May 14, 2026 Aline Brosh McKenna wrote the screenplay for The Devil Wears Prada 2. She talks to Adam Bloodworth about writing the ultimate corporate rom-com The Devil Wears Prada 2’s screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna vividly recalls her first impression of hard work. When she was young, she remembers her engineer father crawling around on the floor to [...]
Fractile lands $220m as ministers hail ‘vote of confidence’ in UK AI May 13, 2026 British AI chip startup Fractile has raised $220m (£165m) in fresh funding with the government pointing to the deal as evidence the UK can produce globally competitive AI infrastructure companies. The London-founded company, which is developing next-generation chips designed to speed up AI inference – the by which AI models generate responses – said the [...]
Cisco’s ‘record highs’ face AI earnings reality check May 13, 2026 Cisco is set to report its quarterly earnings after the bell on Wednesday, and Wall Street is looking for evidence that the software giant’s AI-fuelled rally still has legs. Investors expect the Silicon Valley group to post third-quarter revenue of roughly $15.56bn (£11.52bn), up from $14.15bn a year ago, with earnings per share forecast at [...]
Avantia, Hoxton Ventures’ Portfolio Company, Acquired By Carta May 13, 2026 Acquisition Marks Major Milestone for AI-Native Legal-Tech Pioneer and Early Hoxton Investment
Coty “Supercharge with AI” Enterprise Upskilling Program Wins Newsweek AI Impact Award May 13, 2026 Recognized in the "AI Workplace: Best Outcomes, Employee Engagement" category 3,500 employees trained in 100 days Doubled AI adoption across Coty
Options Announces Appointment of Patrick Collins to Vice President, Platform Security May 13, 2026 Options Technology, the leading provider of trading infrastructure and market data solutions, today announced the appointment of Patrick Collins to the position of Vice President, Platform Security. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260513034332/en/ Since joining Options as a graduate in 2017, Patrick quickly progressed to a cyber security engineer before [...]
Hermes Reply Presents Brick Cognitive, the Agentic Operating System for Manufacturing May 13, 2026 Hermes Reply, the Reply Group company specialized in digital transformation for manufacturing, presents Brick Cognitive, the new agentic operating system designed to bring AI to the centre of industrial operations. A natural extension of Brick Reply, Reply’s next-generation MES/MOM platform, Brick Cognitive introduces a model in which factory systems no longer simply execute and monitor [...]