FTSE 100 Live: Pound hits two month low after byelection, Flutter shares tumble February 27, 2026 Good morning and welcome back to the City AM liveblog. We were treated to a whole host of corporate updates yesterday and investors in some of the City’s biggest blue-chips were handed plans for bumper returns. Aerospace giant Rolls-Royce revealed ambitions to dish out up to £9bn to shareholders through from 2026 to 2028. The [...]
Lyten Completes Acquisition of Northvolt Sweden and Establishes its First Lyten Industrial Hub in Sweden February 27, 2026 Lyten announces it has completed the acquisition of Northvolt’s battery assets in Sweden, totaling nearly $5B in value. The Skellefteå battery site, Northvolt Ett, is resuming operations and plans to deliver commercial cells in 2H 2026. Lyten announces the establishment of the Lyten Industrial Hub in Skellefteå, Sweden to co-locate battery manufacturing, data centers, and additional manufacturing activities. In connection with the closing, EdgeConneX, a portfolio company of EQT, plans to acquire a data center site from Lyten, with potential capacity of up to one gigawatt.
UK media giants join forces to curb AI’s use of their journalism February 27, 2026 Sky News has teamed up with the BBC, the Financial Times, the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph to form a new coalition aimed at setting industry standards for how AI uses news content. The group, under the name the Standards for Publisher Usage Rights coalition (SPUR), has been launched in response to growing concern that [...]
Sun Nuclear QADS 2026 Event Combines Clinical Insight and New Innovations for Advancing Radiation Therapy QA February 26, 2026 15th QA & Dosimetry Symposium convenes medical physics and radiation therapy community in Rome Two days of sessions span diverse topics from 24 clinical practitioners and thought leaders Event introduces new Daily QA™ 4 Pro device and features expansion of AI-enabled solutions
Lattice to Highlight Low Power, Edge-Ready Programmable Solutions at embedded world 2026 February 26, 2026 Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ: LSCC), the low power programmable leader, today announced its exhibition plan for embedded world 2026, where it will demonstrate how its low power, small form factor FPGA innovations help engineers accelerate intelligent, scalable designs from cloud to sensor. At the event, Lattice will participate in expert panel discussions, lead conference sessions, and [...]
OpenAI backs London with hub expansion and new roles February 26, 2026 OpenAI is to make London its largest research hub outside the United States, in what ministers have hailed as a “huge vote of confidence” in the UK’s AI sector. The ChatGPT developer confirmed it will significantly expand its London operation, which currently employs around 30 researchers, though it declined to put a figure on how [...]
New Study from Icertis and World Commerce & Contracting Dispels AI Disillusionment Myth February 26, 2026 Fourth Annual AI Survey Reveals Contract Value as Strategic Driver
Ocado boss: We were naive to accept orders but US firms should have worked harder February 26, 2026 After its share price tumbled on Thursday morning, the boss of Ocado was given the chance to evade the blame for shuttered warehouses and job cuts. The retail tech group’s financial results set out easing losses and slowly climbing revenue. But it was the plans to cut 1,000 jobs – mostly at the company’s Hertfordshire [...]
Financial Times lays off staff as chief executive warns of ‘need for change’ February 26, 2026 The Financial Times has completed a round of layoffs, City AM understands, as the London newspaper’s new chief executive told staff of “the need for change” as part of an internal restructuring. Around a dozen roles across the paper’s Product and Tech department have been axed following a consultation process, according to internal communications seen [...]
Instagram to alert parents over teens’ harmful searches February 26, 2026 Instagram will start notifying parents if their teenager repeatedly searches for terms linked to suicide or self-harm, amid mounting political and legal pressure over child safety online. From next week, parents and teens enrolled in Instagram’s parental supervision tools in the UK, US, Australia and Canada will be told that new alerts are being introduced. [...]