Is Musk’s SpaceX IPO date written in the stars? January 28, 2026 SpaceX may be aiming for the stars in more ways than one as Elon Musk has floated the idea of timing the rocket maker’s IPO to coincide with a rare planetary alignment, as well as his own birthday. The tentative window is mid-June, when Jupiter and Venus will appear unusually close together in the night sky, a [...]
Professional services firms facing ‘polycrisis of confidence’ January 28, 2026 A major study of C-suite attitudes among professional services firms has revealed a complicated landscape of increasing AI use, growth fears, worries about cash flow and concerns over staff motivation. According to the Managing Partners Forum Winter 2025 Quarterly, shared exclusively with City AM, all firms surveyed have integrated Gen AI into their daily operations, but [...]
Hydrostor and Baker Hughes Deepen Strategic Collaboration to Advance Reliable, Resilient, and Sustainable Power Systems January 28, 2026 Collaboration includes an equity investment and up to 1.4 GW of power generation and compression technology orders for Hydrostor flagship projects
Options Technology Brings the First Commercial Quantum Compute Platform to New York City’s Capital Markets January 28, 2026 Options Technology (Options), the leading provider of financial services infrastructure, today announced the availability of the first commercially accessible quantum computing capability in New York City, delivered as part of its global hybrid compute platform. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260128962957/en/ As capital markets enter the next phase of compute [...]
Anthropic and OpenAI raise billions as LLM race accelerates January 28, 2026 The AI boom took another leap forward this week as rival labs Anthropic and OpenAI moved to lock in eye-watering sums of funding, as the chatbot race accelerates. Anthropic has closed a funding round of between $10bn and $15bn at a valuation of around $350bn, comfortably overshooting its original target. The round was led by [...]
ERM and Auquan Bring Agentic AI to Sustainability Advisory January 28, 2026 ERM Leverages Auquan’s AI Agents to Accelerate and Scale Service Delivery for Institutional Investors
Just Eat wants you to stop scrolling and start talking January 27, 2026 Just Eat Takeaway has launched an AI voice assistant in its UK app, allowing customers to place orders by speaking rather than navigating menus. The feature is integrated into Just Eat’s existing in-app chat function and lets users describe what they want in natural language. The assistant then recommends restaurants, dishes and products across food, grocery [...]
Anthropic chief: AI will ‘test who we are as a species’ January 27, 2026 The co-founder of the £350bn AI giant Anthropic has warned that “humanity is about to be handed almost unimaginable power” as the technology advances and warned that “it is deeply unclear whether our social, political, and technological systems possess the maturity to wield it.” In a 20,000 word essay, Dario Amodei, warned that the development [...]
‘Nonsense!’ The Apprentice 2026 star Tim Campbell denies he’s ‘softer’ than Karren Brady January 27, 2026 As The Apprentice 2026 arrives to screens this Thursday, viewers will no doubt be on the lookout for more of Baroness Karren Brady’s formidable eyebrow raises as she follows contestants getting evermore confused on their tasks. By comparison to Baroness Brady Lord Sugar’s other aid, the businessman and former contestant Tim Campbell MBE, is viewed [...]
ThetaRay Unveils Ray: An Agentic AI Investigation Suite Delivering Faster, More Consistent AML Investigations January 27, 2026 One of the first agentic suites that accelerates AML case handling, standardizes investigations across jurisdictions, and generates regulator-ready documentation while keeping analysts in full control