Reeves hosts top UK scale-ups as new cohort revealed in growth drive March 19, 2026 Rachel Reeves will host the latest cohort of the UK’s top scale-ups at Number 11 tonight, as the government looks to reinforce its pitch as a home for high-growth tech firms. The new intake of Tech Nation’s future fifty programme brings together 25 late-stage companies spanning AI, healthtech, cybersecurity and climate technology, sectors ministers see [...]
‘Confidence exits UK economy’: FTSE 100 dips below 10,000 mark March 19, 2026 The FTSE 100 dipped below the 10,000 mark as stocks plunged on Thursday on fears the war in the Middle East was set to bring regional energy production to a halt. Traders sold off assets en masse over the course of the day, with the FTSE 100 falling by some 2.5 per cent amid turmoil [...]
HSBC job cut plans add to mounting AI warnings for banks March 19, 2026 HSBC is weighing up cutting as many as 20,000 jobs across its global business as part of a longer-term push towards automation and AI, forming the clearest signal yet of how the technology is beginning to reshape the banking workforce. According to reports, the lender is understood to be considering reductions equivalent to around 10 [...]
‘Here’s a picture of a hamster’ – 4Chan ridicules Ofcom after UK regulator issues £500K fine March 19, 2026 US-based forum 4Chan has ridiculed Ofcom after the UK regulator hit them with a £520,000 fine for breaching the UK’s Online Safety Act, in a case that underlines the growing challenge of enforcing digital rules on overseas platforms as well as the increasingly combative response from parts of the tech ecosystem. The bulk of the [...]
TITAN Group: Full Year Results 2025 March 19, 2026 Very strong performance delivers another record year
UK-First AI Case-Finding Pathway Launched to Improve Early Detection of Oesophageal and Gastric Cancer March 19, 2026 A new NHS-first, AI-enabled case-finding pathway has launched across North East Essex, aiming to improve the early detection of Oesophageal and stomach cancers, some of the hardest cancers to diagnose early and among those with the poorest outcomes in England. Delivered in partnership between AstraZeneca, C the Signs, NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated [...]
From tech bros to underclasses – AI has trust issues March 19, 2026 AI should work for you, right now it’s being done to you. Here’s three ways to solve AI’s trust problem, says Lewis Liu Alex Karp, co-founder and CEO of Palantir, the American AI military surveillance platform, recently said on CNBC: “The one thing that I think that even now is underestimated by all actors in [...]
Veyco and Entrust Deliver the First Integrated QES with Standards-Aligned Identity Verification for UK Property Transactions March 19, 2026 News summary Veyco and Entrust join forces to power Qualified Electronic Signatures (QES) with AI-powered identity verification, enabling fully remote signing. The solution streamlines processes in a highly regulated environment, helping organizations to meet AML, KYC and eIDAS requirements. Following HM Land Registry’s acceptance of QES, Nationwide Building Society has become the first lender to enable electronically signed mortgage deeds.
REPLY Unveils the New Editions of the Reply AI Music Contest and Reply AI Film Festival under the Theme “Imaginatio Nova” March 19, 2026 This year once again, the top finalists of the music contest will perform live on stage at Kappa FuturFestival in Turin, while the finalists of the film contest will be invited to an event organised by Reply and Mastercard, to be held in September in Venice.
DFS defies wet weather to double profit March 19, 2026 Furniture retailer DFS almost doubled its half-year profit despite recording lower shop footfall as wet weather dampens sales across retail. The London-listed company recorded a £30m profit in the first half of this year, almost double the £16m recorded the year prior, as revenue grew by nine per cent to £548m. The wet weather has [...]