Hypha Emerges From Stealth, Announces a $50M Seed Round June 11, 2026 Backed by banks, private credit, private equity and real estate insiders, Hypha is turning fragmented investment data into structured intelligence
AI is transforming job references June 11, 2026 A startup with less than $20m just automated trust with an AI model that gathers references. Every executive should read this.
KPMG’s Summer Friday half-day rollback signals deeper woes for Big Four giants June 11, 2026 Big Four giant KPMG’s removal of its Friday early finish for employees is affecting branding and souring the mood among staff, who may see this as a signal to reconsider a career at the firm. Time spent working at a Big Four giant was once a prized bauble to list on a CV. But with [...]
Comrade Trustee Services goes live with Smartstream’s Air, the AI reconciliation and data automation solution June 11, 2026 Key Facts Comrade Trustee Services is live on Smartstream’s Air for automated reconciliations with fully integrated workflows. The implementation replaces highly manual, spreadsheet-driven processes and complex file handling with a single-click, straight-through AI-driven workflow. This will improve accuracy, control and operational efficiency. Processing time has been reduced from up to eight hours to under five minutes, with additional scalability for complex file types, formats and reconciliation logic.
AI infrastructure boom helps power Halma to record sales and profit June 11, 2026 The AI infrastructure boom helped underpin another record year at Halma as the FTSE 100 safety and equipment maker delivered more than £2.5bn in annual revenue for the first time. The 130-year-old group, which owns dozens of specialist businesses across safety, healthcare and environmental tech, posted record revenue and profit, extending a growth streak that [...]
Industry Execs Think Digital Transformation Is Working – but Staff Still Rely on Shadow IT to Get the Job Done June 11, 2026 New Cogna research reveals Britain’s physical industry workers are losing two days a week to manual tasks they feel AI could do
Controlling the sprawl of shadow AI June 11, 2026 There’s a gap widening across UK organisations that nobody is properly discussing. It’s not between technology and security. It’s between what leaders think is happening with AI tools and what the workforce is actually doing. According to Okta’s AI Agents at Work 2026 study, 96 per cent of UK executives believe they have visibility into [...]
UK defence chief: Adopt AI or lose future wars June 11, 2026 Britain’s most senior military officer has warned that the UK risks losing future conflicts unless it dramatically accelerates the adoption of AI across its armed forces. Speaking at London Tech Week, chief of the defence staff Air Chief Marshall Sir Richard Knighton said AI would be as transformative for warfare as the internet was for [...]
The ‘like’ button ruined social media – are we making the same mistake with AI? June 11, 2026 The ‘like’ button was a single design choice that had profoundly harmful downstream effects. AI sycophancy could be the next one, says Annabel Gillard I’ve been working on the human impact of AI in our work and lives since 2020, but City AM asked a genuinely new question that prompted this piece. Given that we [...]
SpaceX is preparing for blast off, but will the mega IPO send investors into orbit? June 11, 2026 SpaceX is set to launch the largest retail allocation ever attempted in a megacap IPO as part of its hotly anticipated listing on the Nasdaq tomorrow, with around 30 per cent of shares reserved for retail investors. Bret Johnsen, SpaceX CFO, has said the unusually large allocation is a deliberate recognition of “folks that have [...]