Britain knows how to seed a scaleup. But can it back one all the way? August 12, 2026 How do we keep high-potential tech founders headquartered in Britain, instead of watching them drift offshore, taking their growth stories with them? This question was posed to the Head of AIM & UK Primary Markets at London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), and a panel of tech founders at SCALE Summit in London. On 23 April [...]
Beware the AI holiday let August 12, 2026 AI is increasingly being used to manipulate adverts for holiday lets. It’s not just horrible for holidaymakers, it could get landlords in trouble with the law, says Alex Poplawska With the summer holidays upon us, many will be heading out on staycations and weekend getaways, but some landlords are taking ‘dream holiday’ too far by [...]
It’s not just Jason Arday, most of sociology is a scam August 12, 2026 Jason Arday is not the only second rate academic working in sociology. His Cambridge colleagues have also published papers that are impossible to read and contain no evidence, says Paul Ormerod The Jason Arday story has been covered intensively from many different angles. But relatively little has been written on the academic discipline in which [...]
ChatGPT to follow Claude’s watermark pledge – but Grok to swerve it August 12, 2026 Elon Musk’s Grok is poised to swerve rivals’ plans to ‘watermark’ all artificially-generated content, City AM understands, after refusing to sign up to a European push forcing firms to make AI content traceable. xAI was the only major large language model maker to shun a European Union-led move to tighten AI transparency rules that means [...]
WP Engine Opens Smart Search AI to the WordPress Ecosystem August 11, 2026 Previously available exclusively to WP Engine customers, Smart Search AI can now be deployed on any site built with WordPress, significantly expanding access to the technology.
Options Unveils H1 2026 AtlasFeed and Raw Market Data Feed Expansion August 11, 2026 Options Technology (Options), the leading managed IT services and technology solutions provider, today announced the immediate availability of expanded market data feeds following a record-breaking first half of 2026. This launch delivers enhanced connectivity for U.S. options and equities as well as Middle Eastern markets, supporting clients with expanded normalized and native feed coverage from [...]
NHS data counters claims that £330m Palantir deal has led to ‘no improvement’ August 11, 2026 Internal NHS data indicates that Palantir’s hospital discharge tool cut delays by as much as 28 per cent, City AM understands, challenging recent reports from critics of the tech giant that it had made “no noticeable improvement” to the healthcare system’s efficiency. According to an internal NHS England report seen by City AM, trusts using [...]
Ari Emmanuel snaps up West End theatre group ATG for £4.5bn August 11, 2026 Hollywood tycoon Ari Emmanuel has snapped up the theatre group behind West End venues including the Savoy and the Ambassadors in a deal worth around £4.5bn. Emmanuel, who runs an A-list media agency and helms the group which owns UFC, said the deal underscores the “growing power of live experience and the passionate audiences it [...]
Rehlko Expands Power Plus™ Connected-Services Capabilities, Enhancing Value Across Installed Base August 11, 2026 Rehlko Power Plus™ Delivers 24/7 Remote Monitoring, Advanced Diagnostics, and Fleet-Wide Asset Visibility to Critical Power Systems
FGE NexantECA Acquires Square Commodities, Accelerating Its Green Molecules Strategy August 11, 2026 Combined business will deliver the most complete supply and demand picture across renewable fuels, through FGE NexantECA's AI-native platform, Lumen.