ROYC and Stilla Enter Strategic Partnership to Operationalise Agentic AI in Private Markets May 26, 2026 ROYC today announced a partnership with Stilla.ai as the platform layer where ROYC will create, share and run its internally developed AI skills and agents. This operationalises the agentic AI strategy ROYC set out earlier, equipping every function across the company with the tools and resources to build and deploy their own AI agents and [...]
Will Sky Garden pick up a coveted Toast the City award? May 26, 2026 We have launched the Toast the City awards 2026 and throughout the year we’ll be speaking to some of the nominees. Today we caught up with Sky Garden director Monika Kowalewska-Kheir. To nominate your favourite Square Mile spots for the 2026 awards, from bars and restaurants to galleries and green spaces, visit the Toast the City website here. [...]
James Reed: UK needs entrepreneurs desperately. So I’m gonna fund them May 26, 2026 My father founded Reed in 1960 with just £75. My new fund will help create the next generation of entrepreneurs, says James Reed.
How can we trust the justice system when AI is hallucinating evidence? May 26, 2026 AI-hallucinated evidence in court has become a structural issue that needs a procedural response, writes Nicholas Blomfield.
ePass Aims to Be Scotland’s Top GovTech Scaleup After Reporting £1M Revenue in First Year May 25, 2026 ePass has set its sights on being Scotland’s most successful GovTech scaleup, following the GovTech startup winning one of the largest CivTech challenges to date, and its tobacco and vapes retailers register being deployed in 6 months, while reporting £1m of revenue in its first twelve months. This press release features multimedia. View the full [...]
Palantir ‘should challenge Sadiq Khan in court’ over blocked Met Police contract May 25, 2026 American tech firm Palantir should challenge Sadiq Khan in court after the London mayor blocked a £50m contract with the Metropolitan Police, former government legal officer Sir Michael Ellis has said. Sir Michael Ellis KC, a former Tory attorney general under Liz Truss, said Khan’s decision is “an extraordinary intervention, which may be susceptible to [...]
SpaceX IPO prospectus is notably vague on Musk’s long-term ambitions May 22, 2026 SpaceX's IPO prospectus is 377 pages long, yet vague around Musk's long-term ambitions for space tourism, asteroid mining and real estate.
Businesses brace for more layoffs as redundancy warnings climb to post-Pandemic high May 22, 2026 Last year emerged as the most severe year for redundancy warnings since the height of the Covid pandemic, and early 2026 is already accelerating that trend. According to new data from the Liquidation Centre, sourced via an FOI, 2025 was the most severe year for redundancy warnings since 2020, with 315,605 jobs flagged for potential [...]
Accountants ‘still in high demand’ despite AI impacting sector May 22, 2026 Accountants in the UK are still in high demand despite the impact of AI on the sector, according to new research from the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAEW). The body, which regulates and supervises around 12,000 accountancy and audit firms in the country, said that accountants “are still in high demand” even as AI reshapes [...]
Morrisons blames Labour for closure of 100 lossmaking stores May 22, 2026 Morrisons has taken aim at Labour policy for “significant cost increases” as it announced the closure of 100 lossmaking stores. The supermarket chain said on Thursday that it will close the 100 unprofitable Morrisons Daily convenience stores, in a move which could affect hundreds of jobs. Morrisons has faced steep debt costs following its £7bn [...]