Whitehall leans on AI to fix failing public services January 27, 2026 The UK government is accelerating its use of AI across public services, as ministers look to modernise creaking systems, boost productivity and strengthen national security. The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has announced a new cohort of British AI specialists who will spend the next year embedded in government. They will be backed [...]
Formula 1 signs Standard Chartered up as major partner January 27, 2026 Standard Chartered has penned a deal with Formula 1 to become the motor sport’s wealth management and investment banking partner. The City of London-headquartered firm will be involved with Formula 1 as part of a multi-year deal, with Standard Chartered’s branding set to feature trackside. The bank’s chief of corporate and investment banking, Roberto Hoornweg, [...]
Enterprises Advance Agentic Automation Across Europe January 27, 2026 European organizations adopt autonomous AI to improve processes, compliance through human-machine collaboration, ISG Provider Lens® report says
Education as Britain’s great reset amid the AI cyclone January 27, 2026 By John O’Brien MBE I left school with a couple of low-grade A-levels and never attended a university, something which most people find surprising. However, the conventional academic approach of the 1960s and ’70s never quite fitted me. What shaped me were experiences outside the classroom, initial work at a Bank that revealed the world [...]
Seasoned European Software Executive David Coste to Join Battery Ventures January 27, 2026 Coste, a longtime leader at pan-European ERP provider Forterro, will be a Battery executive-in-residence
Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Tesla: Big Tech earnings set to test AI bets January 27, 2026 This week marks one of the most consequential stretches of tech earnings season, with results due from Meta, Microsoft, Tesla and Apple, four giants that sit at the heart of both the market rally and the debate over whether Big Tech’s vast AI spending will ultimately pay off. It is the second-busiest week of the fourth-quarter earnings season, with 103 [...]
Labour ministers, please stop begging us to celebrate your tiny wins January 27, 2026 The housing secretary has decried newspapers for burying good news, but Labour's tiny upticks in tiny numbers are hardly worth celebration.
OpenAI’s real IP play: Why structural dependency, not your prompts, is the target January 27, 2026 OpenAI is shifting its focus from monetising everyday ChatGPT prompts to building structural dependency through enterprise partnerships and “value sharing” on major commercial breakthroughs , says Paul Armstrong UK businesses are asking the wrong questions about OpenAI and intellectual property directly because of what was said last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos. OpenAI’s [...]
Bambi Burnham has boosted Labour’s rivals January 27, 2026 The strategic block of Andy Burnham’s by-election candidacy is a self-inflicted wound that signals weakness, invites challenges from internal rivals, and elevates a local contest into a national stress test of Keir Starmer’s leadership, says Helen Thomas The starting gun to replace Keir Starmer has been fired. Andy Burnham’s application for a waiver to run [...]
Exclusive: Manchester United stadium plan set to get £200m boost January 27, 2026 Manchester United could earn £200m from selling the naming rights to their new stadium, according to a new report. Manchester United’s 100,000-seater plan for a project dubbed New Trafford, adjacent to the iconic but crumbling Old Trafford, would create the biggest stadium in Britain and command a premium naming rights price. Research by industry title [...]