Why the Loire Valley is about so much more than fairytale castles August 8, 2026 Beyond the Loire Valley’s fairy-tale châteaux, a gentler side of this celebrated destination awaits. Lucy Daltroff dives in It takes just over an hour to fly from Stansted to Tours in the Loire Valley and soon I am eating a spectacular lunch and drinking local wine at the rooftop La Belle Vue Restaurant. Before me [...]
Battery Ventures Promotes Brandon Gleklen to Partner August 7, 2026 Gleklen, who invests in AI-application companies, joins new principal Jason Mendel and eight other investors globally promoted to new roles
Britain’s problem isn’t too much Thatcherism, but too little August 7, 2026 Margaret Thatcher remains a bogeyman for Andy Burnham and the British left despite having left Downing Street 35 years ago, but their critiques are wide of the mark, says Emma Revell Everyone has someone or something they blame when things get tough. Astrology girlies use the position of Mercury to absolve themselves of any responsibility [...]
Policing alone won’t solve London’s shoplifting epidemic August 6, 2026 Shoplifting is damaging London’s reputation as a global city. It’s time the entire justice system pulled together to tackle it, says Dee Corsi London’s attractiveness as a globally renowned destination for culture and tourism isn’t going anywhere. But recent research from New West End Company has found that safety and policing is holding it back. [...]
Vercel Appoints Amit Agarwal, Standard Template Labs CEO and former Datadog President, to Board of Directors August 6, 2026 The product leader who helped scale Datadog from early-stage startup through IPO brings deep product expertise to Vercel's board
Cloudflare Adds AEO Visibility Dashboard to Its AEO Suite, Showing Brands Whether AI Assistants Are Recommending Them August 6, 2026 New AEO Visibility Dashboard gives brand marketers a clear view of how AI assistants are citing, mentioning, and ranking them
How sevens and Olympics can be commercial rugby lifeline August 6, 2026 Dan James argues that rugby sevens is a developmental step for some of the best players, and that can be a boon for a struggling sport. The rugby rumour mill has been turning again, as reports have circulated over the last fortnight that some of England’s young stars – Henry Pollock, Marcus Smith, Tommy Freeman, [...]
Hiscox finance chief: London’s AI adoption is too slow August 6, 2026 Hiscox group chief financial officer Paul Cooper takes us through his career in insurance in this week's Square Mile and Me.
Perpetuals Reports 380% Hypothetical Return in Backtest of AI Engine Powering Risk-Free Trading Platform ‘UpsideOnly’ August 6, 2026 Results provide early evidence that BayesShield can identify potentially profitable trading signals by finding repeatable skill in trader activity 375-day backtest using Perpetuals’s production code generated a hypothetical 380% non-compounded return, a period in which Bitcoin fell 40.2% The strategy achieved a return-to-drawdown ratio of 4.4, a measure comparing its overall return with the largest decline it experienced during the test
Serco chief hits back at New Statesman’s outsourcing jibes August 6, 2026 Serco’s boss has hit back at media criticism in the New Statesman and other outlets as the under-scrutiny firm boosted its sales and eyed more contract wins. The London-listed firm, which is one of Britain’s largest outsourcing companies running everything from bin collections to asylum accommodation, said it remained committed to bidding for contracts in [...]