More than half of UK employers in a new survey by recruitment firm Morgan McKinley said they do not use AI to hire, compared with 36% across all seven markets polled. That makes the UK the most cautious in the group, though its figure rests on a small …
The UK’s AI minister, Kanishka Narayan, says countries must “harden” their defences against AI risk. Testing models is no longer enough, he said. He was answering a question from Fortune at the Labour Party’s annual conference. Fortune’s Kamal Ahmed as…
The Royal Air Force has set up a new space squadron, the Ministry of Defence said on 23 September. No. III Space Effects Squadron is the first UK unit dedicated to disrupting, degrading and denying threats to British satellites. Air Chief Marshal Sir H…
Monzo is in talks about a sale to Brazil’s Nu Holdings, the owner of Nubank. A deal could value the British digital bank at between £8bn and £10bn, Mark Kleinman reported for Sky News on Saturday. The talks are at a relatively early stage, according to…
Raspberry Pi nearly doubled its revenue in the first half of 2026, helped by memory chips it stockpiled before prices soared. Revenue rose 90% to $256.9 million in the six months to 30 June, the company said in its interim results on Thursday. A year e…
Campaigners who helped stop the UK from letting AI companies train on copyrighted work without permission have warned Australia not to try the same thing. They spoke to Dan Milmo for the Guardian. Australia’s government is weighing an opt-out model, un…
Oxford has let OpenAI use old texts from its Bodleian Library to train its AI models, according to internal papers seen by the Guardian. Ethan Penny and Dan Milmo broke the story on Saturday. The papers say texts that OpenAI scanned at the library went…
The White House has asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share their new AI models with the UK’s AI Security Institute until the US government has tested them. Politico’s Sophia Cai and Joseph Bambridge reported the request on Thursday. A British official…
“It’s going to take them a while. Maybe they don’t know that yet,” Wayve co-founder and CEO Alex Kendall said of humanoid robot makers. Kendall spoke on stage at HumanX in Amsterdam on Wednesday. It was a day after Wayve announced a global partnership …
“A substantial portion of our revenue is driven by a limited number of our customers, and the loss of, or a significant reduction in, spend from one or a few of our top customers would adversely affect our business,” Nscale wrote in the prospectus for …