Technology
AI at work, fintech, cybersecurity and new rules for IT — seen through the cost and risk they create for a business.
Eight UK Robotics Adoption Hubs Launch with £40 Million
Hospitals, farms and companies will be able to test robots before investing and get independent help with deployment. Separate funding will support training and robotics skills.
AI by the numbers: what it is worth, what it runs into, and why "which shares should I buy" is the wrong question
Nvidia at $5.45 trillion and first in the world. Anthropic valued at $965bn against OpenAI at $852bn — but one is profitable and the other loses more than a dollar per dollar earned. Growth runs into electricity, not ideas: 140 British projects are waiting for a grid connection, some for up to fifteen years. What AI does well, where it invents, how politicians know about shares, and why the honest answer on investing sounds dull.
The cyber security bill reaches committee stage in the Lords
Regulation would extend to data centres and managed IT service providers. Small businesses will meet it indirectly — through their contracts with suppliers.