TUC general secretary Paul Nowak has suggested Andy Burnham could call an early general election if Labour's manifesto leaves too little room for change.
By Paul Jones · 11 Sep 2026
Hunters & Frankau says cigar plain packaging would force it to cut its portfolio by 75 per cent, as importers seek an exemption for hand-rolled cigars
By Jamie Young · 11 Sep 2026
Israeli-American solar geoengineering start-up Stardust has raised $75m to develop particles that reflect sunlight, drawing criticism from campaigners.
By Jamie Young · 11 Sep 2026
UK GDP growth reached 0.4 per cent in July, beating forecasts of no growth, with the ONS saying the World Cup and record hot weather lifted activity.
By Amy Ingham · 11 Sep 2026
Monsoon founder Peter Simon is selling nearly 200 works by artists including Francis Bacon and Pablo Picasso in three Christie's London sales in October.
By Amy Ingham · 11 Sep 2026
Gavin Newsom has signed a California social media law barring addictive features for under-16s, alongside new AI chatbot rules, in a package of 13 bills.
By Amy Ingham · 10 Sep 2026
The IoD Autumn Budget submission calls on the Chancellor to restore business confidence and unlock private investment, setting out five priorities.
By Jamie Young · 10 Sep 2026
Veenoo Sharma's SHE Leads with AI, a fully funded female founder accelerator for 30 women, will start at Dubai's DIFC Innovation Hub on 16 November.
By Amy Ingham · 10 Sep 2026
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Gavin Newsom has signed a California social media law barring addictive features for under-16s, alongside new AI chatbot rules, in a package of 13 bills.
Apple has unveiled the iPhone Duo, its first foldable iPhone, priced from £1,999 to £3,199, with IDC forecasting 10 million sales in the first 12 months.
Nvidia Hugging Face deal: the chipmaker agrees to pay $12.93bn for the developer platform, with Jensen Huang pledging it will stay open to all AI models.
John Lewis is launching an Angela Scanlon-hosted YouTube chatshow and social studio to improve its AI search results as ChatGPT use among shoppers climbs.
TikTok UK legal costs have climbed above $1 billion after the group increased the sum set aside for court cases and regulatory investigations, and the figure does not…
The Disney TikTok deal will let creators use clips from films and shows including Star Wars and Marvel, launching in the US before other countries.
Veenoo Sharma's SHE Leads with AI, a fully funded female founder accelerator for 30 women, will start at Dubai's DIFC Innovation Hub on 16 November.
A Denodo survey of 850 executives on agentic AI adoption finds 56 per cent of organisations say finding trustworthy data is a barrier to deploying AI.
AI drug design startup deepmirror has been awarded a Sovereign AI grant by Innovate UK to fund a £1m project expanding its molecular property dataset.
Claude Mythos 5.1 went only to US vetting organisations, the first time Anthropic has bypassed the UK AI Security Institute before releasing a model.
Israeli-American solar geoengineering start-up Stardust has raised $75m to develop particles that reflect sunlight, drawing criticism from campaigners.
Veenoo Sharma's SHE Leads with AI, a fully funded female founder accelerator for 30 women, will start at Dubai's DIFC Innovation Hub…
AI drug design startup deepmirror has been awarded a Sovereign AI grant by Innovate UK to fund a £1m project expanding its…
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The employment tribunal backlog of single claims hit a record 70,000 at the end of June, as a lawyer warns tribunals face…
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The Artificial Superintelligence Security Bill goes before parliament on 8 September as Geoffrey Hinton warns superintelligent AI could be catastrophic.
B&Q, Five Guys, Serco and Whitbread are among 658 employers named by the government for minimum wage underpayments, repaying £4m to 27,000…
