Interview: Stephen Wood, chief operating officer, Rathbones Asset Management
“I’m not your average COO [chief operating officer],” says Stephen Wood, COO at Rathbones Asset Management (RAM), part of the Rathbones investment group. With 28…
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Home Office challenged on ‘farcical’ secrecy over Apple ‘backdoor’ order
The government’s policy to neither confirm nor deny whether it has ordered Apple to provide ‘backdoor’ access to encrypted messages and data stored on Apple’s…
MSPs reject datacentre moratorium but pause planning decisions
The Scottish Parliament this week rejected a Green motion for a moratorium on new hyperscale datacentres, but amended it with a commitment to publish national…
Saffron Building Society drinks its ‘first drop’ of artificial intelligence
Saffron Building Society is using artificial intelligence (AI) to automate mortgage processing and increase “decision certainty” for its brokers. The 180-year-old Essex-based mutual society has…
Dreamforce 2026: Marc Benioff beats customer data drum for business AI use
Amid a surge in public discourse about artificial intelligence (AI) killing all humans within a decade, Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce (pictured), told…
Why Thomson Reuters developed its own proprietary AI model
Financial information provider Thomson Reuters has developed an in-house, proprietary large language model (LLM) to power its use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the products…
Tech companies under fire as Europe proposes social media ban for under-15s
Children under 15 in Europe will be prohibited from having unsupervised social media accounts, along with new demands for technology companies to prove their platforms…
Executive interview: Reckitt has no fear of missing out on the AI frenzy
Bastien Parizot, senior vice-president, global business services and artificial intelligence (AI) at hygiene and consumer health brands company Reckitt, remains level-headed when it comes to…
Advice for CIOs on AI’s ‘existential threat’
The US president has dismissed posts by the CEOs of OpenAI and Anthropic calling for an artificial intelligence (AI) slowdown as hoaxes, while Meta’s boss…
Cisco users urged to patch email gateway flaw
Cisco is urging defenders to get out in front of a highly-dangerous flaw in its Secure Email Gateway (SEG) appliance, CVE-2026-76461 that could enable an…
Zopa Bank launches voice-controlled banking
Customers of Zopa Bank can now use voice commands to instruct an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered personal digital banking assistant to make transactions and request advice.…
Capita doesn’t get to ‘walk away from’ civil service pension mess, says minister
The government will force Capita to fix the civil service pension scheme (CSPS) before any final decision can be made on insourcing the scheme, says…